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= '''Circle U, NLPL, & 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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A desirable side-effect of the NLPL cooperation is ''community formation'',
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In 2026, the NLPL network and Digital Europe
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i.e. strengthening interaction and collaboration among Nordic research teams
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project ''[https://openeurollm.eu OpenEuroLLM]''
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in NLP and advancing a shared level of knowledge and experience in using
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have joined forces to organize the successful winter school series on Web-scale NLP.
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national e-Infrastructures for large-scale NLP research.
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The winter school seeks to stimulate ''community formation'',
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Towards these goals, the project organizes an annual three-day winter school.
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i.e. strengthening interaction and collaboration among
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European research teams in NLP and advancing a shared level of knowledge
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and experience in using high-performance e-infrastructures for large-scale
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NLP research.
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This 2026 edition of the winter school puts special emphasis on
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NLP researchers from countries who participate in the EuroHPC
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[https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/supercomputers/our-supercomputers_en consortium]
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and is endorsed 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] and
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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]
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[https://wiki.nlpl.eu/index.php/Community/training/2019 2019],
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NLPL Winter Schools].
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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]
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NLPL Winter Schools.
  
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For early 2020, NLPL will hold its winter school from Sunday, February 2, to
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For early 2026, NLPL will hold its winter school from Monday, February 2, to
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Tuesday, February 4, 2020, 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.
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The project will organize group bus transfer from and to the Oslo
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The project will organize group bus transfer from and to the main Oslo
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airport ''Gardermoen'', leaving the airport at 9:30 on Sunday morning
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airport ''Gardermoen'' (OSL), leaving the airport at 9:45 on Monday morning
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and returning there around 17:30 on Tuesday afternoon.
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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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[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 possibly a ‘walk-through’ of available software, data, and service resources
 
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in the NLPL Virtual Laboratory.
 
  
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The winter school is subsidized by the project: there is no fee for
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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
 
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 2865,  
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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 NLPL 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 Sunday, February 2.
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hands-on elements) by international 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 EuroHPC experience
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‘tour guide’ (who will introduce themselves to you by email beforehand).
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reports from the OpenEuroLLM consortium.
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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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Confirmed presenters and talks include (more can be added later):
  
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The winter school will end with lunch on Tuesday, February 4, before the group returns
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* [https://bplank.github.io Barbara Plank], Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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to OSL on the NLPL shuttle.
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* [https://commoncrawl.org/team/laurie-burchell Laurie Burchell] and [https://commoncrawl.org/team/pedro-ortiz-suarez Pedro Ortiz Suarez], Common Crawl
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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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* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximilianidahl/?originalSubdomain=de Max Idahl], ellamind
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around 17:00 to 17:30 CET.
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* [https://juliakreutzer.github.io Julia Kreutzer], Cohere for Labs
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* [https://geoalgo.github.io/ David Salinas], ELLIS institute Tübingen
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= Programme =
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* [https://www.isir.upmc.fr/personnel/yvon/?lang=en François Yvon], Sorbonne Université
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= Preliminary schedule =
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
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!colspan=3|Sunday, February 2, 2020
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!colspan=3|Monday, February 2, 2026
 
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| 13:00 || 14:00 || Lunch
 
| 13:00 || 14:00 || Lunch
 
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| 14:00 || 15:30 || '''Session 1''' Yoav Goldberg: [http://svn.nlpl.eu/outreach/skeikampen/2020/goldberg1.pdf ''Introduction to Neural Network Abstractions and Encoder–Decoder Architectures'']
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| 14:00 || 15:30 || '''Session 1'''
 
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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''' Jörg Tiedemann & Alessandro Raganato: ''A Practical Crash Course in Neural Machine Translation''
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| 16:00 || 17:30 || '''Session 2'''
 
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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''' Yoav Goldberg: [http://svn.nlpl.eu/outreach/skeikampen/2020/goldberg2.pdf ''Topics in Representation Learning'']
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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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{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
|-
 
|-
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!colspan=3|Monday, February 3, 2020
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!colspan=3|Tuesday, February 3, 2026
 
|-
 
|-
 
|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''' Yoav Goldberg: [http://svn.nlpl.eu/outreach/skeikampen/2020/goldberg3.pdf ''Interpretability and Black-Box NLP'']
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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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| 15:00 || 16:20 || '''Session 5''' Thomas Wolf: [http://svn.nlpl.eu/outreach/skeikampen/2020/wolf1.pdf ''Transfer Learning 1'']
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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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| 16:40 || 18:00 || '''Session 6''' Filip Ginter, Antti Virtanen, & Andrey Kutuzov: ''Experiences and a Hands-On Tutorial on Training [http://svn.nlpl.eu/outreach/skeikampen/2020/finbert.pdf BERT] and [http://svn.nlpl.eu/outreach/skeikampen/2020/elmo.pdf ELMo] from Scratch in a Multi-GPU Setting''
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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''' Thomas Wolf: [http://svn.nlpl.eu/outreach/skeikampen/2020/wolf2.pdf ''Transfer Learning 2'']
 
 
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| 19:30 || || Dinner
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| 21:00 || || '''Evening Session: Findings from OpenEuroLLM'''
 
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{| class="wikitable"
 
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!colspan=3|Tuesday, February 4, 2020
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!colspan=3|Wednesday, February 4, 2026
 
|-
 
|-
 
|colspan=3| Breakfast is available from 07:30
 
|colspan=3| Breakfast is available from 07:30
 
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| 08:30 || 10:00 || '''Session 8''' <ul><li>Joakim Nivre & Artur Kulmizev: ''Syntactic Dependency Parsing''</li><li>Stephan Oepen & Daniel Hershcovich: ''Meaning Representation Parsing''</li></ul>
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| 08:30 || 10:00 || '''Session 8'''
 
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| 10:00 || 10:30 || Coffee Break
 
| 10:00 || 10:30 || Coffee Break
 
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| 10:30 || 12:00 || '''Session 9''' Thomas Wolf: ''Limitations of Transfer Learning (Tentative Title)''
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| 10:30 || 12:00 || '''Session 9'''
 
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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
 
|}
 
|}
  
 
= Registration =
 
= Registration =
  
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In total, we anticipate around 45 participants in the 2020 Winter School.
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In total, we expect 60–70 participants at the 2026 winter school.
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Please register your intent of participation through our
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Registration for interested participants is now closed.
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[https://indico.neic.no/e/skeikampen20 on-line registration form].
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Requests for participation were processed on a first-come, first-served basis, with an eye toward regional balance.
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We will process requests for participation on a first-come, first-served
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Interested parties who have submitted the registration form were confirmed in three batches, on '''November 28''', on '''December 5''',
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basis; the closing date for registration is Friday, December 13, 2019.
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and on '''December 19''', which was also the closing date for winter school registration.
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Once confirmed by the organizing team, registration will establish a
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binding agreement with the hotel and a cancellation fee will be
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Once confirmed by the organizing team, participant names are published
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incurred (unless we can find someone else to ‘take over’ last-minute
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on this page, and registration establishes a
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spaces).
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''binding agreement'' with the hotel.
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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.
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= Logistics =
  
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= Contact =
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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 OpenEuroLLM shuttle).
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The bus will leave OSL airport no later than 9:45 CET on Monday, February 2.
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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 2020 NLPL Winter School is organized by a team of volunteers,
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The group will gather near the DNB currency exchange booth in the downstairs
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Li-Hsin Chang,
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arrivals area, just outside the international arrivals luggage claims and slightly
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Filip Ginter,
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to the left as one exits the customs area:
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Bjørn Lindi,  
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the yellow dot numbered (18) on the
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Farrokh Mehryary,
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[https://www.avinor.no/siteassets/flyplasser/oslo-lufthavn/info/kart-over-flyplassen/kart-over-flyplassen-ankomst-oslo-lufthavn-avinor.jpg OSL arrivals map].
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Joakim Nivre,
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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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Stephan Oepen, and
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The drive to the Skeikampen conference hotel will take us about two-three hours, and the bus
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Jörg Tiedemann.
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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 4, before the group returns
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to OSL airport on the OpenEuroLLM 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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= Organization =
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The 2026 Winter School is organized by a team of volunteers at the University
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of Oslo, supported by a programme committee from the OpenEuroLLM, Circle U, and
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NLPL networks and beyond, please see below.
 
For all inquiries regarding registration, the programme, logistics,
 
For all inquiries regarding registration, the programme, logistics,
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or such, please contact <code>outreach@nlpl.eu</code>.
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or such, please contact <code>nlpl-training@ifi.uio.no</code>.
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The programme committee is comprised of (in alphabetical order):
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* Jenia Jitsev (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
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* Andrey Kutuzov (University of Oslo, Norway)
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* Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)
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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 (ELLIS Institute, Germany)
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* Gema Ramirez-Sanches (Prompsit Language Engineering, Spain)
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* Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki, Finland)
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* Joaquin Vanschoren (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
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* Guillaume Wisniewski (Paris Cité University, France)
  
 
= Participants =
 
= Participants =
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# Adam Hrin, AMD Silo AI (Finland)
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# Jordi Armengol-Estapé (Barcelona)
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# Aitor Soroa, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
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# Pepa Atanasova (Copenhagen)
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# Agnes Toftgård, National Library (Sweden)
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# Jeremy Barnes (Oslo)
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# Aleksandra Krasnodębska, NASK PIB (Poland)
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# Ali Basirat (Uppsala)
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# Alicia Núñez Alcover, Prompsit (Spain)
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# Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (Gothenburg)
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# Aman Sinha, Université de Lorraine (France)
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# Maja Buljan (Oslo)
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# Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo (Norway)
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# Li-Hsin Chang (Turku, co-organizer)
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# Anni Moisala, CSC – IT Center for Science (Finland)
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# Manuel Ciosici (Copenhagen)
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# Artūrs Znotiņš, University of Latvia (Latvia)
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# Cheikh Bamba Dione (Bergen)
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# Barbara Heinisch, Eurac Research (Italy)
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# Adam Ek (Gothenburg)
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# Barbara Plank, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany)
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# Filip Ginter (Turku, co-organizer)
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# Charlotte Noel, LINAGORA Labs (France)
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# Yoav Goldberg (Tel Aviv, presenter)
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# Dalton Harmsen, Eindhoven University of Technology, OpenEuroLLM (Netherlands)
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# Rob van der Goot (Copenhagen)
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# David Salinas, ELLIS institute Tübingen (Germany)
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# Daniel Hershcovich (Copenhagen)
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# Diana Kylymnyk, University of Exeter (UK)
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# Andreas Holm (Copenhagen)
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# Elizaveta Kuzmenko, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
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# Safiqul Islam (Oslo)
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# Etienne Simon, University of Oslo (Norway)
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# Suwisa Kaewphan (Turku)
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# Faton Rekathati, The National Library (Sweden)
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# Jenna Kanerva (Turku)
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# Fedor Vitiugin, University of Turku (Finland)
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# Martin Krallinger (Barcelona)
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# François Yvon, CNRS (France)
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# Artur Kulmizev (Uppsala)
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# Fred Philippy, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
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# Maria Kunilovskaya (Wolverhampton)
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# Ghulam Muhammed Khan, University of Exeter (United Kingdom)
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# Jenny Kunz (Linköping)
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# Gianluca Barmina, University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)
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# Andrey Kutuzov (Oslo)
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# Hannah Clausen, University of Oslo (Norway)
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# Anna Lindahl (Gothenburg)
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# Hannan Mahadik, ELLIS Institute Tübingen (Germany)
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# Ellinor Lindqvist (Uppsala)
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# Iglika Nikolova-Stoupak, Sorbonne Université (France)
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# Juhani Luotolahti (Turku)
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# Jan Hajič, Charles University ((Czech Republic)
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# Jan Tore Lønning (Oslo)
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# Jiajing Wan, University of Bergen (Norway)
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# Arild Matsson (Gothenburg)
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# Jindřich Helcl, University of Oslo (Norway)
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# Maite Melero (Barcelona)
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# Johannes Gabriel Sindlinger, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
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# Farrokh Mehryary (Turku, co-organizer)
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# Jouni Luoma, AMD Silo AI (Finland)
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# Antonio Miranda (Barcelona)
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# Julia Kreutzer, Cohere Labs (Canada)
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# Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, co-organizer)
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# Justyna Sikora, The National Library (Sweden)
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# Stephan Oepen (Oslo, co-organizer)
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# Katarina Strani Herriot-Watt University (United Kingdom)
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# Ildiko Pilan (Oslo)
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# Kevin Glocker, Linköping University (Sweden)
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# Alessandro Raganato (Helsinki)
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# Kristýna Onderková, Charles University (Czech Republic)
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# Vinit Ravishankar (Oslo)
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# Laurène Cave, Sorbonne Université (France)
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# Arradi Nur Rizal (Uppsala)
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# Lisa Yankovskaya, University of Tartu (Estonia)
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# Samuel Rönnqvist (Turku)
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# Maja Buljan, University of Oslo (Norway)
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# Stian Rødven Eide (Gothenburg)
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# Markus Heiervang, National Library (Norway)
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# Jörg Tiedemann (Helsinki, co-organizer)
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# Mattes Ruckdeschel, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
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# Samia Touileb (Oslo)
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# Maximilian Idahl, ellamind (Germany)
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# Erik Velldal (Oslo)
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# Meihan Tong, University of Oslo (Norway)
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# Daniel Varab (Copenhagen)
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# Muhammad Imran, University of A Coruña (Spain)
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# Marta Villegas (Barcelona)
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# Nam Luu, Charles University (Czech Republic)
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# Antti Virtanen (Turku)
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# Neda Jamshidi, University of Sienna (Italy)
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# Michael Welzl (Oslo)
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# Nikolay Arefev, University of Oslo (Norway)
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# Thomas Wolf (Huggingface, presenter)
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# Nils Grünefeld, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
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# Dustin Wright (Copenhagen)
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# Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Common Crawl Foundation (USA)
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# Lilja Øvrelid (Oslo)
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# Romina Oji, Linköping University (Sweden)
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# Sampo Pyysalo, University of Turku (Finland)
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# Shanshan Xu, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
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# Shenbin Qian, University of Oslo (Norway)
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# Shibingfeng Zhang, University of Bologna (Italy)
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# Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo (Norway)
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# Taja Kuzman Pungeršek, Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
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# Tita Enstad, National Library (Norway)
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# Tommaso Green, University of Mannheim (Germany)
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# Tudor Nicolae Mateiu, Prompsit (Spain)
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# Vladislav Mikhailov, University of Oslo (Norway)
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# Wafa Aissa, UCLouvain (Belgium)
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# Xiaorui Yu, King's College London (UK)
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# Yihang Lu, Sorbonne Université (France)
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# Yiheng Wu, University of Helsinki (Finland)
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# Yves Scherrer, University of Oslo (Norway)
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# Zihao Li, University of Helsinki (Finland)

Latest revision as of 09:32, 28 December 2025

Circle U, NLPL, & 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 consortium and is endorsed 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 main Oslo airport Gardermoen (OSL), 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 international 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 EuroHPC experience reports from the OpenEuroLLM consortium.

Confirmed presenters and talks include (more can be added later):

Preliminary schedule

Monday, February 2, 2026
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, 2026
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, 2026
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 60–70 participants at the 2026 winter school. Registration for interested participants is now closed. Requests for participation were processed on a first-come, first-served basis, with an eye toward regional balance. Interested parties who have submitted the registration form were confirmed in three batches, on November 28, on December 5, and on December 19, which was 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 OpenEuroLLM shuttle). The bus will leave OSL airport no later than 9:45 CET on Monday, February 2. 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 two-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 4, before the group returns to OSL airport on the OpenEuroLLM 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 2026 Winter School is organized by a team of volunteers at the University of Oslo, supported by a programme committee from the OpenEuroLLM, Circle U, and NLPL networks and beyond, please see below. For all inquiries regarding registration, the programme, logistics, or such, please contact nlpl-training@ifi.uio.no.

The programme committee is comprised of (in alphabetical order):

  • Jenia Jitsev (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
  • Andrey Kutuzov (University of Oslo, Norway)
  • Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)
  • Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)
  • Sampo Pyysalo (University of Turku, Finland)
  • David Salinas (ELLIS Institute, Germany)
  • Gema Ramirez-Sanches (Prompsit Language Engineering, Spain)
  • Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki, Finland)
  • Joaquin Vanschoren (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
  • Guillaume Wisniewski (Paris Cité University, France)

Participants

  1. Adam Hrin, AMD Silo AI (Finland)
  2. Aitor Soroa, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
  3. Agnes Toftgård, National Library (Sweden)
  4. Aleksandra Krasnodębska, NASK PIB (Poland)
  5. Alicia Núñez Alcover, Prompsit (Spain)
  6. Aman Sinha, Université de Lorraine (France)
  7. Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo (Norway)
  8. Anni Moisala, CSC – IT Center for Science (Finland)
  9. Artūrs Znotiņš, University of Latvia (Latvia)
  10. Barbara Heinisch, Eurac Research (Italy)
  11. Barbara Plank, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany)
  12. Charlotte Noel, LINAGORA Labs (France)
  13. Dalton Harmsen, Eindhoven University of Technology, OpenEuroLLM (Netherlands)
  14. David Salinas, ELLIS institute Tübingen (Germany)
  15. Diana Kylymnyk, University of Exeter (UK)
  16. Elizaveta Kuzmenko, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
  17. Etienne Simon, University of Oslo (Norway)
  18. Faton Rekathati, The National Library (Sweden)
  19. Fedor Vitiugin, University of Turku (Finland)
  20. François Yvon, CNRS (France)
  21. Fred Philippy, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
  22. Ghulam Muhammed Khan, University of Exeter (United Kingdom)
  23. Gianluca Barmina, University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)
  24. Hannah Clausen, University of Oslo (Norway)
  25. Hannan Mahadik, ELLIS Institute Tübingen (Germany)
  26. Iglika Nikolova-Stoupak, Sorbonne Université (France)
  27. Jan Hajič, Charles University ((Czech Republic)
  28. Jiajing Wan, University of Bergen (Norway)
  29. Jindřich Helcl, University of Oslo (Norway)
  30. Johannes Gabriel Sindlinger, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
  31. Jouni Luoma, AMD Silo AI (Finland)
  32. Julia Kreutzer, Cohere Labs (Canada)
  33. Justyna Sikora, The National Library (Sweden)
  34. Katarina Strani Herriot-Watt University (United Kingdom)
  35. Kevin Glocker, Linköping University (Sweden)
  36. Kristýna Onderková, Charles University (Czech Republic)
  37. Laurène Cave, Sorbonne Université (France)
  38. Lisa Yankovskaya, University of Tartu (Estonia)
  39. Maja Buljan, University of Oslo (Norway)
  40. Markus Heiervang, National Library (Norway)
  41. Mattes Ruckdeschel, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
  42. Maximilian Idahl, ellamind (Germany)
  43. Meihan Tong, University of Oslo (Norway)
  44. Muhammad Imran, University of A Coruña (Spain)
  45. Nam Luu, Charles University (Czech Republic)
  46. Neda Jamshidi, University of Sienna (Italy)
  47. Nikolay Arefev, University of Oslo (Norway)
  48. Nils Grünefeld, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
  49. Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Common Crawl Foundation (USA)
  50. Romina Oji, Linköping University (Sweden)
  51. Sampo Pyysalo, University of Turku (Finland)
  52. Shanshan Xu, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
  53. Shenbin Qian, University of Oslo (Norway)
  54. Shibingfeng Zhang, University of Bologna (Italy)
  55. Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo (Norway)
  56. Taja Kuzman Pungeršek, Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
  57. Tita Enstad, National Library (Norway)
  58. Tommaso Green, University of Mannheim (Germany)
  59. Tudor Nicolae Mateiu, Prompsit (Spain)
  60. Vladislav Mikhailov, University of Oslo (Norway)
  61. Wafa Aissa, UCLouvain (Belgium)
  62. Xiaorui Yu, King's College London (UK)
  63. Yihang Lu, Sorbonne Université (France)
  64. Yiheng Wu, University of Helsinki (Finland)
  65. Yves Scherrer, University of Oslo (Norway)
  66. Zihao Li, University of Helsinki (Finland)
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