February 2021 - nlp_reading_group

Papers for Tuesday, March 02
by Adheesh Juvekar 27 Feb '21

27 Feb '21

Hi folks, Here are the papers for the next week's reading group discussion: 1. Augmented SBERT: Data Augmentation Method for Improving Bi-Encoders for Pairwise Sentence Scoring Tasks <https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08240> 2. Improving Abstractive Document Summarization with Salient Information Modeling <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1205.pdf> Hope to see you all on Tuesday! Zoom meeting link: (5:00-6:00pm on Tuesday, Mar 2) https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863 Best Regards, Adheesh Juvekar Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 Phone: +1 (540) 998 8125

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Papers for Reading Group Discussion on Feb. 23 (Tue)
by Shuaicheng Zhang 20 Feb '21

20 Feb '21

Hi all, Next week's discussion will be on the following papers 1. Dynamically Updating Event Representations for Temporal Relation Classification with Multi-category Learning <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.findings-emnlp.121.pdf> 2. DEER: A Data Efficient Language Model for Event Temporal Reasoning <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.15283.pdf> See you all on Tuesday to discuss these two paper. Zoom meeting link: (5:00-6:00pm on Tuesday Feb. 23) https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863 Regards, Shuaicheng Zhang (540) 808- <%28757%29%20793-9548>*3614* zshuai8(a)vt.edu <nikkelma(a)vt.edu>

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Papers for Reading Group Discussion on Feb. 16 (Tue)
by Sijia Wang 13 Feb '21

13 Feb '21

Hi all, Next week's discussion will be on the following papers 1. Modeling Biological Processes for Reading Comprehension (Berant et al., ACL 2014) <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D14-1159v1.pdf> 2. Joint Inference for Event Timeline Construction (Do et al., EMNLP 2012) <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D12-1062.pdf> Hope to see you all on Tuesday! Zoom meeting link: (5:00-6:00pm on Tuesday Feb. 16) https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863 <https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863> Best regards, Sijia Wang

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2/11/2021 Slides on temporal relation extraction
by Shuaicheng Zhang 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

Hi, Attached today's presentation slides. Also the link for original transformer model <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf> and graph transformer <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.tacl-1.2.pdf>. Regards, Shuaicheng Zhang (540) 808- <%28757%29%20793-9548>*3614* zshuai8(a)vt.edu <nikkelma(a)vt.edu>

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Papers for Tuesday, February 09
by Adheesh Juvekar 06 Feb '21

06 Feb '21

Hi all, Here are the papers that I will discuss: Transfer Learning and Distant Supervision for Multilingual Transformer Models: A Study on African Languages <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.03179.pdf> Coreference Resolution without Span Representations <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.00434.pdf> Hope to see you all on Tuesday to have a good discussion on the papers! Thanks! Best Regards, Adheesh Juvekar Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 Phone: +1 (540) 998 8125

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