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'''HPLT & OpenEuroLLM 2026 Winter School on Multilinguality in LLM Development and Evaluation'''
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[[File:Winter school 2025.jpg|center|thumb|upright=2.0]]
  
 
= Background =
 
= Background =
  
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After a two-year pandemic hiatus, the NLPL network and Horizon Europe
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In 2026, the NLPL network and Digital Europe
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project ''High-Performance Language Technologies'' (HPLT) join forces
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project ''[https://openeurollm.eu OpenEuroLLM]''
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to re-launch the successful winter school series on large-scale NLP.
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have joined forces to organize the successful winter school series on Web-scale NLP.
 
The winter school seeks to stimulate ''community formation'',
 
The winter school seeks to stimulate ''community formation'',
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i.e. strengthening interaction and collaboration among Nordic and
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i.e. strengthening interaction and collaboration among
 
European research teams in NLP and advancing a shared level of knowledge
 
European research teams in NLP and advancing a shared level of knowledge
 
and experience in using high-performance e-infrastructures for large-scale
 
and experience in using high-performance e-infrastructures for large-scale
 
NLP research.
 
NLP research.
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The 2023 edition of the winter school puts special emphasis on
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This 2026 edition of the winter school puts special emphasis on
 
NLP researchers from countries who participate in the EuroHPC
 
NLP researchers from countries who participate in the EuroHPC
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[https://www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/lumi-consortium/ LUMI consortium].
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[https://www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/lumi-consortium/ LUMI consortium]
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and is offered as a doctoral training event in the European
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[https://www.circle-u.eu Circle U university alliance].
 
For additional background, please see the archival pages from the
 
For additional background, please see the archival pages from the
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[http://wiki.nlpl.eu/index.php/Community/training/2018 2018],
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[https://wiki.nlpl.eu/index.php/Community/training/2018 2018],
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[http://wiki.nlpl.eu/index.php/Community/training/2019 2019], and
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[https://wiki.nlpl.eu/index.php/Community/training/2019 2019],
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[http://wiki.nlpl.eu/index.php/Community/training/2020 2020]
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[https://wiki.nlpl.eu/index.php/Community/training/2020 2020],
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[https://wiki.nlpl.eu/index.php/Community/training/2023 2023],
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[https://wiki.nlpl.eu/index.php/Community/training/2024 2024], and
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[https://wiki.nlpl.eu/index.php/Community/training/2025 2025]
 
NLPL Winter Schools.
 
NLPL Winter Schools.
  
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For early 2023, HPLT will hold its winter school from Monday, February 6, to
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For early 2026, NLPL will hold its winter school from Monday, February 2, to
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Wednesday, February 8, 2022, at a
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Wednesday, February 4, 2026, at a
 
[https://www.thonhotels.com/our-hotels/norway/skeikampen/ mountain-side hotel]
 
[https://www.thonhotels.com/our-hotels/norway/skeikampen/ mountain-side hotel]
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(with skiing opportunities) about two hours north of Oslo.
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(with skiing and walking opportunities) about two hours north of Oslo.
 
The project will organize group bus transfer from and to the Oslo
 
The project will organize group bus transfer from and to the Oslo
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airport ''Gardermoen'', leaving the airport at 9:30 on Monday morning
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airport ''Gardermoen'', leaving the airport at 9:45 on Monday morning
 
and returning there around 17:30 on Wednesday afternoon.
 
and returning there around 17:30 on Wednesday afternoon.
  
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The main external instructors in 2020 will be
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The winter school is subsidized by the OpenEuroLLM project: there is no fee for
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[https://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~yogo/ Yoav Goldberg] (Bar Ilan University and Allen Institute for AI)
 
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and [https://thomwolf.io/ Thomas Wolf] (Huggingface).
 
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Additional sessions will be contributed by NLPL project members, including
 
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* Filip Ginter and Antti Virtanen, on multi-gpu training of language-specific BERTs;
 
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* Joakim Nivre and Artur Kulmizev, on syntactic dependency parsing in the neural age;
 
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* Stephan Oepen and Daniel Hershcovich, on the 2019 and 2020 CoNLL tasks on semantic parsing;
 
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* Jörg Tiedemann and Alessandro Raganato, with a practical crash course in neural MT.
 
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Some sessions will combine lecturing and hands-on exercises.
 
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The winter school programme will be complemented with an
 
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evening ‘research bazar’ (by participants) to stimulate academic socializing
 
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and a ‘walk-through’ of available infrastructure on the shared EuroHPC
 
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[https://www.lumi-supercomputer.eu LUMI supercomputer].
 
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The winter school is subsidized by the project: there is no fee for
 
 
participants and no charge for the bus transfer to and from the
 
participants and no charge for the bus transfer to and from the
 
conference hotel.
 
conference hotel.
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All participants will have to cover their own travel and accomodation
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All participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation
 
at Skeikampen, however.
 
at Skeikampen, however.
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Two nights at the hotel, including all meals, will come to NOK 3190,  
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Two nights at the hotel, including all meals, will come to NOK 3885 (NOK 3485 per person in a shared double room),  
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to be paid to the hotel directly.
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to be paid to the hotel directly upon arrival.
  
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= Logistics =  
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= Programme =
  
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With a few exceptions, winter school participants travel to and from the conference hotel
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The 2026 winter school will have a thematic focus on ''Multilinguality in LLM Development and Evaluation''.
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jointly on a chartered bus (the HPLT shuttle).
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The programme will be comprised of in-depth technical presentations (possibly including some
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The bus shall leave OSL airport no later than 9:30 CET on Monday, February 6.
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hands-on elements) by seasoned experts, with special emphasis on open science and European languages, but also include critical reflections on current development trends in LLM-focussed NLP.
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Thus, please meet up at 9:15 and make your arrival known to your assigned
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The programme will be complemented with a ‘walk-through’ of example experience
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‘tour guide’ (who will introduce themselves to you by email beforehand).
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reports on the shared EuroHPC LUMI supercomputer.
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The group will gather near the bus and taxi information booth in the downstairs
 
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arrivals area, just outside the international arrivals luggage claims and slightly
 
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to the right, as one exits the customs area:
 
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The yellow dot numbered (17) on the
 
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[https://avinor.no/globalassets/_oslo-lufthavn/ankomst-arrivals.pdf OSL arrivals map].
 
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The group will then walk over to the bus terminal, to leave the airport by 9:30.
 
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The drive to the Skeikampen conference hotel will take us about three hours, and the bus
 
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will make one stop along the way to stretch our legs and fill up on coffee.
 
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The winter school will end with lunch on Wednesday, February 8, before the group returns
 
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to OSL on the NLPL shuttle.
 
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The bus will leave Skeikampen at 14:00 CET, with an expected arrival time at OSL airport
 
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around 17:00 to 17:30 CET.
 
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= Programme =
 
  
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Confirmed presenters and talks include:
  
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= Schedule =
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
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!colspan=3|Monday, February 6, 2023
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!colspan=3|Monday, February 2, 2025
 
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| 13:00 || 14:00 || Lunch
 
| 13:00 || 14:00 || Lunch
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| 15:30 || 15:50 || Coffee Break
 
| 15:30 || 15:50 || Coffee Break
 
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| 15:50 || 17:20 || '''Session 2'''
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| 16:00 || 17:30 || '''Session 2'''
 
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|-
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| 17:20 || 17:40 || Coffee Break
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| 17:30 || 17:50 || Coffee Break
 
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|-
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| 17:40 || 19:10 || '''Session 3'''
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| 17:50 || 19:20 || '''Session 3'''  
 
|-
 
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| 19:30 ||  || Dinner
 
| 19:30 ||  || Dinner
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| 21:00 || || '''Research Bazaar''' Everyone: Upstairs Bar
 
 
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|}
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{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
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|-
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!colspan=3|Tuesday, February 7, 2022
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!colspan=3|Tuesday, February 3, 2025
 
|-
 
|-
 
|colspan=3 | Breakfast is available from 07:30
 
|colspan=3 | Breakfast is available from 07:30
 
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|-
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| 08:30 || 10:00 || '''Session 4'''
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| 09:00 || 10:30 || '''Session 4'''
 
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|-
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|colspan=3| Lunch is available between 13:00 and 14:30
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|colspan=3| Free time (Lunch is available between 13:00 and 14:30)
 
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|-
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| 15:00 || 16:20 || '''Session 5'''
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| 15:30 || 17:00 || '''Session 5'''
 
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|-
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| 16:20 || 16:40 || Coffee Break
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| 17:00 || 17:20 || Coffee Break
 
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|-
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| 16:40 || 18:00 || '''Session 6'''
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| 17:20 || 19:20 || '''Session 6'''
 
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| 18:00 || 18:10 || Coffee Break
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| 19:30 || || Dinner
 
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| 18:10 || 19:30 || '''Session 7'''
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| 21:00 || || '''Evening Session: Findings from OpenEuroLLM'''
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| 19:30 ||  || Dinner
 
 
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{| class="wikitable"
 
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!colspan=3|Wednesday, February 8, 2020
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!colspan=3|Wednesday, February 4, 2025
 
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|colspan=3| Breakfast is available from 07:30
 
|colspan=3| Breakfast is available from 07:30
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| 12:30 || 13:30 || Lunch
 
| 12:30 || 13:30 || Lunch
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| 13:45 || 16:45 || Bus transfer to OSL Airport
 
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= Registration =
 
= Registration =
  
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In total, we anticipate up to 50 participants in the 2023 Winter School.
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In total, we expect 60–80 participants at the 2026 winter school.
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Please register your intent of participation through our
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[https://nettskjema.no/a/381438 Requests for participation] will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis, with an eye toward regional balance.
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[https://indico.neic.no/e/skeikampen23 on-line registration form].
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Interested parties who have submitted the registration form will be confirmed in three batches, on '''November 21''', on '''December 5''',
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We will process requests for participation on a first-come, first-served
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and on '''December 19''', which is also the closing date for winter school registration.
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basis; the closing date for registration is Thursday, December 15, 2022.
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Once confirmed by the organizing team, registration will establish a
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Once confirmed by the organizing team, participant names are published
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binding agreement with the hotel and a cancellation fee will be
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on this page, and registration establishes a
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incurred (unless we can find someone else to ‘take over’ last-minute
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''binding agreement'' with the hotel.
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spaces).
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Therefore, a cancellation fee will be incurred (unless we can find someone else to ‘take over’ last-minute
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spaces), and no-shows will be charged the full price for at least one night
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by the hotel. [https://sites.google.com/view/sogstikollen-24f <span style="colour: white;"></span>]
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= Logistics =
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With a few exceptions, winter school participants travel to and from the conference hotel
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jointly on a chartered bus (the HPLT shuttle).
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The bus will leave OSL airport no later than 9:45 CET on Monday, February 3.
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Thus, please meet up by 9:30 and make your arrival known to your assigned
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‘tour guide’ (who will introduce themselves to you by email beforehand).
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The group will gather near the DNB currency exchange booth in the downstairs
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arrivals area, just outside the international arrivals luggage claims and slightly
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to the left as one exits the customs area:
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the yellow dot numbered (18) on the
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[https://avinor.no/globalassets/_oslo-lufthavn/ankomst-arrivals.pdf OSL arrivals map].
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The group will then walk over to the bus terminal, to leave the airport not long after 9:40.
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The drive to the Skeikampen conference hotel will take us about three hours, and the bus
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will make one stop along the way to stretch our legs and fill up on coffee.
  
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= Contact =
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The winter school will end with lunch on Wednesday, February 5, before the group returns
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to OSL airport on the HPLT shuttle.
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The bus will leave Skeikampen at 14:00 CET, with an expected arrival time at OSL
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around 17:00 to 17:30 CET. After stopping at the OSL airport, the bus will continue to central Oslo.
  
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The 2023 Winter School is organized by a team of volunteers from the NLPL and HPLT networks,
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= Organization =
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Filip Ginter,
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Joakim Nivre,
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The 2025 Winter School is organized by a team of volunteers at the University
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Stephan Oepen, and
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of Oslo, supported by a programme committee from the HPLT and NLPL network and beyond,
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Jörg Tiedemann.
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please see below.
 
For all inquiries regarding registration, the programme, logistics,
 
For all inquiries regarding registration, the programme, logistics,
 
or such, please contact <code>hplt-training@ifi.uio.no</code>.
 
or such, please contact <code>hplt-training@ifi.uio.no</code>.
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The programme committee is comprised of:
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* Jenia Jitsev
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* Andrey Kutuzov (University of Oslo, Norway)
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* Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)
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* Sampo Pyysalo (University of Turku, Finland)
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* David Salinas
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* Gema Ramirez-Sanches (Prompsit Language Engineering, Spain)
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* Joaquin
  
 
= Participants =
 
= Participants =
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# Stephan Oepen (Oslo)
 

Latest revision as of 05:44, 30 September 2025

HPLT & OpenEuroLLM 2026 Winter School on Multilinguality in LLM Development and Evaluation

Winter school 2025.jpg

Background

In 2026, the NLPL network and Digital Europe project OpenEuroLLM have joined forces to organize the successful winter school series on Web-scale NLP. The winter school seeks to stimulate community formation, i.e. strengthening interaction and collaboration among European research teams in NLP and advancing a shared level of knowledge and experience in using high-performance e-infrastructures for large-scale NLP research. This 2026 edition of the winter school puts special emphasis on NLP researchers from countries who participate in the EuroHPC LUMI consortium and is offered as a doctoral training event in the European Circle U university alliance. For additional background, please see the archival pages from the 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, and 2025 NLPL Winter Schools.

For early 2026, NLPL will hold its winter school from Monday, February 2, to Wednesday, February 4, 2026, at a mountain-side hotel (with skiing and walking opportunities) about two hours north of Oslo. The project will organize group bus transfer from and to the Oslo airport Gardermoen, leaving the airport at 9:45 on Monday morning and returning there around 17:30 on Wednesday afternoon.

The winter school is subsidized by the OpenEuroLLM project: there is no fee for participants and no charge for the bus transfer to and from the conference hotel. All participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation at Skeikampen, however. Two nights at the hotel, including all meals, will come to NOK 3885 (NOK 3485 per person in a shared double room), to be paid to the hotel directly upon arrival.

Programme

The 2026 winter school will have a thematic focus on Multilinguality in LLM Development and Evaluation. The programme will be comprised of in-depth technical presentations (possibly including some hands-on elements) by seasoned experts, with special emphasis on open science and European languages, but also include critical reflections on current development trends in LLM-focussed NLP. The programme will be complemented with a ‘walk-through’ of example experience reports on the shared EuroHPC LUMI supercomputer.

Confirmed presenters and talks include:

Schedule

Monday, February 2, 2025
13:00 14:00 Lunch
14:00 15:30 Session 1
15:30 15:50 Coffee Break
16:00 17:30 Session 2
17:30 17:50 Coffee Break
17:50 19:20 Session 3
19:30 Dinner
Tuesday, February 3, 2025
Breakfast is available from 07:30
09:00 10:30 Session 4
Free time (Lunch is available between 13:00 and 14:30)
15:30 17:00 Session 5
17:00 17:20 Coffee Break
17:20 19:20 Session 6
19:30 Dinner
21:00 Evening Session: Findings from OpenEuroLLM


Wednesday, February 4, 2025
Breakfast is available from 07:30
08:30 10:00 Session 8
10:00 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 12:00 Session 9
12:30 13:30 Lunch
13:45 16:45 Bus transfer to OSL Airport

Registration

In total, we expect 60–80 participants at the 2026 winter school. Requests for participation will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis, with an eye toward regional balance. Interested parties who have submitted the registration form will be confirmed in three batches, on November 21, on December 5, and on December 19, which is also the closing date for winter school registration.

Once confirmed by the organizing team, participant names are published on this page, and registration establishes a binding agreement with the hotel. Therefore, a cancellation fee will be incurred (unless we can find someone else to ‘take over’ last-minute spaces), and no-shows will be charged the full price for at least one night by the hotel.

Logistics

With a few exceptions, winter school participants travel to and from the conference hotel jointly on a chartered bus (the HPLT shuttle). The bus will leave OSL airport no later than 9:45 CET on Monday, February 3. Thus, please meet up by 9:30 and make your arrival known to your assigned ‘tour guide’ (who will introduce themselves to you by email beforehand).

The group will gather near the DNB currency exchange booth in the downstairs arrivals area, just outside the international arrivals luggage claims and slightly to the left as one exits the customs area: the yellow dot numbered (18) on the OSL arrivals map. The group will then walk over to the bus terminal, to leave the airport not long after 9:40. The drive to the Skeikampen conference hotel will take us about three hours, and the bus will make one stop along the way to stretch our legs and fill up on coffee.

The winter school will end with lunch on Wednesday, February 5, before the group returns to OSL airport on the HPLT shuttle. The bus will leave Skeikampen at 14:00 CET, with an expected arrival time at OSL around 17:00 to 17:30 CET. After stopping at the OSL airport, the bus will continue to central Oslo.

Organization

The 2025 Winter School is organized by a team of volunteers at the University of Oslo, supported by a programme committee from the HPLT and NLPL network and beyond, please see below. For all inquiries regarding registration, the programme, logistics, or such, please contact hplt-training@ifi.uio.no.

The programme committee is comprised of:

  • Jenia Jitsev
  • Andrey Kutuzov (University of Oslo, Norway)
  • Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)
  • Sampo Pyysalo (University of Turku, Finland)
  • David Salinas
  • Gema Ramirez-Sanches (Prompsit Language Engineering, Spain)
  • Joaquin

Participants

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