Location:Engineering building (1103), room 329Title:Incorporating Commonsense Reasoning into NLP ModelsAbstract:Human language is often ambiguous, underspecified, and grounded in social norms. We employ commonsense knowledge and reasoning abilities to understand others. Endowing NLP models with the same abilities is imperative for reaching human-level language understanding and generation skills. In this talk, I will present several lines ... Read more

Location:Engineering building (1103), room 329 Title:Retrieval in the age of large language modelsAbstract:Large language models have revolutionized natural language processing. However, such models have a limited receptive field and cannot be applied directly on tasks that require processing entire corpora. In this talk, I will talk about the role of information retrieval in the new landscape ... Read more

On Sunday 15.01.23, at 12:00 PM, we will have our second session of students’ presentations. In this session, four students from BIU will present their work. Note that, unlike regular learning club meetings, this meeting will last 2 hours, and will include lunch. It will take place at the Engineering building (1103) in room 329. ... Read more

Location:Engineering building (1103), room 329Title:From theory to practice and back – Stance Detection as a case studyAbstract:Stance detection is an important task, supporting many downstream tasks such as discourse parsing and modeling the propagation of fake news, rumors, and science denial. In this talk we describe a novel framework for stance detection. Our framework is ... Read more