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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Carlos Gemmell, University of Glasgow.

English Faculty Building, second floor, SR24.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Probabilistic Typology

Ryan Cotterell ( University of Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

User-generated content mining: From collective disease rates to individual demographics

Vasileios Lampos (UCL).

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 27 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Nursing Turing's Child: How to Grow Communication-based Intelligent Machines

Marco Baroni (University of Trento/Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research).

GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Monday 24 October 2016, 15:30-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Building and using the Finnish Internet Parsebank

Filip Ginter (University of Turku).

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 20 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Internal LTL meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 13 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Multiword Expressions and Compositionality Detection: Giving Word Embeddings a Hard Time

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

GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 06 October 2016, 11:00-12:00