AAU-NLP 2024 Symposium

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Abstract

We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming AAU-NLP 2024 Symposium, bringing together students, researchers, and industry practitioners to explore and discuss NLP topics within the realm of such as LLM-Security, LLM factuality and multilinguality. We look forward to welcoming you to the symposium, below you can find core relevant information. Note that we have a limit of 125 attendees, so please register as soon as possible to secure your seat!

Date
Dec 3, 2024 12:30 PM — 7:30 PM
Location
Aalborg University Copenhagen
AC Meyers Vænge 15, Copenhagen, 2450

Tentative Agenda (subject to change):

*Light refreshments and snacks will be provided during the breaks

12:30 - 12:50: Registration and Coffee

12:50 - 13:00: Introduction to the Symposium (Prof. Johannes Bjerva, AAU)

13:00 - 13:50: Leon Derczynski (NVIDIA) - “Raising the LLM Security Poverty Line”

14:00 - 14:50: Jonas Pfeiffer (Google DeepMind, Zurich) - “Modular Deep Learning”

14:50 - 15:15: Coffee Break

15:15 - 16:00: Desmond Elliot (University of Copenhagen) - “Pixel-based Models of Language”

16:00 - 16:50: Anna Rogers (IT University of Copenhagen) - “AI ‘News’ Content Farms Are Easy to Make and Hard to Detect”

16:50 - 17:15: Coffee Break

17:15 - 18:00: Lightning talks by AAU NLP researchers - Speakers TBA

18:00 - 19:30: Reception, including drinks and snacks

Johannes Bjerva
Johannes Bjerva
Professor of Natural Language Processing
Ernests Lavrinovics
Ernests Lavrinovics
PhD Student (2024–)
Mike Zhang
Mike Zhang
Postdoc (2024–)