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Fluorescent Fridays: Colournamers Linking Vision and Speech

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20 Feb 2026

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Friday February 20, 2026, 11AM EST

How do we communicate about colour across languages and viewing conditions? Our research team at Northeastern University London investigates how speakers of different languages carve up colour space in context. In this Fluorescent Friday event, you will hear from three Colournamers: Akvile will demonstrate Colour Spinner, an interactive tool for exploring colour naming across six languages; Rafique will reveal why current AI systems struggle with colour naming despite their linguistic sophistication; and Beata will show how the colours around us interact and shift the colours we perceive and name.

The information below is edited for brevity. The complete abstracts and bios for all talks are available in this PDF.

Presenters (left to right):
Dimitris Mylonas, Associate Professor in Data Science

Introduction
Akvile Sinkeviciute, PhD Student

Title: Colour Spinner: An Interactive Tool for Multilingual Colour Communication

Rafique Ahmed, PhD Student

Title: Colour understanding in AI models

Beata Wozniak, Postdoctoral researcher

Title: Colour naming in context

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