Meet the team
The CHiLI hackathon is brought to you by volunteers from the computational linguistics community involved in many student and research initiatives in the field, including past TaCoS conferences.
Short answer: a Community Hackathon in Linguistics & Informatics! Or, in other words: your chance to step out of the classroom and spend two days actually creating things with other computational linguists. Because discussing ideas at a conference is great, but building something together just hits different.
You don't need a specific background to join. Whether you're into development, research, design, or just curious about language and technology, you're welcome here. You can come with a team or find one on the spot and we'll make sure that your work is supported by mentors' feedback.
For now, it's enough to know that you'll have two days on-site to come up with a project together and bring it to a prototype or preliminary conclusions. After project presentations, you'll be able to develop your ideas further at your own pace, thus making an addition to your personal portfolio.
More details about scheduling and logistics are coming soon. This page will be updated as things take shape or, if you don't trust yourself to open it again, join our Newsletter to recieve the updates directly in your inbox! :)
With political shifts and growing polarization across Europe, we believe it's high time to take a closer look at how politics and language technologies shape each other. We wonder, when can AI help support democratic values, and when might it put them at risk. And we strive to use language models to create positive social impact.
To explore these questions, we offer CHiLI participants to work with samples of political discourse. It's complex stuff: language both reflects existing power structures and can shape them in return. But that's exactly what makes it interesting! By getting their hands dirty with real data, students can discover where language modelling falls short, spot biases and consider social implications. The goal isn't just to build cool things, but to learn how to use new tools thoughtfully and maintain awareness of what their results can (or can't) tell us.
The CHiLI hackathon is brought to you by volunteers from the computational linguistics community involved in many student and research initiatives in the field, including past TaCoS conferences.