The primary European NLP Summit (EurNLP) will happen in London on October 11, 2019. It is a chance to foster dialogue and collaboration between researchers in and round Europe.
The first European NLP Summit (EurNLP) will happen in London on October 11. Registration is open now. Journey grants can be found.
The Pure Language Processing neighborhood has seen unprecedented development in recent times (see as an illustration the ACL 2019 Chairs weblog). As extra persons are coming into the sector and NLP analysis sprouts in additional locations, making significant connections and speaking successfully turns into harder.
To efficiently scale our conferences, we require constructions that allow us to combine and to supply mentorship and recommendation to the subsequent era of researchers and engineers. As well as, we’re in want of mechanisms that facilitate collaboration and the alternate of concepts in our neighborhood.
Conferences akin to NAACL 2019 have been fostering initiatives that encourage variety and inclusion, akin to mentoring, childcare, and reside captions. As well as, meetups with demographic affinity teams (WiNLP, Queer in AI, Black in AI, and so forth.) and venues akin to “birds-of-a-feather” tables facilitate assembly like-minded individuals.
Past the worldwide alternate of knowledge and concepts within the area, we consider that an efficient strategy to foster such connections is on the regional degree, to attach newcomers with specialists of their neighborhood and with one another. With the intention to maintain the worldwide neighborhood very important and wholesome, we have to be sure that native expertise is ready to flourish and that position fashions and mentors can be found to supply inspiration and suggestions.
Europe has a vibrant and world-leading NLP neighborhood, with analysis hubs throughout the continent and positioned each in academia and {industry}. The purpose of EurNLP (pronounced “your NLP”) is to carry our neighborhood nearer collectively. We need to present a casual centered get-together occasion to foster dialogue and collaboration between researchers in and round Europe. EurNLP is supported by EACL and aimed to be complementary to scientific publication-oriented European occasions. It’s also meant to be complementary to summer time faculties which are centered on educating the subsequent era and may now be discovered throughout the globe, together with Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and Europe.
EurNLP is impressed by the extremely profitable West Coast NLP Summit (WeCNLP). In distinction to a purely scientific symposium, EurNLP is an industry-academia partnership and hosted in cooperation with firms. With the intention to develop the European NLP neighborhood and resolve real-world issues our society is dealing with, we should bridge academia and {industry} and join elementary and utilized analysis.
The first European NLP summit will happen in London on October 11, 2019. The registration for EurNLP is open now. Because of our industrial host Fb and sponsorship from DeepMind, registration just isn’t solely free, however there are additionally journey grants out there to college students with an accepted summary.
—The EurNLP Organisation Committee (Barbara Plank, Sebastian Ruder, Sebastian Riedel, Armand Joulin, Fabrizio Silvestri)
