NLP-RR: Schedule for Semester 2
| Week | Date | Room | Lecturer | Subject | Reading | Coursework |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon 12 Jan | 40 George Square - 9.01 | Lai | Research proposals and IEP catchup | Frank's slides on writing proposals For in-class exercise: Responsible Research and Innovation prompt cards Additional reading: Rigor in AI: Doing Rigorous AI Work Requires a Broader, Responsible AI-Informed Conception of Rigor (Olteanu et al. 2025) | |
| 2 | Mon 19 Jan | 40 George Square - 9.01 | Lai | Data Gaps | Mind the data gap(s): Investigating power in speech and language datasets (Markl, LTEDI 2022) The Zeno’s Paradox of ‘Low-Resource’ Languages (Nigatu et al., EMNLP 2024) | |
| 3 | Mon 26 Jan | 40 George Square - 9.01 | Zeller | Qualitative analysis | ||
| 4 | Mon 2 Feb | 40 George Square - 9.01 | Allaway | Error analysis | For in-class exercise: Analyzing LLM Instruction Optimization for Tabular Fact Verification | 02/02/26 Coursework 2 due (IEP proposal) |
| 5 | Mon 9 Feb | No class |
Office hours | Catherine will hold office hours during the normal class time in her office (DSB 2.11). You can also contact Emily or Frauke individually if you want to meet. | 09/02/25 Coursework 3 issued (IEP progress presentation) | |
| Flexible Learning Week | No class | |||||
| 6 | Mon 23 Feb | Medical School, Teviot - G.11 Seminar Room - Doorway 4 | Allaway Guest: Inge Paneels | Sustainability | Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI (Varoquaux et al., 2025). | |
| 7 | Mon 2 Mar | 40 George Square - 9.01 | Class cancelled (Catherine is ill, sorry!) | 02/03/25 Coursework 3 due (IEP progress presentations) | ||
| 8 | Mon 9 Mar | 40 George Square - 9.01 | Lai | Accessibility and Crip Linguistics | Unsettling languages, unruly bodyminds: A crip linguistics manifesto (Henner and Robinson 2023) | |
| 9 | Mon 16 Mar | 40 George Square - 9.01 | Lai, Allaway, Zeller | IEP progress presentations | ||
| 10 | Mon 23 Mar | 40 George Square - 9.01 | Lai, Allaway, Zeller | IEP progress presentations | ||
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