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)
9:00–9:15
Reception and late registration
Abacws main hall
9:15–10:15
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