We are excited to announce the 1st ELLIS NLP Workshop online on February 24-25th, 2021. This workshop has the title “Open Challenges and Future Directions of NLP”.

The program is available under https://sites.google.com/view/ellisnlp2021.

The keynote speakers are (in an alphabetical order):

• Yoshua Bengio – Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, Université de Montréal
• Yejin Choi – Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington and Allen AI
• Hinrich Schütze – Chair of Computational Linguistics and Director of the Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU München
• Sameer Singh – Dept. of Computer Science, Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine
• Yulia Tsvetkov – Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh)

The access to the keynote talks on YouTube will be published before the workshop.