Greetings!

We invite you to participate in *UC Santa Cruz's Natural Language Processing Capstone Workshop* to be held online on August 26th.

UCSC's specialized Natural Language Processing master's program equips students with the skills and in-depth knowledge needed for a successful career in the rapidly growing NLP field. Over the past year, students have worked in teams mentored by industry experts to develop Capstone projects that address real-world NLP challenges.

Join us online on August 26 (1 - 5 PM PDT) to learn about each project and participate in our NLP Industry Panel.

*To register for the 2022 NLP Capstone Workshop,* visit https://ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xOV5vxrgQpWjaeCcK_ZFMA

*Workshop Sessions:* - Keynote Address: Hear insights about the future of NLP from incoming UCSC CSE and NLP faculty member, Professor Ian Lane. - NLP Capstone Projects: Watch student teams present Capstone projects mentored by industry experts from IBM, Interactions, LinkedIn and Google. - NLP Industry Panel: Join our expert panel of leading scientists for insights on career opportunities in the NLP field.

*About our Workshop:* The NLP M.S. program at UCSC balances theory with practice including a Capstone project that enables students to apply the skills they've acquired in the program to a current, industry-relevant NLP topic. Register for this free online workshop to see our talented students showcase their work and answer questions from attendees.

*The 2022 NLP Capstone Projects and Mentors are:* - *IBM Research:* Probing of Language Models for Code - *Interactions: *Neural Models of Supertagging for Semantic Role Labeling and Beyond - *LinkedIn:* Comparing Dictionaries and Word Embeddings - *Google and UCSC: *Multimodal Knowledge Extraction and Question Answering in Farming

The workshop will conclude with a discussion about careers in NLP hosted by our expert NLP Industry Panel.

Learn more about this year's Capstone projects and mentors by visiting https://nlp.ucsc.edu/capstone-projects If you have any questions about the event, please contact UCSC's NLP Program Team by emailing nlp@ucsc.edu.

We look forward to seeing you at this year's workshop!

All the best,

Emelye