Reading Group

The McGill NLP reading group hosts speaker presentations and NLP-related discussions in a hybrid fashion at Mila. It is called the McGill NLP reading group for historical reasons, but actively gathers NLP researchers from different Mila-affiliated research institutes across Montreal (McGill University, University of Montreal, etc.).

Admin

The current organizers are Andrei Mircea, Senyu Li, Tomás Vergara Browne and Ziling Cheng1.

Recordings

Some (but not all) of our previous talks can be found on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@McGillNLP

Schedule

To be decided.

History

The McGill NLP reading group was originally started by Prof. Jackie Cheung in the summer of 2015 at McGill and was originally called the Computational Linguistics (CompLing) reading group. In 2019, the CompLing reading group (McGill-specific) merged with the Language Understanding reading group (Mila-wide) to become what it is today. Previous reading group organizers have been: Jackie Cheung (2015), Jad Kabbara (2016), Ali Emami (2017), Yue Dong (2018), Kushal Arora (2019), Aishik Chakraborty (2020), Ian Porada (2021), Arian Hosseini (2019 to 2023), Vaibhav Adlakha (2022 to 2024), Ori Ernst (2024 to 2025) and Cesare Spinoso-Di Piano (2024 to 2025).

Archive

Previous semester schedules of the reading group:

  1. The organizers are listed based on the alphabetic order of their first name. ↩