Day 1 · Monday 15 June
LLM Foundations
Keynote by Roberto Navigli, panel discussion, and foundational sessions on LLMs, low-resource languages, datasets, and bias.
At a glance
Schedule Overview
Day 2 · Tuesday 16 June
LLM Applications
Keynote by Preslav Nakov, machine translation, explainable AI, and model and hyperparameter optimisation.
Day 3 · Wednesday 17 June
LLM Applications
Eye-tracking and gaze data, digital humanities, invited lecture by Elena Lloret, legal NLP, and sentiment analysis.
Day 1
Monday 15 June
LLM Foundations
08:30 - 10:00
Keynote
Is Lexical Semantics Dead in the LLM Era?
Roberto Navigli
10:00 - 10:30
Tea / Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:45
Panel
The Paradigm Shift and the Future of NLP
Panellists: Roberto Navigli, Preslav Nakov, Elena Lloret, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Salima Lamsiyah, Nasredine Semar, Yoan Gutiérrez Vázquez, Gražina Korvel and Ruslan Mitkov
Moderator and host: Ruslan Mitkov
11:45 - 12:15
Tea / Coffee Break
12:15 - 13:30
Understanding Language Models
Hansi Hettiarachchi
13:30 - 14:30
LLMs for Low-Resource Languages
Robiert Sepulveda Torres
14:30 - 15:30
Lunch Break
15:30 - 16:30
Fairness in Machine Learning: Evaluating Gender Bias in LLMs
Juan Pablo Consuegra Ayala
Day 2
Tuesday 16 June
LLM Applications
08:30 - 10:00
Keynote
Towards Truly Open, Language-Specific, Safe, Factual, and Specialized Large Language Models
Preslav Nakov
10:00 - 10:30
Tea / Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:45
Quality Estimation for Machine Translation
Tharindu Ranasinghe
11:45 - 12:15
Tea / Coffee Break
12:15 - 13:30
Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages
Alicia Picazo Izquierdo
13:30 - 14:30
Explainable AI in NLP
Salima Lamsiyah
14:30 - 15:30
Lunch Break
15:30 - 16:30
Model and Hyperparameter Optimisation
Ernesto Luis Estevanell
Day 3
Wednesday 17 June
LLM Applications
08:30 - 10:00
Gaze Data in NLP research: Recording methods and analysis
Cengiz Acartürk
10:00 - 10:30
Tea / Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30
Beyond the Single Text: NLP Reading in Digital Humanities
Isuri Anuradha
11:30 - 12:00
Tea / Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00
Invited lecture
Quantum Natural Language Processing: Foundations, Challenges, and Insights
Elena Lloret
13:00 - 14:30
Legal NLP in the LLM Era
Damith Premasiri
14:30 - 15:30
Lunch Break
15:30 - 16:30
LLMs and Sentiment Analysis
Maram Alharbi