Date |
Topic/Paper |
Presenter(s) |
Readings |
Feedback providers |
Assignment due |
01/26/21 |
Introduction |
Suma Bhat |
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01/28/21 |
Word-level models (slides) |
Suma Bhat |
JM_2 Chapter 2; JM_3 Chapter 6; Linguistic fundamentals (Chapter 2)
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Heting |
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02/02/21 |
Word-level models (slides) |
Suma Bhat |
GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation |
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JM_3 Chapters 4 and 5 |
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02/04/21 |
Analysis Methods in Neural Language Processing: A Survey |
Emily |
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Razan |
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Probing Pretrained Language Models for Lexical Semantics |
John |
Heting |
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02/09 |
Sequence-level models (slides) |
Suma Bhat |
JM_3 Chapter 3 |
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JM_3 Chapter 8 |
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R3 |
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R4 |
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02/11/21 |
Exploring and Predicting Transferability across NLP Tasks |
Ziheng |
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F1 |
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Do We Really Need Fully Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Embeddings? |
Heting |
F2 |
Assignment 1 posted
colab link (due 2/20/21)
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F3 |
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02/16/21 |
Modeling meaning (slides) |
Suma Bhat |
JM_3 Chapter 14 |
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JM_3 Chapter 19 |
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02/18/21 |
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John |
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Brianna |
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What Kind of Language is Hard to Language-Model? |
Razan |
Liming |
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Heting |
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02/23/21 |
Low-Resource NLP (slides) |
Suma Bhat |
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02/25/21 |
Deep Semantic Role Labeling: What Works and What’s Next |
Liming |
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John |
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Linguistically-Informed Self-Attention for Semantic Role Labeling |
Jerome |
Mahir |
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Project Proposal
due (extended to 2/26)
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03/02/21 |
Summarization (slides) |
Suma Bhat |
JM_2 23.3-23.6 |
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03/04/21 |
A systematic comparison of methods for low-resource dependency parsing on genuinely low-resource languages |
Mahir |
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Ziheng |
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Neural Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in NLP—A Survey |
Jerome |
Jianing |
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Emily |
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03/09/21 |
Dialog (slides) |
Suma Bhat |
JM_3 Chapter 24 |
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Survey on evaluation methods for dialogue systems
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What Makes a Good Conversation?: Challenges in Designing Truly Conversational Agents
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03/11/21 |
On Faithfulness and Factuality in Abstractive Summarization |
Brianna |
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Jerome |
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Searching for Effective Neural Extractive Summarization: What Works and What’s Next |
Heting |
Emily |
Assignment 2 posted
(due 03/25/21)
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Chenyang |
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03/16/21 |
Question Answering (slides) (video) |
Suma Bhat |
JM_3 Chapter 23 |
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03/18 |
Can You Put it All Together: Evaluating Conversational Agents’ Ability to Blend Skills |
Jianing |
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Ziheng |
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DyKgChat: Benchmarking Dialogue Generation Grounding on Dynamic Knowledge Graphs |
Yuchen |
Chenyang |
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03/23/21 |
Commonsense Reasoning (slides) |
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03/25/21 |
Natural Questions: A Benchmark for Question Answering Research |
Emily |
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Mahir |
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Towards Medical Machine Reading Comprehension with Structural Knowledge and Plain Text |
Razan |
Liming |
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03/30/21 |
Project Updates (~8 minute presentation per project) |
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Assignment 3 posted
(due 04/15/21)
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04/01/21 |
COMET: Commonsense Transformers for Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction |
Mahir |
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Yuchen |
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Diverse and Informative Dialogue Generation with Context-Specific Commonsense Knowledge Awareness |
Brianna |
ChenYang |
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04/06/21 |
Ethics, Bias, and Abusive Language |
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R1 |
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R2 |
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R3 |
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R4 |
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04/08/21 |
Double-Hard Debias: Tailoring Word Embeddings for Gender Bias Mitigation |
Ziheng |
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F1 |
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Facilitating the Communication of Politeness through Fine-Grained Paraphrasing |
Jianing |
F2 |
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F3 |
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04/13/21 |
BREAK (no lecture) |
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R1 |
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R2 |
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R3 |
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R4 |
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04/15/21 |
Language from police body camera footage shows racial disparities in officer respect
Relevant Document Discovery for Fact-Checking Articles
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ChenYang
Yuchen
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R1 |
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R2 |
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R3 |
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R4 |
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04/20/21 |
Interpreting Euphemisms and Countering Hatespeech |
Wanzheng Zhu |
R1 |
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R2 |
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R3 |
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R4 |
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04/22/21 |
The spread of true and false news online |
ChenYang |
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F1 |
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Adapting and Extending a Typology to Identify Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter |
Liming |
F2 |
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F3 |
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04/27/21 |
Project Presentations |
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04/29/21 |
Project Presentations |
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05/04/21 |
Project Presentations |
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