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Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2020

Wednesday 10:00 am, Caldwell Lab 220

Date	Topics/Contents	Presenter/Leader	Resources
April 15	Knowledge Incorporation:{::nomarkdown} Presentation Slides A Knowledge-Enhanced Pretraining Model for Commonsense Story Generation {:/}	Tommy Yue
April 8	Differentiable Reasoning on Text:{::nomarkdown} Presentation Slides DIFFERENTIABLE REASONING OVER A VIRTUAL KNOWLEDGE BASE {:/}	Zhen Wang	{::nomarkdown} Real-Time Open-Domain Question Answering with Dense-Sparse Phrase Index Phrase-Indexed Question Answering: A New Challenge for Scalable Document Comprehension {:/}
April 1	Taxonomy Expansion:{::nomarkdown} Presentation Slides TaxoExpan: Self-supervised Taxonomy Expansion with Position-Enhanced Graph Neural Network {:/}	Bernal Jimenez Gutierrez	{::nomarkdown} A Hierarchical Dirichlet Model for Taxonomy Expansion for Search Engines Enriching Taxonomies With Functional Domain Knowledge Every child should have parents: a taxonomy refinement algorithm based on hyperbolic term embeddings {:/}
Mar 25	Knowledge Base Question Answering:{::nomarkdown} Presentation Slides Complex Question Decomposition for Semantic Parsing {:/}	Yu Gu	{::nomarkdown} Semantic Parsing on Freebase from Question-Answer Pairs Semantic Parsing via Staged Query Graph Generation: Question Answering with Knowledge Base Improving Question Answering over Incomplete KBs with Knowledge-Aware Reader {:/}
Mar 11 & 18	Long Spring Break
Mar 4	Neural models with discrete reasoning capability for question answering:{::nomarkdown} Presentation Slides LEARNING A NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE WITH NEURAL PROGRAMMER {:/}	Xiang Deng	{::nomarkdown} Neural Symbolic Reader: Scalable Integration of Distributed and Symbolic Representations for Reading Comprehension TabFact Drop WikiTableQuestions {:/}
Feb 26	Question Generation:{::nomarkdown} Presentation Slides Capturing Greater Context for Question Generation {:/}	Tommy Yue	{::nomarkdown} Recent Advances in Neural Question Generation {:/}
Feb 19	Interpretable Model for Multi-Hop Question Answering System:{::nomarkdown} Presentation Slides Self-Assembling Modular Networks for Interpretable Multi-Hop Reasoning {:/}	Zhen Wang	{::nomarkdown} HotpotQA: A Dataset for Diverse, Explainable Multi-hop Question Answering Explainable Neural Computation via Stack Neural Module Networks {:/}
Feb 12	Proofreading for KDD’20 submissions
Feb 5	Knowledge Extraction: {::nomarkdown} Presentation Slides Inferring Concept Hierarchies from Text Corpora via Hyperbolic Embeddings {:/}	Bernal Jimenez Gutierrez	{::nomarkdown} Hearst Patterns Revisited: Automatic Hypernym Detection from Large Text Corpora Automatic Acquisition of Hyponyms from Large Text Corpora Poincaré Embeddings for Learning Hierarchical Representations {:/}
Jan 29	Data annotation/active learning:{::nomarkdown} Presentation Slides Self-Regulated Interactive Sequence-to-Sequence Learning {:/}	Bernhard Kratzwald	{::nomarkdown} Learning how to Active Learn: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach Learning How to Actively Learn: A Deep Imitation Learning Approach {:/}
Jan 22	Calibration, Graph Embedding:{::nomarkdown} Presentation Slides Probability Calibration for Knowledge Graph Embedding Models {:/}	Yiqi Tang	{::nomarkdown} Translating Embeddings for Modeling Multi-relational Data Complex Embeddings for Simple Link Prediction {:/}
Jan 15	Interactive learning, conversational, contextual QA, task-oriented dialogue:{::nomarkdown} Presentation Slides CoSQL: A Conversational Text-to-SQL Challenge Towards Cross-Domain Natural Language Interfaces to Databases {:/}	Ziyu Yao	{::nomarkdown} SParC: Cross-Domain Semantic Parsing in Context Spider: A Large-Scale Human-Labeled Dataset for Complex and Cross-Domain Semantic Parsing and Text-to-SQL Task Seq2SQL: Generating Structured Queries from Natural Language using Reinforcement Learning {:/}

Reading Group Schedule — Fall 2019

Monday 10:00 am, EC0338

Date	Topics/Contents	Presenter/Leader	Resources
Dec 2	Proofreading for ACL’20 submissions
Nov 18	{::nomarkdown} EMNLP'19 Reports from Ziyu and Xiang Application and Analysis of PLM {:/}	Ziyu Yao; Xiang Deng; Zhen Wang; Bernal Jimenez Gutierrez	{::nomarkdown} EMNLP'19 Summary from Ziyu EMNLP'19 Summary from Xiang Language Models as Knowledge Bases?; Knowledge Enhanced Contextual Word Representations Probing Neural Network Comprehension of Natural Language Arguments {:/}
Nov 11	Break (Veterans Day)
Oct 28	Pre-trained Languge Model	Xiang Deng	{::nomarkdown} PLM Paper List Transfer Learning in Natural Language Processing p24 p35 Transformer; ELMo; Bert; XLNet Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer p16 {:/}
Oct 14	{::nomarkdown} Content-based QA (Dynamic and Smart QA Systems) Medical QA Proofreading for Jie’s WWW paper {:/}	Bernhard Kratzwald; Tommy Yue	{::nomarkdown} Learning from On-Line User Feedback in Neural Question Answering on the Web RankQA Neural Question Answering with Answer Re-Ranking Adaptive Document Retrieval for Deep Question Answering {:/}