Content

In this course, students will learn to engage with technical research papers and other material that study the state-of-the-art approaches to Natural Language Processing. They will learn to synthesize, critically assess, and build upon the material by conducting required readings, weekly discussions. In particular:
• to read and examine the scientific literature critically,
• to identify and present examples of relevant real-world application fields of the scientific publication,
• to give a good scientific presentation to peers that is precise, informative, and engaging,
• to summarize and write a concise technical report including a critical discussion of the research paper (with additional literature research).

In this weekly seminar, students will learn about selected research topics in natural language processing and its applications. In addition, it is an introduction to reading scientific papers, learning how to give a good presentation, and how to write a technical report. To better explore how state-of-the-art research presentations can be constructed, as a part of the seminar students will also have a chance to attend and discuss presentations of researchers on more senior level presenting their papers (e.g. guest speakers).

Seminar Work

Attendance in course sessions in accordance with the exam regulations of 2023, § 12(6).

Literature

• Jurafsky & Martin, Speech and Language Processing: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/ .