The 35th Alzheimer Europe Conference (the 35th AEC) took place in Bologna (the Bologna Congress Center) Italy, between the 6-8 October 2025, with main theme: "Connecting Science and Communities: The Future of Dementia Care". The conference (in collaboration between Alzheimer Europe, Federazione Alzheimer Italia and Alzheimer Uniti Italia) attracted over 1,500 delegates from 48 countries, setting a new attendance record.
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The 35th Alzheimer Europe Conference in Bologna
Språkteknologi och känslor på Bokmässan i Göteborg
Årets Bokmässa i Göteborg (25–28 september 2025) blev en succé – för oss forskare från Språkbanken Text innebar den tre dagar fyllda av samtal, nyfikenhet och möten mellan människor i alla åldrar. Med tusentals besökare och ett brett program visade mässan än en gång varför den är ett av Nordens största kulturevenemang. För Göteborgs universitet (GU) var närvaron på plats både viktig och inspirerande – och i vår monter stod, bland mycket annat, språkteknologi och känslor i centrum (se bild 1 och 2).
The 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science
The 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC²S²) took place in Norrköping from July 21 to 24, 2025. This annual event was hosted by the Swedish Excellence Center for Computational Social Science and the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) in Norrköping.
SWETALY: the Swedish-Italian collaboration
During 2019 the Swedish-Italian (SWETALY) collaboration was launched which included 17 Swedish (e.g., Karolinska Institutet, Linnaeus University, Luleå University of Technology) and 16 Italian (e.g., University of Bologna, Sapienza University of Rome and University of Pisa) higher education institutions.
RaPID-5@LREC-COLING 2024
Two major international key players in the area of computati
Vaccine Hesitancy in the Nordic Countries - Trust and Distrust During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Fakta - ny bok
Redaktörer: Lars Borin (GU), Mia-Marie Hammarlin (LU), Dimitrios Kokkinakis (GU), Fredrik Miegel (LU) |
BERTopic & Flashback threads on COVID-19 vaccination
Problem framing and experimental setup
This blog post explores the prevalent themes across multiple threads on the popular Swedish discussion forum Flashback, discussing COVID-19 vaccine and vaccination, using the topic modeling library BERTopic.
BERTopic & Flashback threads on COVID-19 vaccination
Problem framing and experimental setup
This blog post explores the prevalent themes across multiple threads on the popular Swedish discussion forum Flashback, discussing COVID-19 vaccine and vaccination, using the topic modeling library BERTopic.
Känslor om vaccination…
”Vaccin är ett fult o lömskt ord för att kunna lura friska människor till att injicera sjukdomar och död.”
A Swedish COVID-19 (sv-COVID-19) corpus and its exploration ... smorgasbord
As the COVID-19 virus became a pandemic in March 2020, the amount of (time-stamped written) data, such as news/newspaper reports, scientific articles, social media posts (e.g. blogs and twitter), surveys and other information about the virus and its symptoms, prevention, management and transmission became massively available. Such data contained both valid and reliable information, and relevant facts from trusted sources and also rumors, conspiracy theories and misinformation from unofficial ones.