Events

Invitation to the Hermann Paul Lecture 2025

Dear Sir or Madam,
Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to invite you to this year’s Hermann Paul Lecture, the highlight of the academic calendar for Linguistics in Freiburg. This year, we are pleased to present:

“Human-centered LLMs for Inclusive Language Technology”

delivered by Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank
LMU Munich

The lecture will be held in English.

Date: 3 July 2025
Time: 6:15 p.m.
Venue: FRIAS Building, Seminar Room (ground floor), Albertstraße 19

We warmly invite all professors, researchers and students of the faculty to attend this event. Prof. Dr. Plank will discuss how human-centered approaches in the development of large language models (LLMs) can contribute to promoting inclusive language technologies. Following the lecture, there will be a reception with drinks, providing an opportunity for discussion, networking and the exchange of ideas on current topics.

We look forward to welcoming you and to an enriching exchange!

You can find past and upcoming events and conferences here:

• Hermann Paul lecture series 2025 – Human-centered LLMs for Inclusive Language Technology– Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank 
  3rd July at 6pm – further information to follow
• Lecture series “Language, Communication & Cognition”
• Exhibition “Zur Sprache kommen: Forschung zu bedrohten Sprachen sichtbar gemacht“
• Information to additional events can be found here.
• Previous events & conferences