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 | AT 2.06 | 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) | |
| 3 | Mon 5 Oct | AT 2.06 | Zeller | Quantitative & Qualitative Research Methods | Guba, E. G. Chapter 2: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Research. | 05/10/26 Coursework 1 issued (paper review) |
| 4 | Mon 12 Oct | AT 2.06 | Vines | What makes a HCI paper? | ||
| 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 | tbc | tbc | ||
| 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 | Assignment 1 presentations/discussion | 16/11/25: Coursework 2 issued (IEP proposal) | |
| 10 | Mon 23 Nov | AT 2.06 | Lai, Zeller, Allaway | 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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