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:

Learn about

• State-of-the-art research papers in Natural Language Processing
• What researchers in our lab are working on
• What top researchers from all over the world are working on

Practice

• Engage with a recent paper on cutting-edge research, including best papers from top conferences like ACL, NAACL, ICML and ICLR.
• Asking critical questions and discussing research methodology, result interpretation, societal implications, ethical assessments, and more.

Develop skills in

• Understanding and assessing advanced AI systems 
• Reasoning through experimental setups and critically examining results
• Breaking down and communicating complex topics to a general CS audience

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).

Course Materials: will be uploaded to eCampus