Meeting 1

The first meeting will take place March 30–31 in Gothenburg.

Schedule

The meeting will start with lunch at 12:00 on Monday, March 30 and end at 15:00 on Tuesday, March 31.

Time Activity
Monday
12:00–13:00 Lunch at Waste
13:00–13:30 Welcome. Course logistics
13:30–14:30 Review: First language models (notebooks)
14:30–15:00 Fika
15:00–17:00 Exercise: Tokenisation and embeddings (notebook)
18:00–20:00 Dinner at Wijkanders
Tuesday
09:00–10:00 Discussion: Bias in NLP models (paper by Garg et al.)
10:00–10:30 Fika
10:30–12:00 Exercise: Using pre-trained NLP models from Hugging Face (notebook, solution)
12:00–13:00 Lunch at Waste
13:00–14:00 Introduction to the project
14:00–15:00 Introduction to Assignment 1: Introduction to language modeling and Assignment 2: Transformer language models

Practical information

Venue. For the sessions, we will use rooms at the Chalmers Johanneberg campus.

Lunch both days will be at Waste, Sven Hultins Plats 5.

Dinner. On the first day of the meeting (March), we will have dinner at Wijkanders. You registered for the dinner when registering for the course. Address: Vera Sandbergs Allé 5 (map)

Public transport. The Chalmers tram stop is located a short distance from the first day’s classroom and the lunch restaurant.

From the train station, you can walk a short distance to Brunnsparken, from which the tram lines 7 and 10 can be taken directly to Chalmers.

You can use the Västtrafik app or pay with a credit card for a single ticket.