Schedule

date presenters content readings
Jan 28 marine Introduction
Jan 30 quizz
Feb 4 marine Neural Language Models Neubig 2017 ch6
Feb 6 marine Subwords, Encoder-decoder models Neubig 2017 ch7-8, Sennrich et al. 2016
Feb 11 marine Self-attention Rush 2018
Feb 13 marine Evaluation Papineni et al. 2002, Reiter 2018
Feb 18 Lang in 10: group work prep
Feb 20 all Lang in 10: presentations
Feb 25 marine How good are state-of-the-art models? Weaver 1949, Koehn and Knowles 2017, Toral et al. 2018
Feb 27 marine How good are state-of-the-art models? Weaver 1949, Koehn and Knowles 2017
Mar 3 students (2) Data Matters Khayrallah et al. 2018, Mielke et al. 2019
Mar 5 students (2) Data Matters, Diversity and Latent Variable Models Bogoychev et al. 2019, Shen et al. 2019
Mar 10 students (2) Diversity and Latent Variable Models Shu et al. 2019, Gu et al. 2017
Mar 12 Project: pitch prep and q&a
Mar 17 Spring break
Mar 19 Spring break
Mar 24 No class
Mar 26 No class
Mar 31 marine, students (1) Alignment, Diversity and Latent Variable Models Ippolito et al. 2019
Apr 2 students (2) Combining Symbolic and Neural Models, Diversity Arthur et al. 2016, Shu et al. 2019
Apr 7 students (2) Combining Symbolic and Neural Models Post et al. 2018, Tang et al. 2016
Apr 9 students (2) Combining Symbolic and Neural Models Stengel-Eskin et al. 2019, Knowles et al.
Apr 14 project proposal prep
Apr 16 students (1) Optimization Wiseman et al. 2016
Apr 21 students (2) Optimization Shen et al. 2016, Edunov et al. 2018
Apr 23 students (2) Discourse Bawden et al. 2018, Tu et al. 2018
Apr 28 students (2) Discourse Maruf et al. 2018, Voita et al. 2018
Apr 30 students (2) Multitask and Multilingual learning Arivazhagan et al. 2019, Al-Shedivat et al. 2019
May 5 students (2) Multitask and Multilingual learning Liu et al. 2020, Zaremoodi et al. 2018
May 7 students (2) Beyond Denotation in Cross-Lingual Models Rashkin et al. 2017, Tsvetkov et al. 2014
May 12 students (2) Beyond Denotation in Cross-Lingual Models Mohammad et al. 2016, Toral et al. 2018
May 20 10:30a-12:30p all Project presentations