Lisbon Unit for Learning and Intelligent Systems

2021 NLP Workshop@ELLIS

The first NLP workshop@ELLIS took place on 24th-25th February 2021 via a virtual meeting platform. It had the purpose to share insights, discuss emerging topics and define a strategic roadmap for the field, under the title "Open Challenges and Future Directions of NLP". LUMLIS member André Martins, who leads the recently established ELLIS NLP program together with Iryna Gurevych and Ivan Titov, was one of the workshop co-chairs.

First ELLIS Lisbon/LUMLIS PhD and Postdoc Symposium

The first PhD and postdoc symposium of the Lisbon ELLIS Unit took place on September 22nd 2023, and was attended by 50 students and postdocs from various fields, including Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision.

ELLIS, AIDA, and AI4media Symposium on Large Language and Foundation Models

The ELLIS, AI4media, and AIDA Symposium on Large Language and Foundation Models brought together a notable lineup of speakers, panelists, and organisers from different AI subdisciplines in Europe to one of the most advanced technology capitals, Amsterdam. The event was successfully convened on 17-18 October, 2023 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, under the umbrella of ELLIS, AIDA, and AI4Media, with a view of drawing in a diverse AI population on the topic. The event was co-organised by ELLIS units in Amsterdam, Lisbon, Edinburgh and Darmstadt.

First ELLIS Unit Lisbon Faculty Retreat 2024

On Friday 17th of May 2024, the ELLIS Unit Lisbon held its first Faculty Retreat at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, bringing together senior members of our Unit for a day full of scientific and strategic discourse.