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'''Location:''' Hybrid - Muenzinger D430, and the zoom link below
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'''Location:''' Muenzinger D430. '''Except''' 9/10, which will be at the front lawn of the Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Building.
  
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'''Time:''' Wednesdays at 11:30am, Mountain Time
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'''Time:''' Wednesdays 11:30am - 1:00 pm, Mountain Time
  
 
'''Zoom link:''' https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/97014876908
 
'''Zoom link:''' https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/97014876908
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| 08/28/2024 || '''Planning, introductions, welcome!'''
 
  
 
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| 09/04/2024 || Brunch Social
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| 08/27/25 || '''Planning, introductions, welcome!'''
  
 
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| 09/11/2024 || Watch and discuss NLP keynote
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| 09/03/25 || Martha + Jim Research Updates
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'''Winner:''' Barbara Plank’s “Are LLMs Narrowing our Horizon? Let’s Embrace Variation in NLP!”
 
  
 
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| 09/18/2024 || CLASIC presentations
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| 09/10/25 || Social Event at LBB
  
 
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| 09/25/2024 || Invited talks/discussions from Leeds and Anschutz folks: Liu Liu, Abe Handler, Yanjun Gao, Curry Guinn
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| 10/02/2024 || Martha Palmer, Annie Zaenen, Susan Brown, Alexis Cooper.
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| 09/24/25 || Aaron's Prelim
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'''Title:''' Testing GPT4's interpretation of the Caused-Motion Construction
 
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'''Abstract:''' The fields of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing have been revolutionized by the advent  of  Large  Language  Models  such  as  GPT4.  They  are  perceived  as  being  language  experts and there is a lot of speculation about how intelligent they are, with claims being made about “Sparks of  General  Artificial  Intelligence.”  This  talk  will  describe  in  detail  an  English  linguistic  construction, the Caused Motion Construction, and compare prior interpretation approaches with current LLM interpretations.  The  prior  approaches  are  based  on  VerbNet. It’s unique  contributions  to  prior  approaches  will  be  outlined.  Then  the  results  of  a  recent  preliminary study  probing  GPT4’s  analysis  of  the  same  constructions  will  be  presented.  Not  surprisingly,  this analysis  illustrates  both  strengths  and  weaknesses  of  GPT4’s  ability  to  interpret  Caused  Motion Constructions and to generalize this interpretation.
 
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Recording: https://o365coloradoedu-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/r/personal/mpalmer_colorado_edu/Documents/BoulderNLP-Palmer-Oct2-2024.mp4?csf=1&web=1&nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJPbmVEcml2ZUZvckJ1c2luZXNzIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXciLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJNeUZpbGVzTGlua0NvcHkifX0&e=aCHeN8
 
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| 10/09/2024 || NAACL Paper Clinic: Come get feedback on your submission drafts!
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| 10/01/25 || Rohan's Prelim
  
 
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| 10/16/2024 || Senior Thesis Proposals:
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| 10/08/25 || AAAI Spatial Talk + Mary's Talk
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'''Title''': Benchmarking LLM Handling of Cross-Dialectal Spanish
 
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'''Abstract''': This proposal introduces current issues and gaps in cross-dialectal NLP in Spanish as well as the lack of resources available for Latin American dialects. The presentation will cover past work in dialect detection, translation, and benchmarking in order to build a foundation for a proposal that aims to create a benchmark that analyses LLM robustness across a series of tasks in different Spanish dialects
 
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'''Tavin Turner'''
 
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'''Title''': Agreeing to Disagree: Statutory Relational Stance Modeling
 
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'''Abstract''': Policy division deeply affects which bills get passed in legislature, and how. So far, statutory NLP has predicted voting breakdowns, interpreted stakeholder benefit, informed legal decision support systems, and much more. In practice, legislation demands compromise and concession to pass important policy, yet models often struggle to reason over the whole act. Leveraging neuro-symbolic models, we seek to intermediate this challenge with relational structures of statutes’ sectional stances – modeling stance agreement, exception, etc. Beyond supporting downstream statutory analysis tasks, these structures could help stakeholders understand how a bill impacts them, litmus the cooperation within a legislature, and reveal patterns of compromise that aid a bill through ratification.
 
  
 
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| 10/23/2024 || '''Ananya Ganesh''''s PhD Dissertation Proposal
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| 10/15/25 || BLAST + LECS Research Updates
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'''Title''': Reliable Language Technology for Classroom Dialog Understanding
 
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'''Abstract''': In this proposal, I will lay out how NLP models can be developed to address realistic use cases in analyzing classroom dialogue. Towards this goal, I will first introduce a new task and corresponding dataset, focused on detecting off-task utterances in small-group discussions. I will
 
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then propose a method to solve this task that considers how the inherent structure in the dialog can be used to learn richer representations of the dialog context. Next, I will introduce preliminary work on applying LLMs in the in-context learning setting for a broad range of tasks pertaining to qualitative coding of classroom dialog, and discuss potential follow-up work. Finally, keeping in mind our goals of serving many independent stakeholders, I will propose a study to incorporate differing stake-holder’s subjective judgments while curating gold-standard data for classroom discourse analysis.
 
  
 
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| 10/22/25 || Maria A - COLM's Updates
  
 
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| 11/06/2024 || Kevin Stowe - on Zoom
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| 10/29/25 || CU Anschutz NLP (3-4 short presentations)
  
 
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| 11/13/2024 || Invited talk by Nick Dronen and Seminar Lunch
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| 11/20/2024 || Abteen's proposal
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| 11/27/2024 || '''No meeting:''' Fall break
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| 11/19/25 || Ben's Slot (INFO)
  
 
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| 12/04/2024 || Enora's prelim
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| 11/26/25 || Break - No Meeting
  
 
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| 1/23/25|| Chenhao Tan CS Colloquium, 3:30pm
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=Past Schedules=
 
=Past Schedules=
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* [[Spring 2025 Schedule]]
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* [[Fall 2024 Schedule]]
 
* [[Spring 2024 Schedule]]
 
* [[Spring 2024 Schedule]]
 
* [[Fall 2023 Schedule]]
 
* [[Fall 2023 Schedule]]

Latest revision as of 12:02, 3 September 2025

Location: Muenzinger D430. Except 9/10, which will be at the front lawn of the Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Building.

Time: Wednesdays 11:30am - 1:00 pm, Mountain Time

Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/97014876908

Date Title
08/27/25 Planning, introductions, welcome!
09/03/25 Martha + Jim Research Updates
09/10/25 Social Event at LBB
09/17/25
09/24/25 Aaron's Prelim
10/01/25 Rohan's Prelim
10/08/25 AAAI Spatial Talk + Mary's Talk
10/15/25 BLAST + LECS Research Updates
10/22/25 Maria A - COLM's Updates
10/29/25 CU Anschutz NLP (3-4 short presentations)
11/05/25 Sarah's Talk
11/12/25
11/19/25 Ben's Slot (INFO)
11/26/25 Break - No Meeting
12/03/25 Mary's proposal
12/10/25

Past Schedules

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