WING NUS Natural Language Processing (NLP) Seminar

Our group will be running our second NLP seminar in 2022 Spring, starting from March 1. Invited speakers will talk about the latest breakthrough in their research.

For interested public participants, please send Min an email at kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg.

Schedule

When is SGT?

Date	Description
10 AM Nov 11th SGT	Zhenghua Li : Fast and Accurate End-to-End Span-based Semantic Role Labeling as Word based Graph Parsing Zhenghua Li is a full professor at Soochow University. [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ]
9.00 AM August 15th SGT	Omar Espejel: HuggingFace Demo.cratization @ Singapore Omar Espejel is a Machine Learning Developer Advocate at HuggingFace. Please register here with this Google Form (2 minutes of your time). If you have problems reaching Google Forms, please contact Min ```kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg```.
12.15 PM July 27th SGT	Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap: Application of Divergence Measures for Domain Adaptation in NLP Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap is a fourth-year Ph.D. student advised by Prof Min-Yen Kan and also closely collaborates with Devamanyu Hazarika. His research is on Natural Language Processing. Specifically he focuses on making NLP models robust under different domains, also called Domain Adaptation. He is also interested in Scholarly Document Processing which helps extract information from scholarly articles. [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ]
10.00 AM July 19th SGT	Heng Ji: Schema Guided Event Prediction Heng Ji is a professor at the Computer Science Department, and an affiliated faculty member at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an Amazon Scholar. [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ] Sorry, no public slides or recording available!
11.30 AM April 14th SGT	Xiang Lisa Li: Prefix-Tuning: Optimizing Continuous Prompts for Generation Xiang Lisa Li is a PhD student in computer science at Stanford University [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ] Sorry, no public slides or recording available!
11:00 AM March 1st	Yi Tay: Transformer Memory as a Differentiable Search Index Yi is a senior research scientist and tech lead at Google AI [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ]
12:00 PM March 1st SGT When is SGT?	Minh-Thang Luong: The curious case of self-training: from vision to language and beyond Thang is a staff research scientist at Google Brain [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ]