The Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS) is an annual event taking place at Instituto Superior Técnico. Aimed at researchers and graduate students in the fields of NLP and and computational linguistics, computer scientists interested in statistics and machine learning, this is an in-person event that will last 6 days with both morning and afternoon lectures, lab sessions and talks. Industry practitioners who wish to enhance their knowledge on the topics are also welcome. Although no deep previous knowledge of ML or NLP is required, the attendants are assumed to have some basic background on mathematics and programming.

The organisation is composed by Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), the Instituto de Telecomunicações, the Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC-ID), the Lisbon ELLIS Unit for Learning and Intelligent Systems (LUMLIS), Zendesk, and IBM Research.

Date: 20-25 July 2026

Location: Instituto Superior Técnico

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