<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif">FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</span></div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif">Advanced Language Processing School (</span>ALPS)<br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif">January, 17-22 2021</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif">Grenoble - France</span></div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif">University Grenoble Alpes and Naver Labs Europe are announcing the first Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) in Grenoble.</span></div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif">*Important Dates*</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif">Application Deadline - July 15th, 2020</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif">Notification - Sept 15th, 2020</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif">Registration Deadline - Oct 15th, 2020</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif">Winter School - Jan 17-22, 2021</span></div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:underline">*</span><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif">Target Audience</span><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:underline">*</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif">This is a winter school covering advanced topics in NLP, and we are primarily targeting doctoral students and advanced (research) masters. A few slots will also be reserved for academics and persons working in research-heavy positions in industry.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif"></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:underline">*</span><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif">Characteristics</span><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:underline">*</span></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">This winter school aims to provide talks of renowned NLP researchers, as well as creating an ideal environment to foster collaborations</span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif">Confirmed speakers:</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif"> - Isabelle Augenstein (Copenhagen, DEN)</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif"> - Tim Baldwin (Melbourne, AUS)</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif"> - Kyunghyun Cho (NYU and FAIR, USA)</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"> - Yejin Choi (University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI, USA)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif"> - Grzegorz Chrupała (Tilburg University, NED)</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif"> - Claire Gardent (LORIA, FR)</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif"> - Sanjeev Khudanpur (JHU, USA)</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif"></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif">In addition to the talks, an important aspect of this school is the interaction between participants. The registration fee covers full board in a residence close to a ski resort, and some of the afternoons there will be organised social activities.</span></div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif">Website: </span><a href="http://alps.imag.fr/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://alps.imag.fr/</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif">Contact: <a href="mailto:alps2021@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr">alps2021@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr</a></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,Helvetica,Arial,Dotum,sans-serif"><br></span></div></div>