September 2021 - nlp_reading_group

Reading discussion on next Monday Sept 27
by Minqian Liu 24 Sep '21

24 Sep '21

Hi all, Next week we will discuss the following two papers: 1) Incremental Event Detection via Knowledge Consolidation Networks (EMNLP 2020). <https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.52.pdf> 2) Muppet: Massive Multi-task Representations with Pre-Finetuning (EMNLP 2021). <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.11038.pdf> Please read the papers before the discussion. The discussion will be 5-6 pm next Monday in Torgersen 3160A. You can also join via Zoom https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863. Best, Minqian Liu

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Reading Discussion on Monday Sept 20
by Zhiyang Xu 17 Sep '21

17 Sep '21

Dear all, The followings are the two papers we will discuss next Monday: 1. A Joint Neural Model for Information Extraction with Global Features <https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.713.pdf> (ACL 2020) 2. Making Pre-trained Language Models Better Few-shot Learners <https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.295.pdf> (ACL 2021) Please read the two papers before the discussion. The first paper is about information extraction and the second paper is about prompt learning. The meeting will be in Torgersen 3160A. You may also join via Zoom https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863. Best, Zhiyang Xu

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Reading Discussion on Monday Sept 13
by Sijia Wang 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

Hi all, I’m so sorry that I sent the information to the wrong mailing list. Here are the information for today’s reading discussion. The discussion will be on the following papers 1. The Power of Scale for Parameter-Efficient Prompt Tuning (EMNLP2021) <https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08691> 2. How Can We Know What Language Models Know? (TACL2020) <https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.28.pdf> Please read the papers before the discussion. The discussion will be 5-6pm today. In case you are not familiar with Prompting-based methods, here is a comprehensive survey paper: Pre-train, Prompt, and Predict: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Methods in Natural Language Processing <https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13586>. We will hold the discussion meeting in Torgersen 3160A. You may also join via Zoom https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863 <https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863>. Hope to see you all! Best regards, Sijia Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 Phone: +1 (314) 665 8146

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starting the first reading discussion from Sep. 13
by Lifu Huang 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

Hi All, Thanks everyone for the interest in joining the reading discussion. The reading discussion meeting will be 5-6pm every Monday. Because next Monday is a holiday, we will start our first meeting from Sep. 13. Please check the schedule here (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hlS7dH3JR8sk15v_qvkeFY6f_kabnsqZ-5w…) to see who will lead the following reading discussions. For those who want to volunteer to lead a discussion, please feel free to sign your name in the spreadsheet. Each leader needs to send out a notification including the papers that would be discussed at least 3 days before the meeting, and can feel free to discuss any papers you want to share. Others need to read the papers before the meeting so that we can have a fruitful discussion. You can join the meeting in person in Torgersen 3160A or via Zoom: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863 Sijia will lead the first reading discussion about the recent prompt tuning approaches on Sep. 13. Best wishes, --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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