Natural Language Processing Seminar

The Berkeley NLP Seminar is a gathering place for researchers from across campus to meet and discuss the latest research. We have invited talks on alternating weeks to hear about and discuss the latest research in natural language processing. All interested researchers are welcome to attend.

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Previous Events

Modeling Ideological Language with Graph Neural Networks and Structured Sparsity

Nov 4, 2022, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm

Valentin Hofmann researches the intersection of NLP, linguistics, and computational social science, with specific interests in tokenization, socially and temporally aware NLP systems, and computational models of political ideology.

Training Models to Critique Themselves

Oct 21, 2022, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm

Jeff Wu is a research engineer at OpenAI working on language modeling (e.g. GPT-2) and alignment (InstructGPT).

Self-Supervised Learning for the Real World

Oct 14, 2022, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm

Alex Tamkin is a Ph.D. student researching self-supervised learning, especially in multimodal and domain-general settings.

Kilolanguage Learning, Projection, and Translation

Sep 30, 2022, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm

Arya McCarthy is a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University working on massively multilingual natural language processing

Green NLP

Mar 6, 2020, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Roy Schwartz is a research scientist at the Allen institute for AI and at the computer science and engineering department at the University of Washington.

What is Wrong with my Model? Detection and Analysis of Bugs in NLP Models

Feb 28, 2020, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Marco Ribeiro is a researcher at Microsoft Research, focused on helping humans interact with machine learning models meaningfully.

Reasoning about Social Dynamics in Language

Feb 7, 2020, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Maarten Sap is a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington researching natural language processing for social understanding.

Natural Language Processing Seminar: Yonatan Belinkov

Jan 31, 2020, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Yonatan Belinkov is a postdoc at Harvard, where he works on language representations in neural networks.

Syntactic Generalization in Natural Language Inference

Jan 23, 2020, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Tal Linzen is an assistant professor of cognitive science at Johns Hopkins University.

Natural Language Processing Seminar: Yoav Artzi

Dec 6, 2019, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Two Talks: “Generalization through Memorization: Nearest Neighbor Language Models” and “Probing Neural NLP: Ideas and Problems”

Nov 18, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Berkeley Natural Language Processing Seminar

Towards an Artificial Intuition: Conversational Markers of (Anti)Social Dynamics

Sep 23, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm