Schedule

Day 1

Monday, JULY 1

Notes: 

This schedule is tentative and subject to modifications.

All invited talks, panels and opening/closing sessions will take place in the main lecture theatre in Abacws ground floor (0.01). Lunch/coffee breaks will be served at room 0.34. Tutorials will take place in the 1.34 Windows lab. Poster presentation will take place in Abacws main hall.

Registration open from 9:45 (Abacws ground floor, 0.04)

10:00–10:15

Welcome reception + Registration

Abacws ground floor, room 0.04

10:15–10:30

Opening session

Cardiff NLP team, Lecture theatre 0.01

10:30–11:30

Arkaitz Zubiaga (Queen Mary University of London)

Broadening and Customising Abusive Language Detection

11:30–12:30

Nafise Sadat Moosavi (University of Sheffield)

Numbers in the Mist: Towards Accurate Numerical Understanding in LMs

Lunch break 12:30-13:30

13:30–14:30

Anna Rogers (IT University of Copenhagen)

A Sanity Check on Emergent Properties

Coffee break 14:30-15:00

15:00–16:00

RAG Tutorial: "Building End-to-end Retrieval Augmented Generation Pipelines"

Where: 1.34/1.39 Windows lab

Presented by Luis Espinosa-Anke (Cardiff NLP + AMPLYFI)

16:00–17:30

Poster presentation + refreshments

All participants.

Where: Abacws main hall

Day 2

Tuesday, JULY 2

Late registration open 8:45 and during reception (Abacws ground floor, 0.04)

9:009:15

Reception and late registration

Abacws main hall

9:1510:15

Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge)

Fact-checking as a Conversation

Coffee break 10:15-10:45

10:45–11:30

Panel on "Career in NLP after graduation"

Panel members: Anna Rogers (IT University of Copenhagen), Asahi Ushio (Amazon) and Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge)
Moderated by Steven Schockaert (Cardiff NLP)

11:30–12:30

Emanuele Bugliarello (Google DeepMind)

An introduction to (multicultural) vision and language models

Lunch break 12:30-13:30

13:30–14:30

Javad Hosseini (Google Deepmind)

Synthetic Data Generation for Domain Generalization

Coffee break 14:30-15:00

15:00–16:00

Asahi Ushio (Amazon)

Bridging the Gap between Text and Speech with Recent Speech Foundation Models

16:00–17:00

Marie-Francine Moens (KU Leuven)

Spatial Language: How to Represent It and Reason with It?

17:00–17:10

Closing remarks

Cardiff NLP team