NLP-RR: Schedule for Semester 2

This will be updated for 2026-2027!

WeekDateRoomLecturerSubjectReadingCoursework
1Mon 11 JanAT 2.07LaiData 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)

 
2Mon 18 JanAT 2.07ZellerQualitative analysis  
3Mon 25 JanAT 2.07AllawayError analysis

For in-class exercise:

Analyzing LLM Instruction Optimization for Tabular Fact Verification
(Prompts & Outputs)

 
4Mon 1 FebAT 2.07LaiAccessibility and Crip LinguisticsUnsettling languages, unruly bodyminds: A crip linguistics manifesto (Henner and Robinson 2023)

01/02/27 Coursework 2 due (IEP proposal)

 

5Mon 8 FebAT 2.07 

IEP peer feedback and discussion

 

 08/02/25 Coursework 3 released (IEP progress presentation)
 Flexible Learning WeekNo class    
6Mon 22 FebAT 2.07

Allaway 

 

Sustainability

 

Emily's slides

Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI (Varoquaux et al., 2025). 
7Mon 1 MarAT 2.07  tbc 
8Mon 8 MarAT 2.07  tbc08/03/25 Coursework 3 due (IEP progress presentations)
9Mon 15 MarAT 2.07Lai, Allaway, ZellerIEP progress presentations  
10Mon 22 MarAT 2.07Lai, Allaway, ZellerIEP progress presentations  
       

 

 

 

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