deep learning

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Overview
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Publication of negative results is difficult in most fields, but in NLP the problem is exacerbated by the near-universal focus on improvements in benchmarks. This situation implicitly discourages hypothesis-driven research, and it turns creation and fine-tuning of NLP models into art rather than science. Furthermore, it increases the time, effort, and carbon emissions spent on developing and tuning models, as the researchers have no opportunity to learn what has already been tried and failed.

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Call for Participation
AthNLP 2019 - 1ST ATHENS NLP SUMMER SCHOOL
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We invite everyone interested in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to attend the 1st Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School - AthNLP 2019:

http://athnlp.iit.demokritos.gr/.

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 5TH WORKSHOP ON SEMANTIC DEEP LEARNING SemDeep-5 at IJCAI 2019

Macau, China

== Update 1: Deadline Extended to May 12! ==
== Update 2: Proceedings will be published on the ACL Anthology! ==

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 5TH WORKSHOP ON SEMANTIC DEEP LEARNING
SemDeep-5@IJCAI 2019

Macau, China

Second Call for Participation

2nd INTERNATIONAL CONVERSATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SUMMER SCHOOL
CISS 2019
Lowell, USA
June 24-29, 2019
http://ciss.deephack.me/
Co-organized by:
Text Machine Lab, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Neural Networks and Deep Learning Lab, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Deep Learning and Formal Languages:
Building Bridges
Deep Learning and Formal Languages: Building Bridges -- ACL 2019 Workshop

Florence, Italy

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/delfol-workshop-acl19

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 26 April 2019

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 7

Conference dates: September 5-6, 2018

Venue: Wallenberg Conference Centre, University of Gothenburg


Organised by ACT Area of Advance, Chalmers University and CLASP, FLoV University of Gothenburg

12th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR 2018)

August 27-31, 2018, Kazan, Russia, http://romip.ru/russir2018/

Recommended deadline: July 1, 2018

SPECIAL TOPIC:
*Information Retrieval for Good*
The school will be held with a special focus on applications in humanitarian, medical, and health domains.

First Workshop on Computational Modeling of Human Multimodal Language 
Co-located with ACL 2018 conference, Melbourne, Australia
Date: 20 July 2018 (submission deadline: April 20, 2018)
  *** workshop includes a Grand Challenge with new shared tasks on multimodal language modeling ***
http://multicomp.cs.cmu.edu/acl2018multimodalworkshop

Natural Language Generation (NLG) is in the ascendant both as a stand-alone data-to-text or text-to-text task and as part of downstream applications (see, e.g., abstractive summarization, dialogue-based interaction, question answering, etc.). Only in 2017, three “deep” NLG shared tasks that focused on language generation from abstract semantic representations have been organized: WebNLG, SemEval Task 9 , E2E.