Call for Participation: LxMLS 2026 - 16th Lisbon Machine Learning School
Fernando Batista via Corpora <[email protected]>
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============================================================== Call for Participation LxMLS 2026 - 16th Lisbon Machine Learning School ============================================================== We invite everyone interested in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to attend the 16th Lisbon Machine Learning School (LxMLS 2026). Important Dates --------------- * Application Deadline: April 29th * Notification of Admission: May 15th * Early registration: June 28th * Late registration: July 13th * Summer School: July 20–25, 2026 Topics and Intended Audience --------------- The school will cover a range of Machine Learning (ML) topics, from theory to practice, that are important in solving Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems that arise in the analysis and use of Web data. Our target audience is: * Researchers and graduate students in the fields of NLP and Computational Linguistics; * Computer scientists who have interests in statistics and machine learning; * Industry practitioners who desire a deeper understanding of these subjects. Features of LxMLS: * No deep previous knowledge of ML or NLP is required, but the attendants are assumed to have some basic background on mathematics and programming; * Days are divided into morning lectures and afternoon lab sessions and practical talks (see schedule); * The Labs guide will be provided one month in advance. Last year's guide is available on the website. * The first day is scheduled to review basic concepts and introduce the necessary tools for implementation exercises * Both basic (e.g linear classifiers) and advanced topics (e.g. deep learning and transformers) will be covered * Welcome reception, Banquet, daily lunch as well as morning and afternoon coffee breaks are included in the application fee * Lecturers are leading researchers in machine learning and natural language processing List of Confirmed Speakers --------------- ADÈLE H. RIBEIRO – Philipps-Universität Marburg | Germany ANDRÉ MARTINS – University of Lisbon & Unbabel | Portugal BHIKSHA RAJ – Carnegie Mellon University | USA DESMOND ELLIOTT – University of Copenhagen | Denmark ERIC XING – Carnegie Mellon University & Mohamed Bin Zayed University of AI | USA LEON BOTTOU – Flatiron Institute | USA MÁRIO FIGUEIREDO – University of Lisbon | Portugal NOAH SMITH – University of Washington & Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence | USA ZITA MARINHO – University of Lisbon | Portugal Please visit our webpage for up-to-date information: http://lxmls.it.pt/2026/ Apply here: http://tiny.cc/apply-lxmls2026 Any questions should be directed to: [email protected] We are looking forward to your participation! -- The organizers of LxMLS 2026. _______________________________________________ Corpora mailing list -- [email protected] https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]