Talks
2023
Multilingual LLM Benchmarking
Virtual, 2023
Die Zukunft der KI: Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen
Unitas Ruperto Carola, Heidelberg, April 2023
Challenges and Opportunities in NLP for Under-represented Languages
Open NLP Meetup, Berlin, May 2023 (recording)
Swedish NLP Seminar, virtual, February 2023 (recording)
2022
Modular and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for NLP Models
Tutorial, EMNLP 2022, December 2022 (together with Jonas Pfeiffer and Ivan Vulić)
Challenges and Opportunities in NLP for Under-represented Languages
AmericasNLP Competition @ NeurIPS 2022, virtual, December 2022
Munich NLP, virtual, November 2022
LiRo NLP Hackathon, virtual, November 2022
NLP for African Languages—Challenges and Opportunities
Keynote at the Deep Learning Indaba in Tunis, Tunisia, August 2022
Multilingual NLP—Challenges and Opportunities
OxML Summer School, virtual, August 2022
Building Parameter-efficient Multilingual Models
MIA Workshop at NAACL 2022, virtual, July 2022
Efficient Methods for Low-Resource NLP
DeepLo Workshop at NAACL 2022, virtual, July 2022
Scaling NLP to the World’s Languages—Challenges and Opportunities
The Future of Data-Centric AI, virtual, August 2022
Rise of AI 2022, Berlin, June 2022
Scaling NLP Systems to the Next 1000 Languages
ACL 2022 STIRS Talk, Dublin, May 2022
2021
Multi-Domain Multilingual Question Answering
Tutorial, EMNLP 2021, November 2021 (with Avirup Sil)
Challenges and Opportunities in Multilingual Evaluation
ITU NLP Workshop, March 2022
Eval4NLP Workshop at EMNLP 2021, virtual, November 2021
Multilingual NLP
OxML Summer School, virtual, August 2021
2020
Cross-lingual Transfer learning (updated with MAD-X)
CIMAT campus Guanajuato seminar, virtual, October 2020
UIUC-NLP seminar, virtual, October 2020
AI Saturdays Abeokuta, virtual, October 2020
Cross-lingual Transfer Learning (shorter version)
ML Dublin meetup, virtual, July 2020. Video
Cross-lingual Transfer Learning
London ML meetup, virtual, June 2020. Video
School of AI Algiers, virtual, July 2020. Video
Cross-lingual Transfer Learning
Heidelberg.ai meetup, Heidelberg, February 2020. Video
2019
Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning
Economics and Big Data meetup, New York, November 2019
Cross-lingual word embeddings and beyond
NLP session, Deep Learning Indaba 2019, August 2019
4th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP
Workshop, ACL 2019, August 2019 (together with Isabelle Augenstein, Spandana Gella, Katharina Kann, Burcu Can, Johannes Welbl, Alexis Conneau, Xiang Ren, and Marek Rei)
Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning
Tutorial, ACL 2019, August 2019 (together with Ivan Vulić and Anders Søgaard)
Transfer Learning in Open-Source NLP
Keynote, spaCy IRL, Berlin, July 2019. Video
Transfer Learning in NLP and Beyond
Invited talk, ILCC seminar, Edinburgh, June 2019
Transfer Learning in Natural Language Processing
Tutorial, NAACL-HLT 2019, Minneapolis, June 2019 (together with Matthew Peters, Swabha Swayamdipta, and Thomas Wolf)
Frontiers of Multi-task Learning
Guest lecture, NLP course, UCL, March 2019
Neural Transfer Learning for Natural Language Processing
PhD Defence, National University of Ireland, Galway, February 2019
Latent Multi-Task Architecture Learning
AAAI 2019, Honolulu, February 2019
2018
Transfer learning with language models
Belgium NLP meetup, Brussels, October 2018
Frontiers of Natural Language Processing
NLP session, Deep Learning Indaba, Stellenbosch, September 2018. Video
Neural Semi-supervised Learning under Domain Shift
AI2 Tech Talk, Seattle, August 2018. Video (together with Jeremy Howard)
On the Limitations of Unsupervised Bilingual Dictionary Induction
Oral presentation, ACL 2018, Melbourne, July 2018. Video
Strong Baselines for Neural Semi-supervised Learning under Domain Shift
Oral presentation, ACL 2018, Melbourne, July 2018. Video
Successes and Frontiers of Deep Learning
Keynote, Insight@DCU Deep Learning Workshop, Dublin, May 2018
2017
Optimization for Deep Learning
Guest Lecture, Computational Intelligence Course, DIT, Dublin, November 2017
Transfer Learning for NLP
Invited talk, Machine Learning @ CUED, Cambridge, October 2017
South England NLP Meetup, London, October 2017
NLP Copenhagen Meetup, Copenhagen, May 2017
Transfer Learning – The Next Frontier for ML
Accenture Tech Talk, Dublin, March 2017
LinkedIn Tech Talk, Dublin, March 2017
2016
NIPS 2016 Highlights
NLP Dublin Meetup, Dublin, December 2016
A Hierarchical Model of Reviews for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis
Insight SIG NLP Meetup, Galway, August 2016
Softmax Approximations for Learning Word Embeddings and Language Modeling
NLP Dublin Meetup, Dublin, August 2016