Franco Alberto Cardillo and Anas Fahad Khan from the Cnr-Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” (CNR-ILC) are invited as keynote speakers at the Autumn School “Artificial Intelligence in the Data science Era” (AIDE’2025) that will take place from 27 to 30 October 2025 at the Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah-Fès, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Fès (Morocco).
AIDE’2025 aims to deepen the ongoing reflections while broadening the topics covered, particularly focusing on practical applications of data science, advances in machine learning as well as the ethical and social dimensions of AI. The school seeks to provide an inspiring environment that fosters high-level training, interdisciplinary dialogue and international collaboration.
Keynote Speakers
Franco Alberto Cardillo (CNR-ILC ) – Speech Title: “Large Language Models from Scratch: Theory, Architecture, and Practice?” (October 28,2025).
This lecture introduces the conceptual and mathematical foundations behind current Large Language Models (LLMs) and reconstructs their essential components step by step. We begin from first principles, such as linear and logistic regression, feed-forward networks, and back-propagation, to clarify how probabilistic learning and gradient-based optimization underpin neural text models. Building on this basis, we derive the Transformer architecture, showing how these principles come together in the model that forms the foundation of modern language generation systems.
Anas Fahad Khan (CNR-ILC ) – Speech Title: “An Introduction to Linguistic Linked Data” (October 30, 2025).
In this course students will be introduced to the fundamentals of Linked Data and the Semantic Web, including the formal language RDF, the knowledge representation/ontology language OWL, and the query language SPARQL. They will also be introduced to the concept of the Linked Open Data cloud and will be shown how to query knowledge bases such as Wikidata and DBpedia. The course will focus on language resources such as lexicons as well as taxonomies and thesauri.
Main Sponsor: STARWARS Project
