DISA

When? March 13, 14.00-16.00
Where? Onsite: D2272 and via zoom
Registration: Please sign up for the seminar via this link https://forms.gle/EbRUASvY9c73kMNz6 by March 11. This is especially important if you plan to attend onsite so we can make sure there is fika for everyone

Agenda
14.00-14.10 Welcome and practical information
14.10-14.55 Palme archives as a chatbot – Tibo Bruneel
14.55 – 15.05 Coffee break
15.05 – 15.50 Dag Björnberg
15.50 -16.00 Sum up and plan for our upcoming seminars

Abstracts

Palme archives as a chatbot – Tibo Bruneel  
For nearly four decades, the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme has remained a complex and heavily disputed case. Although the investigation officially closed in 2020, the search for answers continues within a monumental digital footprint. This dataset is a chaotic, unstructured web of typed police reports, handwritten notes, maps, and images. 

How can we potentially find previously unknown clues buried within decades of scattered data? 
This presentation introduces “PalmeNet-Chat,” an LLM-powered investigative tool developed by Softwerk AB in collaboration with the true-crime podcast Spår. We will detail the technical challenge of processing this dense archive. By engineering an on-premise OCR pipeline utilising Vision Language Models, we transformed raw history into a structured, searchable library. We will then explore how we implemented Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and vector databases to build a system capable of semantic search and contextual reasoning across the entire case file. Finally, we will offer a glimpse into the next phase of our project, showcasing how we are taking this investigative tool to an entirely new level. 

Dag Björnberg
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