big data

This workshop may appeal to you if you are a language activist, work in collaboration with language activists or with low-resource languages.

As part of our research, we currently aim to provide NLP tools and models tailored to language organisations and communities.
In this regard, we are pleased to invite you or language activists from your network to our first 2-hour online workshop on tools for low-resource languages. We are currently focusing on languages for which some digital texts are available.

This work is part of an ERC Proof of Concept Grant, which focuses on creating tools for language activists. Additionally, our research group has recently received an ERC Advanced Grant to develop Large Language Models for languages with less digital resources. Both grants enable more long-term collaboration with language communities.

This first session will be in two parts:
- we will present our tool for parallel sentence mining (i.e., finding translation pairs among two monolingual corpora) for low-resource languages. This task constitutes an essential step towards developing a dedicated machine translation system or enabling a large language model to support your language. Details on the tool can be found at https://lnkd.in/ejHBwTDT
- we will show the diversity of possible NLP tools that could be extended to other languages. These will range from spell checkers to speech recognition, but with a strong focus on machine translation and chatbots.
If you are interested in attending the workshop or would like to stay in touch for future updates, please fill out this form: https://lnkd.in/eeiThqgg.

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Meeting ID: 651 5946 8381
Passcode: 178965

Institutions

• TUM Heilbronn

This workshop may appeal to you if you are a language activist, work in collaboration with language activists or with low-resource languages.

As part of our research, we currently aim to provide NLP tools and models tailored to language organisations and communities.
In this regard, we are pleased to invite you or language activists from your network to our first 2-hour online workshop on tools for low-resource languages. We are currently focusing on languages for which some digital texts are available.
This work is part of an ERC Proof of Concept Grant, which focuses on creating tools for language activists. Additionally, our research group has recently received an ERC Advanced Grant to develop Large Language Models for languages with less digital resources. Both grants enable more long-term collaboration with language communities.

This first session will be in two parts:
- we will present our tool for parallel sentence mining (i.e., finding translation pairs among two monolingual corpora) for low-resource languages. This task constitutes an essential step towards developing a dedicated machine translation system or enabling a large language model to support your language. Details on the tool can be found at https://lnkd.in/ejHBwTDT
- we will show the diversity of possible NLP tools that could be extended to other languages. These will range from spell checkers to speech recognition, but with a strong focus on machine translation and chatbots.
If you are interested in attending the workshop or would like to stay in touch for future updates, please fill out this form

Join Zoom Meeting / Meeting ID: 684 1114 2377 / Passcode: 025895

Institutions

• TUM Heilbronn

learn_bAIome offers workshops and trainings in biomedical AI/data science with tailored formats that take into account background, programming skills and intensity to provide unique, focused, and effective courses. These courses are free and open to students, clinicians, and researchers across academic institutions in Hamburg.

Lecturer: Dr. Lorenz Adlung, I. Department of Medicine, Hamburg Center for Translational Immunology (HCTI), bAIome, UKE

Prerequisites: Intrinsic motivation to learn about infection and inflammation using your computer.

Description: This workshop is open to all students, researchers and clinicians who want to learn how we use (“big”?) data and computational modelling for discovery and rational intervention in infection and inflammation. In today’s biomedical research, the bottleneck has shifted, and for the first time, data generation is no longer the rate-limiting step in scientific progress, but rather: data analysis. We will discuss current trends and show how we can use mathematical concepts and analytical thinking to address unmet clinical needs in influenza infection and inflammatory bowel disease. The workshop will be in presence and therefore each participant should bring their own laptop or ipad.

Topics

• “big” data and code repositories
• mathematical concepts relevant to infection and inflammation
• computational modelling of murine influenza infection
• identification of treatment responders in inflammatory bowel disease
• discussion of the future of bAIomedical research

“Visualization gives you answers to questions you didn’t know you had.” – Ben Shneiderman.
Exploratory data analysis is a critical step in any successful project. Turning raw data into insights requires a clear process: data wrangling to organize and clean the data, exploratory analysis to uncover patterns, and finally, visualization to effectively communicate your findings. This beginner-friendly workshop on Data Wrangling and Visualization in R is designed to guide participants through these essential steps with practical, hands-on examples. No prior programming experience is required. On the first day, we will introduce the R programming language and its fundamental features. The second and third days will focus on mastering data wrangling using the dplyr package and creating customizable, publication-ready plots with ggplot2, specifically tailored to bioinformatics applications. Additionally, the workshop will include an introduction to R Markdown, enabling participants to create reproducible reports that seamlessly combine code, plots, and analysis insights in a single document. By the end of the workshop, participants will have the skills to perform data wrangling with dplyr, create compelling visualizations with ggplot2, and produce reproducible reports using R Markdown, setting a strong foundation for their data analysis projects.

Topics:

• Introduction to R and R studio
• Basics of R programming
• Importing data from different file types
• Introduction to tidyverse
• Data wrangling with dplyr
• Combining datasets
• Grammar of graphics ggplot2
• Basic plot types, Customizing plots
• R Markdown for creating reports

Due to popular demand registration for this workshop has now closed.
Language: English
Prerequisites: A laptop with Rstudio installed, Enthusiasm

Sie arbeiten mit ChatGPT, DALL-E oder Midjourney und wollen sichergehen, dass Ihre KI-generierten Inhalte wirklich fair und ausgewogen sind? Dann ist dieser Intensivkurs genau das Richtige für Sie. In nur zwei Wochen lernen Sie interaktiv und abwechslungsreich was Biases sind, wie sie sich in KI-Modellen und Tools auswirken und wie sie damit effektiv umgehen können.

In Woche 1 erfahren nicht nur, wie KI-Systeme Verzerrungen entwickeln – Sie lernen auch, diese gezielt zu erkennen. In spannenden Praxis-Sessions schlüpfen Sie selbst in die Rolle der KI und verstehen, wie Bias in Texten und Bildern entsteht.

In Woche zwei wird es noch praktischer: Sie lernen konkrete Strategien kennen, mit denen Sie Bias in Ihren KI-Projekten minimieren. Von cleveren Prompt-Engineering-Techniken bis hin zur kritischen Bewertung von KI-Outputs.

Dieser Kurs ist für alle, die KI verantwortungsvoll einsetzen wollen, aber vor allem für Anfänger und Laien. Mit nur 3-4 Stunden pro Woche integrieren Sie das Training flexibel in Ihren Alltag.

Dieser kostenlose Online-Kurs wird vom KI-Servicezentrum Berlin Brandenburg unterstützt und vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung gefördert.

Institutions

• openHPI

learn_bAIome offers workshops and trainings in biomedical AI/data science with tailored formats that take into account background, programming skills and intensity to provide unique, focused, and effective courses. These courses are free and open to students, clinicians, and researchers across academic institutions in Hamburg.

Prerequisites: Intermediate level computational background and basic knowledge of machine learning

Description: This 3-day international workshop is organised by University of Hamburg’s European University Alliance for Global Health (EUGLOH), Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) and Center for Biomedical AI at UKE (bAIome) to foster international exchange and cooperation among students and researchers working in machine learning relating to biomedical questions. The vision is to create a supportive network and inspire international collaborations.

The workshop will explore various aspects of machine learning using biomedical data with the hands-on practical projects providing the main focus, allowing participants to work in a team environment to understand how machine learning is applied to specific biomedical challenges.

For further details and registration check out the EUGLOH website

Techniques of machine learning (ML) find a rapidly increasing range of applications touching upon social, economic, and technological aspects of everyday life. They are also being used with great enthusiasm to fill in gaps in our scientific knowledge by data-based modelling approaches. I have followed these developments for a while with interest, concern, and mounting disappointment. When these technologies are employed to take over decisive functionality in safety-critical applications, we would like to exactly know how to guarantee their compliance with pre-defined guardrails and limitations. Moreover, when they are utilized as building blocks in scientific research, it would violate scientific standards -in my opinion- if these building blocks were used without a throrough understanding of their functionality, including inaccuracies, uncertainties, and other pitfalls. In this context, I will juxtapose (a subset of) deep neural network methods with the family of entropy-optimal Sparse Probabilistic Approximation (sSPA) techniques developed recently by Illia Horenko (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau) and colleagues.