Friday Activities

The computational linguistics seminars usually take place on Fridays at 13.15 pm in room 9-3042, while group meetings and reading groups take place at 11.00. Exceptions are made when the department board has its meetings. These Fridays, there is only a seminar or a group meeting at 13.15 pm.

As of January 15th, 2021 --- and until further notice --- seminars will be held entirely online, via zoom.

You can find suggestions for reading group articles on the google doc .

For questions about this page, contact Artur Kulmizev.

Spring 2021

Date	Time	Program	Room
22 Jan	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
22 Jan	15:15-17.00	Miguel Ballesteros	Zoom
29 Jan	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	Zoom
5 Feb	11:00-12.00	Reading group: UDapter: Language Adaptation for Truly Universal Dependency Parsing	Zoom
12 Feb	-	No activity	-
19 Feb	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	Zoom
26 Feb	11:00-12.00	Reading group: On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?	Zoom
5 Mar	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
5 Mar	14:30-15.45	Siva Reddy	Zoom
12 Mar	-	No activity	-
19 Mar	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	Zoom
26 Mar	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Enabling Language Models to Fill in the Blanks	Zoom
2 Apr	-	Good Friday	-
9 Apr	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Character-level Convolutional Networks for Text Classification	Zoom
9 Apr	13:15-14.30	Raazesh Sainudiin	Zoom
16 Apr	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
16 Apr	13:15-14.30	Jussi Karlgren	Zoom
23 Apr	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	Zoom
30 Apr	-	Valborg	-
7 May	11:00-12.00	Reading group	Zoom
7 May	13:15-14.30	Murathan Kurfali	Zoom
14 May	-	Ascension	-
21 May	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	Zoom
28 May	11:00-12.00	Reading group	Zoom
28 May	13:15-14.30	Barbara Plank	Zoom
2 Jun	10:00-16:00	Master's thesis seminars	Zoom
3 Jun	10:00-16:00	Master's thesis seminars	Zoom
4 Jun	10:00-16:00	Master's thesis seminars	Zoom
4 Jun	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
11 Jun	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	Zoom
11 Jun	13:15-14.30	Ahmed Ruby	Zoom

Autumn 2020

Date	Time	Program	Room
21 Aug	13:15-15.00	Mock Defence: Gongbo Tang	Zoom
4 Sep	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
4 Sep	13:15-15.00	~~Seminar~~	9-3042
11 Sep	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	9-2029
11 Sep	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Daniel Dakota What’s in a Span? Evaluating Constituency Span-Based Multilingual Parsing	9-3042 & Zoom
18 Sep	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Ellinor Lindqvist The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World	9-2029 & Zoom
18 Sep	13:15-15.00	~~Seminar~~	~~9-3042~~
25 Sep	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Anders Hast, Robin Strand and Carolina Wählby Presentations of the Visual Information and Interaction group from the IT department	2-0024 & Zoom
2 Oct	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Gongbo Tang In Neural Machine Translation, What Does Transfer Learning Transfer?	9-2029 & Zoom
2 Oct	Note: 15:00-16.00	Seminar: AI4Research Opening	Zoom
9 Oct	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	9-2029 & Zoom
~~9 Oct~~	~~13:15-15.00~~	~~Seminar~~	~~Zoom~~
16 Oct	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
16 Oct	13:00-16:30	Language Bank Workshop	Zoom
23 Oct	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Joakim Nivre On the Importance of Subword Information for Morphological Tasks in Truly Low-Resource Languages	9-2029 & Zoom
23 Oct	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Richard Johansson Language models and structured knowledge: an overview of recent developments	Zoom
30 Oct	13.15-15.00	All Saints' Eve	-
6 Nov	11:00-12.00	~~Reading group~~	9-2029 & Zoom
6 Nov	13:15-15.00	~~Seminar~~	9-3042 & Zoom
9 Nov	14:15-16.00	Seminar: Joakim Presentation at the IT group	Zoom
13 Nov	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	Zoom
13 Nov	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Artur Kulmizev Transformer Guts: The Search for Syntax	Zoom
20 Nov	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Artur Kulmizev Identifying Elements Essential for BERT’s Multilinguality	Zoom
20 Nov	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Magnus Sahlgren and Ariel Ekgren GPT-3, the latest evolution in language technology – What is the big deal?	Zoom
27 Nov	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
25-27 Nov	Full Day	Seminar: SLTC	Online
3 Dec	14:30-16.30	PhD Defence: Gongbo Tang	Ihresalen & Zoom
4 Dec	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Ahmed Ruby Learning Spoken Language Representations with Neural Lattice Language Modeling	Zoom
11 Dec	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	Zoom
11 Dec	Note: 15:30-16.45	Seminar: Sandra Kübler Abusive Language Detection: A Closer Look	Zoom

Spring 2020

Date	Time	Program	Room
30 Jan (Thu)	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Sara Stymne: Annotation of Swedish verbal MWEs in the Parseme framework	3-0012
7 Feb	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	9-2029
7 Feb	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Oscar Täckström Applying machine learning to personalize human learning	9-3042
14 Feb	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Artur Kulmizev Designing and Interpreting Probes with Control Tasks	9-2029
21 Feb	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Harald Hammarström How Well-Described is a Language? Multilingual Measuring of Grammatical Descriptions	9-3042
6 Mar	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
6 Mar	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Eric Cullhed Thick concepts and values	9-3042
13 Mar	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	9-2029
13 Mar	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Sofia Strömbergsson Children’s misarticulations and their linguistic consequences	9-3042
20 Mar	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Ellinor Lindqvist Targeted Topic Modeling for Focused Analysis	Zoom ~~9-2029~~
~~20 Mar~~	~~13:15-15.00~~	~~Seminar~~	~~9-3042~~
~~27 Mar~~	~~11:00-12.00~~	~~Reading group~~	~~9-2029~~
~~27 Mar~~	~~13:15-15.00~~	~~Seminar~~	~~9-3042~~
3 Apr	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	Zoom ~~9-2029~~
3 Apr	13:15-15.00	postponed ~~COLING paper clinic~~	~~9-3042~~
10 Apr	13:15-15.00	Easter	9-3042
17 Apr	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
~~17 Apr~~	13:15-15.00	postponed ~~Seminar: Upcerg group~~	~~9-3042~~
24 Apr	10:00-11.00	Group meeting	Zoom
24 Apr	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Gongbo Tang Acquiring Knowledge from Pre-trained Model to Neural Machine Translation	Zoom
~~24 Apr~~	13:15-15.00	postponed ~~Seminar: Jussi Karlgren~~	~~9-3042~~
1 May	13:15-15.00	Labour Day	9-3042
8 May	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	Zoom
8 May	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Ellinor Lindqvist NLP for historical texts	Zoom
15 May	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Fredrik Wahlberg Practical Bayesian Optimization of Machine Learning Algorithms	Zoom
~~15 May~~	~~13:15-15.00~~	~~Seminar~~	~~9-3042~~
22 May	13:15-15.00	Ascension	9-3042
29 May	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Joakim Nivre Representations of Syntax [MASK] Useful: Effects of Constituency and Dependency Structure in Recursive LSTMs	Zoom
29 May	13:00-15.00	Group meeting/EMNLP paper clinic	Zoom
~~29 May~~	~~13:15-15.00~~	postponed ~~Seminar: Anders Hast, Robin Strand and Carolina Wählby~~	~~9-3042~~
5 Jun	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
~~5 Jun~~	~~13:15-15.00~~	~~Seminar~~	~~9-3042~~
12 Jun	9:30-10.30	Group meeting	Zoom
12 Jun	13:15-14:30	Seminar: Sidsel Boldsen Modelling language change within historical text corpora	Zoom

Autumn 2019

Date	Time	Program	Room
22 Aug (Thu)	13:00-14.00	SyntaxFest practice talk	9-3042
23 Aug	13:15-15.00	Mock defence: Miryam de Lhoneux	9-3042
6 Sep	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
6 Sep	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Artur Kulmizev, Three Case Studies in Computational Linguistics	9-3042
13 Sep	13:15-15.00	Reports from conferences and summer schools	9-3042
20 Sep	13:15-14.15	Reading group: Artur Kulmizev Information-theoretic locality properties of natural language	9-3042
27 Sep	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Gongbo Tang, Assessing the Ability of Self-Attention Networks to Learn Word Order	9-2029
4 Oct	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	9-2029
~~4 Oct~~	~~13:15-15.00~~	~~Seminar: Oliver Glant, Language Technology in Law Enforcement~~	~~6-0031~~
8 Oct (Tue)	14:15-15.00	Docent Lecture: Sara Stymne, Syntactic Parsing across Languages and Domains	16-0054
9 Oct (Wed)	15:15-17.00	Seminar: Roni Katzir, Representing and learning phonological knowledge	2-1024
18 Oct	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
25 Oct	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Miryam de Lhoneux, Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP	9-2029
25 Oct	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Gongbo Tang, Understanding neural machine translation by simplification and probing tasks	9-3042
29 Oct (Tue)	10:00-11.00	Dry-run EMNLP	9-2029
8 Nov	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	9-2029
8 Nov	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Joakim Nivre, Is the End of Supervised Parsing in Sight – Twelve Years Later	9-3042
14 Nov (Thu)	11:00-12.00	Docent Lecture: Christian Hardmeier, Gender Bias as an Issue in Natural Language Processing	6-0022
15 Nov	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Ali Basirat, Multilingual Factor Analysis	9-2029
22 Nov	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Ellinor Lindqvist, Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of Contextualized Embeddings for Sequence Labeling	9-2029
25 Nov (Mon)	13:15-15.00	PhD defence: Miryam de Lhoneux	Bertil Hammer Blåsenhus
26 Nov (Tue)	10:15-12.30	Lectures on Language Technology	16-0043
29 Nov	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
29 Nov	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Daniel Hershcovich, Universal Meaning Representation Parsing	9-3042
3 Dec	13:15-15.00	Kyoko Sugisaki, Bridging gaps between language study and language technology	22-1009
6 Dec	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	9-2029
6 Dec	13:15-15.00	Staffan Larsson, Meaning as Coordinated Compositional Classification	9-3042
13 Dec	11:00-12.00	Reading group, Sara Stymne, Choosing Transfer Languages for Cross-Lingual Learning	9-2029
13 Dec	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Beáta Megyesi, DECRYPT: Decryption of Historical Manuscripts	9-3042

Spring 2019

Date	Time	Program	Room
25 Jan	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	9-2029
25 Jan	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Gong Zhengxian, Research on Some Key Aspects of Document-level Neural Machine Translation	9-3042
1 Feb	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
1 Feb	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Måns Magnusson	9-3042
8 Feb	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Miryam de Lhoneux Analysis Methods in Neural Language Processing: A Survey	9-2029
8 Feb	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Marc Tang, Predicting speech errors in Mandarin based on word frequency	9-3042
15 Feb	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	9-2029
15 Feb	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Harald Hammarström, Deep and Shallow in Automated Cognate Detection	9-3042
22 Feb	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Joakim Nivre Stack-Pointer Networks for Dependency Parsing	9-2029
22 Feb	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Staffan Truvé, How to build a threat intelligence machine	9-3042
1 Mar	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Artur Kulmizev StructVAE: Tree-structured Latent Variable Models for Semi-supervised Semantic Parsing	9-2029
1 Mar	13:15-15.00	ACL paper clinic	9-3042
8 Mar	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
8 Mar	13:15-16:15	Lectures on linguistics and language technology	6-0031
15 Mar	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Gongbo Tang Context-Aware Self-Attention Networks	9-2029
15 Mar	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Sasha Berdicevskis, Do morphological oppositions obey the principle of least effort? Quantitative evidence from 60 languages	9-3042
22 Mar	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	9-2029
22 Mar	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Isabelle Augenstein, Natural Language Understanding with Limited Training Data	9-3042
~~29 Mar~~	~~11:00-12.00~~	~~Reading group~~	~~9-2029~~
29 Mar	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Ryan Cotterell, Mitigating Gender Bias in Morphologically Rich Languages	9-3042
5 Apr	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	9-2029
5 Apr	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Paola Merlo, Probing word and sentence embeddings for long-distance dependencies effects in French and English	9-3042
12 Apr	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
12 Apr	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Bill Croft, Linguistic Typology Meets Universal Dependencies: Issues in Teaching and Annotating Syntax	7-0042
19 Apr	13.15-15.00	Easter	9-3042
26 Apr	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Christian Hardmeier, Comparative concepts and language-specific categories: Theory and practice (see email for pdf)	9-2029
26 Apr	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Dirk Hovy, Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them	9-3042
3 May	11:00-12.00	Reading group, Artur Kulmizev A Structural Probe for Finding Syntax in Word Representations	9-2029
3 May	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Shalom Lappin, Modelling the Influence of Context on Sentence Acceptability	9-3042
10 May	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	9-2029
17 May	11:00-12.00	EMNLP paper clinic	9-2029
17 May	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Jamie Henderson, Learning Vector Representations of Abstraction with Entailment-Based Distributional Semantics	9-3042
24 May	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
31 May	13.15-15.00	Ascension	9-3042
7 Jun	13.15-15.00	National Holiday	9-3042
~~14 Jun~~	~~11:00-12.00~~	~~Group meeting~~	~~9-2029~~

Autumn 2018

Date	Time	Program	Room
31 Aug	13:15-15:00	Group Meeting	9-3042
7 Sep	15:15-17.00	Seminar: Devdatt Dubhashi	9-3042
8 Sep	10:15	Ali Basirat, Thesis Defence: Principal Word Vectors	Humanistiska teatern
~~14 Sep~~	~~13:15-14:15~~	~~Group Meeting~~	~~9-3042~~
21 Sep	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Jussi Karlgren	9-3042
28 Sep	13:15-14.15	Group Meeting	9-3042
~~5 Oct~~	~~13:15-15.00~~	~~Seminar~~	~~9-3042~~
12 Oct	13:15-14.15	Reading Group: Joakim Nivre Deep Contextualized Word Representations	9-3042
19 Oct	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Gongbo Tang	9-3042
26 Oct	13:15-15.00	Seminar: Practice Talks for EMNLP	9-3042
2 Nov		No Meeting (EMNLP)
9 Nov		No Meeting (SLTC)
16 Nov	13:15-14.15	Reading group, Gongbo Tang Uncovering divergent linguistic information in word embeddings with lessons for intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation	9-3042
23 Nov	13:15-15.00	Seminar: David Vilares: Fast Natural Language Parsing	9-3042
30 Nov	13:15-14.15	Group Meeting	9-3042
~~7 Dec~~	~~13:15-14.15~~	~~Reading group~~	~~9-3042~~
~~14 Dec~~	~~13:15-14.15~~	~~Reading group~~	~~9-3042~~

Spring 2018

Date	Time	Program	Room
19 Jan	11:00-12:00	Group Meeting	9-2029
19 Jan	13:15-16:15	Lectures on Language Technology	22-0031
20 Jan	10:15	Marie Dubremetz, Thesis Defence: Detecting Rhetorical Figures Based on Repetition of Words: Chiasmus, Epanaphora, Epiphora.	Humanistiska teatern
26 Jan	11:00-12.00	Reading group, Gongbo Tang What does attention in neural machine translation pay attention to?	9-2029
26 Jan	13.15-15.00	Seminar	9-3042
2 Feb	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
2 Feb	13.15-15.00	Seminar	9-3042
9 Feb	11:00-12.00	Group Meeting	9-2029
9 Feb	13.15-15.00	Seminar: Robert Östling	9-3042
14 Feb	13.15-15.00	Mock defence: Ali Basirat	9-3042
16 Feb	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Gongbo Tang Six Challenges for Neural Machine Translation	9-2029
16 Feb	13.15-15.00	Seminar: Sarah Allison	9-3042
23 Feb	11:00-12.00	Group Meeting	9-2029
23 Feb	13.15-15.00	Seminar	9-3042
2 Mar	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Yan Shao Learning structured prediction models: a large margin approach	9-2029
2 Mar	13.15-15.00	Seminar: Eva Vanmassenhove	9-3042
9 Mar	11:00-12.00	Group Meeting	9-2029
9 Mar	13.15-15.00	Seminar	9-3042
16 Mar	11:00-12.00	Group Meeing	9-2029
16 Mar	13.15-15.00	Mock defence: Yan Shao	9-3042
23 Mar	11:00-12.00	Group Meeting	9-2029
23 Mar	13.15-15.00	Seminar: Gong Zhengxian	9-3042
30 Mar	13.15-15.00	Långfredag	9-3042
6 Apr	10:00-11:00	Seminar: Ieva Bumbulienė	9-2029
6 Apr	11:00-12:00	Reading Group: Yan Shao Achieving Human Parity on Automatic Chinese to English News Translation	9-2029
6 Apr	13.15-15.00	Seminar: Margita Šoštarić	9-3042
13 Apr	11:00-12.00	Group Meeting	9-2029
13 Apr	13.15-15.00	Seminar	9-3042
19 Apr	10.15-12.00	Seminar: Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski	9-3042
20 Apr	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
20 Apr	13.15-15.00	Seminar: Stefan Eriksson.	9-3042
27 Apr	11:00-12.00	Group Meeting	9-2029
27 Apr	13.15-15.00	Seminar	9-3042
4 May	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Miryam de Lhoneux, Colorless green recurrent networks dream hierarchically	9-2029
4 May	13.15-15.00	Seminar	9-3042
11 May	13.15-15.00	Kristi himmelsfärd	9-3042
18 May	11:00-12.00	Reading group: Zhengxian Gong, Document Context Neural Machine Translation with Memory Networks	9-2029
18 May	13.15-15.00	Seminar: Ildiko Pilán	9-3042
25 May	11:00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
25 May	13.15-15.00	Seminar: Håvard Hegre	9-3042
1 June	11:00-12.00	Group meeting	9-2029
1 June	13.15-15.00	Seminar: Dan Zeman	9-3042
8 Jun		Workshop (Yan Shao)
9 Jun		PhD defence (Yan Shao)
11 Jun	13.15-15.00	Seminar: Miryam de Lhoneux	9-3042

Autumn 2017

Date	Time	Program	Room
1 Sep	11.00-12.00	Group Meeting	9-2029
1 Sep	13.15-15.00	Seminar: Reports from conferences and summer schools	9-3042
8 Sep	11.00-12.00	Group Meeting	9-2029
8 Sep	13.15-15.00	Seminar	9-3042
15 Sep	11.00-12.00	Reading Group, Marie Dubremetz An Empirical Investigation of Statistical Significance in NLP	9-2029
15 Sep	13.15-15.00	Michelle Waldispühl: Language internal and external factors for spelling variation in historical writing	9-3042
22 Sep	11.00-12.00	Group Meeting	9-2029
22 Sep	13.15-15.00	Sharid Loaiciga: What is it? Disambiguating the different readings of the pronoun ‘it’	9-3042
29 Sep	11.00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
29 Sep	13.15-15.00	Seminar: Yan Shao	9-3042
6 Oct	11.00-12.00	Reading Group, Yan Shao: Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention	9-2029
6 Oct	13.15-15.00	Seminar	9-3042
13 Oct	11.00-12.00	Group Meeting	9-2029
13 Oct	13.15-15.00	Matteo Magnani: Structural analysis of online text networks	3-0012
20 Oct	11.00-12.00	Reading Group, Gongb Tang: Attention Is All You Need	9-2029
20 Oct	13.15-15.00	Dave Zachariah: Learning sparse feature models with confidence	9-3042
27 Oct	11.00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
27 Oct	13.15-15.00	Gongbo Tang and Yan Shao: Chinese Separable Words in SMT	9-3042
3 Nov	11.00-12.00	Group Meeting	9-2029
3 Nov	13.15-15.00	Seminar	9-3042
10 Nov	11.00-12.00	Reading Group, Ali Basirat: Information-Theory Interpretation of the Skip-Gram Negative-Sampling Objective Function	9-2029
10 Nov	13.15-15.00	Seminar: Lasse Mårtensson and Fredrik Wahlberg	9-3042
17 Nov	11.00-12.00	Group Meeting	9-2029
17 Nov	13.15-15.00	Gongbo Tang: Recent advances in NMT and applying NMT models to spelling normalization task	9-3042
24 Nov	11.00-12.00	(Styrelse)	9-2029
24 Nov	13.15-15.00	Julia Udden: Incremental parsing of dependency grammar in the human brain: or 'how should we characterize sentence complexity’?	9-3042
1 Dec	11.00-12.00	Reading Group, Miryam de Lhoneux Johannes Bjerva and Isabelle Augenstein.(2017). Tracking Typological Traits of Uralic Languages in Distributed Language Representations.	9-2029
1 Dec	13.15-15.00	Linda Andersson: The Essence of Patent Text Mining	9-3042
6 Dec	10.15-12.00	Seminar: Carlos Ramisch	9-1016
8 Dec	10.15-12.00	Seminar: Hannah Rohde	9-3042
8 Dec	13.15-15.00	Karl Berglund, Thesis defence: Mordens marknad. Litteratursociologiska studier i det tidiga 2000-talets svenska kriminallitteratur (in Swedish)	6-1023
15 Dec	11.00-12.00	Reading Group canceled!	9-2029
15 Dec	13.15-15.00	Seminar	9-3042

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