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= Natural Language Processing Seminar 2022–2023 = = Natural Language Processing Seminar 2025–2026 =
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||<style="border:0;padding-bottom:10px">The NLP Seminar is organised by the [[http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pjl/|Linguistic Engineering Group]] at the [[http://www.ipipan.waw.pl/en/|Institute of Computer Science]], [[http://www.pan.pl/index.php?newlang=english|Polish Academy of Sciences]] (ICS PAS). It takes place on (some) Mondays, usually at 10:15 am, often online – please use the link next to the presentation title. All recorded talks are available on [[https://www.youtube.com/ipipan|YouTube]]. ||<style="border:0;padding-left:30px">[[seminarium|{{attachment:seminar-archive/pl.png}}]]|| ||<style="border:0;padding-bottom:10px">The NLP Seminar is organised by the [[http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pjl/|Linguistic Engineering Group]] at the [[http://www.ipipan.waw.pl/en/|Institute of Computer Science]], [[http://www.pan.pl/index.php?newlang=english|Polish Academy of Sciences]] (ICS PAS). It will restart in October and will take place on (some) Mondays, usually at 10:15 am, often online – please use the link next to the presentation title. All recorded talks are available on [[https://www.youtube.com/ipipan|YouTube]]. ||<style="border:0;padding-left:30px">[[seminarium|{{attachment:seminar-archive/pl.png}}]]||
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||<style="border:0;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px">'''3 October 2022'''||
||<style="border:0;padding-left:30px;padding-bottom:0px">'''Sławomir Dadas''' (National Information Processing Institute)||
||<style="border:0;padding-left:30px;padding-bottom:5px">[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGwLeE1Y5X4|{{attachment:seminarium-archiwum/youtube.png}}]] '''[[attachment:seminarium-archiwum/2022-10-03.pdf|Our experience with training neural sentence encoders for the Polish language]]''' &#160;{{attachment:seminarium-archiwum/icon-pl.gif|Talk delivered in Polish.}}||
||<style="border:0;padding-left:30px;padding-bottom:15px">Representing sentences or short texts as dense vectors with a fixed number of dimensions is a common technique in tasks such as information retrieval, question answering, text clustering or plagiarism detection. A simple method to construct such representation is to aggregate vectors generated by a language model or extracted from word embeddings. However, higher quality representations can be obtained by fine-tuning a language model on a dataset of semantically similar sentence pairs. In this presentation, we will introduce methods for learning sentence encoders based on the Transformer architecture as well as our experiences with training such models for the Polish language. In addition, we will discuss approaches for building large datasets of paraphrases using publicly available corpora. We will also show a practical application of sentence encoders in a system developed for finding abusive clauses in consumer agreements.||
||<style="border:0;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px">'''15 September 2025'''||
||<style="border:0;padding-left:30px;padding-bottom:0px">'''Louis Esteve''' (Universite Paris-Saclay) ||
||<style="border:0;padding-left:30px;padding-bottom:5px">[[https://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/seminarium-online|{{attachment:seminarium-archiwum/teams.png}}]] '''Diversity and dataset size – a quantitative perspective''' &#160;{{attachment:seminarium-archiwum/icon-en.gif|Talk in English.}}||
||<style="border:0;padding-left:30px;padding-bottom:15px">The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) studies the abilities of computer systems to process and generate natural language, and has received increasing attention from the general population since the democratisation of generative and conversational models. However, behind the scenes, state-of-the-art NLP models are trained on ever-larger datasets, reaching trillions of tokens. It may be argued that the creation and use of such immense datasets is motivated by the idea that 'the larger the dataset, the more diverse it is', and that in turn 'if the training set is more diverse, it shall yield better models'. However, these statements thus far remain intuitions and need to be properly tested. To this end, this presentation will tackle methods and caveats of formal diversity quantification including limitations of the literature, a preliminary discussion on the link between diversity and dataset size, as well as their impact on downstream applications.||
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||<style="border:0;padding-top:10px">Please see also [[http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/NLP-SEMINAR/previous-e.html|the talks given in 2000–2015]] and [[http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/seminar-archive|2015–2020]].|| ||<style="border:0;padding-top:10px">Please see also [[http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/NLP-SEMINAR/previous-e.html|the talks given in 2000–2015]] and [[http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/seminar-archive|2015–2025]].||
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||<style="border:0;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px">'''11 March 2024'''||
||<style="border:0;padding-left:30px;padding-bottom:0px">'''Mateusz Krubiński''' (Charles University in Prague)||
||<style="border:0;padding-left:30px;padding-bottom:5px">[[http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/seminarium-online|{{attachment:seminarium-archiwum/teams.png}}]] '''Talk title will be given shortly''' &#160;{{attachment:seminarium-archiwum/icon-en.gif|Talk in Polish.}}||
||<style="border:0;padding-left:30px;padding-bottom:15px">Talk summary will be made available soon.||

Natural Language Processing Seminar 2025–2026

The NLP Seminar is organised by the Linguistic Engineering Group at the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences (ICS PAS). It will restart in October and will take place on (some) Mondays, usually at 10:15 am, often online – please use the link next to the presentation title. All recorded talks are available on YouTube.

seminarium

15 September 2025

Louis Esteve (Universite Paris-Saclay)

https://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/seminarium-online Diversity and dataset size – a quantitative perspective  Talk in English.

The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) studies the abilities of computer systems to process and generate natural language, and has received increasing attention from the general population since the democratisation of generative and conversational models. However, behind the scenes, state-of-the-art NLP models are trained on ever-larger datasets, reaching trillions of tokens. It may be argued that the creation and use of such immense datasets is motivated by the idea that 'the larger the dataset, the more diverse it is', and that in turn 'if the training set is more diverse, it shall yield better models'. However, these statements thus far remain intuitions and need to be properly tested. To this end, this presentation will tackle methods and caveats of formal diversity quantification including limitations of the literature, a preliminary discussion on the link between diversity and dataset size, as well as their impact on downstream applications.

Please see also the talks given in 2000–2015 and 2015–2025.