NLP Reading Group at Stony Brook

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 2024

Time: Fridays 1:00pm  - 1:50pm

Location: New Computer Science 220

Themes: TBD

Organizer:  Sid Mangalik (Tentative)

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)

Fall 2019

Time: Fridays @ 1:00pm

Location: New Computer Science 220

Organizer: Radhika Gaonkar (first two weeks) and Harsh Trivedi (later)

Topics of Interest: 

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:

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: 

Click here to see the sign up sheet and presented papers.

 

Faculty Organizers: 

H. Andrew Schwartz

Niranjan Balasubramanian