Overview
| Thursday, June 13: | Virtual Poster Sessions |
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| 09:00 – 11:00 | Session 1 of Virtual Poster Presentations. Log into Underline to join, presentations are in Gathertown |
| 20:00 – 22:00 | Session 2 of Virtual Poster Presentations. Log into Underline to join, presentations are in Gathertown |
| Friday, June 14: | Mexican NLP Summer School |
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| 08:20 - 17:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 17:30 | Summer School |
| 08:50 - 11:00 | Opening Session, Keynotes Diyi Yang & Alexis Palmer |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | AM Coffee Break (coffee & tea included) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Panel A: From “publish or perish” to “publicize or perish”: Navigating challenges and opportunities for career advancement in Latin American Communities in the current era of scientific publication trends |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch Break (All attendees on their own) |
| 14:30 - 16:30 | Keynotes: Umut Pajaro Velasquez & Veronica Perez Rosas |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | PM Coffee Break (coffee & tea included) |
| 17:00 - 18:30 | Panel B: Perspectivas de NLP desde Latinoamérica / NLP perspectives, an overview from Latin America |
| Saturday, June 15: | Mexican NLP Summer School |
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| 08:30 - 17:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Tutorials: 1: Training Lightweight Models via Knowledge Distillation and Parameter Efficient Finetuning/English 2: Introduction to Attention Mechanisms in Transformers/Spanish |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | AM Coffee Break (coffee & tea included) |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Tutorials Continue |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break (All attendees on their own) |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Tutorials: 1: Exploring Transformers and Limitations in Language Modeling/Spanish 2: The Power of Rewards - Reinforcing Language Models with Reinforcement Learning/English |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | PM Coffee Break (coffee & tea included) |
| 16:15 - 18:30 | Panel C: Getting into NLP: Insights from experts and peers + Closing Session |
| Saturday, June 15: | Main Conference & Tutorials |
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| 14:00 - 19:00 | Registration Open Check in on Level 2 Don Diego Foyer |
| Sunday, June 16: | Tutorials |
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| 07:30 - 21:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 12:30 | Tutorials: 1. Catch Me If You GPT: Tutorial on Deepfake Texts 2. Combating Security and Privacy Issues in the Era of Large Language Models 3. Explanation in the Era of Large Language Models |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | AM Coffee Break (coffee, tea & snacks included) |
| 09:00 - 17:30 | Affinity Workshop: Queer in AI |
| 09:00 - 18:00 | Affinity Workshops: LatinX in AI |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break (All attendees on their own) |
| 14:00 - 17:30 | Tutorials: 1. From Text to Context: Contextualizing Language with Humans, Groups, and Communities for Socially Aware NLP 2. Human-AI Interaction in the Age of LLMs 3. Spatial and Temporal Language Understanding: Representation, Reasoning, and Grounding |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | PM Coffee Break (coffee, tea & snacks included) |
| 19:00 - 21:30 | Welcome Reception (Light canapes & Sweets Included) |
| Monday, June 17: | Main Conference Day 1 |
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| 07:30 - 16:30 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Opening Session & Keynote Address: Claudio Santos Pinhanez: “Harnessing the Power of LLMs to Vitalize Indigenous Languages” |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | AM Coffee Break (coffee, tea & snacks included) |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Orals, Posters, BoF & Affinity Groups |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break (All attendees on their own) |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Orals, Posters, BoF & Affinity Groups |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | PM Coffee Break (coffee, tea & snacks included) |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Orals, Posters, BoF & Affinity Groups |
| Tuesday, June 18: | Main Conference Day 2 |
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| 08:30 -16:30 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Orals, SRW panel, BoF & Affinity Groups |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | AM Coffee Break (coffee, tea & snacks included) |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Panel: Large Language Models (LLMs) and their Impact on Education: Karen Matías, Swapna Somasundaran, Victoria Yaneva, Ekaterina Kochmar |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break (All attendees on their own) |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Business Meeting (All Attendees Welcome) Don Alberto 2 - 3 Ballrooms |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | PM Coffee Break (coffee, tea & snacks included) |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Posters, BoF & Affinity Groups |
| 18:30 - 21:30 | Social Event Check-in |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Social Event |
| Wednesday, June 19: | Main Conference Day 3 |
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| 08:00 - 17:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Orals, Posters, BoF & Affinity Groups |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | AM Coffee Break (coffee, tea & snacks included) |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Orals, Posters, BoF & Affinity Groups |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break (All attendees on their own) |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Plenary: Keynote: Seana Coulson: “Distributional Semantics: What do large language models have to say?” |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | PM Coffee Break (coffee, tea & snacks included) |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Best Paper Awards and Closing Session |
| Thursday, June 20: | Workshop Day 1 |
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| 08:00 - 16:30 | Registration |
| Workshops | Please see workshop for details schedule |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | AM Coffee Break (coffee, tea & snacks included) |
| TBD | Lunch Break (All attendees on their own) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | PM Coffee Break (coffee, tea & snacks included) |
| Friday, June 21: | Workshop Day 2 |
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| 08:00 - 16:30 | Registration |
| Workshops | Please see workshop for details schedule |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | AM Coffee Break (coffee, tea & snacks included) |
| TBD | Lunch Break (All attendees on their own) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | PM Coffee Break (coffee, tea & snacks included) |