Summer 2024

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
June 27 @1PM	Diganta Misra	Using Shapley interactions to understand how models use structure	click here
July 11 @1PM	Cesare Spinoso and Wanru Zhao	(RSA)²: A Rhetorical-Strategy-Aware Rational Speech Act Framework for Figurative Language Understanding and Data Curation, Curriculum, and Cascade Serving for Better Small Language Models	click here for Cesare’s talk and click here for Wanru’s talk
July 18 @1PM	Verna Dankers	Memorisation meets compositionality in natural language processing	click here
July 22 @10AM	Thomas Hildebrandt	XHAILe: Explainable Hybrid AI for Computational Law and Accurate Legal Chatbots	click here