Fall 2020 NLP Journal Club: Apply to Join!

Update: Applications are now closed, but feel free to email me if you’d like to connect for a future journal club.

Our Summer 2020 Reinforcement Learning Journal Club was a success, so we’re excited to found another one. I’m starting a biweekly journal club focused on women in AI and modern NLP techniques with Pujaa Rajan. Apply to join here!

Eligibility:

Currently work as a machine learning or deep learning engineer or researcher.

Female and/or underrepresented group in STEM.

Attendance required for all 3 meetings.

Papers:

We will voted on 4 of them.

• BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

• Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners

• XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding

• ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations

• Language Models are Few-Shot Learners

• StructBERT: Incorporating Language Structures into Pre-training for Deep Language Understanding

• Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer

Notes:

Updated w/ notes after each journal club.

Seminar 1:

Coming soon.

Seminar 2:

Coming soon.

Seminar 3:

Coming soon.

Seminar 4:

Coming soon.

Dates:

Saturday, September 5, 2020

Saturday, September 12, 2020

Saturday, September 19, 2020

Saturday, September 26, 2020

Time:

8:00 - 9:00 PM PST

If you’d like to be a part of it, please apply here!