NLP-RR: Schedule for Semester 1
| No | Week | Date | Lecturer | Subject | Reading | Coursework |
| 1 | 1 | Wed 18 Sep | Keller, Lai, Moruzzi | Bender, E. M. et al. (2021). On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 Proc. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency | ||
| 2 | 1 | Fri 20 Sep | Keller | |||
| 3 | 2 | Wed 25 Sep | Keller | Alley (2018), ch. 2 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Fri 27 Sep | Keller | Alley (2018), ch. 7 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Wed 2 Oct | Keller, Moruzzi | Hershcovich et al. (2022). Challenges and Strategies in Cross-Cultural NLP. Proc. ACL, 6997-7013 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Fri 4 Oct | Keller, Moruzzi | Reading group 2: Brid-Aine and Cyndie | Hofmann et al. (2024). AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect. Nature 633, 147-154 | |
| 7 | 4 | Wed 9 Oct | Keller | |||
| 8 | 4 | Fri 11 Oct | Sydelle De Souza | 11/10/24: Coursework 1 issued (methods study) | ||
| 9 | 5 | Wed 16 Oct | Moruzzi | Research Methods | Guba, E. G. Chapter 2: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Research. | |
| 10 | 5 | Fri 18 Oct | Moruzzi | Short presentations on replication studies | ||
| 11 | 6 | Wed 23 Oct | Moruzzi | Replication | Anderson S. F., Maxwell S. E. (2016). There's more than one way to conduct a replication study: Beyond statistical significance. Psychological Methods, 21(1):1-12 | |
| 12 | 6 | Fri 25 Oct | Moruzzi | The Design Process | Dam, R. F. (2024). The 5 Stages in the Design Thinking Process. Interaction Design Foundation, IxDF. | |
| 13 | 7 | Wed 30 Oct | Moruzzi | Design Methods | The Design Methods Finder | |
| 14 | 7 | Fri 1 Nov | Keller | Scientific Writing: Abstracts | ||
| 15 | 8 | Wed 6 Nov | Keller | Scientific Writing: Graphs, Diagrams, Tables | Zobel (2014), ch. 11 | |
| 16 | 8 | Fri 8 Nov | Keller | Scientific Writing: Proposals | Alley (2018), ch. 9, pp174-198 | 08/11/24: Coursework 1 due (methods study) |
| 17 | 9 | Wed 13 Nov | Keller, Moruzzi | Method Study Results 1 | ||
| 18 | 9 | Fri 15 Nov | Keller, Moruzzi | Method Study Results 2 | ||
| 19 | 10 | Wed 20 Nov | Keller, Moruzzi | Method Study Results 3 | 20/11/24: Coursework 2 issued (IEP proposal) | |
| 20 | 10 | Fri 22 Nov | Keller, Moruzzi | Individual Exploratory Project |
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