[Lunch Lecture Series] Talk by Fabian M. Suchanek on February 17, 2026 at 13:00 (Paris Time)

Dear all,

After the first successful talk within the GOBLIN Cost Action, it's time to announce our second talk in the Lunch Lecture Series [1]. It will be given by Fabian M. Suchanek (Professor in Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France) on February 20, 2026 at 13:00. 

If you are interested in attending please register on [2] by February 17, 2026. Visit [1] for staying updated with the upcoming talks.

Title: On Language Models and Knowledge Bases 

Abstract: Language Models have brought major breakthroughs in natural language processing. Notwithstanding this success, I will show that certain applications still need symbolic representations. I will then show how different methods (language models and others) can be harnessed to build such symbolic representations in the form of knowledge bases. I will highlight several challenges in this endeavor, from finding good embeddings to improving entity linking and dealing with fallacies and textual entailment. I will also discuss how language models can be evaluated along several dimensions. Finally, I will talk about the knowledge bases themselves, most notably our YAGO project. I will present our work on detecting and alleviating incompleteness in knowledge bases, on querying the data, on using the data for the digital humanities, and on reasoning on beliefs.

[1] https://sites.google.com/view/mehwish-alam/lecture-series-goblin , https://goblin-cost.eu/announcements/lunch-lecture-series/ 
[2] https://forms.gle/NmGxao4iBbtP9SVH6

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Best Regards
Mehwish Alam

Associate Professor
Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Department of Informatics and Networks (INFRES)
19 Pl. Marguerite Perey, 91120 Palaiseau, France

Web: https://sites.google.com/view/mehwish-alam/home