Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School 2024

CFP

Call for Participation

AthNLP 2024 - 2nd ATHENS NLP SUMMER SCHOOL

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** Application Deadline: ~~June 20, 2024~~ → July 1, 2024

** Preliminary schedule: https://athnlp.github.io/2024/schedule.html

** Info for sponsors: see here

We invite everyone interested in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to attend the 2nd Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School - AthNLP 2024: https://athnlp.github.io/2024/

Important Dates

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* Application Deadline: ~~June 20, 2024~~ → July 1, 2024

* Decision: ~~June 30, 2024~~ → July 10, 2024

* Registration: ~~July 22, 2024~~ → July 25, 2024

* Payment: ~~July 31, 2024~~ → August 2, 2024

* Summer School: September 19-25, 2024

Description

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Following on from the success of the 1st AthNLP in 2019, AthNLP 2024 will take place at the campus of NCSR “Demokritos" in Athens and is organised jointly by NCSR "Demokritos", the Athens University of Economics and Business, RC "Athena", and Heriot-Watt University. AthNLP cooperates closely with the organisers of LxMLS, taking place in Lisbon, in July 11-17.

The school will cover a range of NLP topics focusing on machine learning (ML) methods. There will be morning lectures focusing on theoretical aspects, afternoon lab sessions focusing on implementation and experimentation, and evening talks on research topics and perspectives, as well as demos and posters from the participants and industry research labs. The lectures and the evening talks will be given by internationally recognized researchers from academic and industrial research labs. The topics to be covered include: classification, sequence prediction, linear models, neural networks, encoder-decoder architectures, machine translation, large language models, and multimodality.

Our target audience is:

* Researchers and graduate students in the fields of NLP and Computational Linguistics;

* Computer scientists who have interests in natural language processing and machine learning;

* Industry practitioners who desire a more in-depth understanding of these subjects.

While previous experience with the topics will be helpful, the school assumes no previous knowledge of natural language processing and machine learning. The only background assumed is basic mathematics and Python programming.

Features of AthNLP:

* Attendance at the Social Event, daily lunch as well as morning and afternoon coffee breaks are included in the application fee.

* Lecturers are leading researchers in machine learning and natural language processing.

* Students will be able to (optionally) show their current work in poster sessions during coffee breaks.

* In the demo day, students will be able to interact with technical companies and research institutions working in machine learning.

Confirmed Speakers

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* Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason Computer Science

* Raquel Fernández, University of Amsterdam

* Ferenc Huszár, University of Cambridge

* Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

* Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh

* Ryan McDonald, ASAPP

* Aida Nematzadeh, Google DeepMind

* Vlad Niculae, University of Amsterdam

* Barbara Plank, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

* Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen

Participation

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