Academic Writing with AI
Hands-on workshop on the use of generative AI tools for academic writing.
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In this hands-on workshop you'll discover how to use generative AI tools for academic writing. We'll begin with an introduction to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), to give you a clear understanding of how these models work and what their key strengths and weaknesses are. Next, through a series of practical demonstrations and interactive exercises, you’ll learn how to apply generative AI across the main stages of academic research, from idea generation to manuscript drafting and refinement. Finally, we’ll explore strategies to deal with the key challenges of these tools, such as their tendency to generate inaccurate or misleading information, and discuss strategies for using them responsibly.
Teacher / speaker
Yves Peirsman has been active in language technology for over twenty years. He obtained an MSc in Natural Language Processing from the University of Edinburgh, a PhD in Computational Linguistics from KU Leuven, and was a post-doctoral researcher in the NLP Group at Stanford University. Most recently he has been working as an NLP consultant at NLP Town and as a co-founder and CTO at Deontic. Yves also organizes the Belgium NLP Meetups, a series of informal events for NLP enthusiasts in Belgium, and likes to give workshops on AI for creative and business writing. In his free time, Yves also writes fiction, which makes him particularly interested in the impact of generative AI on literature.
Expertise:
- Language technology and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Generative AI for language professionals
Learning Trajectory on Generative AI for Professionals in Higher Education
This is a suggestion for a learning trajectory on generative AI, targeted at professionals working in higher education (e.g., researchers, lecturers, administrative and technical staff, policymakers). The learning modules were carefully selected by VAIA to create a holistic and realistic starting point for educating this target group on GenAI. This trajectory gets updated regularly!
