CSE 599 D1: Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing

University of Washington - Spring 2018

Course Description

In this course, we will review some of the highly influential papers which had a sustained impact on NLP research. Each week, participants will either give a 10-20 minute presentation or write a peer review for one of the focus papers for that week. Paper presentations will be followed by a group discussion of what influence this paper had in NLP. The papers will cover a mixture of topics including information extraction, syntactic parsing, semantic parsing, structured models, reinforcement learning and dataset construction.

Instructor: Waleed Ammar (waleeda@allenai.org), PhD, research scientist at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

Logistics

• Meeting times: Mondays and Wednesdays 4:30-5:50 PM.
• Meeting location: EEB 003 (B1 floor in the electical engineering building)
• Evaluation breakdown: 45% writings, 35% presentation, 20% class participation
• Office hours: by appointment
• Reviews: Submit one paper review per week here. At the end of each week, I will be publishing the reviews submitted for papers discussed during the week here.
• Presentations: Select which papers you'd like to present here by 3/28.
• Mailing list: subscribe for cse599d1_sp18@uw.edu here.
• Enrollment: email the instructor for an add code if you're interested in taking the course but aren't able to enroll.
• Podcast: this has nothing to do with the seminar, but feel free to some of the podcast episodes Matt Gardner and I recorded on recently published NLP papers here.

Paper Schedule