Schedule

Day 1

Monday, JULY 14

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 (first floor). Poster presentation will take place in Abacws atrium.

Registration open from 9:45 (Abacws ground floor)

10:00–10:15

Welcome reception + Registration

Abacws ground floor (registration) and room 0.34 (reception and coffee+)

10:15–10:30

Opening session

Cardiff NLP team, Lecture theatre 0.01

10:30–11:30

Jennifer Foster

Worth the effort? Large Language Models for claim verification, syntactic analysis and taxonomy creation

11:30–12:30

Marianna Apidianaki

Semantic and Perceptual Knowledge in Large Language Models' Embedding Space: Insights, Challenges and Perspectives

Lunch break 12:30-13:30

13:30–14:30

Marzieh Fadaee

Rethinking Evaluation for the Future of Language Models

Coffee break 14:30-15:00

15:00–16:00

Tutorial (Topic TBA)

Where: 1.34/1.39 Windows lab

Presented by the Cardiff NLP team

16:00–17:30

Poster presentation + refreshments

All participants.

Where: Abacws main hall

Day 2

Tuesday, JULY 15

Late registration open 9:00 and during reception (Abacws ground floor)

9:15–9:30

Reception and late registration

Abacws main hall

9:30–10:30

Christos Christodoulopoulos

With great power... My journey in Responsible AI

Coffee break 10:30-11:00

11:00–12:00

Alexander Shvets

Challenges in Curating Data for Building a Multilingual LLM

12:00–13:00

Edoardo M. Ponti

A blueprint for adaptive and tokenizer-free foundation models

Lunch break 13:00-14:00

14:00–15:00

Interdisciplinary NLP Session

Speakers:

Dawn Knight: "Applying Corpus Linguistics and NLP in a Minoritised Language Context"
Christian Arnold: "Research between NLP and Political Science: The Triggerpoint Project as a Use Case"
Verity Bennett: TBA

Coffee break 15:00-15:30

15:30–16:15

Panel on "Interdisciplinarity and NLP"

Panel members:

Carla Pérez Almendros (Cardiff NLP)
Christian Arnold (School of Government, University of Birmingham)
Christos Christodoulopoulos (Information Commissioner's Office, previously Amazon)

Moderated by Steven Schockaert

16:15–16:30

Closing remarks

Cardiff NLP team

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