NLP Seminar Schedule — Winter 2019
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| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 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) |
| Jan 24 | Anna Goldie | TBD |
| Jan 31 | Chenguang Zhu | SDNet: Contextualized Attention-based Deep Network for Conversational Question Answering (details) |
| Feb 7 | Yu Su | TBD |
| Feb 14 | Michael Yeomans | TBD |
| Feb 21 | Daniel Fried | TBD |
| Mar 14 | Rachel Rudinger | TBD |
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 |
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| 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) |
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) |
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) |
| 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) |
| EMNLP 2017 break | ||
| Sep 14 | Felix Hill | Grounded language learning in a simulated 3D world (details) |
| Sep 21 | Semester Break | |
| Sep 28 | 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) |