October 2021 - nlplab - mailman.cs.vt.edu

next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 31 Oct '21

31 Oct '21

Monday: 3-3:30pm: Zoe Tuesday: 1:30-2pm: Zhiyang 2-2:30pm: Minqian 3:30-4pm: Sijia, Zhiyang and Minqian join. 4:00-5pm: Aditya 5-6pm: Xiaochu, Zhiyang and Minqian join Wednesday: 10-11am: Zaid 2:30-3pm: Jeet 4:30-5:30pm: Group meeting. Zhiyang and Minqian please prepare slides to talk about your progress Thursday: 12:30-1pm: Sai 4:30-5:30pm: Deval and Apoorv, Zhiyang join Friday: 9:30-10:30am: Sijia, Minqian and Zhiyang also join --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 24 Oct '21

24 Oct '21

We will cancel the following reading discussions so that everyone can better focus on your ACL/NAACL submissions. Starting from next week, I need to see significant progress from everyone. Monday: 2:30-3pm: Sai 3-3:30pm: Zoe Tuesday: 1:30-2pm: Zhiyang 2-2:30pm: Minqian 3:30-4pm: Sijia, Zhiyang and Minqian join. 4:00-5pm: Aditya 5-6pm: Xiaochu, Zhiyang and Minqian join Wednesday: 10-11am: Zaid 2:30-3pm: Jeet 4:30-5:30pm: Group meeting. Aditya please prepare slides to talk about the multimodal misinformation detection approach Thursday: 2-3pm: Deval and Apoorv, Zhiyang join Friday: 9:30-10:30am: Sijia, Minqian and Zhiyang also join --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 17 Oct '21

17 Oct '21

Monday: 3-3:30pm: Sai 4:45-5:30pm: reading discussion, Jeet lead Tuesday: 1:30-2pm: Zhiyang 2-2:30pm: Minqian 3-4pm: Sijia, Zhiyang and Minqian join. Sijia pls send slides and errors to Mo before the meeting 4:00-5pm: Aditya 5-6pm: Xiaochu, Zhiyang and Minqian join Wednesday: 10-11am: Zaid 2:30-3pm: Jeet 4:30-5:30pm: Group meeting. Minqian please prepare several slides to talk about your recent progress and the Alexa challenge Thursday: 2-3pm: Deval and Apoorv, Zhiyang join Friday: 9:30-10:30am: Sijia, Minqian and Zhiyang also join --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Reading Discussion
by Indrajeet Kumar Mishra 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

Hello Everyone, I will be presenting below two papers in our reading discussions this week, please give a quick read if your schedule allows. *1. Entity Structure Within and Throughout: Modeling Mention Dependencies for Document Level Relation Extraction* *https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.10249.pdf <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.10249.pdf>* *2. DocRED: A Large-Scale Document-Level Relation Extraction Datasethttps://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.06127.pdf <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.06127.pdf>* Thank you, Jeet

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 10 Oct '21

10 Oct '21

We will have to cancel the reading discussion next week again. Jeet, please get ready to lead the reading session the week after next one. Monday: 2:30-3pm: Sai Tuesday: 11-11:30pm: Jiahui (Zoom: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863) 1:30-2pm: Zhiyang 2-2:30pm: Minqian 3:30-4pm: Sijia, Zhiyang and Minqian join 4:00-5pm: Aditya 5-6pm: Xiaochu, Zhiyang and Minqian join Wednesday: 2:30-3pm: Jeet 4:30-5:30pm: Group meeting. Sijia and Zhiyang please prepare several slides to talk about your recent progress Thursday: 2-3pm: Deval and Apoorv, Zhiyang also join Friday: 9:30-10:30am: Sijia, Minqian and Zhiyang also join --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Fwd: [nlp-seminars] UIUC-NLP Seminar by Dr. Pengfei Liu (CMU), October 15, 2pm-3:15pm CT
by Lifu Huang 05 Oct '21

05 Oct '21

A very interesting seminar about prompt learning next Friday over the zoom. Please try to attend if you don’t have classes. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ji, Heng <hengji(a)illinois.edu> Date: Oct 5, 2021, 12:58 AM -0400 To: klivescu(a)ttic.edu <klivescu(a)ttic.edu>, Kevin Gimpel <kgimpel(a)ttic.edu>, dchiang(a)nd.edu <dchiang(a)nd.edu>, mjiang2(a)nd.edu <mjiang2(a)nd.edu>, nlp-seminars(a)lists.illinois.edu <nlp-seminars(a)lists.illinois.edu>, blender(a)lists.cs.illinois.edu <blender(a)lists.cs.illinois.edu>, Chenhao Tan <chenhao(a)uchicago.edu>, Dian Yu <yudiandoris(a)gmail.com>, Sun, Huan <sun.397(a)osu.edu>, Sahin, Cem <cem.sahin(a)stresearch.com>, daisfaculty(a)lists.cs.illinois.edu <daisfaculty(a)lists.cs.illinois.edu>, kairos(a)lists.cs.illinois.edu <kairos(a)lists.cs.illinois.edu>, CS546 <cs546(a)googlegroups.com> Cc: Steidinger, Candice Dawn <steidin2(a)illinois.edu>, Pengfei Liu <pliu3(a)andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: [nlp-seminars] UIUC-NLP Seminar by Dr. Pengfei Liu (CMU), October 15, 2pm-3:15pm CT > Hi all, > > At this point you probably have heard about the hot topic on 'prompt learning'. And the best survey about this topic is written by Dr. Pengfei Liu from CMU: > https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13586 > Pengfei has kindly agreed to present this awesome survey upon my short notice. > > Please note the unusual time 2pm-3:15pm CT because I want the students in my class to join this talk too. > > If you want to meet Pengfei individually please Candice know. > > ps. if you haven't read the survey yet, highly recommend! > > Thanks, > Heng > > > > ================================================================== > Dial-in: > https://illinois.zoom.us/j/8167899060 > password: kairos > > Title: The Fourth Paradigm of Modern Natural Language Processing Techniques > > Speaker: Pengfei Liu (CMU) > > Date and Time: Friday, October 15 at 2pm-3:15pm CST > > Abstract: > > In this talk, I will summarize and analyze four paradigms in the development of statistical natural language processing techniques and argue that prompt-based learning is a promising new paradigm that may represent another major change in the way we look at NLP. Then I will try to organize the current state of knowledge in this rapidly developing field by providing an overview and formal definition of prompting methods. Looking all the way back to the summary of the four paradigms of NLP research, I hope to highlight the commonalities and differences between them, making research on any of these paradigms more full-fledged, and potentially providing a catalyst to inspire work towards the next paradigm shift as well. > > > Bio: > > Pengfei Liu obtained his Ph.D. from Fudan University in 2019 and is currently a postdoc at CMU. His research topics focus on information extraction, text generation, interpretable evaluation, and diagnostics for NLP systems. He has published more than 40 academic papers in NLP flagship conferences and serves as an area chair of ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, etc. He wins the best demo paper award in ACL 2021 and CAAI outstanding doctoral dissertation, Baidu scholarship, Microsoft Scholar award, etc. Some of the recent projects (e.g., ReviewAdvisor, ExplainaBoard) he has led have received attention from academia and industry.

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 03 Oct '21

03 Oct '21

We will cancel the reading discussion next week. Monday: 2:30-3pm: Sai Tuesday: 11-11:30pm: Jiahui (Zoom: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863) 1:30-2pm: Zhiyang 2-2:30pm: Minqian 3:30-4pm: Sijia, Zhiyang and Minqian join 4:00-5pm: Aditya 5-6pm: Xiaochu, Zhiyang and Minqian join Wednesday: 2:30-3pm: Jeet 4:30-5:30pm: Group meeting. Aditya please prepare some slides to talk about your previous research and current project Friday: 9:30-10:30am: Sijia, Minqian and Zhiyang also join Best wishes, --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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