My students and I have a weekly NLP reading group on Fridays. If you are a student at Harvard and are interested in joining, please reach out! For convenience, and in case others may benefit from their nice summaries, I’m starting to post their slides here:

FALL 2021

• Emergent linguistic structure in artificial neural networks trained by self-supervision (presented by Xiaohan Yang, Oct 8)

• Revisiting Joint Modeling of Cross-document Entity and Event Coreference Resolution (presented by Xin Zeng, Oct 1)

• Birds have four legs?! NumerSense: Probing Numerical Commonsense Knowledge of Pre-trained Language Models (presented by Jack Scudder, Sept 24)

ARCHIVED

• Generating Accurate Caption Units for Figure Captioning (presented by Anita Mahinpei, June 8)

• Streamlining Cross-Document Coreference Resolution: Evaluation and Modeling (presented by Xin Zeng, May 25)

• Textual Adversarial Attack and Defense: A Brief Overview (presented by Jack Scudder, March 19)