📅 Monday, 27 October 2025 🕒 13:30 – 17:00 (Dublin Local Time)
📍 Field 1 & Field 2, Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin (Dublin Royal Convention Centre)
Format: Hybrid (In-person & Online)
13:30 – 13:40 | Opening & Welcome
13:40 – 14:20 | Keynote Talk
Efficient Fine-tuning of Vision-Language Models and Applications (In-person)
Prof. Joemon M. Jose, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
35 min presentation + 5 min Q&A
14:20 – 15:00 | Session 1 – Advances in Reasoning and Evaluation Methods for QA - Part 1
Session chair: Dr. Tai Tan Mai (Dublin City University)
(12 min presentation each + 3 min Q&A)
14:20 – 14:35: MetaTool: Facilitating Large Language Models to Master Tools with Meta-task Augmentation Online
14:35 – 14:50: Is it Enough to Ask Questions? Dialogue Evaluation through Question Answering and Generation In-person
☕ 15:00 – 15:30 | Afternoon Tea Break & Networking
15:30 – 16:00 | Session 1 – Advances in Reasoning and Evaluation Methods for QA (Part 2)
15:30 – 15:45: Formal Reasoning for Intelligent QA Systems: A Case Study in the Educational Domain
15:45 – 16:00: Multimedia-Aware Question Answering: A Review of Retrieval and Cross-Modal Reasoning Architectures
16:00 – 16:45 | Session 2 – Applications of QA Systems
Session chair: Dr. Allie Ly-Duyen Tran (Dublin City University)
(12 min presentation each + 3 min Q&A)
16:00 – 16:15: Adaptive Multi-Agent Tutoring AI for Multimodal Mathematics Conversational Learning
16:15 – 16:30: Exploring the Application of Visual Question Answering (VQA) for Classroom Activity Monitoring
16:30 – 16:45: LLM-powered Question Answering for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Reports