NLP Seminar Series

The NLP Seminar Series at AI Sweden is a bi-weekly forum for people who work with or are interested in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Join us online or on site at the AI Sweden Stockholm office on Fleminggatan 41. You can also take the opportunity to work from the AI Sweden Stockholm office for the entire day.

Schedule for the 2022 Autumn NLP Seminar Series

Wednesday September 14, 16.00-17.30:
Title: On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Emily M. Bender, University of Washington

Wednesday September 28, 15.00-16.30:
Titel: "Natural" Natural Language Processing
Speaker: Slav Petrov, Distinguished Scientist / Senior Research Director, Google

Wednesday October 12, 15.00-16.30:
Titel: Reading between the lines: a better benchmark for text understanding
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University and Research Director at AI2 Israel

Wednesday October 26, 15.00-16.30:
Titel: Detect - Verify - Communicate: Combating Misinformation with More Realistic NLP
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

Wednesday November 9, 15.00-16.30:
Titel: Revisiting Neural Scaling Laws in Language and Vision 
Speaker: Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin, Research Scientist at Google Brain, and Xiaohua Zhai, Staff Researcher at Google Brain

Wednesday December 7, 15.00-16.30:
Titel: Text Summarization and Evaluation in the Era of GPT-3 
Speaker: Tanya Goyal, PhD student at University of Texas at Austin

Find more about the previous presentations here.

Upcoming events:

Wednesday December 21 - NLP Christmas Fika at the AI Sweden Stockholm office (only on-site event!)

By practitioners, for practitioners
Each seminar features an initial 45-minute presentation by practitioners or researchers followed by discussion. The NLP Seminar Series is organized by AI Sweden and RISE NLP group, and moderated by Magnus Sahlgren, Head of Research, Natural Language Understanding at AI Sweden and Joakim Nivre, Head of Natural Language Processing at RISE.

Proposals for presentations can be sent to: magnus.sahlgren@ai.se and francisca.hoyer@ai.se

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