It's back to school week, and that means meetups, too, spring back to life. With agents that escape their sandboxes, a blistering pace of model releases, and a couple of landmark IPOs looming, NLP and AI enthusiasts certainly have enough to talk about.
The next Belgium NLP Meetup will take place on Thursday October 8th in the offices of Trendtracker in Ghent. We'll open the doors at 7pm for pizza, have three interesting talks between 7.30pm and 9pm, and after that there's more time for networking and drinks.
One talk has already been confirmed, the other two will follow in the next few weeks. Stay tuned!
Relex: Relationship Extraction at Scale for Trendtracker's Knowledge Graph
François Remy (Trendtracker)
What can you do when you need to extract relationships at such a scale that LLMs stop being economical? In this talk, François will explain how Trendtracker trained its own multilingual relationship extraction model to power its knowledge graph, which jointly identifies entities and links them by relationship type. He'll discuss why they chose a bi-affine architecture, and how scale, cost, and reproducibility shaped the design. He'll also show how the extracted relationships can be leveraged to help with entity resolution.
