Program details
We’re excited to host this two-day event in Mexico City, co-located with NAACL 2024.
- First Day (June 14): Dive into insightful Keynotes and engaging Panels from experts in the field.
- Second Day (June 15): Participate in interactive Tutorials for practical NLP learning experiences.
| Friday, June 14 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progam | Start | End | Name | Rooms |
| Registration | 8:20 | 8:50 | Registration | Adelita |
| Opening Session | 8:50 | 9:00 | Welcome Opening Session | |
| Keynote | 9:00 | 10:00 | Human Centered NLP for Positive Impact (Diyi Yang) | |
| Keynote | 10:00 | 11:00 | Alexis Palmer | |
| AM Coffee Break | 11:00 | 11:30 | Coffee in Foyer | |
| Panel A | 11:30 | 13:00 | 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. | |
| Lunch | 13:00 | 14:30 | Lunch on own | |
| Keynote | 14:30 | 15:30 | Towards Inclusive Design and Development: Open Data and Gender as Key Tools for Inclusive LLMs Models (Umut Pajaro Velasquez) | |
| Keynote | 15:30 | 16:30 | Veronica Perez Rosas | |
| PM Coffee Break | 16:30 | 17:00 | Coffee in Foyer | |
| Panel B | 17:00 | 18:30 | Perspectivas de NLP desde Latinoamérica / NLP perspectives, an overview from Latin America. | |
| Saturday, June 15 | ||||
| Progam | Start | End | Name | Rooms |
| Tutorial A | 9:00 | 10:30 | Training Lightweight Model via Knowledge Distillation and Parameter Efficient Finetuning (Alham Fikri Aji / English) | Adelita |
| Tutorial B | 9:00 | 10:30 | Introduction to Attention Mechanisms in Transformers (Víctor Mijangos / Spanish) | Julian |
| AM Coffee Break | 10:30 | 11:00 | Coffee & Tea in Foyer | |
| Tutorial A | 11:00 | 12:30 | Training Lightweight Model via Knowledge Distillation and Parameter Efficient Finetuning (Alham Fikri Aji / English) | Adelita |
| Tutorial B | 11:00 | 12:30 | Introduction to Attention Mechanisms in Transformers (Víctor Mijangos / Spanish) | Julian |
| Lunch | 12:30 | 14:00 | Lunch on own | |
| Tutorial C | 14:00 | 16:00 | Exploring Transformers and Limitations in Language Modeling (Danae Sánchez / Spanish) | Adelita |
| Tutorial D | 14:00 | 16:00 | The Power of Rewards - Reinforcing Language Models with Reinforcement Learning (Sudipta Kar / English) | Julian |
| PM Coffee Break | 16:00 | 16:15 | Coffee & Tea in Foyer | |
| Panel C | 16:15 | 18:15 | Getting into NLP: Insights from experts and peers. Closing session | Adelita |
Don’t miss this opportunity for valuable learning and networking in the field of Natural Language Processing!