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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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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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