Month: November 2018

Seventh Swedish Language Technology Conference, Stockholm, 7-9 November 2018

ByMahbub Ul Alam

I worked as a volunteer in the seventh Swedish Language Technology Conference, Stockholm, 7-9 November 2018. I was very new in Stockholm at that time. The other volunteers, Johanna, Jacqueline, Adam, and Murathan were very helpful, cordial, and welcoming to me. I especially loved the snowy Stockholm University’s Frescati campus, the fashionable and mighty Aula Magna, the cozy and nostalgic Juristernas Hus. I learned a lot from the conference chair Professor Mats Wirén, Department ofRead more

2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018), 31 October – 04 November, 2018

ByMahbub Ul Alam

Hello everyone. I hope you are all fine and enjoying this beautiful winter. 🙂 Recently I have attended the EMNLP 2018 conference. It was held in Brussels, Belgium at the city center from 31 October to 04 November. Just a few statistics about the conference, EMNLP 2018 had 14 workshops, six tutorials, three invited speakers, 351 long paper presentations, 198 short paper presentations, 10 TACL paper presentations, and 29 demos. It received 2,231 valid submissions,Read more