Current Highlights in NLP

Graduate course, University of Potsdam, 2022

This seminar is part of the MSc degree in Cognitive Systems. It covers various recent advancements from the Natural Language Processing field. The goals of the seminar are the following:

  • Find out about recent developments in the NLP world

  • Learn to read and understand scientific publications

  • Discuss the outcomes, shortcomings

  • Critically review scientific publications

  • Come up with the follow-up ideas

  • Learn how to write scientific publications

The seminar follows the idea of role-playing to engage students in the discussion of selected publications. This type reading seminar was proposed by Jacobson and Raffel “Role-Playing Paper-Reading Seminars” (2021).

Seminar webpage

Cognitive Systems Master’s programme