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Program

Monday, 10. June 2024

Time
08:15-09:00	Registration
09:00-09:25	Welcome Speech
09:25-10:25	Keynote: Lewis Tunstall – “Aligning Foundation models in 2024″
10:25-10:50	Coffee Break
10:50-12:20	Scientific: LLMs Chair: Jan Deriu Room: Aula	Applied: AI in the medical domain and research Chair: Simone Griesser Room: SIL	Workshop RAG, Unveiling the Power of Retrieval-Augmented Generation I Room: A2.06	Workshop AI Support Systems for Academic Research I Room: A2.07
	SDG Classification Using Instruction-Tuned LLMs	Leveraging LLMs to Enhance Clinical Record Analysis and Retrieval
	Tracing Linguistic Footprints of ChatGPT Across Tasks, Domains and Personas in English and German	Medicrawl: an ML based system to automate the search of illegal products in ecommerce
	Zero-Shot Award Criteria extraction via Large Language Models from German Procurement Data from Switzerland	Reducing complexity of Scientific Literature by automated simplification and translation
12:20-13:35	Lunch
13:35-14:35	Keynote: Michèle Balthasar – Understanding AI and Copyright
14:35-15:35	Applied: AI models and tools Chair: Fabio Rinaldi Room: Aula	Applied: Detecting LLM-Generated Text and Topic Modelling Chair: Philipp Kuntschik Room: SIL	Workshop RAG, Unveiling the Power of Retrieval-Augmented Generation II Room: A2.06	Workshop AI Support Systems for Academic Research II Room: A2.07
	Swiss AI Initiative – Collecting Large Amounts of High-Quality Data for Training Large Language Models	Presenting BUST – A benchmark for the evaluation of system detectors of LLM-Generated Text
	PROMISE: Model-Driven Stateful Prompt Orchestration for Persuasive Conversational Interactions	Online BERT-based Topic Modelling
15:35-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:00	Keynote: Jesse Berent – Online Handwriting Recognition in the Vision-Language Models age
17:00-17:15	Minute Madness
17:15-18:15	Poster Session und Apero
18:15-19:00
19:00-23:00	Urban Golf and After Party at Toms Beer Box (food and drinks not included; free entry)

Tuesday, 11. June 2024

Time
08:30-09:00	Registration
09:00-10:00	Keynote: Torsten Zesch – Why aren’t available NLP methods more frequently used in the classroom? – The curious case of free-text answer scoring
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-12:30	Scientific: Multilinguality Chair: Katsiaryna Mlynchyk Room: Aula	Workshop Grounding Generative AI Room: SIL	Workshop Next-Gen Cleantech Solutions I Room: A2.06 + A2.07	Shared Task NLP for Sustainable Development Goals Monitoring Room: A2.02
	Fine-tuning the SwissBERT Encoder Model for Embedding Sentences and Documents
	Evaluating Labor Market Biases Reflected in German Word Embeddings
	Data Augmentation for Multi-Class Eating Disorders Text Classification
	Classifying multilingual party manifestos: Domain transfer across country, time, and genre
12:30-13:45	Lunch Break
13:45-15:45	Applied: AI in industry and practice Chair: Norman Süsstrunk Room: Aula	Battle of NLP Ideas Room: SIL	Workshop Next-Gen Cleantech Solutions II Room: A2.06 + A2.07
	Chatbot Evolution at Swisscom Customer Support
	Kickstarting legal multi-label classification experimentation
	An LLM-based Chatbot for Joint Access to Customer and Corporate data
	Creating a virtual receptionist to lighten your employees’ workload: a case study with the canton of Jura and subsidies for training.
15:45-16:15	Coffee Break
16:15-16:30	SwissNLP Award and SwissText 2025 announcement
16:30-17:30	Keynote: Leon Derczynski – Attacks on Large Language Models
17:30-17:50	Closing Session

Logistics

Main conference room
- Aula
Conference and Workshop Rooms
- Service Innovation Lab (SIL; Applied, Scientific, Workshop)
- A.018 (Luggage, No liability by the organizer)
- A2.02 (Workshop)
- A2.06 (Workshop)
- A2.07 (Workshop)
- A2.08 (Co-Working-Space for participants)
Coffee breaks, Lunch (in front of the Aula)
- Seats in the canteen and garden behind it
Toilets
- Ground floor

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