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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 28 Mar '21

28 Mar '21

Tuesday: 2-2:30 pm: Sijia 2:30-3 pm: Shuaicheng 3:00-3:30 pm: Jiahui 3:30-4 pm: Xiaochu 4-4:30 pm: Adheesh 4:30-5 pm: Zaid Wednesday: 10-10:30 am: Kaiwen 1:30-2 pm: Mia, Hang 2-2:30 pm: Huimin Thursday: 1-1:30 pm: Shuaicheng 2-2:30 pm: Sijia 4-4:30 pm: Adheesh 4:30-5:30 pm: Group meeting, Mia please present your research project, especially talk about the two openIE papers that you are studying and show some remaining errors. We will skip the reading discussion meeting next week as no one signed up to lead it. Some promising EMNLP submissions I have seen so far: Shuaicheng: temporal relation extraction Sijia: query-based event extraction Adheesh: event coreference resolution Huimin: confirmed ARG mining --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 21 Mar '21

21 Mar '21

Tuesday: 2-2:30 pm: Sijia 2:30-3 pm: Shuaicheng 3:00-3:30 pm: Jiahui 3:30-4 pm: Xiaochu 4-4:30 pm: Adheesh (I have another meeting scheduled at 12-2pm, so I have to re-schedule our meeting to this time. Let me if it does not work for you) 5-6 pm: Reading discussion, Shuaicheng lead. Everyone pls read the papers before the meeting Wednesday: 10-10:30 am: Kaiwen (your time should also be 10-10:30 pm Wednesday. Let me know if it does not work for you) 1:30-2 pm: Mia, Hang 2-2:30 pm: Huimin Thursday: 1-1:30 pm: Shuaicheng 1:30-2 pm: Adheesh 2:30-3 pm: Sijia 4:30-5:30 pm: Group meeting, Adheesh please present your research progress: remaining errors of Pair Representation Learning approach and ideas of how to improve it. For EMNLP’21, I hope Shuaicheng can catch the arxiv deadline which is April 17. Sijia please try to catch the conference deadline May 17. Others who want to submit any conference or workshop papers to EMNLP, please feel free to talk with me. And if anyone wants to schedule other meetings with me, just let me know. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 14 Mar '21

14 Mar '21

Tuesday: 11:30-12 pm: Shuaicheng, Qiang 1:30-2 pm: Adheesh 2-2:30 pm: Sijia 2:30-3 pm: Shuaicheng 3:00-3:30 pm: Jiahui 3:30-4 pm: Xiaochu Thursday: 9:30-10 am: Kaiwen (your time should also be 9:30-10 pm Thursday) 1-1:30 pm: Shuaicheng 2-2:30 pm: Sijia 3:30-4 pm: Huimin 4-4:30 pm: Adheesh 4:30-5:30 pm: Group meeting, Shuaicheng and Sijia please present your research progress Friday: 10-10:30 am: Mia, Hang Huimin, Mia and Hang, as next Wednesday is a Spring Break day, I move our one-on-one meetings to Thursday and Friday. Let me know if the time slot doesn’t work for you. We also have two interesting talks next week. One is from Junjie Hu (a faculty candidate from CMU) on “Towards Robust Multilingual NLP” at 10-11am next Monday (https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/82213113710?pwd=QUhodnNxMmg0UllJN0wweWRPbmxQ…). The other is from IBM research, of which the details have been forwarded yesterday. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Fwd: [Bburg-fac] Guest Speaker: Dr. Daniel Gruhl from IBM Research, 03/16/2021 5:30-6:30pm EST
by lifuh＠cs.vt.edu 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

could be an interesting talk --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ismini Lourentzou via Bburg-fac <bburg-fac(a)cs.vt.edu> Date: Mar 12, 2021, 12:35 PM -0500 To: facstaff(a)cs.vt.edu Cc: dgruhl(a)almaden.ibm.com, Daniel Gruhl <daniel.gruhl(a)gmail.com>, Ismini Lourentzou <ilourentzou(a)vt.edu> Subject: [Bburg-fac] Guest Speaker: Dr. Daniel Gruhl from IBM Research, 03/16/2021 5:30-6:30pm EST > Dear colleagues, > > [Apologies for the multiple messages, corrected the email title] > We will have an external speaker, Dr. Daniel Gruhl from IBM Research, presenting during my research group meeting next week. Everyone is welcome to attend. Please share the details below with any of your students that might be interested in attending. Thank you to Dr. Gruhl for accepting the invitation, much appreciated! > > Human-in-the-loop AI, Tuesday, March 16th, 2021, 5:30-6:30 pm EST. Link: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/83164601447 > > Abstract: The majority of insight in any domain remains locked in text. From medical to financial to social, unlocking this value requires common sense (as well as domain expertise). Neither of these is fully materialized in AI systems today. Thus unlocking this value, human domain-expert feedback is required. Done poorly, this can bring little value, cost a lot, and annoy a lot of experts. Done well it can create systems that experts enjoy using, generate tremendous impact in hours rather than months, and accomplish orders of magnitude more than either an expert or a system could by themselves. This talk will cover our work at IBM Almaden over the last two decades on Human-in-the-Loop AI systems. > > Bio: Dr. Gruhl is a Research Staff Member at the Almaden Research Center. He received his B.S('94), M.Eng.('95), and Ph.D.('00) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He subsequently joined IBM at the Almaden Research Center where he has worked on large-scale text analytics systems. He has received Outstanding Technology Awards for both the WebFountain system and the UIMA standard for text analytics (included in MIT's Innovators Under 35 list in 2004). He is an author or co-author of at least a dozen patents and two dozen papers. Dr. Gruhl is a member of the IEEE and ACM. > > Full Zoom invitation: > Join Zoom Meeting https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/83164601447 > Meeting ID: 831 6460 1447 > One tap mobile > +13126266799,,83164601447# US (Chicago) > +19294362866,,83164601447# US (New York) > Dial by your location > +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) > +1 929 436 2866 US (New York) > +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) > +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) > +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) > +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) > Meeting ID: 831 6460 1447 > Find your local number: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/u/kc7wKSYnM7 > Join by SIP 83164601447(a)zoomcrc.com > > Join by H.323 > 162.255.37.11 (US West) > 162.255.36.11 (US East) > 115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai) > 115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad) > 213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) > 213.244.140.110 (Germany) > 103.122.166.55 (Australia Sydney) > 103.122.167.55 (Australia Melbourne) > 149.137.40.110 (Singapore) > 64.211.144.160 (Brazil) > 69.174.57.160 (Canada Toronto) > 65.39.152.160 (Canada Vancouver) > 207.226.132.110 (Japan Tokyo) > 149.137.24.110 (Japan Osaka) > Meeting ID: 831 6460 1447 > > Join by Skype for Business https://virginiatech.zoom.us/skype/83164601447 > > -- > Best Regards, > Ismini Lourentzou > Assistant Professor > Virginia Tech | Computer Science > Email: ilourentzou(a)vt.edu > https://isminoula.github.io/ > _______________________________________________ > Bburg-fac mailing list > Bburg-fac(a)cs.vt.edu

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Fwd: Internship openings at Deloitte
by Lifu Huang 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

Anyone who is interested please feel free to drop your CV to the email address. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mar 10, 2021, 2:18 PM -0500 To: Zhang, Tongtao <tongtao.zhang(a)siemens.com> > > Deloitte

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 07 Mar '21

07 Mar '21

Monday: 10-10:30 am: Kaiwen Tuesday: 1:30-2 pm: Adheesh 2-2:30 pm: Sijia 2:30-3 pm: Shuaicheng 3:00-3:30 pm: Jiahui 3:30-4 pm: Xiaochu 5-6 pm: Reading discussion, Sijia lead Wednesday: 1:30-2 pm: Mia, Hang 2-2:30 pm: Huimin Thursday: 10-10:30 am: Kaiwen 1-1:30 pm: Shuaicheng 1:30-2 pm: Adheesh 2-2:30 pm: Sijia 4:30-5:00 pm: Group meeting, Huimin please prepare several slides to introduce your project --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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