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.).
Organizers
The current organizers are Cesare Spinoso, Ori Ernst, Vaibhav Adlakha and Arian Hosseini. 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. 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 list.
Schedule
For the Summer 2024 semester, the reading group will meet every other Monday starting April 22nd at 11AM (with some exceptions to be expected). 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. All times are in EST.
| Date @ Time | Speaker(s) | Topic | More Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 18 @ 11:00 | Lili Mou | Multi-Teacher Distillation | click here |
| April 22 @ 11:00 | Piotr Nawrot | Dynamic Memory Compression | click here |
| Tuesday May 14 @ 10:00 | Ehud Reiter | High-Quality Human Evaluation of Generated Texts | click here |
| May 20 @ 11:00 | Tianbao Xie | An Overview of Digital Agents | 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 Hossein (2019 to Present) and Vaibhav Adlakha (2022 to Present).
Archive
Previous semesters of the reading group may be found here.