Javier de la Rosa
The Mímir Project is an initiative by the Norwegian government that aims to assess the significance and influence of copyrighted materials in the development and performance of generative large language models (LLMs) tailored to the Norwegian languages. This collaborative effort involves three leading institutions from different regions of the country: the National Library of Norway (NB), the University of Oslo (UiO), and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); each contributing unique expertise in language technology, corpus curation, model training, copyright law, and computational linguistics. The ultimate goal of the project was to gather empirical evidence that informed the formulation of a compensation scheme for authors whose works are utilized by these advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems, ensuring that intellectual property rights are respected and adequately compensated.
Javier de la Rosa is a Research Scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the National Library of Norway. A former Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Language Processing at UNED, he holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies with a specialization in Digital Humanities by the University of Western Ontario, and a Masters in Artificial Intelligence by the University of Seville. Javier has previously worked as a Research Engineer at the Stanford University, and as the Technical Lead at the University of Western Ontario CulturePlex Lab. He is interested in Natural Language Processing applied to historical and literary text, with a special focus on large language models.
