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

server updates
by Lifu Huang 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

A quick note: I will install many updates on the server and it will probably restart many services. The server won’t be reboot. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 25 Sep '21

25 Sep '21

Monday: 2:30-3pm: Sai 5-6pm: reading discussion, Minqian lead 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. Xiaochu please prepare some slides to talk about your project Friday: 9:30-10:30am: Sijia, Minqian and Zhiyang also join Starting from next week, we will enter into the ACL month (deadline Nov. 15th). Everyone should try your best to catch this deadline. I’m expecting the following paper submissions: Sijia: event extraction with prompt learning Zhiyang: Joint AMR and event extraction Minqian: Continuous event extraction Jeet: Joint table and text pre-training language model Aditya (Menglong): multimodal misinformation detection Xiaochu: joint biomedical entity disambiguation and event extraction Zaid: challenge machine commonsense with human daily activities Sid: ARG mining Jiahui: comparative study and analysis for event attribute prediction Please try to work in the lab as more as possible, especially it should be a habit for PhD students to work in the lab everyday. Another rule in our lab: we will take co-authorship very seriously. You are not allowed to request co-authorship or add co-authors privately without my permission. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 19 Sep '21

19 Sep '21

Monday: 2:30-3pm: Sai 5-6pm: reading discussion, Zhiyang lead 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 also join 4:00-5pm: Aditya, Hang 5-6pm: Xiaochu, Zhiyang and Minqian also join Wednesday: 10-11am: Zaid 2:30-3pm: Jeet 4:30-5:30pm: Group meeting. Jeet please present your current project 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 12 Sep '21

12 Sep '21

Monday: 2:30-3pm: Sai 5-6pm: reading discussion, Sijia lead 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 can also join 4:00-5pm: Aditya, Hang, Minqian 5-6pm: Xiaochu, Zhiyang and Minqian can also join Wednesday: 10-11am: Zaid 2:30-3pm: Jeet 4:30-5:30pm: Group meeting. Sijia please present your AAAI submission and ongoing work Friday: 9:30-10:30am: Sijia, Minqian and Zhiyang will also join --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Reading Discussion on Next Monday Sept 13
by Sijia Wang 10 Sep '21

10 Sep '21

Hi all, Next week's 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 next Monday. In case you are not familiar with Prompting-based method, 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>. Hope to see you all next Monday! Zoom meeting link: (5:00-6:00pm on Monday, Sept 13) https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863 <https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863> Best regards, Sijia Wang Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 Phone: +1 (314) 665 8146

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 05 Sep '21

05 Sep '21

Tuesday: 11-11:30pm: Jiahui (Zoom: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863) 1:30-2pm: Zhiyang 2-2:30pm: Minqian 2:30-3pm: Sai, 3:30-4pm: Sijia, 4:00-5pm: Aditya, Hang will also join 5-6pm: Xiaochu, Zhiyang and Minqian will also join Wednesday: 10-11am: Zaid 2:30-3pm: Jeet 4:30-5:30pm: Group meeting. Minqian please prepare several slides to talk about your previous work Friday: 9:30-10:30am: Sijia, Minqian and Zhiyang will also join --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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access to Torgersen 3160
by Lifu Huang 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

For those who have not got the access to Torgersen 3160, please send me the last 4 digits of your student ID so that I can ask our staff to grant the access to you. Best wishes, --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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