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 Senyu Li 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
| Date @ Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 13 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | Roundtable Discussion |
| Feb 20 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | Internal Panel on Reasoning Diversity hosted by David Austin |
| Feb 27 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | TBD |
| Mar 6 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | TBD |
| Mar 13 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | Internal Presentation Practice |
| Mar 20 @ 2PM | Johnny Wei | TBD |
| Mar 27 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | TBD |
| Apr 3 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | TBD |
| Apr 10 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | Internal Presentation Practice |
| Apr 17 @ 2PM | Jieyu Zhao | TBD |
| Apr 24 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | TBD |
| May 8 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | TBD |
| May 15 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | TBD |
| May 22 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | TBD |
| May 29 @ 2PM | Shalom Lappin | TBD |
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:
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The organizers are listed based on the alphabetic order of their first name. ↩