The Natural Language Processing reading group at Stony Brook University meets weekly to discuss recent research papers in NLP and related fields.
Email List: join the Google Group.
Spring 2025
Time: Thursdays 11:30am - 12:20pm
Location: New Computer Science 220
Themes: Complex Reasoning, RL, Test-time Scaling, Explainability, Interpretability, Machines' behavior, Evaluation
Organizer: Pegah
Fall 2024
Time: Thursdays 11:30am - 12:30pm
Location: New Computer Science 220
Themes: Agentic Models (using complex reasoning, tasks that help humans), Vision/Multimodal NLP, Morphology and Phonology
Organizer: John M.
Spring 2024
Time: Fridays 1:00pm - 1:50pm
Location: New Computer Science 220
Themes: TBD
Organizer: Sid Mangalik
Fall 2023
Time: Fridays @ 1:00pm (Pizza at 12:45!)
Location: New Computer Science 220
Themes: Methodologies, Human factors, LegalNLP
Organizer: Sid Mangalik
Spring 2023
Time: Fridays @ 10:00am (Coffee at 9:45!)
Location: New Computer Science 220
Themes: To be determined.
Spring 2021
Time: Fridays @ 1:00pm
Location: New Computer Science 215 (or Remote - details sent to email list)
Organizer: Mahnaz Koupaee
Spring 2021
Time: Fridays @ 1:00pm
Location: New Computer Science 220 (or Remote)
Organizer: Linh Pham, Huy Vu
Fall 2020
Time: Fridays @ 1:00pm
Location: New Computer Science 220 (or Remote)
Spring 2020
Time: Fridays @ 1:00pm
Location: New Computer Science 220
Organizer: Huy Vu
Topics of Interest: (Candidates)
Understanding neural models -- interpretability, and explainable models.
Compositionality and systematic generalization in NLP
Causality in NLP
Designing datasets
Controllable Language Generation
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Fall 2019
Time: Fridays @ 1:00pm
Location: New Computer Science 220
Organizer: Radhika Gaonkar (first two weeks) and Harsh Trivedi (later)
Topics of Interest:
Representation learning for NLP (with respect to Transfer learning)
Longitudinal Analysis - Time series for NLP
NLP for Psychology or Social Science
You can see the scheduled presentation and/or sign up for a presentation here.
List of potential papers for presentation will be updated soon.
Transformers: Many of the papers we will read utilize transformers. We went over these in the first meeting, but the following background may be helpful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDulhoQ2pro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-CspeZ8FHc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vcj8kSwBCY
https://papers.nips.cc/paper/7181-attention-is-all-you-need.pdf
If above all feels foreign, please start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEMJRjEdNzM
Spring 2019
Time: Fridays @ 1:00pm
Location: New Computer Science 220
Organizer: Mohaddeseh Bastan
Topics of Interest (TBD; this is from the Spring):
This semester the presentation topics are in the following categories:
Common Sense Knowledge:
Event Representation
Multi Module Methods in NLP
Visual Questions Answering
Representation Learning for NLP:
Pre-training
VAEs
Linguistic based Models
Neural Network Architectures ( Recurrent Entity Models, Hierarchical Models, ... )
Longitudinal/Time Series Problem in NLP
You can see the scheduled presentation and/or sign up for a presentation here.
List of potential papers for presentation can be found here.
Fall 2018
Time: Fridays @ 1:00pm
Location: New Computer Science 220
(located on the south ("pond-side") of the building, first floor, down the hall)
Organizer: Youngseo Son
Topics of Interest (tentative):
Anything natural language processing related (if someone else's work, prefer reputable conference (NAACL, ACL, EMNLP, EACL, COLing CONLL) or journal (CL, TACL). Some ideas of areas:
question answering / knowledge and event extraction
human-centered NLP
semantic parsing into logical form
discourse relations
word/sentence vector/embeddings
language generation
NLP for social scientific discovery
language across time and networks
Click here to see the sign up sheet and presented papers.
Faculty Organizers: