PROGRAM:

Monday, March 4 2024 (6-9 PM Turkey Time*)
1. Tolga Kurtuluş (Turkish Airlines): "Quantization of large language models"

2. Karahan Şahin (Index Network): "Understanding Sign Language in the age of LLMs: Pretrained models for Sign Language Recognition and Translation"

3. Onur Güngör (Boğaziçi University): "TURNA: A Turkish Encoder-Decoder Language Model for Enhanced Understanding and Generation"

Tuesday, March 5 2024 (6-9 PM Turkey Time*)
4. Güldeniz Bektaş (Turknet): "Make Your Chatbots Smarter with LLMs"

5. Reshmi Ghosh (Microsoft): "Ensuring Safety in LLMs: Tackling Responsible AI Harms and Prompt Injections"

6. Julie Kallini (Stanford University): "Mission: Impossible Language Models"

Wednesday, March 6 2024 (5-8 PM Turkey Time*)
7. Vadim Kimmelman (Bergen University): "Investigating the structure of nonmanual markers in sign languages with Computer Vision: the first step"

8. Allison Dods (University of Maryland): "Using language models to study language acquisition: (What) can they tell us about filler-gap dependencies?"

9. Büşra Marşan (Stanford University): "Fixing benchmarking in Turkish: Can benchmarks lie?"

Thursday, March 7 2024 (5-8 PM Turkey Time*)
10. Mert İnan (Northeastern University): "Equitable and Accessible Multimodal Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems: Lessons from Alexa Prize Challenge"

11. Uzay Çetin (Galatasaray University, Summarify): "Introduction to Language Modeling with word2vec"

12. Yunus Emre Gündoğmuş (Summarify): "Data intensive scaleable application development"

Friday, March 8 2024 (6-9 PM Turkey Time*)
13. Ali Najafi (Sabancı University): "TurkishBERTweet: Fast and Reliable Large Language Model for Social Media Analysis"

14. Duygu Altınok (Deepgram): "From vectors to decoder-only models: How Generative models reached to the top"

15. Ali Hürriyetoğlu (Koç University): "Text Processing Unveiled: From Foundations to Frontiers"

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