Meeting 1

The first meeting will take place 11–12 April in Linköping.

Schedule

The meeting will start with lunch at 12:00 on Thursday, 11 April and end at 15:00 on Friday, 12 April. Here is a rough schedule:

Time Activity
Thursday
12:00–13:00 Lunch at Kårallen, Gästmatsalen
13:00–13:30 Welcome. Course logistics
13:30–14:30 Discussion: Word and document representations
14:30–15:00 Fika in Ljusgården
15:00–17:00 Exercise 1-1: Simple neural NLP models from scratch (notebook, solution)
18:30–21:00 Dinner at Olympia Da Vinci
Friday
09:00–09:30 Discussion: Attention (blog post)
09:30–10:00 Discussion: Bias in NLP models (paper by Garg et al.)
10:00–10:30 Fika in Ljusgården
10:30–12:00 Exercise 1-2: Using pre-trained NLP models from Hugging Face (notebook, solution)
12:00–13:00 Lunch at Universitetsklubben
13:00–14:00 Introduction to the project
14:00–15:00 Introduction to Assignment 1: Language models

Practical information

Meeting venue. We will be at Linköping University, in B-huset, Campus Valla. Most sessions will be in lecture hall Nobel. Friday afternoon, we will be in lecture hall Ada Lovelace. For fikas we will walk over to Ljusgården. Lunches will be in Kårallen (Thursday) and Universitetsklubben (Friday).

Public transport. You can choose between two bus lines to get to B-huset from the city center using public transport (Östgötatrafiken). The specified travel times include a final walk from the bus stop to the meeting room.

Dinner. On the first day of the meeting (11 April), we will have a joint dinner at Olympia Da Vinci. You registered for the dinner when registering for the course. Address: Bielkegatan 1, 582 21 Linköping (map)

Hotels. We can recommend Scandic Frimurarhotellet and Scandic Linköping City. Both of them are located close to the city centre and train station.