NLP-RR: Schedule for Semester 1
This schedule is being updated for 2026-27!
| Week | Date | Room | Lecturer | Subject | Reading | Coursework |
| 1 | Mon 21 Sep | Appleton Tower 2.06 | Lai, Allaway, Zeller, Vines | Must NLP be Extractive? (Bird, ACL 2024) What Does Mental Health Research Need from NLP+CSS and Vice Versa (Resnik, NLP+CSS 2026) Content warning: some discussion of self-harm and suicide. | ||
| 2 | Mon 28 Sep |
Online (Teams invite) | Allaway |
What makes an NLP paper? | Rigor in AI: Doing Rigorous AI Work Requires a Broader, Responsible AI-Informed Conception of Rigor (Olteanu et al. 2025) Is the scientific paper still a fraud? (Tregoning, 2026) Optional: linking the original Medawar essay if you are curious because it is a bit difficult to find: Is the scientific paper a fraud? (Medawar, 1964) Pre-class exercise: write a short research pitch (~1-2 paragraphs) aimed at an NLP audience. The pitch can be based on your PhD proposal or your ideas for IEP. | |
| 3 | Mon 5 Oct |
(Teams invite) | Zeller | Quantitative & Qualitative Research Methods -> rescheduled due to strike | Guba, E. G. Chapter 2: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Research. | |
| 4 | Mon 12 Oct | AT 2.06 | Vines | What makes a HCI paper? | 12/10/26 Coursework 1 issued (paper review) on Learn | |
| 5 | Mon 19 Oct | AT 2.06 | Allaway | Replication, Reproducibility and Generalisation and Reviewing in NLP | Storks et al., NLP Reproducibility For All: Understanding Experiences of Beginners | |
| 6 | Mon 26 Oct | AT 2.06 | Osborne | Public Engagement | ||
| 7 | Mon 2 Nov | AT 2.06 | Zeller | Rescheduled lecture: Quantitative & Qualitative Research Methods | Guba, E. G. Chapter 2: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Research. | |
| 8 | Mon 9 Nov | AT 2.06 | Birch-Mayne, Zeller | Research Ethics and the Informatics ethics review process | 13/11/26 Coursework 1 due 12:00 (submit on Learn) | |
| 9 | Mon 16 Nov | AT 2.06 | Lai, Zeller, Allaway | Assignment 1 presentations/discussion | 16/11/25: Coursework 2 issued (IEP proposal) | |
| 10 | Mon 23 Nov | AT 2.06 | Lai | Research proposals and IEP catchup | Frank's slides on writing proposals For in-class exercise: Responsible Research and Innovation prompt cards
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