Language Technology Lab Seminars

Mechanistic Understanding of Language Models in Arithmetic Reasoning and Code Generation

Ziyu Yao, George Mason University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Past, Present and Future of Tokenization

Benjamin Minixhofer (Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 29 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Data Repurposing: Improving LLM Capabilities with Synthetic Data Generation

Abdullatif Köksal, LMU Munich.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

LLMs and Low-Resource Languages

Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Scansion-based Lyric Generation

Yiwen Chen (University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 22 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models

Heng Ji, UIUC.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Linguistics in the Age of Large Language Models.

Janet B. Pierrehumbert, University of Oxford.

SS03 and Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 15 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

10 Slides on Human Feedback

Max Bartolo (Cohere).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 08 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Subtleties about Pre-Training Data: Imbalance and Staleness

Daniel Khashabi, Johns Hopkins University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Adaptive Tokenization and Memory in Foundation Models

Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Edinburgh).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 01 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Pluralistic Alignment through Personalized Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Natasha Jaques, University of Washington.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Language Modelling with Phonemes

Zebulon Youra Goriely (University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 25 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

LLM Generalization in Social Context

Diyi Yang, Stanford University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Truth conditions at scale, and beyond

Guy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 18 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Specializing LLMs for Factuality and Soft Reasoning

Greg Durrett, UT Austin.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NLIP 2024 Social: Meet New PhD Students

Suchir Salhan (University of Cambridge), Matthieu Moulec (University of Cambridge), Paul Siewart (University of Cambridge).

SS03 and on Zoom, link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 11 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Ten Years of Universal Dependencies

Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University and RISE.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The tradeoff governing efficient language model architectures

Sabri Eyuboglu, Stanford University.

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 14 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Can Sparsity Lead to Efficient LLMs?

Shiwei Liu, University of Oxford.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Large Language Models as Model Systems for Language

Carina Kauf, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88532356932?pwd=IVo8GI7wBssnObu7in3aNXBjwufHnJ.1.

Friday 07 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Generative AI for Science

James Zou, Stanford University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 06 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

SS03, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 31 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Practical and Specialised NLP Solutions: The Case of Social Media

Jose Camacho Collados, Cardiff University.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 30 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Open-Endedness and General Intelligence

Tim Rocktäschel, University College London .

FW26, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 24 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Incremental Accumulation of Linguistic Context in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks

Refael Tikochinski, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The intersection of Interpretability and Fairness

Giuseppe Attanasio, Milan NLP.

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 17 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Data Selection for Pre-training and Instruction-tuning of LLMs

Danqi Chen, Princeton University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Automated Fact-Checking of Climate Change Claims with Large Language Models

Dominik Stammbach, ETH Zurich.

Room FW11 at CL or William Gates Building or on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 10 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

"What it can create, it may not understand" Studying the Limits of Transformers.

Nouha Dziri, Allen Institute for AI.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Language modelling for the sake of language modelling

Nikos Aletras, University of Sheffield.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

SS03, William Gates Building. .

Friday 26 April 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Large language models for enabling constructive online conversations

Kristina Gligorić, Stanford University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Misinformation: Will it get better or worse and what can we do about it?

Mevan Babakar, Google .

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 15 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Inverting Language Models

Alexander (Sasha) Rush, Cornell and Hugging Face.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Comparative Questions and Retrieving Argumentative Answers

Alexander Bondarenko, University of Leipzig .

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 08 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Large Language Models in Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges

Mark Dredze, Johns Hopkins University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

LLMs: Everything’s Different and Nothing Has Changed

Emma Strubell, CMU.

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 01 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

What do sentence transformers know, and how can we find out?

Sebastian Pado, Stuttgart University.

GR06/07 | Faculty of English, 9 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Integrating Combinatorial Solvers and Neural Models

Pasquale Minervi, University of Edinburgh.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 23 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Making Better Use of (Large) Language and Translation Models with Simple Inference Improvements.

Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Scaling Multilingual Generation for Low-Resource Languages

Priyanka Agrawal, Google Deepmind.

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 16 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Prosocial Language Models

Soroush Vosoughi, Dartmouth College.

GR06/07 | Faculty of English, 9 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Employing Psycholinguistics to Understand Decoding in Probabilistic Language Generators

Clara Meister, ETH Zurich.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 09 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Understanding LLMs via their Generative Successes and Shortcomings.

Swabha Swayamdipta, University of Southern California.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

This talk is cancelled - Modeling Cognitive Complexity in NLP

Lisa Beinborn, VU Amsterdam.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09..

Friday 02 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Geographically Grounded Language Models

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Revisiting the Optimality of Word Lengths

Tiago Pimentel.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 26 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Replicating and auditing black-box Language Models.

Tatsunori Hashimoto.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Faster Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Confidence-based Pruning

Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 19 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness?

He He, New York University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness?

He He, New York University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fairness Evaluation in Generative NLP

Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 01 December 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Assessing the Social Capacity of Large Language Models

David Jurgens, University of Michigan.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficiency by Construction

Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin (University of Cambridge).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 24 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

A sanity check on emergent properties

Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Language Understanding for the Political Sciences

Simone Paolo Ponzetto, University of Mannheim.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Numerical Reasoning in Natural Language Processing

Nafise Moosavi (University of Sheffield).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 10 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

One Size Does Not Fit All: Towards AI For Everyone

Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Avoiding AI's "Moore's Law": Why we are building a ladder to the moon

Sara Hooker (Cohere For AI).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 03 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Unhumanizing Models. Why we Need to Change how We Think about AI

Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University in Milan, Italy).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language Processing for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Gleb Mazovetskiy (Google).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 27 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

ViLMA: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Linguistic and Temporal Grounding in Video-Language Models

Speaker to be confirmed.

GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Collaborative Pretraining on Evolving Pretraining and Small Manageable Tasks

Leshem Choshen (IBM AI research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09#success.

Friday 20 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

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Learning disentangled representation for interpretable language model. / Interactive Narrative Understanding.

Lin Gui and Runcong Zhao, King's College London.

GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fighting Bad Information with AI

David Corney (Full Fact).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 13 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Does Syntax Still Matter in the World of LLMs?

Miloš Stanojević (DeepMind).

Computer Laboratory, room SS03.

Friday 06 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Knowledge Issues and Language Models

James Thorne (KAIST).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 16 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Investigating Reasons for Disagreement in Natural Language Inference

Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (FNRS – UCLouvain – The Ohio State University).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Friday 09 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Mind the Data

Noah Smith, University of Washington .

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fighting Misinformation in Science Communication with NLP

Dustin Wright (University of Copenhagen).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 02 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards Human-Centered Explanations of AI Predictions

Chenhao Tan, University of Chicago.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpretable Multi-hop Question Answering

Zhenyun Deng (University of Cambridge).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 26 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Quantity implicature and perspective-taking: insights from a novel task

Dr Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge).

English Faculty, GR05.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Pretraining, Instruction Tuning, Alignment: Towards Building Large Language Models from First Principles

Yao Fu, University of Edinburgh.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Challenges of Low-Resource Natural Language Processing: A Focus on Sentiment Analysis and Hate Speech Detection in Amharic

Seid Muhie Yimam (HCDS, University of Hamburg).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Probing Language Models for Paraphrastic Representations of Negation and Antonymy

Teemu Vahtola, University of Helsinki.

GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Reality Check: NLP in the era of Large Language Models

Vered Shwartz (University of British Columbia).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 12 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Moving up and down parameter hierarchies: markedness, third factors and diachrony

Prof Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge).

English Faculty, GR05.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Writing for the Public: Immigration Discourse and Language Ideology

Dallas Card, University of Michigan.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving Model Robustness for Natural Language Inference

Joe Stacey (Imperial College London).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Friday 28 April 2023, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The interaction of gender marking and perspective-taking

Prof Stefan Hinterwimmer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal).

Lucia Windsor Room (Newnham College).

Thursday 27 April 2023, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Real-world task assistance with GRILLBot, the winning Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot.

Carlos Gemmell, University of Glasgow.

SR 24.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Navigating the AI Hype: Building Natural Language Processing for Low Resource Languages

Asmelash Teka Hadgu (Lesan; DAIR).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 10 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards a Responsible NLP: Walking the walk

Mona Diab, Meta AI.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

An Affordance Account of Value Embedding in Technology: Why Good Intentions are Not Enough

Fabio Tollon (Bielefeld University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 03 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Efficient Transformers with Dynamic Token Pooling

Piotr Nawrot, University of Edinburgh.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Modular and Compositional Transfer Learning

Jonas Pfeiffer (Google Research).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 24 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

One-shot visual language understanding with cross-modal translation and LLMs

Fangyu LIU (University of Cambridge).

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Narrative Summarization from Multiple Views

Pinelopi Papalampidi (DeepMind).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 17 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Challenges and Opportunities in NLP for Under-represented Languages

Sebastian Ruder, Google.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Processing Multiword Expressions for Grammatical Error Correction

Shiva Taslimipoor (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, Room FW09.

Friday 03 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Narrative Summarization From Multiple Views

Pinelopi (Nelly) Papalampidi, DeepMind.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

GenBench -- State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP

Dieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 27 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Getting Passive by Extending Classes: A Novel Verb-Learning Study with Adults and Children

Dr Emma Nguyen (Newcastle University).

Lecture Room 3 - Faculty of Divinity.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 15:30-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety in Open-domain Conversational Systems

Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Exploring and Controlling Social Values in Large Language Models through Role-Playing 

Paul Röttger (Oxford University).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 20 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Rethinking the role of tokenization in the NLP pipeline

Kris Cao (DeepMind).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Friday 02 December 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Revisiting Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning

Mikel Artetxe, Meta.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Dieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

Computer Lab, TBD.

Friday 25 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards Trustworthy Natural Language Processing

Jasmijn Bastings (Google Brain).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 18 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

End-to-End Fine-grained Multi-modal Understanding

Aishwarya Kamath, New York University.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Decoding is deciding under uncertainty — the case of NMT

Bryan Eikema (University of Amsterdam).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 11 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Sentiment analysis: methods and applications

Dr Antonio Moreno Ortiz (Universidad de Málaga).

English Faculty, GR05.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Program Synthesis and Understanding with Pretrained Language Models

Ignacio Iacobacci, Huawei .

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NLP for Science: Advances and Challenges

Tom Hope (Allen Institute for AI, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Computer Lab, FW11.

Monday 07 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning

Antoine Miech, DeepMind.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficient Structured Prediction on Long Texts

Mrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 28 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Vowel harmony as a cue for phonological phrasing

Join the talk online here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87391346417?pwd=NnVUa0gydlFDNEFycmg2bUpFOGhTdz09

Prof Frank Kügler (Goethe Universität Frankfurt).

English Faculty, GR05.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A study of recent techniques to estimate the difficulty of exam questions from text

Luca Benedetto (University of Cambridge).

FW09.

Friday 21 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Contextualized embeddings for lexical semantics

Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Complement clause section as a (non-)local relation

Join the talk online here: https://meet.google.com/ygt-zovb-wnp

Dr Anna Roussou (University of Patras).

English Faculty, GR06/07.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Quantifying Linguistic Variation

Max Müller-Eberstein, IT University of Copenhagen.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD)

Martyn Petyko and Daniela Schneevogt (Aston University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 07 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Detect – Verify – Communicate: Combating Misinformation with More Realistic NLP

Iryna Gurevych, TU Darmstadt.

English Faculty Building, second floor, SR24.

Thursday 29 September 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Claim-Dissector: An Interpretable Fact-Checking System with Joint Re-ranking and Veracity Prediction

Martin Fajčík ( Brno University of Technology ).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Tuesday 12 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Pitfalls with ablation in neural network architectures

Christina Lioma (University of Copenhagen).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 17 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Gold Doesn't Always Glitter: Spectral Removal of Linear and Nonlinear Guarded Attribute Information

Yftah Ziser, University of Edinburgh.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

(Modeling) Morality? On Machine Learning and Phrenology

Zeerak Talat (Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Monday 13 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

An aperitivo of efforts against harming online contents: propaganda, hate speech, spam

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 10 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Cross-lingual Learning, and Applications in Dialog and Translation

Junjie Hu, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

A Contrastive Framework for Neural Text Generation

Yixuan Su, University of Cambridge.

Board Room, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 02 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Measuring Causal Effects of Data Statistics on Language Model Predictions

Yanai Elazar (Bar-Ilan University).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The grammar of self-talk. What different modes of talking reveal about the language faculty.

Martina Wiltschko (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

English Faculty, GR04.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Language (In)Equality in Parsing and Machine Translation: Data Size is Only One Term in the Equation

Arianna Bisazza (University of Groningen).

Virtual (Zoom).

Thursday 19 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Can we automatically anonymize text documents?

Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neuro-Symbolic Deep Natural Language Understanding

Lili Mou (University of Alberta).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Participative multilingual identity education: Theory, evidence and impact of the ‘We Are Multilingual’ Campaign

MEITS WAM Project Team, University of Cambridge, Linda Fisher, Michael Evans, Karen Forbes, Angela Gayton (Glasgow), Yongcan Liu, Dee Rutgers (Sheffield Hallam).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqd-mtqT0rE9Bsoi8plgq-jMoq1ExWFPv4.

Monday 16 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Diagnosing AI Explanation Methods with Folk Concepts of Behavior

Alon Jacovi (Bar-Ilan University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 06 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

The acquisition and processing of grammatical structure: insights from deep learning

Roger Levy, MIT.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Interactive and decomposed approaches for NLP: the case of multi-text summarization

Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 29 April 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Postponed to ET] 'Lying, bullshit and Desinformatsiya'

To register for the talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvduuuqTkpHN2xDSsRYUvE0ePfHgq0xzc7. You will immediately be provided with a link to the talk upon registering. Please do not share these links with third parties.

Christopher Heffer (Cardiff University).

Online.

Thursday 24 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual Autoregressive Entity Linking

Nicola De Cao (University of Amsterdam, Huggingface).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 18 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Faculty of English and Online.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer for XNLU

Milan Gritta, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab.

GR06/07, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 17 March 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Hugging Face: a hub for the whole ML community to collaborate

Nate Raw and Ömer Faruk Özdemir (HuggingFace).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 11 March 2022, 12:00-14:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

'When can you passivize causatives? A phase-based analysis'

To register for the talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYud-murjwjEt3yZ3AXJkcFOOK85zwVBmB3. You will immediately be provided with a link to the talk upon registering. Please do not share these links with third parties.

Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University).

Online.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

IGLUE: A Benchmark for Transfer Learning across Modalities, Tasks, and Languages

Emanuele Bugliarello, University of Copenhagen.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Using NLP and graph theory to capture speech abnormalities in psychosis

Caroline Nettekoven (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 04 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Exploring Multicultural London English across Offline and Online space

Dr Christian Ilbury (University of Edinburgh).

Faculty of English and Online.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Spoken Language Understanding, with and without Pre-training

Karen Livescu, TTI-Chicago.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning from Past: Bringing Planning Back to Neural Generators

Shashi Narayan (Google Research).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 25 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Living in Kriolu, Learning in Portuguese: language ideologies and language education in Cape Verde

To register for this talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElceCqqj8rHNCNkScsQHH_2tNV69WzD3ga

Dr Nicola Bermingham, University of Liverpool.

Online.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Hierarchical Interpretation of Neural Text Classification

Prof. Yulan He, University of Warwick.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

Seeking Education for All through Multilingual Mother Tongue Education (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2021-2022)

Professor Wayne Wright, Purdue University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqf-6trz0uG9DxjoGEqB7OzPbk_Mg7KK2K.

Monday 21 February 2022, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

[POSTPONED] Parametric vs Nonparametric Knowledge, and what we can learn from Knowledge Bases

Sebastian Riedel (Facebook AI Research and UCL).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 18 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Talking College: A Community Based Language and Racial Identity Development Model for Black College Student Justice

Prof. Anne Charity Hudley (Stanford University).

Online.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Systematic Inequalities in Language Technology Performance across the World's Languages

Graham Neubig, Carnegie Mellon University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

V2, V3, and the left periphery of Finnish and Estonian

To register for this talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kcu2rrTMvE9FQR6ffKaOVTIUt5w4zGx8V. You will receive a link immediately after signing up.

Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University), Heete Sahkai (Institute of the Estonian Language), and Anne Tamm (Károli Gáspár University).

Online.

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning the Difference that Makes a Difference with Counterfactually Augmented Data

Zachary Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 10 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks Principle that shapes the lexicon

Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 04 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The development of Old English conjunct clauses: How syntactic changes interact

Dr Richard Zimmermann (University of Manchester).

Faculty of English and Online.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Neural Search

Nils Reimers, HuggingFace.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards Out-of-distribution generalization in NLP

Prof. He He (New York Univeristy).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 28 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Expectations vs. Reality: Lessons learned from Working on Toxic Content Detection in NLP

Nedjma Ousidhoum (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 21 January 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Lotty Brand (University of Sheffield) .

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 03 December 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Zero-shot learning and out-of-distribution generalization: two sides of the same coin

Jonathan Berant, Tel Aviv University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Sparse Latent Structure with Overlapping Constraints

Vlad Niculae (University of Amsterdam).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 26 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Dynamics of multilingualism in language revitalisation and activism: Applied linguistic insights from Oaxaca, Mexico

Dr. Haley de Korne (University of Oslo).

Online: Zoom talk.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Clinical De-Identification and Semantic Relatedness

Mohamed Abdalla, University of Toronto.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Analyzing and Summarizing Movies using Turning Points

Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The Role of Root Semantics in Determining Argument Alternations

To register for this talk, please use this link: https://forms.gle/E5rAVyaoMM4BbxKJ6

Dr. John Beavers (University of Texas).

Online.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Supervising Robot Learning with Language and Video from the Web

Suraj Nair, Stanford University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

How language understanding unfolds in minds and machines

Roger Levy (MIT).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 12 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Vulnerable Left Periphery: Why there is no other alternative to change

Prof. Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam).

Online: Zoom talk.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Document Summarisation: Modelling, Datasets and Verification of Content

Shay Cohen, University of Edinburgh.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

Motivational persistence in multiple language learning: Identities, vision, and goal self-concordance (Cambridge Distinguished Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2021-2022)

Professor Alastair Henry, University West.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctcuCrrjItHdEYjDLBdE4XNnQ1UOUj4-HS.

Monday 08 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Integrating Human Cognition with Natural Language Processing

Yevgeni Berzak (Technion).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 05 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phonotactics and rules interacting in change: understanding Mid-Scots θ-Debuccalisation and Late Middle English Syncope

To register for this link, please follow this link: https://forms.gle/5GCRb7HT8RUjJbvQA

Patrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Morphophonological issues in the development of Huave language revitalisation materials

Dr. Yuni Kim (University of Essex).

Online - Registration link https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvdOysqTwjGdUcXMCelqJOBr_D4sZdUzFM.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Measuring Factuality in Text Generation: When Language Models Are Twisting the Facts

Roee Aharoni, Google Research.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Vowel harmony as a cue for phonological phrasing

Prof. Frank Kügler (Goethe Universität Frankfurt).

English Faculty, GR05.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Toward Broad and Deep Language Understanding for Intelligent Systems

Marjorie McShane (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 22 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Empirical Results on Morphological Convergence in English

Dr. Péter Rácz (Central European University, Budapest University of Technology, University of Canterbury)..

Online.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Causal analysis of the syntactic representations of Transformers

Tal Linzen, New York University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Exploring Feedback Comment Generation for Language Learners

Ryo Nagata (Konan University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 15 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Unlikelihood-training and Back-training for robust natural language understanding

Siva Reddy, McGill University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NMT Analysis: The Trade-Off Between Source and Target, and (a Bit of) the Training Process

Elena Voita (University of Edinburgh).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 18 June 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Translating the Deaf Self: Translanguaging, interpreting & identities of deaf signers at work

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/PnyrnLjX4NAKnRMBA

Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Challenges in evaluating natural language generation systems

Note unusual time

Mohit Iyyer (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 11 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

How (not) to do (areal) phonological typology

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/vCtCxURPtUbranv57

Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 10 June 2021, 17:30-19:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards Knowledge-Robust and Multimodally-Grounded NLP

Mohit Bansal, UNC Chapel Hill.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 10 June 2021, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Beyond Facts: The Problem of Framing in Assessing What is True

Note unusual time

Philip Resnik (University of Maryland).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 04 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Identity construction and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile statuses: What does our status say about us?

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/Pv8gjUQsuMiyWnUMA

Carmen Maíz Arévalo (Universidad Complutense Madrid).

Online.

Thursday 03 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpretability in NLP: Moving Beyond Vision

Note unusual time

Shuoyang Ding (Johns Hopkins University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 28 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

How do stylistic features “work” in news texts about a violent event that took place abroad? A cross-cultural case study.

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/UqMEAFyne44WyZCP6

Ashley Riggs (Université de Genève).

Online.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning across Adverse Conditions in Natural Language Processing

Barbara Plank, IT University of Copenhagen.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP

Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 21 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Training for Deployment: Methods for Small and Efficient NLP

Alexander Rush, Cornell Tech.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Incorporating Structure into NLP Models with Graph Neural Networks

Michael Schlichtkrull (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 14 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Ecological links between L2 learning and L1 change

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/XdoC5YnNfbS5USeb7

Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

NLP beyond English and mBERT's 100 languages

Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Adaptation and Control in Enterprise Language Technology

Ryan McDonald (ASAPP).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 07 May 2021, 12:00-13:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

CausaLM: Causal Model Explanation Through Counterfactual Language Models

Amir Feder, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Cross domain similarities and intra-person changes

Maria Liakata (University of Warwick).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 30 April 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language contact in syntax: The view from Romanian

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/k4VN9jrfoq9z2FC9A

Adnana Boioc Apintei, Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae (Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics & University of Bucharest).

Online.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Domain Adaptation in NLP - Towards Adaptation to Any Domain

Eyal Ben-David, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Transcending Dependencies

Martha Palmer, University of Colorado.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 22 April 2021, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

Ryan McDonald (Google).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

On the phonetics and phonology of English H* and L+H* pitch accents

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/MCZQPEjAVVryicLY6

Amalia Arvaniti (Radboud University).

Online.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning language by observing the world and learning about the world from language

Aida Nematzadeh, DeepMind.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

🎈🎈🎈🥳 NLP Social Hour 🥳🎈🎈🎈

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Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 12 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Internal arguments disguised as external arguments: Lessons from an active alignment system

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/ofRcLr4aBxyZh7yP6

Dr Matthew Tyler (University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:45-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Representation Learning for Text Retrieval: Learning and Pretraining Strategies for Dense Retrieval

Unusual date and time

Chenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research).

Virtual (Zoom).

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

Note unusual time

Chenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research AI).

Virtual (Zoom).

Thursday 11 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Achieving Universality in Machine Translation: M4 - Massively Multilingual, Massive MT Models for the Next 1000 Languages

Orhan Firat, Google Research.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

[RESCHEDULED] Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP

RESCHEDULED TBD

Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 05 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Rethinking Benchmarking in AI

Douwe Kiela, Facebook AI Research.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Multiethnolects as contact languages: the case for the Jamaican influence in London

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/1RUHXqvAEkBvTAps5

Paul Kerswill (University of York).

Online.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 16:30-18:00

Second Language Education Group

Language Teacher Wellbeing: Dispelling Myths, Complexifying Constructs, and Setting an Agenda (Cambridge Distinguished Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2020-2021)

Professor Sara Mercer, University of Graz.

No list.

Monday 01 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Papers with Code and the automatic extraction of results from papers

Robert Stojnic (Facebook / Papers with Code).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 26 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The role of language professionals in minority language revitalisation: Variation in rhotic production

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/bcgdZgxu4PbNjAqn6

Dr Claire Nance (Lancaster University).

Online.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Scalable Structural Inductive Biases in Neural Language Models

Adhiguna Kuncoro, DeepMind.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

Mariam Redi (Wikimedia).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Science of Knowledge Equity - Research at Wikimedia

Miriam Redi, Diego Saez (Wikimedia Foundation).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Efficient sentence encoders for Conversational AI in the industry

Inigo Casanueva, PolyAI.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Detecting the "Fake News" Before It Was Even Written, Media Literacy, and Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19 Infodemic

Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), HBKU).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 12 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Adapters in Transformers. A New Paradigm for Transfer Learning…?

Jonas Pfeiffer, Technical University of Darmstadt.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A Graph-Based Framework for Structured Prediction Tasks in Sanskrit

Note unusual time

Amrith Krishna (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 05 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Language change in bilingual returnee children: mutual effects of bilingual experience and cognition

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/gNiWovYWud8dTQds9

Maki Kubota (UiT The Arctic University of Norway).

Online.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

From Translation Divergences to Structure-aware Neural Machine Translation

Omri Abend, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

Raising multilingual autistic children: Challenges and opportunities

Dr. Jenny Gibson and Dr. Napoleon Katsos, University of Cambridge.

On-line.

Monday 01 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning with Graphs in Natural Language Generation and Relation Extraction

Zhijiang Guo (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 29 January 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Heritage grammars and linguistic complexity: A view from grammatical gender

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/hhmex2pjepqHeZpr6

Professor Terje Lohndal (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Online.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards explainable fact checking

Prof. Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Revisiting and re-evaluating rumour stance classification

Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 22 January 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards Perfect Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Translation

Prof. Dr. Alexander Fraser, CIS, LMU Munich.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

Translanguaging: A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Claims (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy (2020-2021)

Professor Jim Cummins, University of Toronto.

On-line.

Monday 18 January 2021, 15:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Compositional Neural Meaning Representation Parsing

Weiwei Sun (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 04 December 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Focus Association with ONLY

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/By3XNQtaYLUksF1S9

Dr Ksenia Zanon (Slavonic Section MMLL, University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Pitfalls in Evaluation of Multilingual Text Representations

Goran Glavaš.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YmQyY2ViNDgtZDE1MC00MzZhLWFjZGItOWFmMjM2OTI1ZDQy%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2230bfe2fc-8896-487c-84f2-f4b8875a60b2%22%7d.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving Speech Translation with Linguistically-Informed Representations

Elizabeth Salesky (Johns Hopkins University).

Zoom.

Friday 27 November 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Voice-Prosody and Technologies to Give Voice to Endangered Languages: an Irish Perspective

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/pW2NTo3WHdVe59vD6

Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (Trinity College Dublin).

Online.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

From Sparse Modeling to Sparse Communication

André F. T. Martins.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YmQyY2ViNDgtZDE1MC00MzZhLWFjZGItOWFmMjM2OTI1ZDQy%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2230bfe2fc-8896-487c-84f2-f4b8875a60b2%22%7d.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Bilingual Brains

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/bTVzfMTKSVwyaJRHA

Professor Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong, HKU).

Online.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Understanding Event Processes in Natural Language

Muhao Chen.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NzU4Y2NiOTItYjE1My00ZDFhLWE3NTItOWVmMDU1MmNkNjU5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%227c409a60-a41c-43c1-a95a-f00471773d03%22%7d.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Second Language Education Group

English Medium Education (EME) in Basic and Higher Education: Lessons learned from across the globe

Mark Levy, John Simpson, Ann Veitch (British Council).

On-line.

Monday 16 November 2020, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Predicting Text Readability and Reading Comprehension from Reading Interactions

Sian Gooding (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 13 November 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The crucial role of truth-compatible interferences

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/jAiDPFv3tJ3XMiSb6

Mira Ariel (Tel Aviv University).

Online.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Semiparametric Language Models

Dani Yogatama.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NjYzNzQyOWUtZWM0MC00YzI5LWEwMzMtOGU0ODM4ZDU1NDcw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%227c409a60-a41c-43c1-a95a-f00471773d03%22%7d.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

How far have we come in giving our NLU systems common sense?

Note time change

Nasrin Mostafazadeh (Verneek).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 06 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The pronoun interpretation problem in bilingual Dutch-German children

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/mW1tMswxgY6Nwhug6

Petra Hendriks (University of Groningen).

Online.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Five Sources of Biases and Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them

Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 23 October 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Revisiting contact-induced change in creole languages

Please pre-register for this talk by noon on Oct 22nd https://forms.gle/4QF4qiepxGDVEWky6

Dr Oliver Mayeux (University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

What are the Goals of Distributional Semantics?

Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 16 October 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Culture, language and cognition: a methodological and theoretical exploration with reference to spatial concepts

Please register for this talk by NOON on Oct 15th

Chris Sinha (University of Hunan, University of East Anglia).

Online.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Polysemy: Pragmatics and Linguistic Conventions

Please pre-register for this event by noon on Thursday October 8th : https://forms.gle/QsDW2EdTzjNC2d6i7

Professor Robyn Carston, UCL.

Online.

Thursday 08 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards explainable fact checking

Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen).

https://meet.google.com/xkv-cako-arr.

Friday 19 June 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

[Online talk] - Iconic Plurals

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 18th of June, 12pm BST): https://www.psytoolkit.org/cgi-bin/psy2.5.3/survey?s=tuYFO -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

Prof Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS / New York University).

Online.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Achieving Verified Robustness to Adversarial NLP Inputs

Note later start

Johannes Welbl (UCL).

https://meet.google.com/tgv-vods-pdk.

Friday 12 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - Peircean Semiotics, Archaeology, and the Origin of Human Language: Was Homo erectus the first talking human?

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 11th of June, 12pm BST): https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cJeqCnIOH9BcVTv -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

Prof Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

Online.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Dr Alexandra Perovic (UCL).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

[Online talk] - Monosyllabic Salience in Cantonese: Facilitation of transference of monosyllabic English words (MEWs) into Hong Kong Cantonese-English mixed code

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 4th of June, 10am BST): https://www.psytoolkit.org/cgi-bin/psy2.5.3/survey?s=NLNKu -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

Prof David Li (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University).

Online.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 12:30-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Methodological advances in creating time sensitive sensors from language and heterogeneous user generated content

Rescheduled

Maria Liakata (Queen Mary University of London, University of Warwick, Alan Turing Institute).

https://meet.google.com/awc-wvbh-azc.

Friday 29 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong).

TBC.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - The Syntax of Verbs: Language Typology, Language Change and a little bit of Language Acquisition

Please SIGN UP for the event following the link: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_25lZ6rde33jG62h -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

Prof Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Dr Marijke De Belder (Oldenburg University).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - Linguists who use probabilistic models love them: An introduction to Functional Distributional Semantics

Please sign up via the link in order to receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_50YGCrYnFdptyU5

Dr Guy Emerson (Dept. of Computer Sciences and Technology, University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Reducing gender bias in neural machine translation as a domain adaptation problem

Online Seminar

Danielle Saunders (University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/hhk-hmiz-mpt.

Friday 01 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

[Online talk] L2 phonological learning in adults: The role of language background, age of acquisition, and exposure

To register for the online event, please follow the link below: https://www.psytoolkit.org/cgi-bin/psy2.5.3/survey?s=DszBy

Dr Job Schepens (TU Dortmund).

Online.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Intonational phonology in the light of cross-linguistic evidence of variability

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof Amalia Arvaniti (University of Kent).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, GR06/07.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Title: How Language Began: A Peircean Approach to Language Evolution

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

English Faculty Building, second floor, SR24.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 28 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Mechanisms in non-native speech perception

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Dr Sharon Peperkamp (LSCP, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Variational Smoothing in Recurrent Neural Network Language Models

Dr. Lingpeng Kong (DeepMind).

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Shaping Recommendations in a Marketplace via User & Content Understanding

Rishabh Mehrotra (Spotify).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 21 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

Professor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 17 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Beat the AI: Investigating Adversarial Human Annotations for Reading Comprehension

Max Bartolo (UCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Developing technologies for health, mental health and wellbeing

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

Rafael A. Calvo, Imperial College London.

GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 13 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

ALL WELCOME, Drinks reception from 6.30pm

Emeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Zero-shot Language Learning through Bayesian Neural Models

Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 07 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Computational Models of the Influence of Context on Sentence Acceptability

Shalom Lappin, University of Gothenburg.

GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 06 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Conveying quantity pragmatically

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Dr Chris Cummins (University of Edinburgh).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Second Language Education Group

Micro-level Language Policy and Planning: Levels, Agency and Structure (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2019-2020)

Open to staff and students of Cambridge University. Booking is required and please contact Yongcan Liu ( yl258@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Anthony J. Liddicoat, University of Warwick.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS5.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Urban Dictionary Embeddings for Slang NLP Applications

Dr Barbara McGillivray (University of Cambridge and The Alan Turing Institute).

GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 30 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

Dr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Centre of Translation Studies, University of Surrey.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Can we optimise fashion ecommerce using NLG?

Note: earlier time of 11am

Rory Waite (Emotif.ai).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 17 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Correlations Between Word Vector Sets

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

Aleksandar Savkov, Babylon.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 16 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Long Form Question Answering

Angela Fan (Facebook).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 December 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

t-glottalling, flapping and pre-glottalisation in British Englishes: patterns in phonological and social variability

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Danielle Turton (Lancaster University).

English Faculty Building, TBC.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Unsupervised cross-lingual representation learning

Room Change: LT1

Sebastian Ruder (DeepMind).

LT1, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Plurilingualism and Assessment (with reference to the new Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Companion Volume)

Dr. Nick Saville, Cambridge English Assessment.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Natural Language Understanding and Generation with Abstract Meaning Representation

Marco Damonte, the University of Edinburgh.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 21 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED Probabilistic models of graphs for meaning representations

Extra talk: note unusual day and time

Adam Lopez (University of Edinburgh).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 10:00-11:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Ethical considerations for responsible design

Room Change: LT1

Shauna Concannon (University of Cambridge).

LT1, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Sociolinguistic Vulnerability: Disaster Linguicism and Crisis Translation

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof. Federico Federici (University College London).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

BioNLP Research at Google

Ryan McDonald, Google.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2019 Specificity, Academic Writing and EAP

Professor Ken Hyland, University of East Anglia.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 11 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Multilingual Classrooms: From Conceptualisation to Implementation to Professional Development

Professor Rick de Graaff, University of Utrecht, Dr.Dieuwerke Rutgers, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 04 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A Mutual Information Maximization Perspective of Language Representation Learning

Lingpeng Kong (DeepMind).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning region based representations of categories

Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 31 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Automatic Analysis of Affect and Personality Analysis in Multiperson Settings

Hatice Gunes (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence from Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (UCL).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence from Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish

Dr. Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (UCL).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 16:00-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Unsupervised Question Answering

Patrick Lewis, UCL.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multimodal natural language processing: when text is not enough

Lucia Specia (Imperial College London).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Tensor product representations for RNNs / Revisiting post-processing for word embeddings

Shuai Tang, University of California, San Diego.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 17 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Latent Variable Models for Text Generation

Xiaoyu Shen, Saarland University / Max Planck Institute.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 10 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

‘Profit factory’ and ‘bathroom break’: How to analyse compounds and how to predict their emergence

Lonneke van der Plas (University of Malta).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 September 2019, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Promoting multilingual literacy and reader identity:Global Storybooks and open technology

Bonny Norton , FRSC, Professor and University Scholar , Department of Language & Literacy Education, UBC, Canada.

Murray Edwards College, Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 September 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language Generation in the Wild

Daniel Beck, University of Melbourne.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 05 July 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Bilingualism in the community: Code-switching and grammars in contact

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

Catherine Travis (The Australian National University).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Duolingo: Improving Language Learning and Assessment with A.I.

Burr Settles, Duolingo.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

An Operation Sequence Model for Explainable Neural Machine Translation

Felix Stahlberg, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 14 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Continuous feature structures: Can we learn structured representations with neural networks?

Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 07 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Relational knowledge in vector spaces

Luis Espinosa-Anke (University of Cardiff).

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 06 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards secure and efficient DNNs

Aaron Zhao, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 31 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Language dynamics - what we hear and how we hear it

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Prof. Anita Mehta (University of Oxford).

English Faculty Building, SR-24 (second floor).

Thursday 30 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checking

Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge).

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 30 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Mitigating Gender Bias in Morphologically Rich Languages

Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 24 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Driving a wedge between communication and language learning in autism

There will be a coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof Mikhail Kissine (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium).

Faculty of Divinity, Lecture Room 2.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Predicting and Analysing Online User Behaviour with Natural Language Processing

Nikolaos Aletras (University of Sheffield).

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

AI Extenders: The Ethical and Societal Implications of Humans Cognitively Extended by AI

Karina Vold & José Hernández-Orallo, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

On the multidimensionality of natural language semantics and the myth of conventional implicature

Dr. Yasutada Sudo (University College London).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 16 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy in conjunction with the launching of Cambridge Masterclass Series on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy

Please book with Ann Waterman on aw244@cam.ac.uk if you would like to attend

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 10:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?

in conjunction of the launching Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 13 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Factorising AMR generation through syntax

Kris Cao, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Motivations for speaker intervention in phonetic implementation: Meanings and forms

Professor Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University).

GR05, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 09 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

How to Pay Attention: Learning to Transfer Knowledge between Sentences and Tokens

Marek Rei ( University of Cambridge).

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 09 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Languages* in Formal Reasoning: Accessibility vs. Formality

Zohreh Shams, AI Group, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 03 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Word Sense Disambiguation and Other Systems in Japanese

Kanako Komiya, Ibaraki University, Japan.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 26 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The interaction between simplicity and naturalness in nominal word order typology

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Dr Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh).

English Faculty Building, GR-05 (ground floor).

Thursday 25 April 2019, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Finding translations in unordered text using multilingual sentence representations

Jenna Kanerva, University of Turku.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 04 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Disagreements in anaphoric interpretation

Massimo Poesio ( University of Essex).

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

K.A.T.E.: Scaling personalised tech education for professionals

Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Kevin Lemagnen, Sahan Bulathwela, Cambridge Spark.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

TBC

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

Dr Francesca Martina Branzi (University of Cambridge).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 07 March 2019, 18:00-19:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Improving Literature-based Discovery with Neural Networks

Gamal Crichton, Language Technology Lab.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning multi-domain dialogues

Paweł Budzianowski, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Predictors of listening comprehension skills in bilingual children

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

Prof Ludovica Serratrice (University of Reading).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 28 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Large-scale analyses of language variation and change in social media

Dong Nguyen, University of Edinburgh & Alan Turing Institute.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 22 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Seeking cross-linguistic interaction in the phonetic and phonological development of bilingual French-speaking children

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Dr Margaret Kehoe (University of Geneva) .

Gr-06/7 (English Faculty Building).

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Teaching Artificial Agents to Understand Language by Modelling Reward

Edward Grefenstette, Facebook AI Research.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Source Code using Natural Language and Graph Neural Networks

Miltos Allamanis, Microsoft Research.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Getting the gist: experience and expectation in the interpretation of novel compound nouns

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Dr Melaine Bell (Anglia Ruskin University) .

Gr-06/7 (English Faculty Building).

Thursday 14 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Do Deep Generative Models Know What They Don't Know?

Eric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and cultural knowledge in development programmes

There will be a drinks reception after the seminar

Professor Hilary Footitt, University of Reading.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 11 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning to navigate without a map (but with instructions)

Piotr Mirowski, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The Evolutionary Typology of Verbal Person-Number Indexes

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Dr Ilja Seržant (University of Leipzig).

Gr-06/7 (English Faculty Building).

Thursday 07 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Probabilistic Typology

Ryan Cotterell ( University of Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Topic-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Extreme Summarization

Shashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh / Google.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Creativity in the languages classroom: Learners' responses to literary text

Dr.Linda Fisher, University of Cambridge , Professor Suzanne Graham, Reading University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 28 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

**CANCELLED** Probabilistic Typology: Deep Generative Models of Vowel Inventories

Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning and testing compositionality

Elia Bruni, University of Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain).

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

What makes psychotherapy work? Using deep learning to quantify the relationship between therapy content and outcomes

Ronan Cummins & Michael Ewbank, Ieso Digital Health.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Room changed

Daniil Sorokin, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 30 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Linguistic Measures for the Detection of Clinical Conditions

Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, University of Essex).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Emergence of (linguistic) communication through multi-agent interactions

Angeliki Lazaridou, DeepMind.

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

EMI in Francophone Cameroon: What can we learn from victims of English?

There will be a drinks reception after the seminar

Dr. Harry Kuchah Kuchah, University of Leeds.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 19 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

The Ethics of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology

Room changed

Marcus Tomalin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 16 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Timing in dyslexia: Language, reading and writing

Professor Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Timing in dyslexia: Language, reading and writing

Professor Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning with Explanations

Tim Rocktäschel, Facebook AI Research.

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Knowledge Representation and Extraction at Scale

Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The push to pool: Testing the effects of matched and mismatched reference populations in forensic voice comparison

Dr Dominic Watt (The University of York).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 08 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings in 60 Minutes

Ivan Vulić, LTL, University of Cambridge.

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

Pardon my French! Exploring the myths and realities of Second Language Education in Canada

Dr Shawn Bullock, University of Cambridge, Dr Cecile Sabatier, Simon Fraser University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 05 November 2018, 17:30-19:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

On KL divergence and beyond

Yingzhen Li, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep learning for automatically assessing the pronunciation of non-native English speakers

Kostas Kyriakopoulos, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 26 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Representation Learning and Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language

Pasquale Minervini, University College London.

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

The role of medium of instruction for multilingual children: a study of primary school children in India".

Professor Ianthi Tsimpli, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 22 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning, Representing, and Understanding Language

Aida Nematzadeh, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 19 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

LTL Seminars 2018/2019

Practical Approaches to Conversational AI

Pei-Hao (Eddy) Su, PolyAI.

Board Room, 1st floor, English Faculty Building (Sidgwick site), 9 West Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Some lessons learned in Multimodal Representations and Transfer

Pranava Madhyastha, Imperial College London.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 12 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

LTL Seminars 2018/2019

LION-LBD: Literature-Based Discovery for Cancer Biology

Simon Baker, LTL.

Board Room, 1st floor, English Faculty Building (Sidgwick site), 9 West Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checking

Andreas Vlachos, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 05 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Language Adaptation experiments: Cross-lingual embeddings for related languages

Serge Sharoff (Leeds).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Time Management

Polly Brown, University Counselling Service.

Room B3, Institute of Criminology.

Monday 11 June 2018, 12:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Functional Distributional Semantics: Learning Linguistically Informed Representations from a Precisely Annotated Corpus

Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Want to be an academic? Learn How to track your Impact!

Research Support Librarian.

Sociology Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 12:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Methods and Interactive Tools for Exploring the Semantics of Essentially Contested Concepts

Paul Nulty (CRASSH-Cambridge).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning hierarchical structure: strong learning of PCFGs

Alexander Clark, King's College London.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Syntactic Change in Postcolonial Englishes: Substrates and Input

Prof Devyani Sharma (Queen Mary University of London).

English Faculty Building, 2nd Floor, Room 24, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 31 May 2018, 16:00-17:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Imitation learning for language generation

Gerasimos Lampouras (Sheffield).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NAACL practice talks

Simon Baker (LTL) & Marek Rei (NLIP), University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Grammatical innovations in Multicultural London English

David Hall (Queen Mary, University of London).

Room B4, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 16:30-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

The potential of synthetic data for more informative evaluation in Visual Question Answering

Alexander Kuhnle, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Emergent Communication through Negotiation

Kris Cao, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 11 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Predictive Uncertainty in Deep Learning

Andrey Malinin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 04 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Singing in tone: text-setting constraints in tone languages

Dr James Kirby (University of Edinburgh).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 03 May 2018, 16:30-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Scalable Non-Markovian Language Modelling

Ehsan Shareghi.

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual NLP via Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings

Ivan Vulic, LTL, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 27 April 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Linguistics and education: a case of mutual dependency?

Prof Richard 'Dick' Hudson.

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 26 April 2018, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Understanding Ellipsis: Corpus, Annotation, Theory

Note: This is a special out-of-term session. Note unusual time (Monday instead of Thursday)

Prof. Jim McCloskey (University of California, Santa Cruz).

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Monday 26 March 2018, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

** cancelled **

Julian Perez, Naver Labs Europe.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 23 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED - Diversity of Expression in Utterance and the Idea of Language

This talk has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

Prof Adam Kendon (University of Cambridge).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 22 March 2018, 16:30-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Knowledge Acquisition from Corpora and the Wisdom of Crowds

Daisuke Kawahara (Kyoto University).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 22 March 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Virtual bargaining as a micro-foundation for communication

Note unusual time

Professor Nick Chater, University of Warwick.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

Multilingual Identities and Heterogeneous Language Ideologies in the New Latino Diaspora

Professor Stanton Wortham, Boston College.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Jointly Learning Syntax and Semantics

Jean Maillard, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 02 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Sources of Variability in Language Activation and Control in Spanish/English bilinguals and L2 learners

Teresa Bajo, Center for Mind, Brain and Behaviour, University of Granada.

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 01 March 2018, 16:00-17:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

NLP in the clinical domain - data, approaches and considerations

Sumithra Velupillai (King's College).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 01 March 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge PhD Clinic

How to track the impact of your publications

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room B4, Institute of Criminology.

Monday 26 February 2018, 12:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Constructing datasets for multi-hop reading comprehension across documents

Johannes Welbl, University College London.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 23 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep reinforcement learning for dialogue policy optimisation

Dr Milica Gasic, Dept. Engineering, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 16 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The semantics and pragmatics of racial and ethnic language: Towards a comprehensive radical contextualist account

Dr. Roberto B. Sileo (University of Cambridge).

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 15 February 2018, 16:00-17:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Predicting Judicial Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights

Nikos Aletras (Sheffield).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Pruning and grafting syntactic trees for cross-lingual transfer tasks

Edoardo Ponti, TAL, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Third language acquisition at the initial stages: An event-related potential study probing for transfer

Jason Rothman, David Miller and Eloi Puig-Mayenco (University of Reading / UiT the Arctic University of Norway).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 08 February 2018, 16:30-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Graph Convolutional Networks for Natural Language Processing and Relational Modeling

Ivan Titov (Edinburgh).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

Changing languages in European Higher Education: from official policies to unofficial classroom practices

Dr. Emma Dafouz, Complutense University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Using quantile regression and dynamic survival analysis to study the time course of the lexical processing of complex words

Harald Baayen (University of Tübingen).

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 01 February 2018, 16:00-17:30

Second Language Education Group

Multilingual practices and attitudes among university students in Europe and the US: implications for the teaching of languages

Professor Anne Pauwels, School of Asian and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 29 January 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Grammar as a Maturationally Controlled Behavior: Minimality in language Development and Impairment

Maria Garraffa (Heriot-Watt University).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 25 January 2018, 16:30-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Interdisciplinarity: The art of unsettling multiple disciplines

Petar Milin (Sheffield).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Languages adapt to minute differences in their speakers’ ecology

Freek Van de Velde (University of Leuven).

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 18 January 2018, 16:00-17:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Context Sensitive Distributional Semantics

Stephen McGregor (TCIDA, Goldsmiths).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Senses can help vector space models of lexical substitution

Marianna Apidianaki (LIMSI).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 11 January 2018, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Sentence Generation using a Dynamic Canvas

David Barber (University College London).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 30 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Imitation learning for structured prediction and automated fact checking

Dr Andreas Vlachos, University of Sheffield.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 24 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Twitter evolution: Birdsong, speech and language

Johan Bolhuis (Utrecht University).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 November 2017, 16:30-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning to Create and Reuse Words in Open-Vocabulary Language Modeling

Kazuya Kawakami (DeepMind).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Powered by Cambridge: Devices, data and interDisciplinarity

Registration required

Saul Nassé (Cambridge Assessment).

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 17:15-18:15

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Linguistic Yardsticks: Evaluating Language Technology Using Insights from Linguistic Theory

Registration required

Laura Rimell (DeepMind).

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 16:45-17:15

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Using Social Media to Investigate Linguistic Variation and Change

Registration required

David Willis (University of Cambridge).

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 16:15-16:45

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Poster session

Registration required

Various.

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 15:30-16:15

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Poster slam

Registration required

Various.

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 15:00-15:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Individualised Language in the Big Data Era

Registration required

Paula Buttery (University of Cambridge).

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 14:30-15:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

The Use of Deep Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Registration required

Steve Young (University of Cambridge).

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 13:30-14:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal seminar - new PhD students

New NLIP PhDs.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 17 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Labelling Topics Using Neural Networks

Nikolaos Aletras, Amazon Research Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 10 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

What can online collaborative dictionaries tell us about language and social dynamics?

Barbara McGillivray (The Alan Turing Institute/University of Cambridge).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 09 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

Multilingualism in foreign language learning: students' and teachers' perspectives in the Norwegian context

Dr. Åsta Haukås, University of Bergen.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS1.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Grammar, pragmatics and referential interpretation in English

Julia Kolkmann (University of York).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 02 November 2017, 16:30-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Corpus-Based Analysis of the Canonical Word Order of Japanese Double Object Constructions

Ryohei Sasano (Nagoya University).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 02 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

Vocabulary: Principles and Practice

Professor Norbert Schmitt, University of Nottingham.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 30 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Grounded language learning in simulated worlds

Felix Hill, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 27 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards More Robust and Interpretable Models for Structured Prediction and Language Generation

Adhiguna Kuncoro, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 20 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Internal LTL Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 19 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Models for Information Retrieval

Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 13 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

The Influence of Multilingual Identity on Foreign Language Learning

AHRC MEITS Project Team, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Internal LTL Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 12 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Academic Speed Dating

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room B4, Institute of Criminology.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Detecting Semantic Change Using LDA in Historical Texts: a Case Study on Dutch

Simon Hengchen (Université libre de Bruxelles).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Text-to-text Generation Beyond Machine Translation

Shashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Detecting Text Reuse in Large Historical Corpora and Authorship Attribution of Premodern Documents

Aleksi Vesanto (University of Turku).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Tuesday 03 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Finite-State Transducers as a Theory of Dependency Structured Natural Language

Anssi Yli-Jyrä, University of Helsinki.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 22 September 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Natural Language Processing to Bridge Heterogeneous Data

Yusuke Miyao (National Institute of Informatics, Japan).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Tuesday 19 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Modeling Context-sensitive Selectional Preference with Distributed Representations

Naoya Inoue (Tohoku University, Japan).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 31 August 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep NLP in language tutoring

Francis Bond, Associate Professor at the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 16 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Linguists-defined and Machine-induced Natural Language Structures to Executable Logical Forms

Siva Reddy (Stanford University).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 15 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Predicting Rich Linguistic Structure with Neural Networks

Jan Buys, University of Oxford.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Vanishing laws of semantic change - studying semantic change using distributional word representations and proper control condition

Haim Dubossarsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Monday 12 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Functional Distributional Semantics

Guy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

How children break into language and become interesting talkers within 3 years.

Danielle Matthews (University of Sheffield).

Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 16:30-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

NLP, the perfect social (media) science?

Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Sentence-level Topic Models

Kris Cao (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 02 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Statistical Properties and Applications of Word Tensors

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 01 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Text Simplification: Where are we now, and where are we headed?

Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, University of Sheffield.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 26 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Learning Syntax with Deep Neural Networks

Shalom Lappin (University of Gothenburg, King's College London and Queen Mary University of London).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 25 May 2017, 16:30-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Location Resolution in Language Processing

Milan Gritta (University of Cambridge).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 25 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Architectures for Sequence Labelling

Marek Rei, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 19 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Reading and Reasoning with Vector Representations

Sebastian Riedel (UCL).

Lecture Block, room 2, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking using Semantically Specialised Vector Spaces

Nikola Mrskic, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 12 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Building a True Semantic World: Generalizing set-theoretic semantics in vector spaces

Eva Maria Vecchi.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 11 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Using smartphones to collect big data on English dialects

Adrian Leemann (Lancaster University).

GR06/7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 04 May 2017, 16:30-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Cross-lingual Learning 2.0

Anders Søgaard (University of Copenhagen).

GR06-7, English Faculty.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Fake News

Ella McPherson, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge; John Naughton, Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology, OU.

Room B4, Institute of Criminology.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 12:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Semantic (Vector) Representations of Word Senses, Concepts and Entities and their Applications

Jose Camacho-Collados (Sapienza University of Rome).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 20 April 2017, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Internal LTL meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 13 April 2017, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Scientific Paper Analysis: JST CREST Project of Big Data Application

Prof. Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Tuesday 28 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

A tale of one city: A sociophonetic study of 100+ years of Glaswegian vernacular

Prof Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow.

Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 16:30-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Internal LTL meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 16 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Variational Inference for NLP

Yishu Miao, University of Oxford.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 10 March 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Knowledge Base Population from Text and Graphs

Lucas Sterckx (University of Ghent).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 09 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Hierarchical Word and Sentence Representations

Dani Yogatama, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 03 March 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The (socio)linguistics of Cypriot Greek as a heritage language in present-day London

Dr Petros Karatsareas, University of Westminster.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 16:30-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Cross-linguistic Transfer of Learning Strategies between First and Foreign Language Classroom Contexts: Making a Case for a Multilingual Approach to Writing Pedagogy

Dr Karen Forbes, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 27 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

EACL potpourri

NLIP PhDs and postdocs.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 24 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Computational approaches for deciphering the regulation of cancer genomes

Shamith Samarajiwa.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 February 2017, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Ekaterina Shutova.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 16 February 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Imitation learning for language generation from unaligned data

Gerasimos Lampouras, University of Sheffield.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 10 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Challenges and opportunities in the use of Internet data for insights on medicine

Elad Yom-Tov (Microsoft Research).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 09 February 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Notes on the verbal domain in Meadow Mari

Dr Diane Nelson, University of Leeds.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 16:30-18:30

Second Language Education Group

On the Margins: Slovak Roma Children Negotiating Language and Education in Sheffield

Dr Mark Payne, University of Sheffield.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 30 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning to Generate Textual Data

Pontus Stenetorp (UCL).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 26 January 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Commonsense Event Schemas from Unlabeled Text

Nate Chambers, US Naval Academy.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 20 January 2017, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Cognitive Discourse Functions as joint concern in language and content pedagogy

Professor Christiane Dalton-Puffer, University of Vienna.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Reflections on Universal Dependencies

Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 19 January 2017, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Internal LTL meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 12 January 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Fox's son, they slept five, imitation of people: Kuikuro numerals and counting

This talk is held in conjunction with the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group (http://groups.ds.cam.ac.uk/celc/)

Bruna Franchetto (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro).

GR06/7 English Faculty.

Monday 05 December 2016, 17:15-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal Seminar pt. 2

PhD students, NLIP group.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 02 December 2016, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Misreading and language change: a foray into cognitive historical linguistics?

Sylvia Adamson (University of Sheffield, University of Cambridge).

GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 01 December 2016, 16:30-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

On-line Active Reward Learning for Policy Optimisation in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Pei-Hao Su (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Sensing well-being using heterogeneous smartphone data and stance identification in social media conversations

Maria Liakata (Warwick University).

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

Language Development and School Achievement of EAL Students: EALead Project II

EALead Project Team, University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 21 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning to Detect Stance and Represent Emojis

Isabelle Augenstein, University College London.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

A molecular genetic perspective on speech and language

Registration is required for this event

Simon Fisher (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen).

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Does natural language understanding have anything to do with understanding natural language?

Registration is required for this event

Ann Copestake.

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 16:30-17:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Poster session II

Registration is required for this event

Various.

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Natural Language Processing and online health reports (or OMG U got flu?)

Registration is required for this event

Nigel Collier & Anna Korhonen.

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 15:00-15:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Language dynamics: a neurocognitive approach to incremental interpretation

Registration is required for this event

Lorraine K. Tyler.

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Poster session I

Registration is required for this event

Various.

The Old Library, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:30-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Industrial NLP Applications of Machine Learning in Different Domains

Jochen Leidner (Thomson Reuters).

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 17 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Recommending relevant citations using CoreSC and Argumentative Zoning

Daniel Duma, University of Edinburgh.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 11 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Monolingual and multilingual, explicit and latent vector representations of meaning

Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome).

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 10 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Open Source for NLP

Open Source and NLP

A special one day workshop.

Ann Copestake (Cambridge), Aurelie Herbelot (Trento), Diana Maynard (Sheffield), Behrang QasemiZadeh (Düsseldorf), Nandaja Varma, Esther Seyffarth (Düsseldorf), Hrishikesh K.B. (Swathanthra Malayalam Computing).

Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 09:00-17:00

Second Language Education Group

Lexical Patterns of Austerity in UK Broadsheet Text 2007-15

Dr Mike Scott, Aston University and Lexical Analysis Software Ltd..

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 07 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Creativity and discourse strategies in recent Spanish social protest movements

Manuela Romano Mozo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid).

GR06/7 English Faculty.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 16:30-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Biomedical Text Mining: Structuring the Unstructured

David Milward (Linguamatics).

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 03 November 2016, 11:00-12:00