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VORTEX DC Heidi Campana Piva and her colleagues are offering a workshop on language processing and ai tools applied to research in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Turin in October 2025.
This workshop offers PhD students a practical opportunity to learn how to apply a few Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools to their research. Despite its current popularity, Artificial Intelligence and NLP products are still exclusive tools used by few – only a limited number of large companies have the resources at their disposal to invest in effective NLP solutions. With that in mind, this workshop aims to make AI-powered applications a more accessible asset.
During our two encounters, we will attempt to demystify AI tools, in order to empower young researchers to benefit from its potential without being unaware of its implications in society, aiming to make AI processes more human-oriented and transparent, also contributing to better understanding of how AI-based services reach their decisions.
The workshop will take place within the framework of the MSCA project VORTEX, using its research as basis for learning – that is, in order to learn how to apply NLP tools, the workshop will be presenting the issues of online radicalization, asking participants to carry out a short case-study. Students will learn annotation of corpora and be introduced to text analytics. At the closing session, participants will have the opportunity to reflect upon their achieved results, as well as how they each can make use of the newly learned tools in their own research.
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INSTRUCTORS
Heidi Campana Piva – MSCA PhD fellow, Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, UniTo.
Marco Antonio Stranisci – Research fellow, Computer Science Department, UniTo.
Supervision: Massimo LEONE, Full Professor, Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, UniTo.
SCHEDULE
First Introductory Session: 15 October 2025, from 9:00 to 13:00.
Follow-up Closing Session: 12 November 2025, from 9:00 to 13:00.
DURATION: 8 hours
MODALITY: In-person only Workshop
LOCATION: Auditorium Quazza, Palazzo Nuovo, Via Sant’Ottavio 20, Torino.
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
TARGET
PhD Candidates of any research area who have interest in working with computational linguistics.
ENROLMENT
To participate in this workshop, it is necessary to register by filling in the dedicated Google Form (Link available on the Doctoral School website, section “Courses a.y. 2024/2025”).
This WS has limited capacity (50 seats, first come first served basis).
Registration is open until spots are available and anyway not later than October 3.
Given the limited number of seats available, we kindly ask you to register to the WS only if you are certain that you can participate and, should impossibility to participate arise after you registered, to let us know via email (contact at the bottom of this document).
Participants are advised to bring their own computers.
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