Day 1 - July 24, 2024
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9:00 am - 9:30 am
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Registration and Coffee
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9:30 am - 9:45 am
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Opening and welcome
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Dr Mo El-Haj |
9:45 am - 10:30 am
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The evolution of Natural Language Processing: from rules through neural networks to generative AI. What does the future hold?
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Prof. Ruslan Mitkov
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10:45 am - 12:15 pm
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Session 1 - “Text Visualisation and Summarisation”
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Dr Mo El-Haj and Dr Nouran Khallaf
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12:15 pm - 1:45 pm
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Lunch
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1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
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Session 2 - “Question Answering & Information Retrieval”
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Dr Saad Ezzini and Damith Dola Mullage |
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
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Coffee Break
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3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
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Session 3 - “Semantic Analysis”
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Prof. Paul Rayson and Dr Daisy Lal
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Day 2 - July 25, 2024
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9:00 am - 9:30 am
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Coffee and Networking
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9:30 am - 10:00 am
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Keynote Talk 2 Beyond the Ivory Tower: Exploring the Reality of Professional Search Beyond Academic Advancements in NLP and IR
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Prof. Udo Kruschwitz
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10:00 am - 10:30 am
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Keynote Talk 3 Environmental, ethical and social impacts of NLP and Large Language Models
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Dr Marcia Smith
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10:45 am - 12:15 pm
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Session 4 - “Quality Estimation for Machine Translation”
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Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe and Damith Dola Mullage
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12:15 pm - 1:45 pm
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Lunch
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1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
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Session 5 - “Large Language Models (LLMs)”
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Dr Hansi Hettiarachchi and Isuri Anuradha
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3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
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Coffee Break
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3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
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Session 6 - “LLM-Based Emotion Analysis”
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Dr Ignatius Ezeani, Frank Arreerard and Dr Scott Piao
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Day 3 - July 26, 2024
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9:00 am - 9:30 am
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Coffee and Networking
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9:30 am - 10:00 am
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Keynote Talk 4 Edubots: Chatbots for University Education
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Prof. Eric Atwell
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10:00 am - 10:30 am |
Keynote Talk 5 Machine Learning Models in Production: Lessons Learnt and Practical Considerations
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Akram Dweikat |
10:30 am - 11:30 am
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“ Docker for NLP 101”
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Dr John Vidler and Dr Nouran Khallaf
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11:30 am - 12:15 pm
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Mini Hackathon and Team Collaboration
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Chaired by Dr John Vidler and Prof. Paul Rayson |
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
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Lunch
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1:15 am - 2:15 pm
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Mini Hackathon and Team Collaboration
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Chaired by Dr John Vidler and Prof. Paul Rayson
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2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
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Poster Presentation Session
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Chaired by Prof. Eric Atwell and Dr Mo El-Haj
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3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
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Coffee Break
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3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
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Mini Hackathon Result
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