Past WING NUS Natural Language Processing (NLP) Seminars

WING NUS Natural Language Processing (NLP) Seminar ‘21

Our group will be running our first NLP seminar in 2021 summer, tentatively from 20th May to 20th July (8 weeks). Invited speakers will talk about the latest breakthrough in their research. We will have eight invited speakers, each speaker for each week.

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

Schedule

Date	Description
10:00 AM May 27th SGT When is SGT?	Muhao Chen: Understanding Event Processes in Natural Language Muhao is an Assistant Professor @ University of Southern California [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ]
21:00 PM June 1st SGT	Diyi Yang: Natural Language Processing with Less Data and More Structures Diyi is an Assistant Professor @ Georgia Institute of Technology [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ]
16:00 PM June 10th SGT	Patrick Lewis: PAQ: 65 Million Probably-Asked Questions and What You Can Do With Them Patrick Lewis is a PhD Student @ University College London and Facebook AI Research [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ]
10:00 AM June 17th SGT	Zhiting Hu: Text Generation with No (Good) Data: New Reinforcement Learning and Causal Frameworks Zhiting is an Assistant Professor @ UC San Diego [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ]
10:00 AM June 24th SGT	Jason C.S. Wu: Conversations as Knowledge: from Question Answering to Summarization Jason is a Senior Research Scientist @ Salesforce AI Research [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ]
10:00 AM July 1st SGT	Jacob Andreas: Implicit Representations of Meaning in Neural Language Models Jacob is the X Consortium Assistant Professor @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ]
9:00 AM July 8th SGT	He He: Guarding Against Spurious Correlations in Natural Language Understanding He He is an Assistant Professor @ New York University [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ]
July 16th SGT 9:30 AM	Vered Shwartz: Commonsense Knowledge and Reasoning in Natural Language Vered is a Postdoctoral Researcher @ Allen Institute for AI and University of Washington [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ]