Program

Program (to be announced)

Tentative Program Overview

All sessions are located at F6 in Gløshaugen: Link to Mazemap

June 17th Day 1
13:30-14:00

Registration

14:00-14:20

 

Opening session 

Session Chair: Eric Monteiro

  • Opening ceremony
14:20-15:20

Keynote Speaker 1: Erlend Aune

15:20-15:50

Coffee break

15:50-16:50

Session 1: Generative Models and LLMs I

Session Chair: Eric Monteiro

  • Summarising Regulations: an Empirical Study of Long-Document Summarisation Methods under Extreme Compression by Tuba Gokhan, Mubashir Ali and Mark Lee

  • Using Text Simplification in Norwegian News Summarization by Vandana Yadav, Jon Atle Gulla,
    Özlem Özgöbek and Lemei Zhang

  • Temporal Reframing as a Historical Reasoning Task for Large Language Models by Lars Bungum, Charles Yijia Huang and Abeer Kashar

16:50-17:15 Snacks
17:15-20:30 Social Event: Tour of Trondheim (walking)

 

June 18th Day 2

09:00-10:00

Session 2: Social Media and Web Data

Session Chair: Benjamin Kille

  • Ontology-Augmented Prompt Engineering for Aspect-Based Sentiment Classification by Quinten van de Vijver, Emma van Breukelen, Arjan Noordermeer, Anastasia Glebova and Flavius Frasincar

  • Adaptive Filtering for Large Language Models by Ryan Marinelli

  • Consp2VecD: A Dataset based on Emotional Dynamics expressed by Reddit Conspiracy Groups for Information Disorder Analysis by Luigi Lomasto, Nicola Lettieri, Delfina Malandrino, Valerio Mosca and Rocco Zaccagnino

10:00-11:00

Session 3: AI Safety and Ethics

Session Chair: Kerstin Bach

  • Mitigating Gender Bias in English to Romanian Machine Translation by Ioana Grigore and Sergiu Nisioi

  • Zoom In Disparities in Healthcare LLM Q&A by Ipek Baris Schlicht, Burcu Sayin, Zhixue Zhao, Frederik M. Labonté, Cesare Barbera, Marco Viviani, Paolo Rosso and Lucie Flek

  • BEADS: Bias Evaluation Across Domains by Shaina Raza, Mizanur Rahman and Michael R. Zhang

11:00-11:30

 

Coffee Break

11:30-12:30

Keynote Speaker 2: Magnus Jensen

12:30-14:20

Lunch

14:20-15:00

Session 4: Generative Models and LLMs II

Session Chair: Elena Cabrio

  • Panel Discussion: Missing long-term business model for LLMs: Can they become sustainable?

15:00-16:00

Session 5: Efficient/Low-resource Methods in NLP

Session Chair: Vijayan Sugumaran

  • Towards Robust Uzbek Neural Dependency Parsing: Cross-Treebank Training by Sanatbek Matlatipov

  • Tokenizations for Austronesian Language Models: study on languages in Indonesia Archipelago by Andhika Bernad Lumbantobing, Hokky Situngkir and Kevin Siringo Ringo

  • Efficient Error-Type Transfer for Grammatical Error Detection via Embedding Alignment by Corina Masanti, Hans-Friedrich Witschel and Kaspar Riesen

16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

16:30-17:30

Session 6: Information Retrieval and Text Mining

Session Chair: Jon Atle Gulla

  • Evaluating Noisy Optimization in Finetuning LMs for Neural Ranking by Daniel Vollmers, Arnab Sharma and
    Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

  • Evaluating LLM-Generated Wikipedia Content: Political Topics in a French Setting by Jeanne Vermeirsche, Eric SanJuan and Tania Jiménez

  • Adapting GPT for Egyptian Arabic–English Code-Switched Sentiment Analysis through Prompting, Retrieval, and Sentiment-Guided Fine-Tuning by Ahmed Sherif, Reem Hussein and Caroline Sabty

19:00-22:00 Banquet at Ladekaia and Best Paper Award Ceremony

 

June 19th Day 3

09:30-10:30

Session 7: Explainable AI

Session Chair: Farid Meziane

  • Attention-Pruned SHAP: Accelerating SHAP-Based Explainability with Attention-Guided Feature Pruning by Hamza Shafik, Ahmed Sherif and Caroline Sabty

  • When Words Move Markets: Interpretable Behavioural and Robustness Analysis of LLMs for Financial Sentiment Reasoning via Local Perturbation Explanations by Sania Verma, Koorosh Aslansefat, Joyjit Chatterjee, Akash Marar, Anu Mehra and Aisha Ekundayo

  • Temporal Structure in LLM Reasoning: Analyzing Hidden States and Semantic Embeddings by Kotaro Otomura, Kosuke Nakamura, Katsuki Kobayashi, Mitsuki Nakamura, Ryo Hase and Jumpei Hato

10:30-10:45 Group Photo
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:40

 

Session 8: Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP

Session Chair: Helmut Horacek

  • Expansion Is Not Enough: Revisiting Dynamically Expandable Networks for NLP Tasks by M. Uzzwal Vanshik Reddy, Sowmya Kamath S. and Vijayan Sugumaran

  • Automated ICD-10 Coding Approaches with UMLS Integration and Model Interpretability Support by Ritik Mahajan, Sowmya Kamath S., Vijayan Sugumaran2 and Geetha V.

11:40-12:10

Closing Ceremony

12:10-13:00 Informal networking with light snacks