The idea behind Lyon NLP Connect is to foster collaborations between PhD students in Lyon and Saint-Étienne working on NLP-related topics.
Most events will be held in person. 🎤
Participants
We are a community of 40+ members from universities, research labs, and companies, including Lyon 1, Lyon 2, INSA Lyon, ENS de Lyon, École Centrale de Lyon, LIRIS, ERIC, Hubert Curien, Worldline, and Wikit.
About the Meetups
Each meetup consists of:
- A round-table introduction of participants
- A short presentation by one member on a recently published paper
- Paper discussions in a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) format
What are BoFs?
Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions are informal group discussions focused on a shared topic in ML/NLP. Instead of formal talks, participants sit together, exchange experiences, raise questions, and explore ideas in an open conversation. Examples of BoF sessions from conferences:
How to propose a topic?
Want to suggest a topic? Fill out the form on the homepage and join the discussion on Discord 🚀
How are BoFs organized?
To foster discussion, we provide topics with guiding questions. Each group member shares their answers, and a representative summarizes the main takeaways for everyone.
Example topics from our first session:
- Language generation in research and applications
- Recent papers or articles on language generation
- Limitations of language generation
Organizers
Irina Proskurina
ERIC Laboratory · Hubert Curien Laboratory
University of Lyon 2 · Jean Monnet University
