Virtual (Zoom)


2020-10-16 12:00: What are the Goals of Distributional Semantics? (Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge))

2020-10-23 12:00: Five Sources of Biases and Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them (Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University))

2020-11-06 15:00: How far have we come in giving our NLU systems common sense? (Nasrin Mostafazadeh (Verneek))

2020-11-13 12:00: Predicting Text Readability and Reading Comprehension from Reading Interactions (Sian Gooding (University of Cambridge))

2020-12-04 12:00: Compositional Neural Meaning Representation Parsing (Weiwei Sun (University of Cambridge))

2021-01-22 12:00: Revisiting and re-evaluating rumour stance classification (Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield))

2021-01-29 12:00: Learning with Graphs in Natural Language Generation and Relation Extraction (Zhijiang Guo (University of Cambridge))

2021-02-05 13:00: A Graph-Based Framework for Structured Prediction Tasks in Sanskrit (Amrith Krishna (University of Cambridge))

2021-02-12 12:00: Detecting the "Fake News" Before It Was Even Written, Media Literacy, and Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19 Infodemic (Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), HBKU))

2021-02-19 12:00: Title TBD (Mariam Redi (Wikimedia))

2021-02-19 12:00: The Science of Knowledge Equity - Research at Wikimedia (Miriam Redi, Diego Saez (Wikimedia Foundation))

2021-02-26 12:00: Papers with Code and the automatic extraction of results from papers (Robert Stojnic (Facebook / Papers with Code))

2021-03-05 12:00: [RESCHEDULED] Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP (Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University))

2021-03-11 15:00: Title TBD (Chenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research AI))

2021-03-11 16:00: Representation Learning for Text Retrieval: Learning and Pretraining Strategies for Dense Retrieval (Chenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research))

2021-03-12 12:00: 🎈🎈🎈🥳 NLP Social Hour 🥳🎈🎈🎈 (-)

2021-03-19 12:00: Title TBD (Ryan McDonald (Google))

2021-04-30 12:00: Cross domain similarities and intra-person changes (Maria Liakata (University of Warwick))

2021-05-07 12:00: Adaptation and Control in Enterprise Language Technology (Ryan McDonald (ASAPP))

2021-05-14 12:00: Incorporating Structure into NLP Models with Graph Neural Networks ( Michael Schlichtkrull (University of Cambridge))

2021-05-21 12:00: Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP (Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University))

2021-05-28 13:00: Interpretability in NLP: Moving Beyond Vision (Shuoyang Ding (Johns Hopkins University))

2021-06-04 14:00: Beyond Facts: The Problem of Framing in Assessing What is True (Philip Resnik (University of Maryland))

2021-06-11 13:00: Challenges in evaluating natural language generation systems (Mohit Iyyer (University of Massachusetts Amherst))

2021-06-18 12:00: NMT Analysis: The Trade-Off Between Source and Target, and (a Bit of) the Training Process (Elena Voita (University of Edinburgh))

2021-10-15 12:00: Exploring Feedback Comment Generation for Language Learners (Ryo Nagata (Konan University))

2021-10-22 12:00: Toward Broad and Deep Language Understanding for Intelligent Systems (Marjorie McShane (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute))

2021-11-05 12:00: Integrating Human Cognition with Natural Language Processing (Yevgeni Berzak (Technion))

2021-11-12 12:00: How language understanding unfolds in minds and machines (Roger Levy (MIT))

2021-11-19 12:00: Analyzing and Summarizing Movies using Turning Points (Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh))

2021-11-26 12:00: Sparse Latent Structure with Overlapping Constraints (Vlad Niculae (University of Amsterdam))

2021-12-03 12:00: CANCELLED (Lotty Brand (University of Sheffield) )

2022-01-21 12:00: Expectations vs. Reality: Lessons learned from Working on Toxic Content Detection in NLP (Nedjma Ousidhoum (University of Cambridge))

2022-01-28 13:00: Towards Out-of-distribution generalization in NLP (Prof. He He (New York Univeristy))

2022-02-04 12:00: When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks Principle that shapes the lexicon (Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra))

2022-02-18 12:00: [POSTPONED] Parametric vs Nonparametric Knowledge, and what we can learn from Knowledge Bases (Sebastian Riedel (Facebook AI Research and UCL))

2022-02-25 12:00: Learning from Past: Bringing Planning Back to Neural Generators (Shashi Narayan (Google Research))

2022-03-04 12:00: Using NLP and graph theory to capture speech abnormalities in psychosis (Caroline Nettekoven (University of Cambridge))

2022-03-11 12:00: Hugging Face: a hub for the whole ML community to collaborate (Nate Raw and Ömer Faruk Özdemir  (HuggingFace))

2022-03-18 12:00: Multilingual Autoregressive Entity Linking (Nicola De Cao (University of Amsterdam, Huggingface))

2022-04-29 12:00:  Interactive and decomposed approaches for NLP: the case of multi-text summarization (Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University))

2022-05-06 12:00: Diagnosing AI Explanation Methods with Folk Concepts of Behavior (Alon Jacovi (Bar-Ilan University))

2022-05-19 13:00: Language (In)Equality in Parsing and Machine Translation: Data Size is Only One Term in the Equation (Arianna Bisazza (University of Groningen))

2022-06-10 12:00: An aperitivo of efforts against harming online contents: propaganda, hate speech, spam (Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna))

2022-06-13 12:00: (Modeling) Morality? On Machine Learning and Phrenology (Zeerak Talat (Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University))

2022-10-07 12:00: The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD) (Martyn Petyko and Daniela Schneevogt (Aston University))

2022-10-28 12:00: Efficient Structured Prediction on Long Texts (Mrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich))

2022-11-11 12:00: Decoding is deciding under uncertainty — the case of NMT (Bryan Eikema (University of Amsterdam))

2022-11-18 12:00: Towards Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (Jasmijn Bastings (Google Brain))

2023-01-27 12:00: GenBench -- State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP (Dieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS))

2023-02-24 12:00: Modular and Compositional Transfer Learning (Jonas Pfeiffer (Google Research))

2023-03-03 12:00: An Affordance Account of Value Embedding in Technology: Why Good Intentions are Not Enough (Fabio Tollon (Bielefeld University))

2023-03-10 12:00: Navigating the AI Hype: Building Natural Language Processing for Low Resource Languages (Asmelash Teka Hadgu (Lesan; DAIR))

2023-05-12 16:00: Reality Check: NLP in the era of Large Language Models (Vered Shwartz (University of British Columbia))

2023-05-19 12:00: Challenges of Low-Resource Natural Language Processing: A Focus on Sentiment Analysis and Hate Speech Detection in Amharic (Seid Muhie Yimam (HCDS, University of Hamburg))