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, Cesare Spinoso, David Austin, Senyu Li, and Ziling Cheng1. They will be taking monthly turns organizing the reading group and its related activities. The organizer for the month of June is Andrei and the meta-organizer is Cesare.
For more information about the reading group or for requests to join the mailing list, send an e-mail to the organizers at compling-owner at cs dot mcgill dot ca. For spam filtering reasons, you will need to reply to a confirmation e-mail. Note that this mailing list is used for people outside of Mila. If you already have a Mila email, you will automatically receive reading group announcements through the mila-event-announcement mailing list.
Schedule
For the Summer 2025 semester, the reading group will meet on Fridays at 1PM. Meetings will be held in a hybrid fashion. More information including room locations, Zoom link and Google calendar link will be found in the emails we will send announcing speakers/discussion topics both to the Mila-wide email and the CompLing mailing list. Below is a tentative schedule of speakers/topics for the semester. It is actively updated. All times are in ET.
| Date @ Time | Speaker(s) | Topic | More Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 13 @1PM | Several Mila students | Lightning talks of NLP research at Mila | See email |
| June 20 @1PM | Gaurav Sahu | LitLLMs, LLMs for Literature Review: Are we there yet? | click here |
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) and Ori Ernst (2024 to 2025).
Archive
Previous semester schedules of the reading group:
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The organizers are listed based on the alphabetic order of their first name. ↩