Past News from the UBC NLP Group
Apr 7, 2022
Our paper Towards Understanding Large-Scale Discourse Structures in Pre-Trained and Fine-Tuned Language Models by Patrick Huber and Giuseppe Carenini has been accepted to NAACL 2022 in Seattle.
Apr 7, 2022
Our paper CCQA: A New Web-Scale Question Answering Dataset for Model Pre-Training in collaboration with Facebook Inc. has been accepted to NAACL 2022 Findings.
Dec 1, 2021
Our paper Predicting Above-Sentence Discourse Structure using Distant Supervision from Topic Segmentation by Patrick Huber, Linzi Xing and Giuseppe Carenini has been accepted to AAAI 2022.
Nov 19, 2021
We have a new visiting student. Chuyuan (Lisa) Li joined the UBC NLP group late 2021 for 6 month, working on discourse for dialogues.
Welcome Lisa!
Aug 1, 2021
Our paper W-RST: Towards a Weighted RST-style Discourse Framework by Patrick Huber, Wen Xiao and Giuseppe Carenini has been accepted to ACL 2021.
Nov 20, 2020
More accepted papers in 2020! One-EMNLP-long, One-EMNLP-Findings, Two-AACL-long, One-AACL-Short, Two-COLING-Long, Several papers in CODI and COVID019 Workshops
Aug 2, 2019
Tutorial: “Discourse Processing and Its Applications,” accepted and presented at ACL 2019
Nov 20, 2018
Tutorial: “Discourse Processing and Its Applications in Text Mining,” accepted and presented at ICDM 2018
Aug 26, 2018
Tutorial: “NLP for Conversations: Sentiment, Summarization, and Group Dynamics,” accepted and presented COLING 2018
Feb 23, 2018