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Reading Group
Official name of this course is NPFL095 Modern Methods in Computational Linguistics. It is a continuation of informal Reading Group (RG) meetings. Requirements for getting credits:
- presenting one paper,
- Select a term (write your name to the schedule below) before October 13.
- If no paper is assigned to the term, suggest me 2–3 papers you would like to present (with pdf links, and your preferences) before October 20. Ideally, make a group of 2–4 students presenting papers on a common topic (starting from basics to more advance papers).
- Prepare your presentation and 3–5 quiz questions. At least 3 of the questions should ask for a specific answer, e.g. “write an equation for…”, “given training set X=([dog,N],[cat,Y]), what is the number…” (Not “what do you think about…”). The first question should be quite easy to answer for those who have read the whole paper. The last question may be a tricky one. Send me the questions two weeks before your presentation. We may discuss the paper and refine the questions.
- One week before the presentation, write the questions to a dedicated wiki page here. Send a reminder (questions and a link to the pdf of the paper) to rg@ufal.mff.cuni.cz by Monday 15:45.
- active participation in the discussions, which is conditioned by reading the papers in advance and attending the meetings,
- sending your answers to me and the presenter by Saturday 23:59 (so the presenter can go through all answers before the presentation and focus more on problematic parts).
- In case of more than three missed meetings or deadlines, additional work (e.g. reports or answers to tricky questions) will be required.
All questions, reports and presented papers must be in English. The presentations are in English by default, but if all present people agree it may be in Czech.
| Contact | popel@ufal.mff.cuni.cz |
|---|---|
| Mailing list | rg@ufal.mff.cuni.cz |
| Meetings | Mondays 17:20, S6 |
| Past meetings | courses:rg:past |
| Inspiration | courses:rg:wishlist |
| Other reading groups | Machine Learning RG |
Spring&Summer 2016
| date | speaker | paper |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 22 | Martin Popel | W Ammar, G Mulcaire, M Ballesteros, C Dyer, NA Smith: One Parser, Many Languages 2016 |
| Feb 29 | cont. | |
| Mar 7 | Jindřich Libovický | Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Sumit Chopra, Michael Auli, Wojciech Zaremba: Sequence Level Training with Recurrent Neural Networks, 2016 |
| Mar 14 | Jindřich Libovický | cont. |
| May 21 | Jindřich Helcl | Debanjan Ghosh, Weiwei Guo, Smaranda Muresan: Sarcastic or Not: Word Embeddings to Predict the Literal or Sarcastic Meaning of Words EMNLP 2015 |
| Mar 28 | no RG | Easter Monday |
| Apr 4 | Milan Straka | Stack LSTM http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.08075 |
| Apr 11 | Milan Straka | Multi-Task Cross-Lingual Sequence Tagging from Scratch and eventually also Network Architectures for NER |
| Apr 18 | Rudolf Rosa | Rico Sennrich, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch: Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units, 2016 |
| Apr 25 | Tom Kocmi | Jiwei Li, Michel Galley, Chris Brockett, Jianfeng Gao, Bill Dolan: A Persona-Based Neural Conversation Model, 2016 |
| May 2 | Pasky | Petr Baudiš, Jan Šedivý: Sentence Pair Scoring: Towards Unified Framework for Text Comprehension, 2016 |
| May 9 | Martin Popel | Zhaopeng Tu, Zhengdong Lu, Yang Liu, Xiaohua Liu, Hang Li: Modeling Coverage for Neural Machine Translation, 2016 |
| May 16 | Shadi Saleh | Guido Zuccon et al. Integrating and evaluating neural word embeddings in information retrieval, 2015 |
| May 23 | special last RG | travelling to LREC |