Welcome to the 2nd Lisbon Machine Learning School!

 

LxMLS 2012 will take place July 19-25 at Instituto Superior Técnico, a leading Engineering and Science school in Portugal. It is organized jointly by IST, the Instituto de Telecomunicações and the Spoken Language Systems Lab - L2F of INESC-ID. Click here for information about past editions (LxMLS 2011) and to watch the videos of the lectures.


In our second year, the topic of the school is Taming the Social Web.


The school covers a range of machine learning (ML) Topics, from theory to practice, that are important in solving natural language processing (NLP) problems that arise in the analysis and use of Web data.


Our target audience is:


  1. Researchers and graduate students in the fields of NLP and Computational Linguistics;

  2. Computer scientists who have interests in statistics and machine learning;

  3. Industry practitioners who desire a more in depth understanding of these subjects.


Features of LxMLS:


  1. No deep previous knowledge of ML or NLP is assumed;

  2. Recommended reading is provided in advance;

  3. Includes a strong practical component;

  4. A day zero is scheduled to review basic concepts and introduce the necessary tools for implementation exercises;

  5. Days will be divided into tutorials and practical sessions (view schedule);

  6. Both basic and advanced topics are covered;

  7. Instructors are leading researchers in machine learning.

July
19-25

Instituto
Superior Técnico
http://www.ist.utl.pt

Sponsors:

NEWS


JULY 18TH
In the scope of the Carnegie Mellon | Portugal joint doctoral program on Language Technologies,  Eric Nyberg will give a talk at Instituto superior Técnico entitled:


Deeper QA: CMU, Watson, and the Open Advancement of Question Answering




MAY 16TH
Notifications were sent.

Registration is open.




May 4TH
Lisbon was featured in Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” food and travel show.




APRIL 16TH
Application deadline extended to April 30!




APRIL 10TH
Updated Scholarship information.




FEBRUARY 21ST
Website Online!