Programme

Day 1 - 28th June 2023

 

Time

 Agenda item Presenter Topic
8:30 Coffee & Breakfast 
9:00 Welcome Speech for NLP Tutorial Max Ahrens (OMI)
9:15 Tutorial Part I Felix Drinkall (OMI) NLP for Social Data Science - Theory
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Tutorial Part II Ved Mathai (OeRC), Dragos Gorduza (OMI) NLP for Social Data Science - Coding exercises
13:00 Lunch Break and Networking
14:00 Conference Welcome Speech Álvaro Cartea (OMI)  
14:15 Session I: NLP in Social Data Science Maria Liakata (Queen Mary University of London, Alan Turing Institute) Personalised Longitudinal Natural Language Processing
15:00 Session I: NLP in Social Data Science Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford) Natural language processing versus the heterogenous world of natural language
15:45 Session I: NLP in Social Data Science Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge)

Fact-checking as a conversation
16:30 Coffee Break
16:45 Session I: NLP in Social Data Science

Girish Sastry (OpenAI) and Josh Goldstein (Georgetown University)

 Thinking through Disinformation and Other Malicious Uses of Language Models
17:45 Session I: NLP in Social Data Science Elena Gribovskaya (Google DeepMind) Retrieval-augmented models for in-context learning and fast adaptation to new information
18:30 Drinks Reception at St John's College
19:30-open Dinner at St John's College

 

Day 2 - 29th June 2023

Time

 Agenda item Presenter Title
8:30 Coffee & Breakfast
9:20 Introduction and Overview of the Day Max Ahrens (OMI)  
9:30 Session II: NLP in Economics and Finance Dacheng Xiu (University of Chicago)

Expected Returns and Large Language Models
10:15 Session II: NLP in Economics and Finance Elliott Ash (ETH Zurich) Immigration and Social Distance: Evidence from Newspapers during the Age of Mass Migration
11:00 Coffee Break    
11:15 Session II: NLP in Economics and Finance Markus Leippold (University of Zurich)

Paradigm Shift in Sustainability Disclosure Analysis: Empowering Stakeholders with AI
12:00 Session II: NLP in Economics and Finance Natraj Raman (JP Morgan)

Building Financial Language Models: Data, Design and Benchmarks
12:45 Poster Session & Lunch Break
14:15 Session II: NLP in Economics and Finance Gary Kazantsev (Bloomberg and Columbia University) BloombergGPT and more
15:00 Session III: NLP in Social Data Science Bertie Vidgen (ActiveFence, Oxford, Alan Turing Institute) Now we have ChatGPT, do we really need to build AI to moderate content?!
15:45 Coffee Break
16:00 Session III: NLP in Social Data Science Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University) Unhumanizing Models. Why we Need to Change how We Think about AI
16:45 Session III: NLP in Social Data Science Rob Procter (University of Warwick)

Social Data Science: Are we there yet?
17:30

Concluding Panel Discussion:
Risks and opportunities of advancements in NLP and generative AI - implications for research and society.

Panellists: Janet Pierrehumbertt | Markus Leippold | Bertie Vidgen | Dirk Hovy
18:15-open Drinks Reception and Canapes at St John's College