Talks
Industry Workshops
- Evaluating Legal AI Systems @ Homburger AI Series, Zurich, 8th of April 2026 (Presentation)
- AI for Software Development @ Fincons Rowing Sessions, Bern, 27th of April 2023
Invited Talks
- Fifty Years of Legal AI Keynote @ AI for Legal Reasoning @ HSG, St. Gallen, 28th of August 2026 (Presentation)
- SwiLTra-Bench: The Swiss Legal Translation Benchmark AI for Access to Justice Panel @ AI for Law @ ICML, Seoul, 10th of July 2026 (Presentation)
- The Synthetic Data Playbook: Generating Trillions of the Finest Tokens Podcast @ Deep Learning with Yacine, online, 18th of June 2026 (Presentation, Video)
- The Synthetic Data Playbook: Generating Trillions of the Finest Tokens Text Generation with Language Models @ University of Zurich, Zurich, 18th of May 2026 (Presentation)
- SwiLTra-Bench: The Swiss Legal Translation Benchmark LLMC @ NII, Tokyo, 19th of March 2026 (Presentation)
- The Synthetic Data Playbook: Generating Trillions of the Finest Tokens LLMC Group Meeting @ NII, Tokyo, 18th of March 2026 (Presentation)
- The Synthetic Data Playbook: Generating Trillions of the Finest Tokens Expert Talks and Experience Reports @ SE2026 Industry Day, Bern, 26th of February 2026 (Presentation)
- LEXam: Benchmarking Legal Reasoning on 340 Law Exams NLP Group Meeting @ Lancaster University, online, 28th of January 2026 (Presentation, Video)
- LEXam: Benchmarking Legal Reasoning on 340 Law Exams AI for Law @ alphaXiv, online, 9th of January 2026 (Presentation, Video)
- LLMs for Coding DevOps with LLMs @ HSLU, online, 14th of November 2025 (Presentation)
- LEXam: Benchmarking Legal Reasoning on 340 Law Exams Data Science Talk Series @ UNT, online, 8th of October 2025 (Presentation)
- Discussant for AI & LAW Swiss {ai} Weeks, Bern, 24th of September 2025
- Discussant for Large Language Models Tailored to Legal Practitioners Doctrine as a Decision Aid: A Symposium at the Interface of Law, Research on Decision-making and Computer Science, Ercolano, 5th of July 2025
- LEXam: Benchmarking Legal Reasoning on 340 Law Exams Symposium on AI in the Judiciary, Zurich, 26th of May 2025 (Presentation)
- SwiLTra-Bench: The Swiss Legal Translation Benchmark Brown Bag Lunch Talk @ Center for Legal Data Science, Zurich, 13th of March 2025 (Presentation)
- AI and the Law Panel Discussion @ Applied Machine Learning Days, Lausanne, 11th of February 2025
- LLM Benchmarking und Transparenz: Kann ich dem LLM vertrauen? Roundtable @ Deutscher Legal Tech Verband, online, 11th of December 2024
- LawInstruct and FLawN-T5 @ NLP Seminar, Bern, 15th of November 2024 (Presentation)
- Anonymität in Gefahr? Gerichtsurteile mit Sprachmodellen Re-identifizieren @ Transparente Justiz? – Gerichtsurteile im Spannungsfeld zwischen Öffentlichkeit und Schutz der Privatsphäre, Bern, 21st of June 2024 (Presentation)
- Ein Gesetz, viele Sprachen: NLP für gerichtliche Unterstützung in der Schweiz @ Transparente Justiz? – Gerichtsurteile im Spannungsfeld zwischen Öffentlichkeit und Schutz der Privatsphäre, Bern, 21st of June 2024 (Presentation)
- Decoding Legalese Without Borders: Multilingual Evaluation of Language Models on Long Legal Texts @ PhD Defense @ University of Bern, Bern & online, 24th of January 2024 (Presentation, Video)
- New Possibilities in Legal NLP: Pretraining and Evaluating LLMs with MultiLegalPile, LEXTREME, and SCALE @ NLP Circle @ Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern & online, 17th of July 2023 (Presentation)
- New Possibilities in Legal NLP: Pretraining and Evaluating LLMs with MultiLegalPile, LEXTREME, and SCALE @ NLP Group Lunch @ Stanford University, Stanford & online, 8th of June 2023 (Presentation)
- MultiLegalPile and LEXTREME: Pretraining and Evaluating Multilingual Legal Language Models @ Interview @ E2 by Ari Massoudi, online, 2nd of June 2023 (Video)
- MultiLegalPile and LEXTREME: Pretraining and Evaluating Multilingual Legal Language Models @ Alumni Talk @ Thomson Reuters Labs, Zug, 1st of June 2023 (Presentation)
- Large Language Models @ Pizza Seminar @ Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, 9th of May 2023
- Large Language Models @ CAS Digitale Transformation @ University of Bern, Bern, 28th of April 2023
- Entwicklungen der KI für automatische Sprachverarbeitung @ BFH Digital Snack, Bern & online, 28th of September 2022 (Video)
- Künstliche Intelligenz mit der menschlichen Sprache @ ICT Warrior Academy, Armed Forces Command Support Organisation, Swiss Army, Bern & online, 27th of April 2022 (Video)
- Pretrained Language Models @ CAS Advanced Machine Learning: Introduction to NLP, University of Bern, Bern, 2nd of February 2022
- Swiss-Judgment-Prediction: A Multilingual Legal Judgment Prediction Benchmark @ AI and Law Conference by recode.law, online, 20th of January 2022
- Swiss-Judgment-Prediction: A Multilingual Legal Judgment Prediction Benchmark @ Darrow AI Ltd., online, 3rd of January 2022
- Swiss-Judgment-Prediction: A Multilingual Legal Judgment Prediction Benchmark @ Digitale Texte im Dialog, Digital Humanities, University of Bern, Bern & online, 20th of October 2021 (Slides, NLP Basics Colab, NLP Training NER Colab)
- Pediatric Boneage Prediction @ PyData Zürich, Zürich, November 2018 (GitHub Repository)
Conference Orals
- How Can We Synthesize High-Quality Pretraining Data? A Systematic Study of Prompt Design, Generator Model, and Source Data Oral @ COLM 2026 (Outstanding Paper Award), San Francisco, 7th of October 2026 (Presentation)
- MultiLegalPile: A 689GB Multilingual Legal Corpus Oral @ ACL 2024 (Outstanding Paper Award), Bangkok, August 2024 (Presentation, Video)
- Resolving Legalese: A Multilingual Exploration of Negation Scope Resolution in Legal Documents Oral @ LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, May 2024 (Presentation, Video)
