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Fwd: FW: 2021 Internships in NLP@Goldman Sachs (from a VT alum)
by Lifu Huang 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

--------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: EdFox <fox(a)vt.edu> Date: Jan 22, 2021, 10:32 AM -0500 To: dlrl-g(a)vt.edu <dlrl-g(a)vt.edu> Subject: FW: 2021 Internships in NLP@Goldman Sachs (from a VT alum) > FYI > > From: Eliot Philip Brenner <epb254(a)nyu.edu> > Date: Friday, January 22, 2021 at 9:17 AM > To: Edward Fox <fox(a)vt.edu> > Cc: Eliot Brenner <eliotpbrenner(a)gmail.com> > Subject: 2021 Internships in NLP@Goldman Sachs (from a VT alum) > > Dear Prof. Fox, > > Happy New Year! > > As part of the Goldman Sachs AI (NLP) research group, I am looking for PhD students for an internship in our New York office. The group is doing research in the areas of natural language understanding and knowledge bases, with a specific focus on problems arising in the financial domain: > > * Representing long and highly structured documents (both visually and semantically) > * Knowledge extraction from legal texts with many intra- and inter-document references > * Knowledge extraction from deeply nested sentences, going beyond SPO triples > * Linking entities to domain-specific KBs, containing both named entities and concepts > * Knowledge-based personalized recommendation of financial events > > We are looking for PhD students who are interested in spending 3-4 months with the team, preferably during the April to September period this year, working towards a publication in one of the above areas. > > Interested students should get in touch with me directly. > > Please forward to others who might be interested! > > Thanks > Eliot, Virginia Tech BS Mathematics, 1999

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Fwd: [Bburg-fac] Virtual Student Showcase
by Lifu Huang 20 Jan '21

20 Jan '21

Let me know if you are interested --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hayley Roulston via Bburg-fac <bburg-fac(a)cs.vt.edu> Date: Jan 20, 2021, 5:09 PM -0500 To: faculty(a)cs.vt.edu Subject: [Bburg-fac] Virtual Student Showcase > Hello faculty, > > In celebrating 50 years of computer science, the department will be hosting a Virtual Student Showcase starting April 15. We’re looking for student submissions of the projects they’re working on in either department student groups, with APEX, or as a student researcher! Both undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to participate. > > I’m encouraging you to either forward the below submission form to students that come to mind for this opportunity, or to let me know which students I should reach out to personally. > > Submissions should include a video overview of the students’ work (no longer than 5 minutes). You can submit your work here by March 30, 2021. By submitting your work, you’re allowing the department to utilize your content publicly. > > Please reach out to me with any questions. > > Thank you so much, > > Hayley Roulston > Alumni Relations Coordinator > Virginia Tech | College of Engineering | Department of Computer Science > 2202 Kraft Drive, Room 1137 | Blacksburg, VA 24060 > Phone: 540.419.5242 > > -- > Hayley Roulston > Alumni Relations Coordinator > Virginia Tech | College of Engineering | Department of Computer Science > Phone: 540.419.5242 > _______________________________________________ > Bburg-fac mailing list > Bburg-fac(a)cs.vt.edu

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ACL abstradt deadline
by Lifu Huang 18 Jan '21

18 Jan '21

If you are still catching the ACL deadline, you should pay attention to the new policy of abstract deadline (Jan. 25th): NEW: The submission site is now available at www.softconf.com/acl2021/papers/. Please be aware of the abstract submission deadline on January 25, 2021, which is a week ahead of the full paper submission deadline on February 1, 2021. Here are the abstract submission form and the full paper submission form for your reference. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 17 Jan '21

17 Jan '21

Let’s tentatively schedule next week meetings as follows. If any of the meetings is conflict with your class, just let me know. Monday: 2-2:30pm: Sijia 2:30-3pm: Shuaicheng 9:30-10:00pm: Kaiwen (your time should be 10:30-11:00am Tuesday morning) Wednesday: 2-2:30pm: Sijia 2:30-3pm: Shuaicheng Thursday: 9:30-10:00pm: Kaiwen (your time should be 10:30-11am Friday morning) Friday: 2-2:30pm: Sijia 2:30-3pm: Shuaicheng --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 10 Jan '21

10 Jan '21

Monday: 1:30-2pm: Sijia 2-2:30pm: Adheesh 2:30-3pm: Shuaicheng 9:30-10:00pm: Kaiwen (your time should be 10:30-11:00am Tuesday morning) Tuesday: 1:30-1:45pm: Sijia 1:45-2pm: Adheesh 2-2:15pm: Shuaicheng Wednesday: 1:30-2pm: Sijia 2-2:30pm: Adheesh 2:30-3pm: Shuaicheng Thursday: 1:30-1:45pm: Sijia 1:45-2pm: Adheesh 2-2:15pm: Shuaicheng 9:30-10:00pm: Kaiwen (your time should be 10:30-11am Friday morning) Friday: 1:30-2pm: Sijia 2-2:30pm: Adheesh 2:30-3pm: Shuaicheng --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 03 Jan '21

03 Jan '21

Monday: 1:30-2pm: Sijia 2-2:30pm: Adheesh 2:30-3pm: Shuaicheng 9:30-10:00pm: Kaiwen (your time should be 10:30-11:00am Tuesday morning) Tuesday: 1:30-1:45pm: Sijia 1:45-2pm: Adheesh 2-2:15pm: Shuaicheng Wednesday: 1:30-2pm: Sijia 2-2:30pm: Adheesh 2:30-3pm: Shuaicheng Thursday: 1:30-1:45pm: Sijia 1:45-2pm: Adheesh 2-2:15pm: Shuaicheng 9:30-10:00pm: Kaiwen (your time should be 10:30-11am Friday morning) Friday: 1:30-2pm: Sijia 2-2:30pm: Adheesh 2:30-3pm: Shuaicheng We have four weeks away from the ACL deadline. Everyone should finish the experiments within the next three weeks and work on paper writing with the last week. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 28 Dec '20

28 Dec '20

Tuesday: 2:30-3pm: Sijia 3-3:30pm: Adheesh 3:30-4pm: Shuaicheng 9:30-10:00pm: Kaiwen (your time should be 10:30-11:00am Wednesday morning) Wednesday: 1:30-1:45pm: Sijia 1:45-2pm: Adheesh 2-2:15pm: Shuaicheng Thursday: 1:30-2pm: Sijia 2-2:30pm: Adheesh 2:30-3pm: Shuaicheng 9:30-10:00pm: Kaiwen (your time should be 10:30-11:00am Friday morning) Friday: 1:30-1:45pm: Sijia 1:45-2pm: Adheesh 2-2:15pm: Shuaicheng Please send me any results you have before the meeting. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 20 Dec '20

20 Dec '20

Monday: 1-1:30pm: Sijia 1:30-2pm: Adheesh 2-2:30pm: Shuaicheng 9:30-10:00pm: Kaiwen (your time should be 10:30-11:00am Tuesday morning) Tuesday: 1-1:15pm: Sijia 1:15-1:30pm: Adheesh 1:30-1:45pm: Shuaicheng Wednesday: 1-1:30pm: Sijia 1:30-2pm: Adheesh 2-2:30pm: Shuaicheng 9:30-10:00pm: Kaiwen (your time should be 10:30-11am Thursday morning) Thursday: 1-1:15pm: Sijia 1:15-1:30pm: Adheesh 1:30-1:45pm: Shuaicheng Friday: 1-1:30pm: Sijia 1:30-2pm: Adheesh 2-2:30pm: Shuaicheng 9:30-10pm: Kaiwen (your time should be 10:30-11am Saturday morning) Please send me any results you have before the meeting. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 13 Dec '20

13 Dec '20

We are going to have a whole month commitment to ACL. I would like to have more frequent individual meetings with ACL authors: Monday: 1-1:30pm: Sijia, on joint event extraction 1:30-2pm: Adheesh, on end-to-end coreference resolution 2-2:30pm: Shuaicheng, on temporal event extraction 5:30-6pm: Reading discussion, Adheesh lead. This will be our last reading discussion this semester. We will resume it after ACL. 9-9:30pm: Kaiwen, on dialogue summarization, (your time should be 10-10:30am Tuesday morning) Wednesday: 1-1:30pm: Sijia 1:30-2pm: Adheesh 2-2:30pm: Shuaicheng 9-9:30pm: Kaiwen (your time should be 10-10:30am Thursday morning) Friday: 1-1:30pm: Sijia 1:30-2pm: Adheesh 2-2:30pm: Shuaicheng 9-9:30pm: Kaiwen (your time should be 10-10:30am Saturday morning) @Nikhil, you can feel free to join any meetings you are interested in. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 06 Dec '20

06 Dec '20

Monday: 11-11:30am: Sijia 11:30-12am: Adheesh 2-2:30pm: Shuaicheng 6-7pm: reading discussion Wednesday: 9-10am: Kaiwen Thursday: 1:30-2pm: Sijia 2-2:30pm: Shuaicheng 2:30-3pm: Adheesh Please send me any results, scores, error analysis you have before the meeting. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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