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.
- March 30: SB-L300, located in the SB building at Sven Hultins gata 6.
- March 31: EB, located in the EDIT building at Hörsalsvägen 11.
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.