====== Meetings in 2019/2020 ======
^ Date and Room ^ Speaker and Topic ^
| **06-09-2019** \\ 1312.0018    | Lukas Edman \\ Variational Unsupervised Machine Translation  |
| **13-09-2019** \\ 1312.0018    | Long research round  |
| **20-09-2019** \\ 1312.0018    | Stephan Tulkens \\ Living the DREAN: trainable models of word recognition  |
| **27-09-2019** \\ 1312.0018    | Arianna Bisazza \\ Explanation of the transformer model  |
| **04-10-2019** \\ 1312.0018    | Ahmet Üstün \\ Explanation of BERT  |
| **11-10-2019** \\ 1312.0018    | Masha Medvedeva \\ Potential and implications of using machine learning \\ for decision-predicting and decision-making in high-stakes situations  |
| **18-10-2019** \\ 1312.0018    | Antonio Toral \\ Post-editese: an Exacerbated Translationese |
| **25-10-2019** \\ 1312.0018    | Irene Graafsma \\ Reading Syntax Errors In Computer Code: An ERP Experiment |
| **01-11-2019** \\ 1313.0338    | Gosse Minnema \\ Towards a Frame Semantic Parser for Dutch: Event Attribute Prediction & Data Collection |
| **08-11-2019** \\ 1313.0338    | No reading group |
| **15-11-2019** \\ 1313.0309    | Andreas van Cranenburgh \\ A Dutch coreference resolution system with an evaluation on literary fiction   |
| **22-11-2019** \\ 1313.0309    | Master thesis proposals by staff \\ [[http://www.let.rug.nl/rikvannoord/ma_proposals/19-20/|Slides here]]   |
| **29-11-2019** \\ 1313.0309  | Natalia Resende (visitor) \\ Investigating second language acquisition and processing in MT-Human interaction  |
| **06-12-2019** \\ 1313.0309  | Teja Rebernik \\ Investigating speech deterioration in Parkinson’s disease using acoustic and kinematic methods  |
| **13-12-2019** \\ 1313.0309  | Introduction of the PMB by Lasha and Johan | 
| **20-12-2019** \\   | No reading group  |
| **10-01-2020** \\ 1313.309    | Master thesis proposal presentation by students I \\ Marijn Ulenkate \\ Chi Sam Mac \\ Bertelt Braaksma \\ Willem Datema \\ Corbèn Poot \\ Louis de Bruijn \\ Malon van Essen |
| **17-01-2020** \\ 1313.0338  | Master thesis proposal presentation by students II \\ Remy Wang \\ Toki Wong \\ Rune Bruijn \\ Iris Meijer \\ Stijn Eikelboom \\ Bas Gerding \\ Kai Bruijn \\ Wietse de Vries \\ Stan van Suijlekom \\ Richard Scholtens \\ Tomer Gabay | 
| **24-01-2020** \\ 1313.0338   | CLIN try-outs: \\ Prajakta Shouche: Natural language processing and machine learning for classification of Dutch radiology reports \\ Stephan Sportel: On the difficulty of modelling fixed-order languages versus case marking languages in Neural Machine Translation \\ Prajit Dhar: poster |
| **31-01-2020** \\ 1313.0338   | Post-CLIN discussion  |
| **07-02-2020** \\ Calmershuis 1.3 (Oude Boteringestraat 24)| Introduction Reading Group 2nd semester \\ Wietse de Vries \\ Talk: "BERTje: A Dutch BERT Model"  |
| **14-02-2020** \\ Calmershuis 1.3 (Oude Boteringestraat 24) | Prajit Dhar \\ Talk: "A diachronic study on the compositionality of English noun-noun compounds using vector-based semantics" |
| **21-02-2020** \\ Calmershuis 1.3 (Oude Boteringestraat 24) | Martijn Bartelds \\ Talk: Automatic rating and recognition of speakers in the Low Saxon language area |
| **28-02-2020** \\ Calmershuis 1.3 (Oude Boteringestraat 24) | Tommaso Caselli \\ Paper pitch & discussion: "oLMpics -- On what Language Model Pre-training Captures" ([[https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.13283|arXiv]]) |
| **06-03-2020** \\ Calmershuis 1.3 (Oude Boteringestraat 24) | Rik van Noord & Gosse Minnema \\ Pitch & discussion of two short papers:\\   (1) "Lipstick on a pig: Debiasing Methods Cover up Systematic Gender Biases in Word Embeddings But do not Remove Them" ([[https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03862|Gonen & Goldberg, arXiv]]) (pitched by Rik) \\ (2) "Energy & Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP" ([[https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02243v1|Strubell et al., arXiv]]) (pitched by Gosse) |
| **13-03-2020** \\ (Online Meeting) | Extra reading group: research round & Corona measures discussion |
| **20-03-2020** \\ (Online Meeting) | Extra reading group: research round & Corona measures discussion |
| **27-03-2020** \\ (Online Meeting) | Talk: Lukas Edman (unsupervised NMT) |
| **03-04-2020** \\ (Online Meeting) | COVID-19 discussion \\ see [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B8gzQBd9c68pFWuAgWZXeOn27BqIJ2yyO5pu6UzHvq8/edit|Google Docs]] (login with RUG) |