November 2023 - nlplab - mailman.cs.vt.edu

next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 26 Nov '23

26 Nov '23

Monday: 9-9:30am: Zhiyang, Ying 9:30-10am: Ying, Zhiyang 10-10:30am: Zihao 10:30-11am: Tong 4-4:30pm: Sijia Tuesday: 9-9:30am: Minqian 9:30-10:00am: Jingyuan 10-10:30am: Barry 10:30-11am: Zoe 11-11:30am: Mian 1:30-2:15pm: Mohammad, Jingyuan, Zhiyang, Minqian, Ying 3-3:30pm: Trevor, Jingyuan 4-5pm: Zhiyang, Ying, Jingyuan, meet with Intuit (pls prepare slides for the progress on interleaved text-image generation) Thursday: 1-1:30pm: Barry, Jingyuan, meet with STR Friday: 4-5pm: reading discussion, Mohammad lead --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 19 Nov '23

19 Nov '23

Monday: 9-9:30am: Zhiyang, Chao, Ying 9:30-10am: Ying, Zhiyang 10-10:30am: Zihao 10:30-11am: Tong 4-4:30pm: Sijia Tuesday: 9-9:30am: Minqian 9:30-10:00am: Jingyuan 10-10:30am: Barry 10:30-11am: Zoe 11-11:30am: Mian 1:30-2:15pm: Mohammad, Jingyuan, Zhiyang, Minqian, Ying 3-4pm: Trevor, Jingyuan, Minqian, with Amazon --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 12 Nov '23

12 Nov '23

Monday: 9-9:45am: Zhiyang, Chao, Ying 9:45-10:15am: Ying, Zhiyang 10:15-10:45am: Zihao 10:45-11:15am: Tong 1-2pm: Barry, Jingyuan, Zhiyang, presentation to STR 4-4:30pm: Sijia Tuesday: 8:45-9:30am: Minqian 9:30-10:00am: Jingyuan 10-10:30am: Barry 10:30-11am: Zoe 11-11:30am: Mian 1:30-2:15pm: Mohammad, Jingyuan, Zhiyang, Minqian, Ying 3-3:45pm: Trevor, Jingyuan 4-5pm: Zhiyang, Jingyuan, Ying, meet with Intuit (Zhiyang, pls prepare a few slides for interleaved text image generation, e.g., existing relevant studies, their limitations, challenges, our rough ideas, datasets we can use, etc.) 5-5:30pm: Indrajeet Thursday: 1-1:30pm: Barry, Zhiyang, Jingyuan, meet with STR Friday: 4-5pm: reading discussion, Mian lead --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Fwd: South NLP Symposium 2024 - First Call for Papers
by Lifu Huang 09 Nov '23

09 Nov '23

We are initiating this South NLP Symposium to foster more communication and collaboration among the NLP researchers from the South US. I hope many of you can submit a paper (just a two-page abstract) to this symposium so we can attend it in person all together. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Choi, Jinho <jinho.choi(a)emory.edu> Date: Nov 9, 2023 at 12:59 PM -0500 To: southnlp(a)googlegroups.com <southnlp(a)googlegroups.com> Subject: South NLP Symposium 2024 - First Call for Papers > Website: https://southnlp.github.io/southnlp2024Contact: southnlp2024(a)gmail.com > The first South NLP Symposium (SouthNLP 2024), hosted at Emory University on March 29, 2024, marks a significant milestone for the South USA region in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). This one-day event is dedicated to bringing together NLP researchers from the Southern United States to create an interactive and collaborative environment, facilitating the exchange of insights and the exploration of their latest discoveries. > > Our primary goal is to foster an event where attendees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives can engage in fruitful discussions and knowledge sharing. SouthNLP 2024 features keynote speeches from esteemed experts, provides a platform for the submission of original research, offers opportunities for oral and poster presentations, and hosts open dialogue sessions. > > We extend a warm and inclusive invitation to all members of the academic community, including undergraduate & graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty members, from colleges and universities within the Southern region to be a part of this enriching experience. > > Join us in making SouthNLP 2024 a collaborative hub for advancing the field of Natural Language Processing in the South USA. > > Important Dates • Paper Deadline: January 31, 2024 > • Registration Open: February 1, 2024 > • Acceptance Notification: February 16, 2024 > • Registration Close: February 29, 2024 > • Symposium: March 29, 2024 > Submission > SouthNLP'24 warmly welcomes contributions from a wide range of domains that harness computational methods to explore various aspects of human language. This inclusive invitation extends to researchers spanning diverse disciplines, including Computer Science, Linguistics, Information Science, and any other relevant fields, from both academic and industry organizations. > > We invite authors to submit two-page extended abstracts in the ACL format. The templates, along with formatting information, can be found here: https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting. > Please refrain from altering these style files, and avoid using templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not adhere to the specified style requirements will be rejected without review. To ensure compliance with the standards and avoid desk rejections, we recommend using the ACL Pubcheck Tool to validate your submission prior to submission. > > All papers must be submitted via the OpenReview system: https://openreview.net/group?id=SouthNLP/2024/Symposium. > The review process is single-blind, meaning that reviewers remain anonymous, but authors are not. Every accepted paper will have the opportunity to give either an oral or a poster presentation. > Categories and Topics > Submissions encompass the following categories: > • Position papers > • Scientific / technical papers > • Tools and system demonstrations > • Summaries of submitted (non-published) work > > Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following: > • Computational Models of Human Language Processing > • Computational Phonology and Morphology > • Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics > • Dialog and Discourse > • Dialogue and Interactive Systems > • Discourse and Pragmatics > • Efficient Methods for NLP > • Ethics and NLP > • Fairness and Bias in Speech and Language > • Generation > • Information Extraction > • Information Retrieval and Web Search > • Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP > • Question Answering and Reading Comprehension > • Knowledge Base Population and Machine Reading > • Language Acquisition > • Language Disorders > • Language Generation and Summarization > • Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond > • Language Resources and Annotation > • Lexical Semantics and Ontologies > • Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics > • Low-resource Language Processing > • Machine Learning for NLP and Speech > • Machine Translation > • Multilingual/Cross-Lingual Processing > • Multimodal and Interactive Language or Speech Learning > • NLP Applications > • NLP for the Web and Social Media > • Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Word Segmentation and Prosody > • Paralinguistics in Speech and Language > • Question Answering > • Resources and Evaluation > • Semantics > • Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining > • Speaker Variability > • Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition > • Speech Recognition and Synthesis > • Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing > • Text and Document Classification > • Text Mining and Information Extraction > Authorship > The list of authors for submissions must comprise individuals who have made significant contributions to the work presented. The author list, including the order, cannot be altered after submission. > Ethics Statement > All papers must comply with the ACL Code of Ethics. We strongly encourage all authors to include an explicit ethics statement regarding the broader impact of their work or any other ethical considerations. This statement should be positioned after the conclusion but before the references. The ethics statement will not be counted toward the 2-page limit for submissions. > Citation > Please review the ACL Policies for Citation. Note that references will not be included in the 2-page submission limit. > Supplementary Materials > You have the option to include unlimited pages of appendices at the end of your submission, following the references. Appendices should be used to provide additional support for the findings and points presented in the main content but should not be necessary to grasp the core contributions of your work. > For software (source codes) or data, as our submission process is single-blind, we encourage you to host them in public repositories, such as GitHub, and provide links for reference. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South NLP" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to southnlp+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/southnlp/BN7PR05MB5809661DC5D8A677C396651….

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internships of summer 2024
by Lifu Huang 08 Nov '23

08 Nov '23

If you are looking for a summer internship for summer 2024 (which is highly encouraged), please send me your updated CVs with all the published/on-going paper submissions and projects. I will try to reach out to my industry friends this week for recommendation. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Fwd: [Bburg-fac] Fw: Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) 2024 announcement
by Lifu Huang 08 Nov '23

08 Nov '23

Let me know if you are interested in applying for this fellowship. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ribbens, Calvin via Bburg-fac <bburg-fac(a)cs.vt.edu> Date: Nov 8, 2023 at 9:31 AM -0500 To: CS Faculty <faculty(a)cs.vt.edu>, gradstudents(a)cs.vt.eu <gradstudents(a)cs.vt.eu> Subject: [Bburg-fac] Fw: Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) 2024 announcement > Forwarding as requested. > From: Dev Putchala <putchala(a)qti.qualcomm.com> > Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 11:01 PM > To: Dean Julia Ross <deaneng(a)vt.edu>; ecedepthead(a)vt.edu <ecedepthead(a)vt.edu>; Ribbens, Calvin <ribbens(a)vt.edu> > Cc: innovation.fellowship <innovation.fellowship(a)qti.qualcomm.com> > Subject: Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) 2024 announcement > > Dear Profs. Julia M. Ross, Luke F. Lester, Calvin J. Ribbens, > > It is our pleasure to announce the launch of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF), now in its sixteenth year. We will be awarding fellowships of $100,000 to teams of two students. For the 2024 North America edition, we invite proposals from 26 schools: USA – ASU, Berkeley, Caltech, CMU, Columbia, Cornell, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Michigan, MIT, NCSU, Princeton, Purdue, Rutgers, Stanford, UCLA, UCSB, UCSD, UIUC, USC, UT Austin, Virginia Tech, Washington and Wisconsin, and Canada – Montreal and Toronto. > > We ask and appreciate your help in forwarding this information to Ph.D. students and faculty in EE, CE, CS, and related areas. The attached flyer provides key details about the fellowship. > > As in the previous years, one of the members of Qualcomm Research will be reaching out to faculty members who have recommended student proposals in the past years. We plan to host virtual information sessions for the Ph.D. students in the next couple of weeks. > > Since 2020, there have been 5 finalists and 1 winner from Virginia Tech. > > The fellowship is open to Ph.D. students in the Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and related departments, who apply for the fellowship by submitting their application. The Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship is based on Qualcomm core values of innovation, execution, and teamwork. The fellowship is only open to teams of two Ph.D. students. The proposal must be recommended by one or more faculty members. > > The application deadline is November 30, 2023, 10 a.m. PST. > > For detailed information about the program, please visit: http://www.qualcomm.com/research/university-relations/innovation-fellowship… > Any questions can be e-mailed to innovation.fellowship(a)qti.qualcomm.com > > Thanks, > Dev Putchala > QIF 2024 Chair > > > _______________________________________________ > Bburg-fac mailing list > Bburg-fac(a)cs.vt.edu

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 05 Nov '23

05 Nov '23

Monday: 9-9:45am: Zhiyang, Chao, Ying 9:45-10:15am: Ying, Zhiyang 10:15-10:45am: Zihao 10:45-11:15am: Tong Tuesday: 8:45-9:30am: Minqian 9:30-10:00am: Jingyuan 10-10:30am: Barry 10:30-11am: Zoe 11-11:30am: Mian 1:30-2:15pm: Mohammad, Jingyuan, Zhiyang, Minqian, Ying 2:15-2:45pm: Trevor, Jingyuan Thursday: 1-1:30pm: Barry, Zhiyang, Jingyuan, meet with STR Let me know if it does not work for you. I will meet with you all in person in my office: D&D 372. We are also going to resume the reading discussion meeting starting from the week of Nov. 13. PhD students pls sign up for leading a discussion here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k3XNIYXMA31oNvqD_f-pKPtovmSXRB9-auM…. The exact date and meeting room will be announced soon. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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