— Insights from the 3rd ACL Year-Round Mentorship Session November 2, 2021 Panelists: Malihe Alikhani (Assistant Professor@University of Pittsburgh), Kalika Bali (Researcher@Microsoft), Vinodkumar Prabhakaran (Senior Research Scientist@Google) Notetakers: Abhay Zala (@AbhayZala7), Zhijing Jin (@ZhijingJin) Top Principles for Getting the most out of an NLP Conference Connect with grad students: Find…

Nov 8, 2021 Speaker: Evelina Fedorenko (Associate Professor in Neuroscience&NLP at MIT) Notetaker: Zhijing Jin (PhD at Max Planck Institute & ETH; @ZhijingJin) Motivation: Marr’s 3 Levels For artificial intelligence, David Marr proposes that we need to reach three levels: the computational, algorithmic, and implementational (Marr, 1976). Computational level: neuroscience to decode human brains…

Nov 7, 2021 Speaker: Ido Dagan (NLP Professor at Bar-Ilan University, Israel) Notetaker: Zhijing Jin (PhD at Max Planck Institute & ETH; @ZhijingJin) Motivation In the past years, we have experienced fast digitalization, and people are used to consuming information by searching. However, the problem is that there are more and…

— Insights from the 2nd ACL Year-Round Mentorship Session October 7, 2021 Panelists: Mohit Bansal (Associate Professor@UNC Chapel Hill), Barbara Plank (Professor@IT University of Copenhagen), Jian Su (Department Head of NLP@A*STAR I2R, Singapore) Notetakers: Abhay Zala (@AbhayZala7), Zhijing Jin (@ZhijingJin) Top Principles for Building a Collaboration and Networking Reach out to new people through email and conferences. Try…

— Insights from the 1st ACL Year-Round Mentorship Session on September 9, 2021 Panelists: Rada Mihalcea (Professor at University of Michigan, @radamihalcea), Saif M. Mohammad (Senior Research Scientist at National Research Council Canada, @saifmmohammad), Soujanya Poria (Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design, @soujanyaporia) Notetakers: Zhijing Jin (@ZhijingJin)…

This year’s top NLP conference, ACL 2020, is the hub for many fruitful discussions. Among all the events, I really, really appreciate the mentoring sessions, conducted by more experienced members to help junior NLP researchers. This post aims to spread the key takeaways to a broader audience. We hope people…