TUW NLP Seminar

Info on the NLP seminar is on Github since 2023

Earlier semesters

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2023 Winter

Date	Topic	Speaker	Notes
10/4/2022	Masters thesis presentations
10/18/2022	ACM CIKM
11/1/2022	Holiday
11/15/2022	Answer Set Programming	Elena Mastria	slides
11/29/2022	Defeasible Reasoning over Facts and Norms	Emery Neufeld	slides
12/13/2022	Cancelled
12/27/2022	Holiday
1/3/2023	Holiday
1/17/2023	Faithfulness of explainable text classifiers	Gabor Recski
1/31/2023	Knodle: Modular Weakly Supervised Learning with PyTorch	Anastasiaa Sedova

2022 Summer

Date	Topic	Speaker	Notes
3/10/2022	Sexism detection with semantic graphs	Kinga Gemes	slides
3/24/2022	Sen et al (2020): Learning Explainable Linguistic Expressions with Neural Inductive Logic Programming for Sentence Classification	Eszter Iklodi	slides video
4/7/2022	The graphbrain library for NLP with semantic hypergraphs	Adam Kovacs	slides video
4/21/2022	Holiday
5/5/2022	Dash et al. (2018): Boolean Decision Rules via Column Generation	Eszter Iklodi
5/19/2022	Rapid Systematic Reviews: Automation of Citation Screening with the Usage of Eligibility Criteria	Wojciech Kusa
6/2/2022	Measuring explainability in hate speech detection using the HateXplain dataset	Markus Reichel	slides video
6/16/2022	Holiday
6/30/2022	Pedapati et al. (2020): Learning Global Transparent Models Consistent with Local Contrastive Explanations	Eszter Iklodi	video

2021 Winter

Date	Topic	Speaker	Notes
10/12/2021	Offensive text detection for English and German with deep learning models and rule-based systems	Kinga Gemes, Adam Kovacs	slides
10/26/2021	Holiday
11/9/2021	Graph-enhanced Document Representation of Court Cases for Retrieval	Tobias Fink	slides
11/23/2021	Rule extraction from textual building regulations of the City of Vienna	Eszter Iklodi	slides
12/7/2021	Creating an Austrian language polarity dictionary with the crowd	Katharina Sekanina, Bettina Kern, Thomas Kolb	slides
12/21/2021	Overview of research topics and projects of the SemSys Group	Marta Sabou	slides
1/4/2022
1/18/2022	POTATO: exPlainable infOrmation exTrAcTion framewOrk	Adam Kovacs	slides video

2021 Summer

Date	Topic	Speaker	Notes
01/20/2021	Lexical grammar induction for surface realization	Gabor Recski	slides code
02/03/2021	Testing the generalization power of neural network models across NLI benchmarks	Adam Kovacs	slides
02/17/2021	Using adaptive knowledge graphs in neural dialogue generation	Patrik Purgai	slides
03/03/2021	Semantic search in the BRISE project	Tobias Fink	slides
03/17/2021	Explainability in NLP I.	Benedikt Häcker	slides code
03/31/2021	Semantic change detection	Anna Marakasova	slides
04/14/2021	Explainability in NLP II.	Adam Kovacs	slides
04/28/2021	Transfer Learning Methods for Named Entity Recognition in User-generated Text	Johannes Bogensperger	slides
05/12/2021	Identification and categorization of offensive language in German tweets	Kinga Gemes	slides
05/26/2021	Morphological disambiguation for Tocharian using attention networks	Gabriel Breiner	slides
06/09/2021	Passage aggregation retrieval model (PARM) for dense document-to-document retrieval	Sophia Althammer	slides
06/23/2021	Planning for the next semester	Everybody