Calls for Participation

First Call for Participation

Archive Published February 2026

The initial official call for the Summer School.

Archive Call 1

Natural Language Processing has undergone a major paradigm shift from rule-based methods to data-driven language models. While Deep Learning and Large Language Models have delivered substantial progress, model outputs are not always ideal and rule-based approaches can still be competitive in specific scenarios.

The summer school addresses this transition through lectures and practical sessions that combine theoretical foundations with hands-on work.

Topics include:

  • Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Explainable AI in LLMs
  • Datasets and bias in LLMs
  • Foundational LLMs for low-resource languages
  • Machine Translation for low-resource languages
  • LLMs and sentiment analysis
  • Model and hyperparameter optimisation
  • Eye-tracking and gaze data for NLP and language models
  • Among others

Venue and dates: Research Institute of Informatics, University of Alicante, June 15-17, 2026.

Further information: summer-school@dlsi.ua.es