Natural Language Processing Seminar

Winter Semester 2023/2024

Wednesdays, 10am -- Start Date: October 18, 2023

October 18, 2023
No meeting - ILKA talk by Flavia Sciolette at 5.30pm

October 25, 2023
No meeting - session has been preponed to Sept 27 (Lilian Wanzare)

Nov 1, 2023
Holiday

Nov 8, 2023
Reading Session: Friedrich/Prange
This week, we will discuss two outstanding papers from ACL 2023. Entity Tracking in Language Models (Kim & Schuster, ACL 2023)
What’s the Meaning of Superhuman Performance in Today’s NLU? (Tedeschi et al., ACL 2023)

Nov 15, 2023
Reading Session: Zarcone/Ventura
World-to-Words: Grounded Open Vocabulary Acquisition through Fast Mapping in Vision-Language Models (Ma et al., ACL 2023)
Talk like a Graph: Encoding Graphs for Large Language Models (Fatemi et al., 2023)

Nov 22, 2023
Guest talk by Sophie Henning (Bosch/LMU): Uncertainty and Confidence Modeling for Deep Learning in NLP

Nov 29, 2023
Research Updates: Christian Chiarcos
Introducing the Augsburg Corpus of Reference and Information Structure (AURIS)

Dec 6, 2023
Jakob Prange: Neuro-symbolic Models for Constructing, Comparing, and Combining Syntactic and Semantic Representations

Dec 13, 2023
Veronika Gacia: The use of the pluperfect tense in narrative and non-narrative texts (corpus linguistic research)
Christian Chiarcos: Creating and using large-scale lexical knowledge graphs from heterogeneous sources

Dec 20, 2023
PhD Updates
Lukas Christ: Affective Computing, Emotion Recognition,
Viviana Ventura:Human-Computer Interaction and Visual Question Answering

Jan 10, 2023
Master thesis presentation: Steffen Kleinle: Mulitlingual QA in a German Migration Context
Research Update: Tobias HallmenThe KodiLL project

Jan 17, 2023
PhD Update Reports: Timo + Wei

Jan 24, 2023
PhD Update Reports: Zahra + Valentin

Jan 31, 2023
External Guest Speaker: Diego Frassinelli (LMU München) The concreteness of words and concepts: Integrating human ratings, textual co-occurrences, and visual representations

Feb 7, 2023
Discussion + Breakfast


Contact (WS 2023/24): Annemarie Friedrich (firstname dot lastname at uni minus a dot de)