Article Presentation

The research article presentation is an activity where project teams read an article of their choice and present it to the class. The article can be on any aspect of natural language processing. It does not have to be related to the team’s project. You will read the article, identify the central points of the research, and present that research to the class. You will also comment on research article presentations of fellow students.

• After forming your project team, select an article for presentation and put the title and link on the shared spreadsheet. Make sure that no other team has selected the same article (the earlier you choose, the more options are available to you).

• The article must be from the following top-tier Natural Language Processing venues of 2021: ACL; EACL; NAACL; TACL; EMNLP; Findings of ACL; Findings of EMNLP. From the above venues you may select any article in the main conference, but not from the associated workshops.

• Pick an article which has an interesting theme, point, or result. If you cannot identify an interesting theme, point, or result in the article, choose a different article.

• The theme for the presentation does not have to cover the entire article.

• Remember that the audience would like to learn something new and interesting. Pick a theme that can be presented within the allotted time to an audience with the background covered in class.

• You have a slot of 5 minutes. The presentation is limited to 5 slides, strictly 1 minute per slide.

• Practice your presentation to make sure it fits within the allotted time.

• Presentations should involve the entire project team; practice your transitions accordingly.

• Remember that the conversation should revolve about the content of research in the article, not about the slides.

• The audience has not read the article: assume no prior knowledge of the topic on their part. You may assume knowledge of all the methods and techniques covered in class, but not much beyond that; if the article uses a new method or technique, explain it.

• Concentrate on presenting the main idea of the article. Present enough details and results to support the main idea, but don’t get into such detail that the main idea gets lost.

• Explain the linguistic side of what the article is trying to accomplish; you may need to explain a little about the language that is the object of study.

• The final minute/slide of the presentation should include some critical evaluation of the article’s content. This is your evaluation of the article, not the article’s evaluation section. The critique should relate to content, not writing style. Some examples:

  • Did you notice any flaws in the reasoning, evidence, conclusions?

  • Do you know of other facts that are relevant to this study?

  • Does this relate to something else you have studied or observed?

  • Can you think of a good follow-up?

• Submit a summary of 10 student presentations (other than your own).

• The summary of each presentation should be about 3 sentences, covering the main takeaways from the presentation.

• Summaries are individual: each student should submit their own summaries.

• 20% Organization of presentation.

• 20% Delivery of presentation.

• 20% Focus on the main takeaways from the article.

• 20% Critical evaluation of the article.

• 20% Summary of other student presentations.