Meetings
We have weekly meetings (paper discussions and invited talks). The meetings are organised by Maria Liakata, Adam Tsakalidis, and Anthony Hills. The
previous organiser was Dong Nguyen.
Please feel free to suggest
papers, themes, volunteer as presenters, and review our upcoming schedule in our google doc
or by emailing Anthony at a.r.hills@qmul.ac.uk.
| Date | Presenter | Title of the paper/talk | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30.03.23 | Luis Espinosa-Anke | NLP for (Market) Intelligence | |
| 23.03.23 | Jing Ma | Social Assisted Rumor Detection and Fake News Detection | |
| 09.03.23 | Everyone | Paper Skimming on Long Document Transformers | |
| 02.03.23 | Everyone | Paper Skimming on Long Document Transformers | |
| 26.01.23 | Everyone | Paper Skimming | |
| 02.02.23 | Zixiu Wu | NLP-Based Real-Time Assistance to Human Therapist | |
| 26.01.23 | Georgi Karadzhov | DEliBots - Deliberation Enhancing Bots | |
| 12.01.23 | Everyone | EMNLP Paper Skimming Session | |
| 24.11.22 | Danny To Eun Kim | Can dialogue systems have a theory-of-mind? | |
| 10.11.22 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 03.11.22 | Elena Kochkina | Evaluating the Generalisability of Neural Rumor Verification Models | |
| 27.10.22 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 13.10.22 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 04.10.22 | Iryana Gurevych | Detect – Verify – Communicate: Combating Misinformation with More Realistic NLP | |
| 29.09.22 | Hao Ni | Path Development Network with Finite-Dimensional Lie Group | |
| 22.09.22 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 08.09.22 | Iman Bilal | Template-based Abstractive Microblog Opinion Summarisation | |
| 01.09.22 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 04.08.22 | Ramit Sawhney | User Modeling on Social Media: Privacy, Ethics, and Mental Health | |
| 28.07.22 | Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla & Saif Mohammad | "Tweet Emotion Dynamics: Emotion Word Usage in Tweets from US and Canada" & "Ethics Sheets for AI" | |
| 20.07.22 | Anthony Hills | Neural Spatio-temporal Point Processes | |
| 14.07.22 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 07.07.22 | Everyone | Paper Skimming (NAACL 2022) | |
| 30.06.22 | Matt Maufe | Learning from ACL 2022 - Building Better Models | |
| 09.06.22 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 12.05.22 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 5.05.22 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 28.04.22 | Ramit Sawhney | Modeling User Context for Mental Health Assessment on Social Media | |
| 14.04.22 | Giannis Karamanolakis | Weakly-supervised learning in NLP | |
| 31.03.22 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 04.03.2022 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 24.03.22 | Iman Bilal | Evaluation of Thematic Coherence in Microblogs | |
| 10.03.22 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 03.03.22 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 24.02.22 | James Bishop | Hands-on Session: Zero shot learning for NLI | |
| 10.02.22 | Kaspar Beelen | Hands-on Session: Flair | |
| 03.02.22 | Rafael Mestre | Multimodal analysis of political debates with text, audio and video: from argumentation to sentiment analysis | |
| 27.01.22 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 04.03.2022 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 13.01.22 | Yulan He | Topic-Driven Sentiment Analysis | |
| 06.01.22 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 9.12.21 | James Baker | Hands-on Session: Baleen 3 and Annot8 | |
| 2.12.21 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 04.03.2022 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 25.11.21 | Everyone | EMNLP 2021 - Paper Skimming Session | |
| 28.10.21 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 14.10.21 | Peifeng Wang | Incorporating Structured Knowledge for Machine Commonsense Reasoning | |
| 07.10.21 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 30.09.21 | Harish Tayyar Madabushi | "AStitchInLanguageModels: Dataset and Methods for the Exploration of Idiomaticity in Pre-Trained Language Models" & "SemEval 2022 Task 2 Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection and Sentence Embedding" | |
| 23.09.21 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 22.07.2021 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 08.07.2021 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session (general) | |
| 01.07.2021 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session - part 2 (NAACL 2021) | |
| 24.06.2021 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session (NAACL 2021) | |
| 10.06.2021 | Avijit Thawani | Numbers in NLP | |
| 27.05.2021 | Stuart Middleton | SafeSpacesNLP: https://www.tas.ac.uk/safespacesnlp/ | |
| 13.05.2021 | Saif Mohammad | Ethics Sheets for AI Tasks and a Case Study for Automatic Emotion Recognition | |
| 06.05.2021 | Dr Alexander Mikhalev | Open Source project for NLP research collaboration: NLP meets VR/AR (http://thepattern.digital/) | |
| 29.04.2021 | Dr Mimie Liotsiou | The influence of online (mis)information: prediction, explanation, causality | |
| 08.04.2021 | Gabriele Pergola & James Ravenscroft | "CD2CR: Coreference Resolution Across Documents and Domains" & "Boosting Low-Resource Biomedical QA via Entity-Aware Masking Strategies" | |
| 25.03.2021 | Bill Lampos | Tracking COVID-19 using online search | |
| 11.03.2021 | Radu Voit | Deep Reinforcement Learning with a Combinatorial Action Space for Predicting Popular Reddit Threads | link |
| 04.03.2021 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 25.02.2021 | Paul Rottger | HATECHECK: Functional Tests for Hate Speech Detection Models | link |
| 11.02.2021 | James Ravenscroft | Rationalising Neural Predictions | |
| 28.01.2021 | Everyone | Paper Skimming Session | |
| 21.01.2021 | Dimitris Gkoumas | Quantum cognitively motivated multimodal representation learning for human language analysis. | |
| 10.12.2020 | Kaspar Beelen, Barbara McGillivray, Federico Nanni, Giorgia Tolfo, Mariona Coll Ardanuy, Kasra Hosseini | Living with machines update | link |
| 03.12.2020 | Filip Ilievski | Reasoning with Commonsense Knowledge Graphs | |
| 26.11.2020 | Adam Tsakalidis | A Time-Aware Transformer Based Model for Suicide Ideation Detection on Social Media | link |
| 12.11.2020 | Saleh AL Hashmi | e-Commerce and Sentiment Analysis Predicting Outcomes of Class Action Lawsuits | link |
| 05.11.2020 | Harish Tayyar Madabushi | CxGBERT: BERT meets Construction Grammar | link |
| 29.10.2020 | Adam Tsakalidis | Analysing Lexical Semantic Change with Contextualised Word Representations | link |
| 22.10.2020 | Barbara McGillivray, Quirin Würschinger | Simple, Interpretable and Stable Method for Detecting Words with Usage Change across Corpora | link |
| 01.10.2020 | Elena Kochkina | Document Expansion by Query Prediction | link |
| 24.09.2020 | Greg Jacenkow | The Hateful Memes Challenge: Detecting Hate Speech in Multimodal Memes | link |
| 10.09.2020 | Bo Wang | Preliminary study on Information Extraction from Swedish Medical Prescriptions with Sig-Transformer Encoder | link |
| 03.09.2020 | Adam Tsakalidis | Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with CheckList | link |
| 13.08.2020 | Harish Tayyar Madabushi | Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data | link |
| 06.08.2020 | Everyone | ACL discussion | |
| 07.11.2019 | Bo Wang | A machine learning approach to predicting psychosis using semantic density and latent content analysis | link |
| 31.10.2019 | Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Elena Kochkina, Michael Castelle | Talk on "Cost-Sensitive BERT for Generalisable Sentence Classification with Imbalanced Data" | link |
| 24.10.2019 | Nicole Peinelt | What do you learn from context? Probing for sentence structure in contextualized word representations, Tenney et al. | link |
| 17.10.2019 | Maria Liakata | Don’t Take the Premise for Granted: Mitigating Artifacts in Natural Language Inference, Belinkov et al. | link |
| 10.10.2019 | Adam Tsakalidis | Right for the Wrong Reasons: Diagnosing Syntactic Heuristics in Natural Language Inference, McCoy et al. | link |
| 03.10.2019 | Nicole Peinelt | NLP conference discussion | |
| 18.07.2019 | Nicole Peinelt | Talk on "Aiming beyond the Obvious: Identifying Non-Obvious Cases in Semantic Similarity Datasets" | link |
| 04.07.2019 | Julia Ive (University of Sheffield) | Talk on "Towards Shareable Data in Clinical Natural Language Processing: Generating Synthetic Electronic Health Records" | |
| 27.06.2019 | Raymond Ng (University of British Columbia) | Talk on "Text Analytics for Chronic Disease Management" | |
| 16.05.2019 | Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge) | Talk on "Fact Checking: an AI perspective" | |
| 02.05.2019 | Michael Castelle | Rotational Unit of Memory: A Novel Representation Unit for RNNs with Scalable Applications, Dangovski et al. | link |
| 25.04.2019 | Feng Shi | Talk on "NLP for creativity and innovation" | |
| 18.04.2019 | Harish Tayyar Madabushi (University of Birmingham) | Talk on "On the Integration of Conceptual Hierarchies with Deep Learning for Explainable Open-Domain Question Answering" | |
| 28.03.2019 | Hieu Hoang | Emergence of linguistic communication from referential games with symbolic and pixel input, Lazaridou et al. | link |
| 21.03.2019 | Yen-Chen Wu (University of Cambridge) | Talk on "Model-based Reinforcement Learning and its Applications to Dialogue Systems" | |
| 07.03.2019 | Nicole Peinelt and Maria Liakata | Coarse-to-Fine Question Answering for Long Documents, Choi et al. | link |
| 28.02.2019 | Nicolas Anastassacos | Talk on "Introduction to Reinforcement learning" | |
| 21.02.2019 | Dong Nguyen | BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding, Devlin et al. | link |
| 31.01.2019 | Maria Liakata and Elena Kochkina | Confidence Modeling for Neural Semantic Parsing, Dong et al. | link |
| 06.12.2018 | Daniil Sorokin (TU Darmstadt) | Talk on "Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Base Question Answering" | |
| 29.11.2018 | Radoslaw Kowalski | Coherent narrative summarization with a cognitive model, Zhang et al. | link |
| 22.11.2018 | Dong Nguyen and Rebekah Tromble | DeClarE: Debunking Fake News and False Claims using Evidence-Aware Deep Learning, Popat et al. | link |
| 15.11.2018 | Hao Ni | Talk on "Signature Method" | |
| 01.11.2018 | Elena Kochkina | Dropout as a Bayesian Approximation: Representing Model Uncertainty in Deep Learning | link |
| 25.10.2018 | Lev Konstantinovskiy | Talk on "Towards Automated Fact checking: Developing an Annotation Schema and Benchmark for Consistent Automated Claim Detection" | link |
| 18.10.2018 | Yulan He (University of Warwick) | Talk on "Unsupervised Event Extraction and Storyline Generation from Text" | |
| 11.10.2018 | Annie Louis (University of Edinburgh) | Talk on "Tracking referring expressions across time" | link |
| 04.10.2018 | Johannes Welbl (UCL) | Talk on "Jack the Reader – A Machine Reading Framework" | link |
| 27.09.2018 | Kent Chang | Talk on "Individuals, Institutions and Innovation in the debates of the French revolution" | link |
| 20.09.2018 | James Ravenscroft | Talk on "HarriGT: A Tool for Linking News to Science (ACL system demo)"" | link |
| 13.09.2018 | Farhana Liza and Philippa Shoemark | Talk on "Semantic change in social media" | |
| 06.09.2018 | Elena Kochkina and Andrew Moore | Two COLING talks: 1) All-in-one: Multi-task Learning for Rumour Verification 2) Bringing replication and reproduction together with generalisability in NLP: Three reproduction studies for Target Dependent Sentiment Analysis | link1 link2 |
| 30.08.2018 | Tianhong Dai (Imperial College London) | Talk on "Research Tools: Pytorch" | |
| 09.08.2018 | Nicole Peinelt | Talk on "Research Tools: Tensorboard & Tensorflow Debugger" | |
| 26.07.2018 | Dong Nguyen | Deep contextualized word representations, Peters et al. | link |
| 19.07.2018 | Marya Bazzi | Talk on "Community detection in temporal multilayer networks, with an application to correlation networks" | |
| 12.07.2018 | Hieu Hoang | Talk on "Fast neural machine translation implementation" | link |
| 28.06.2018 | Andrew Moore | Strong baselines for neural semi-supervised learning under domain shift, Ruder and Plank | link |
| 14.06.2018 | Nigel Collier | Talk on "Entity linking using heterogeneous health text data" | |
| 21.05.2018 | Andrey Malinin | Talk on "Estimating uncertainty in predictions for deep learning" | |
| 14.05.2018 | Dong Nguyen | Talk on "Comparing automatic and human evaluation of local explanations for text classification" | |
| 30.04.2018 | Kira Kempinska | Talk on "Adversarial sequential Monte Carlo - flexible modelling of sequential data with Bayesian deep learning" | |
| 23.04.2018 | Andrew Moore | Auxiliary Objectives for Neural Error Detection Models, Rei and Yannakoudakis | link |
| 09.04.2018 | Zeerak Waseem (Factmata/Sheffield) | Talk on "Annotation and detection of hate speech" | |
| 26.03.2018 | Elena Kochkina | Building a Bayesian deep learning classifier, Dorman | link |
| 19.03.2018 | Bo Wang | A simple regularization-based algorithm for learning cross-domain word embeddings, Yang et al. | link |
| 12.03.2018 | Johannes Welbl (UCL) | Talk on “Machines that read and reason: Multi-hop reading comprehension across documents” | |
| 5.03.2018 | Bo Wang and Nicole Peinelt | Hierarchical Attention Networks for Document Classification, Yang et al. | link |
| 26.02.2018 | Radoslaw Kowalski | Apparatus and method for predicting customer behaviour, Kannan et al. | link |
| 19.02.2018 | Adam Tsakalidis | Active Sentiment Domain Adaptation, Wu et al. | link |
| 12.02.2018 | Nicole Peinelt | Very deep convolutional networks for text classification, Conneau et al. | link |
| 25.01.2018 | Adria Gascon | Talk on “Privacy-preserving document classification in federated databases” | |
| 18.01.2018 | Dong Nguyen, Barbara McGillivray, Taha Yasseri | Word Embeddings Quantify 100 Years of Gender and Ethnic Stereotypes, Garg et al. | link |
| 11.01.2018 | Tao Wang | Detecting and Characterizing Eating-Disorder Communities on Social Media, Wang et al. | link |
| 07.12.2017 | Elena Kochkina | An investigation of imitation learning algorithms for structured prediction, Vlachos | link |
| 30.11.2017 | Barbara McGillivray | Semantic Variation in Online Communities of Practice, Tredici and Fernández | link |
| 23.11.2017 | Barbara McGillivray and Jim Smith | A Bayesian Model of Diachronic Meaning Change, Frermann and Lapata | link |
| 16.11.2017 | Maria Liakata | Sluice networks: Learning what to share between loosely related tasks, Ruder et al. | link |
| 09.11.2017 | Radoslaw Kowalski | Semantic Folding Part 1 of the article (pp. 8-29), De Sousa Webber | link |
| 02.11.2017 | Walid Magdy (Edinburgh) | Discussion with Walid Magdy about his paper Fake it till you make it: Fishing for Catfishes. | link |
| 26.10.2017 | Dong Nguyen | Depression and Self-Harm Risk Assessment in Online Forums, Yates et al. | link |
| 19.10.2017 | Hieu Hoang | Attention is all you need, Vaswani et al. | link |
| 12.10.2017 | Andrew Moore | Aspect Level Sentiment Classification with Deep Memory Network, Tang et al. | link |
