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IT:U Summer School 2025 on NLP<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The IT:U Summer School 2025, dedicated to Natural Language Processing (NLP), will be held on July 25\u201326 in Linz, Austria, just ahead of the flagship conference, the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025)<\/a>, which will be held in Vienna from July 27 to August 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This two-day event will feature a rich program of invited talks, panel discussions, and hands-on tutorials led by distinguished experts participating in ACL 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The summer school aims to bring together students, researchers, and NLP \/ AI practitioners from Austria and beyond to explore and exchange ideas around the latest advancements in natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This interdisciplinary gathering offers a valuable platform for knowledge exchange, collaboration, and networking among emerging professionals and leading experts in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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July 25 and 26<\/div><\/div>
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Austria<\/div><\/a>
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16+ Speakers<\/div><\/div>
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Ido Dagan<\/h3>\n

Professor, Bar-Ilan University<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Preslav Nakov<\/h3>\n

Department Chair and Professor of Natural Language Processing, MBZUAI<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Iryna Gurevych<\/h3>\n

Professor, TU-Darmstadt<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Yulan He<\/h3>\n

Professor, King’s College London<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Michael Strube<\/h3>\n

Group Leader at Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and honorary professor at Heidelberg University<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Min-Yen Kan<\/h3>\n

Associate Professor, National University of Singapore<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Saif M. Mohammad<\/h3>\n

Principal Research Scientist, National Research Council Canada<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Yunyao Li<\/h3>\n

Director of Machine Learning at Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe US<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Goran Glava\u0161<\/h3>\n

Professor, University of W\u00fcrzburg<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Antoine Bosselut<\/h3>\n

Assistant professor, \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9ral de Lausanne (EPFL)<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Steffen Eger<\/h3>\n

Professor, UTN<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Yufang Hou<\/h3>\n

Professor, IT:U Austria<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Anne Lauscher<\/h3>\n

Professor, University of Hamburg<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Wei Zhao<\/h3>\n

Lecturer, University of Aberdeen<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Yong Cao<\/h3>\n

PostDoc, University of T\u00fcbingen<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Niklas Schmidinger<\/h3>\n

PhD student, JKU<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Sepp Hochreiter<\/h3>\n

Professor, Institute for Machine Learning, JKU<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Christopher Frauenberger<\/h3>\n

Professor, IT:U Austria<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Daniel Klotz<\/h3>\n

Assistant Professor, IT:U Austria<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Jie Mei<\/h3>\n

Assistant Professor of Computational Neuroscience<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Nina Hubig<\/h3>\n

Assistant Professor of Explainable Artificial Intelligence<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>

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Bernd Resch<\/h3>\n

Professor of Geosocial Artificial Intelligence<\/p>\n :read more<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Summer School Program<\/h2>\n\n\n
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July 25th<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
8:30 \u2013 9:30 <\/td>Registration <\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:30 \u2013 9:40 <\/td>Opening remark (Yufang Hou) <\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:40 - 9:50 <\/td>Welcome remark from IT:U President <\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:50 -10:50 <\/td>[Invited talk] Optimizing text generation for users: from localizing hallucination detection and attribution towards interaction<\/a><\/strong> Ido Dagan <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:50 \u2013 11:00 <\/td>KEBA presentation <\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:00 \u2013 11:10 <\/td>Summer School Photo Session + Mini Break <\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:10 - 12:10 <\/td>[Invited talk] Self-Evolution of Large Language Models<\/a><\/strong> Yulan He<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:10 - 13:10 <\/td>Lunch break <\/td>12:50 \u2013 13:00 Infineon Presentation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:10 - 14:10 <\/td>[Invited talk] Literary Translation in the Era of Large Language Models<\/a><\/strong>
\nSteffen Eger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:10 - 15:10 <\/td>[Invited talk] Democratizing Open LLMs for Global Sovereign AI Applications<\/a> <\/strong> Antoine Bosselut<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:10 - 15:40 <\/td>Coffee break <\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:40 - 16:40 <\/td>[Invited talk] Factuality Challenges in the Era of Large Language Models<\/a><\/strong>
\nPreslav Nakov<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:40 - 18:10 <\/td>Panel Discussion (Moderator: Chris Frauenberger; Panelist: Michael Strube, Ido Dagan, Min-Yen Kan, Yulan He, Preslav Nakov, Antoine Bosselut) The Future of Interdisciplinary Education in the Age of LLMs: Challenges and Opportunities<\/strong> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18:20 - 19:20 <\/td>Social Event: Women in AI (Jie Mei<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n \n <\/div> \n \n<\/div>\n\n\n
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July 26th<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
9:00 - 10:30<\/td>[Tutorial] AI-assisted Scientific Discovery, Experimentation, Content Generation, and Evaluation<\/a><\/strong> (Yufang Hou<\/a>, Steffen Eger<\/a>,Anne Lauscher<\/a>,
\nWei Zhao<\/a>, Yong Cao<\/a>)<\/td>		[Tutorial] xLSTM \u2013 Extended Long Short-Term Memory<\/a><\/strong>
\nNiklas Schmidinger<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30 - 11:00<\/td>Coffee break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:00 - 12:30<\/td>[Tutorial] A Tutorial on NLP for Affective Science: Exploring Fundamental Questions on Emotions through Language and Computation<\/a><\/strong> Saif M. Mohammad<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:30 - 13:30<\/td>Lunch Break<\/td>13:00 \u2013 13:10 Amazon Presentation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:30 - 14:15<\/td>[Invited talk] Declarative to Generative: Building and Querying Enterprise Knowledge Bases<\/a><\/strong> Yunyao Li<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:15 - 15:00<\/td>[Invited talk] The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Getting more from LLM Prompting<\/a><\/strong> Min-Yen Kan<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:00 - 15:30<\/td>Coffee break<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:30 - 16:15<\/td>[Invited talk] On Improving Multilingual Abilities of (Different Types of) Language Models<\/a><\/strong> Goran Glava\u0161<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:15 - 17:00<\/td>[Invited talk] Please meet AI, our dear new colleague. In other words: can scientists and machines truly cooperate<\/a>?<\/strong> Iryna Gurevych<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17:00 - 18:00 <\/td>Panel Discussion (Moderator: Anne Lauscher; Panelist: Iryna Gurevych, Yunyao Li, Steffen Eger, Goran Glava\u0161) Rethinking NLP Evaluation: Automatic metrics, LLM as a judge, human evaluation, and beyond<\/strong> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18:00 - 18:10 <\/td>Closing session and final remarks <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n