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Schedule
Date: November 12th 9:00 – 18:00
Place: Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República
Room: 701 (7th floor)
| 09:00 – 09:05 | Opening |
| 09:05 – 09:45 | Guarani NLP: How to Work with a Low-Resource Language (Luis Chiruzzo) |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | Poster session 1 |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Evaluation of contextualized, open-ended tasks with subjective interpretation (Laura Alonso) |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | GeMeCo Project: Highlighting Gender Gaps in Digital Media through Language Processing (Maite Martín) |
| 12:30 – 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 – 15:15 | Outstanding Challenges of Narrative for Artificial Intelligence for Natural Language (Pablo Gervás) |
| 15:15 – 16:00 | Poster session 2 |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 – 17:15 | Biomedical NLP: Key Concepts and Challenges (Viviana Cotik) |
| 17:15 – 18:00 | Closing Session |
Poster session 1:
- Exploratory Analysis for Detecting Antisemitism in Newspaper Comments in Latin America (Florencia Altschuler, Ariel Grosman)
- Analyzing News Time Series about Latin America with LLMs (Mateo Servent)
- Navigating Diversity in Social Media: Addressing Toxicity, Polarization, and Cultural Perspectives (Abi Oppenheim, Federico Albanese, Esteban Feuerstein)
- Comparative Analysis of Large Language Models on MMLU-Pro: Focus on Peruvian History (Luis Sakihama Miyashiro, Diego Alonso Rojas Vera)
- Automated Assessment of Spoken Language in English Learning (Ana Clara Nóbile, Ignacio Viscardi)
Poster session 2:
- Do Language Models create world models? A simple, embedding-based approach (Franco De Marco, Federico Suaiter, Juan Manuel Ortiz de Zarate, Esteban Feuerstein)
- FingBot: A tool to answer questions about Facultad de Ingeniería regulations (Ignacio Sastre, Guillermo Moncecchi, Aiala Rosá)
- Beyond Big Data: Demystifying Language Model Construction with Minimal Infrastructure in Uruguay (Mauricio Velasco, Bruno Arnuti)
- IE from EHRs written in Spanish for Epidemic intelligence (Javier Petri, Viviana Cotik, Pilar Barcena Barbeira)
- Sabiá-QGQA: Implementation of Language Models for Automatic Generation of Questions and Answers for the Portuguese Language (Júlia da Rocha Junqueira, Larissa A. de Freitas, Ulisses Brisolara Corrêa)
- Entrainment-Metrics: An Open-Source Toolkit for Quantifying Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment in Spoken Dialogue (Erik Ernst, Ramiro H. Gálvez, Agustín Gravano)
About the school
This regional school of NLP (co-located with Iberamia 2024) is a joint effort between the Natural Language Processing Group at Instituto de Computación (Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República), Uruguay; the Instituto de Investigación de Ciencias de la Computación (ICC) at Universidad de Buenos Aires, and CONICET, Argentina; and the Natural Language Processing Group at Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía, Física y Computación (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba), Argentina. It will feature lectures by NLP researchers, posters and social sessions. The planned duration is between 6 and 8 hours, and it will be structured as a series of lectures/presentations on different topics, for example:
- NLP for underrepresented languages
- BioNLP
- Sentiment and opinion analysis
- Hate speech detection and counter-speech generation
- Use of NLP tools for Education
Optionally, we plan to have a final assignment or project that students could do in order to obtain career credits for their attendance and work. The target audience of the school are graduate students in NLP related fields, or undergraduate students interested in the field, but it could also appeal to established academics, industry professionals, and other people interested in the field.
We also hope this serves as a gathering point for NLP researchers in the region. Latin America has for a long time been under-represented in the NLP community, and this regional event could help students and researchers to know each other, exchange ideas, obtain feedback, and start new collaborations, fostering interaction and helping them become part of the wider research community.
Organizers:
Luis Chiruzzo, Instituto de Computación, Facultad de Ingeniería, UDELAR
luischir@fing.edu.uy
Viviana Cotik, Instituto de Investigación de Ciencias de la Computación (ICC). UBA
vcotik@dc.uba.ar
Laura Alonso, Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía, Física y Computación. UNC
alemany@famaf.unc.edu.ar
Santiago Góngora, Instituto de Computación, Facultad de Ingeniería, UDELAR
sgongora@fing.edu.uy
Venue:
Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay)
Important dates:Registration deadline: October 1st – 23:59 [Anywhere on Earth time]
School dates: November 12th