Hi everyone, Just a friendly reminder that we have a great showcase coming up today at 9:00 AM PT / 17:00 UTC on the topic of *AI for Wikipedia. *
You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/_hk6KLD-0tg?feature=share. Best, Kinneret On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:14 AM Kinneret Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The last Research Showcase for 2024 will be live-streamed next > Wednesday, December 11, at 9:00 AM PT / 17:00 UTC. Find your local time > here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1733936400>. The theme for this > showcase is *AI for Wikipedia*. > > You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream: > https://youtube.com/live/_hk6KLD-0tg?feature=share. As usual, you can > join the conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes > live. > > This month's presentations: > Language Models for Wikimedia: A Report from the Trenches and a Call to > ArmsBy *Bob West, EPFL* > I will showcase LLM-based solutions my lab has built for tackling problems > on Wikipedia (e.g., fact extraction, generation of article descriptions and > edit summaries), highlighting practical challenges linked to applying such > solutions in vivo. I will conclude by sketching a vision for building a > Wikimedia Foundation Foundation Model with the potential to assist humans > in keeping Wikipedia great. > A Public AI Assistant for World Wide KnowledgeBy *Monica Lam, Stanford > University*We are introducing an initiative to develop a public AI > assistant to enhance access to worldwide knowledge. Our scalable, LLM-based > framework adapts to any knowledge corpus, effectively handling both > structured and unstructured data. Our pilot version supports users in > drafting Wikipedia-style articles by researching the web, engages in > fact-grounded conversations using information from Wikipedia in 25 > languages, and writes SPARQL queries for Wikidata. Our assistant has been > applied across diverse fields: aiding scientists with the Semantic Scholar > corpus of academic papers, supporting historians in examining 18th-century > newspapers, and assisting journalists in analyzing Federal Election > Commission (FEC) campaign donation records. We are seeking collaboration to > further expand its applications. > -- > > Kinneret Gordon > > Lead Research Community Officer > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > > > > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
