NLP Seminar Schedule — Spring 2019
Thursday 11:00 am -- 12:00 pm; Venue: Room 104 Gates Computer Science Building
Anyone (even non-Stanford affliates) can attend these talks (Car Parking Map). You can subscribe to the announcements here. If you are visiting Bay Area and are interested in giving a talk, please fill in this form. Please feel free to suggest speakers as well.
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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