Schedule

Note: 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 during welcome reception from 9:45 (Abacws ground floor, 0.04)

Horacio Saggion (Pompeu Fabra University)

Natural Language Processing for Accessible Information: Simplifying Words in Context

Lunch break 12:30-13:30

Danushka Bollegala (Amazon, University of Liverpool)

Back to the Future — Time Travel with Large Language Models 

Coffee break 14:30-15:00

TweetNLP Tutorial (Cardiff NLP team)

Where: 1.34/1.39 Windows lab

Presented by Dimosthenis Antypas, Carla Pérez-Almendros and Jose Camacho-Collados

• Learn to take the most from social media using NLP and the TweetNLP Python library.

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

Maria Liakata (Queen Mary University / Turing Institute)

Personalised Longitudinal Natural Language Processing

Where: Lecture Theatre, 0.01

Coffee break 10:15-10:45

Panel on "NLP Research in the age of LLMs"

Moderated by Steven Schockaert (Cardiff NLP). 

Panel members: Tom Kocmi (Microsoft), Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield), and Nico Potyka (Cardiff University)

Viviana Patti (University of Turin)

Abusive Language Detection on Social Media: Are We Far from the Shallow Now?

Lunch break 12:30-13:30

Coffee break 14:30-15:00

Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield)

One size does not fit all: building NLP models for real-world applications