東北大学 言語AI研究センターは、2024年3月7日（木）13:00 – 17:00 にキックオフシンポジウムを開催します。
The Center for Language AI Research will host a kick-off symposium on Thursday, March 7, 2024 from 13:00 – 17:00.
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KickOff アーカイブ動画を公開しました / Archived videos are now available.
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Program
| 13：00 | 開会の式辞 Opening Ceremony Greetings |
| 13：25 | センター説明：鈴木センター長 Explanation of the Center: Director SUZUKI Jun |
| 14：00 | 招待記念講演1：Llion Jones 氏 (Sakana AI 株式会社) Keynote Speech 1: Llion Jones (Sakana AI Corporation) 講演タイトル(Title) : “Character Level Language Modeling” |
| 14：45 | ショートトーク1：乾 健太郎 教授 (MBZUAI/東北大) Short Talk 1 : Prof. INUI Kentaro (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence / Tohoku Univ.) |
| 15：10 | 招待記念講演2：Iryna Gurevych 氏 (Technical University Darmstadt) Keynote Speech 2: Prof. Iryna Gurevych (Technical University Darmstadt) 講演タイトル(Title) : “Modeling Text as a Living Object in Context” |
| 15：55 | ショートトーク2：中尾 光之 教授 (東北大) Short Talk 2 : Prof. NAKAO Mitsuyuki (Tohoku Univ.) |
| 16：20 | センター所属教員の自己紹介/研究紹介 Self-introduction of Center faculty/Introduction of Research |
| 16：55 | 閉会の式辞 Closing ceremony |
*Programs are subject to change without notice.
会場参加（情報科学研究科棟 大会議室) は、東北大教職員の方限定となります。一般視聴希望の方は、当日YouTube 配信をご覧ください。
Participation (Main Conference Room, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building) is limited to Tohoku University faculty and staff. For general viewing, please watch the YouTube streaming on the day of the event.
招待記念講演1 Keynote Speech1
講演タイトル(Title) : “Character Level Language Modeling”
Llion Jones 氏 (Sakana AI 株式会社)
Mr. Llion Jones is an ex-Google engineer and one of the authors of the paper “Attention Is All You Need,” which introduced the deep learning model called “Transformer” for natural language processing, serving as the foundation for ChatGPT. Currently, he serves as the Co-Founder and CTO of Sakana AI.
招待記念講演2 Keynote Speech 2
講演タイトル(Title) : “Modeling Text as a Living Object in Context”
Iryna Gurevych 氏 (Technical University Darmstadt)
Iryna Gurevych (PhD 2003, U. Duisburg-Essen, Germany) is professor of Computer Science and director of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. In addition, she is an adjunct professor at MBZUAI in Abu-Dhabi, UAE and an affiliated professor at INSAIT in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her main research interests are in machine learning for large-scale language understanding and text semantics. Iryna’s work has received numerous awards. Those include the ACL fellow award 2020, the first-ever Hessian LOEWE Distinguished Chair award (2,5 mil. Euro) in 2021 and an ERC Advanced Grant in 2022 (2,5 Mil. Euro). Iryna is co-director of the NLP program within ELLIS, a European network of excellence in machine learning. In 2023, she was the president of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).