NLP Seminar Schedule — Winter 2023
Thursday 11:00 am -- 12:00 noon
Venue: Zoom & Gates 287 (for in-person speakers)
We open most talks to the public (even non-stanford affiliates). Stanford affiliates should join nlp-seminar@lists.stanford.edu for weekly announcements. Non-stanford affiliates can follow us on Twitter for announcements and registration.
Organizers: Siyan Li, Tianyi Zhang
NLP Seminar Schedule — Fall 2022
Thursday 11:00 am -- 12:00 noon
Venue: Zoom & Gates 287 (for in-person speakers)
We open most talks to the public (even non-stanford affiliates). Stanford affiliates should join nlp-seminar@lists.stanford.edu for weekly announcements. Non-stanford affiliates can follow us on Twitter for announcements and registration.
Organizers: Siyan Li, Tianyi Zhang
NLP Seminar Schedule — Spring 2022
Thursday 11:00 am -- 12:00 noon
Venue: Zoom & Gates 287 (for in-person speakers)
We open most talks to the public (even non-stanford affiliates). Stanford affiliates should join nlp-seminar@lists.stanford.edu for weekly announcements. Non-stanford affiliates can follow us on Twitter for announcements and registration.
Organizers: Ashwin Paranjape
NLP Seminar Schedule — Spring 2022
Organizers: Ashwin Paranjape
NLP Seminar Schedule — Winter 2022
Organizers:
Ashwin Paranjape,
Drew A. Hudson,
Rishi Bommasani
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Jan 12 |
Florian Strub |
Language Emergence at Scale(details) |
Jan 19 |
Jason Wei |
Finetuned Language Models are Zero-Shot Learners (details) |
Feb 10 |
Rajarshi Das |
Nonparametric Contextual Reasoning for Question Answering over Knowledge Bases (details) |
Feb 17 |
Allyson Ettinger |
"Understanding" and prediction: Controlled examinations of meaning sensitivity in pre-trained models (details) |
Feb 24 |
Alane Suhr |
Reasoning and Learning in Interactive Natural Language Systems (details) |
Mar 3 |
Krishna Pillutla |
MAUVE: Measuring the Gap Between Neural Text and Human Text using Divergence Frontiers (details) |
Mar 10 |
Jeff Dalton and Carlos Gemmell |
Conversation Search and Language Understanding: Current Challenges and Future Directions (details) |
Mar 17 |
Chenguang Zhu |
How We Achieved Human Parity in CommonsenseQA -- Fusing Knowledge into Language Models |
NLP Seminar Schedule — Fall 2021
Organizers:
Ashwin Paranjape,
Drew A. Hudson,
Rishi Bommasani
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Sept 30 |
Sonal Gupta |
Recent Advances in Fine-Tuning and Question Answering at Facebook Assistant (details) |
Oct 7 |
Marcus Rohrbach |
Reasoning with Embeddings and Symbols for Incorporating Knowledge and Reading Comprehension in Vision and Language Tasks (details) |
Oct 14 |
Yoav Levine |
Theoretical insights on pretraining Transformers and their practical applications (details) |
Oct 21 |
Luke Zettlemoyer |
Large Language Models: Will they keep getting bigger? And, how will we use them if they do? |
Oct 28 |
Tom Hope |
Harnessing Scientific Literature for Boosting Discovery and Innovation (details) |
Nov 4 |
Sida Wang |
Bilingual lexicon induction via co-occurrences and bitexts (details) |
Nov 11 |
Stefan Lee |
Telling Embodied Agents What To Do (And The Agents Sometimes Doing It In Reality) (details) |
Nov 18 |
Sebastian Riedel |
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Nov 25 |
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Dec 2 |
Saadia Gabriel |
Modeling misinformation, implied toxicity and commonsense implications with machine reasoning (details) |
NLP Seminar Schedule — Winter 2021
Organizer: Jesse Mu
NLP Seminar Schedule — Fall 2020
Organizer: Jesse Mu
NLP Seminar Schedule — Winter 2020
Organizer: Kevin Clark
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Jan 23 |
Muthu Chandrasekaran |
A Discourse Centric Framework for Facilitating Instructor Intervention in
MOOC Discussion Forums (details) |
Jan 30 |
Yonatan Belinkov |
Causal Mediation Analysis for Interpreting Neural NLP: The Case of Gender Bias (details) |
Feb 6 |
Maarten Sap |
Reasoning about Social Dynamics in Language (details) |
Feb 13 |
Wojciech Kryściński |
Neural Text Summarization: A Critical Perspective and Steps Towards Consistency (details) |
20 Feb |
Daniel Chen |
Stereotypes in High-Stakes Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Circuit Courts (details) |
27 Feb |
Marco Tulio Ribeiro |
What is wrong with my model? Detection and analysis of bugs in NLP models (details) |
5 Mar |
Roy Schwartz |
Green NLP (details) |
12 Mar |
Jon Clark |
TyDi QA: A Benchmark for Information-Seeking Question Answering in Typologically Diverse Languages (details) REMOTE MEETING |
NLP Seminar Schedule — Fall 2019
Organizer: Isabel Papadimitriou
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Sept 26 |
Edgar Altszyler |
NLP as a means to study individual and social cognition (details) |
Oct 10 |
Bhuwan Dhingra |
Text as a Virtual Knowledge Base (details, slides) |
Oct 17 |
Alexis Conneau |
Cross-lingual representation learning (details) |
Nov 14 |
Arthur Szlam |
Language and Interaction in Minecraft (details) |
Nov 21 |
Michael Auli |
Efficient Sequence Modeling (details) |
Dec 5 |
Yoav Artzi |
Robot Control and Collaboration in Situated Instruction Following (details, slides) |
NLP Seminar Schedule — Spring 2019
Organizer: Dan Iter
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
April 4 |
Swabha Swayamdipta |
Learning Challenges in Natural Language Processing (details, slides) |
April 11 |
Alon Halevy |
Subjective Databases (details, slides) |
April 18 |
Paweł Budzianowski |
Learning multi-domain dialogues (details, slides) |
April 25 |
Ves Stoyanov |
Cross Lingual Understanding (XLU): Scaling NLP Across Languages (details, slides) |
May 2 |
Sameer Singh |
Discovering Bugs in NLP Models Using Natural Perturbations (details, slides) |
May 9 |
Xiang Ren |
From Data to Model Programming: Injecting Structured Priors for Knowledge Extraction (details) |
May 16 |
Yulia Tsvetkov |
Computational Approaches to Unveiling Biases in Stories and Models (details, slides) |
May 23 |
David Bamman |
Building an Annotated Dataset of Literary Entities and Events (details, slides) |
NLP Seminar Schedule — Winter 2019
Organizer: Dan Iter
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Jan 10 |
Liang Huang |
STACL: Simultaneous Translation with Integrated Anticipation and Controllable Latency (details, slides) |
Jan 17 |
Jacob Devlin |
BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding (details, slides) |
Jan 24 |
Anna Goldie |
Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling and Deep Reinforcement Learning for Systems Optimization (details, slides) |
Jan 31 |
Chenguang Zhu |
SDNet: Contextualized Attention-based Deep Network for Conversational Question Answering (details, slides) |
Feb 7 |
Yu Su |
Towards Democratizing Data Science with AI-powered Knowledge Engines (details, slides) |
Feb 14 |
Michael Yeomans |
Topic Selection in Conversation (details, slides) |
Feb 21 |
Daniel Fried |
Pragmatic Models for Generating and Following Grounded Instructions (details, slides) |
Feb 28 |
Svitlana Volkova |
I can’t Believe it’s not Better: Detecting and Quantifying Misinformation and Disinformation (details, slides) |
Mar 7 |
Igor Labutov |
Teaching Machines like we Teach People (details, slides) |
Mar 14 |
Rachel Rudinger |
Natural Language Understanding for Events and Participants in Text (details) |
NLP Seminar Schedule — Fall 2018
Organizer: Dan Iter
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Oct 4 |
Bryan McCann |
Natural Language Decathlon: Multitask Learning as Question Answering (details, slides) |
Oct 11 |
Luheng He |
Semantic Role Labeling with Labeled Span Graph Networks (details, slides) |
Oct 18 |
Shashank Srivastava |
Learning Classifiers from Natural Language Explanations (details, slides) |
Oct 25 |
Kai-Wei Chang |
What It Takes to Control Societal Bias in Natural Language Processing (details, slides) |
Nov 1 |
Adams Wei Yu |
Efficient and Effective Models for Machine Reading Comprehension (details, slides) |
Nov 8 |
Aishwarya Agrawal |
Visual Question Answering and Beyond (details, slides) |
Nov 15 |
Nanyun Peng |
Building linguistically informed models for low-resource settings (details, slides) |
Nov 29 |
Sida Wang |
Building a language interface for data visualization (details) |
NLP Seminar Schedule — Winter, Spring & Summer 2018
Organizer: Siva Reddy
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Jan 11 |
Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
Sarcasm Detection: A Computational Cognitive Approach (details, slides) |
Feb 8 |
Pararth Shah |
Building a Conversational Agent Overnight with Dialogue Self-Play (details, slides) |
Mar 1 |
Gabor Angeli |
Conversations, with a reformed academic (details) |
Mar 8 |
Michael Auli |
Sequence to Sequence Learning: CNNs, Training and Uncertainty (details, slides) |
Mar 15 |
Jonathan Raiman |
Globally Normalized Reader (details, slides) |
Mar 22 |
Dhanya Sridhar |
Structured Probabilistic Models for Online Dialogue and Text (details, slides) |
Apr 12 |
Adji Bousso Dieng |
Deep Sequence Models: Context Representation, Regularization, and Application to Language (details, slides) |
May 10 |
Alan Ritter |
Large Scale Learning for Information Extraction (details, slides) |
May 24 |
Vered Shwartz |
Acquiring Lexical Semantic Knowledge (details, slides) |
Jun 28 |
Daniel Khashabi |
Reasoning-Driven Question Answering (details, slides) |
Jul 26 |
Will Grathwohl |
Backpropagation Through the Void: Optimizing control variates for black-box gradient estimation (details, slides) |
Aug 9 |
Yulia Tsvetkov |
Language Generation with Continuous Outputs (details, slides) |
Aug 16 |
Trieu H. Trinh |
A Simple Method for Commonsense Reasoning (details, slides) |
Aug 23 |
Ekaterina Shutova |
Grasping the finer point: Metaphor identification in text and brain imaging data (details, slides) |
NLP Seminar Schedule — Summer & Fall 2017
Organizer: Siva Reddy
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Jul 13 |
Jason Baldridge |
Practical and Ethical Considerations in Demographic and Psychographic Analysis (details, slides) |
Jul 20 |
Lukasz Kaiser |
Tensor2Tensor Transformers: New Deep Models for NLP (details, slides) |
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ACL 2017 break |
Aug 17 |
Mike Lewis |
Deal or No Deal? End-to-End Learning for Negotiation Dialogues (details, slides) |
Aug 24 |
Lea Frermann |
Of Space Piracy and Secret Baby Romances: Deep Multi-View Book Representations and a Scalable Evaluation Framework (details, slides) |
Aug 31 |
Jacob Andreas |
Structure and Interpretation of Neural Codes (details, slides) |
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EMNLP 2017 break |
Sep 14 |
Felix Hill |
Grounded language learning in a simulated 3D world (details) |
Sep 21 |
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Semester Break |
Sep 28 |
Zornitsa Kozareva |
Cancelled |
Oct 5 |
Karthik Narasimhan |
Language grounding for cross-domain policy transfer and spatial reasoning (details, slides) |
Oct 19 |
Jayant Krishnamurthy |
Neural Semantic Parsing with Type Constraints (details, slides) |
Oct 26 |
Zhou Yu |
Situated Intelligent Interactive Systems (details, slides) |
Nov 9 |
Eunsol Choi |
Scaling Up Reading Comprehension (details, slides) |
Nov 30 |
Nasrin Mostafazadeh |
Language Comprehension and Language Generation in Eventful Contexts (details, slides) |
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