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NLP Seminar Series

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Stockholm, Gotheburg & online

The NLP Seminar Series at AI Sweden is a bi-weekly forum for people who work with or are interested in Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Arranged by: 
AI Sweden and RISE NLP Group

The NLP Seminar Series at AI Sweden is a bi-weekly forum for people who work with or are interested in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Join us online or on site at the AI Sweden Stockholm office on Fleminggatan 41. You can also take the opportunity to work from the AI Sweden Stockholm office for the entire day and/or join us for an NLP fika at 14.30. At some selected events you are also welcome to join us at the AI Sweden Gothenburg office.

Wednesday, February 1, 15.00-16.30:
Title: Challenges and Opportunities in NLP for Under-represented Languages
Speaker: Sebastian Ruder, Senior Research Scientist at Google

Abstract: Natural language processing (NLP) technology has seen tremendous improvements in recent years but most of these successes have been concentrated in languages with large amounts of data. In this talk, I will discuss challenges and potential solutions on the way to scaling NLP to more of the world's 7000 languages. In particular, I will highlight recent progress in NLP for African languages and present methods that are applicable to languages with limited data such as employing alternative sources of data and multi-modal information.

Upcoming Seminars (Speakers will be updated shortly)
February 1
February 15
March 15
March 29
April 26
May 10
June 7

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Recordings of previous NLP Seminars can be found here.

By practitioners, for practitioners

Each seminar features an initial 45-minute presentation by practitioners or researchers followed by discussion. The NLP Seminar Series is organized by AI Sweden and RISE NLP Group.

Moderators:
Magnus Sahlgren, Head of Research, Natural Language Understanding at AI Sweden
Joakim Nivre, Head of Natural Language Processing at RISE.

Proposals for presentations can be sent to magnus.sahlgren@ai.se or francisca.hoyer@ai.se