Researchers from The University of Liverpool’s Department of Computer Science will host an Artificial Intelligence symposium bringing together researchers involved in Natural Language Processing (NLP) from interdisciplinary fields who want to think about the societal implications of their work for solving humanitarian and environmental challenges.
The event taking place on 25-26th June aims to support fundamental research and engineering efforts and empower the social sector with tools and resources, while collaborating with partners from all sectors to maximise effect in solving problems within public health, nature & society, climate & energy, accessibility and crisis response.
Researchers believe that NLP-based technologies could help to solve societal issues such as equality and inclusion, education, health, and hunger, and climate action etc. and many more. The field is focused on delivering positive social impact in accordance with the priorities outlined in the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The programme includes several talks on a range of topics related to NLP as well as keynote lectures from Google’s Aparna Taneja, Dr Tomasso Caselli, University of Groningen, Professor Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich and Tanmoy Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
The event is being organised by Dr Procheta Sen, Department of Computer Science who said “With recent advancements in large language models, there is greater potential to address real-world challenges using NLP. It is equally important that these solutions are sustainable. Through this symposium, we aim to foster an environment where such critical topics can be discussed and explored.”
The symposium is free to attend but spaces are limited so please register in advance here.
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