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Maria Antoniak on cultural analytics Jun 27, 2022

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Birth narratives, stable static representations, NLP for everyone, AI2 and Semantic Scholar, the mission of Ukrainian Catholic University, and books books books.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/antoniak/

Percy Liang on the Center for Research on Foundation Models Jun 13, 2022

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Realizing that Foundation Models are a big deal, scaling, why Percy founded CRFM, Stanford's position in the field, benchmarking, privacy, and CRFM's first and next 30 years.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/liang/

Roger Levy on computational psycholinguistics in the deep learning era Jun 10, 2022

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From genes to memes, evidence in linguistics, central questions of computational psycholinguistics, academic publishing woes, and the benefits of urban density.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/levy/

Kalika Bali on language technologies for a multilingual world May 23, 2022

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Giving a TED talk, linguistic diversity, code switching and large language models, the Indian NLP scene, empowering women with language consultation work, Wordle, and "once a linguist, always a linguist".

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/bali/

Yulia Tsvetkov on ethical NLP May 16, 2022

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Coast-to-coast professional journeys, multilingual NLP, teaching in a fast-changing field, the history of hate speech detection in NLP, ethics review of NLP research, research on sensitive topics, mentoring researchers, and optimizing for your own passions.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/tsvetkov/

Ellie Pavlick on true language understanding May 09, 2022

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Grounding through pure language modeling objectives, the origins or probing, the nature of understanding, the future of system assessment, signs of meaningful progress in the field, and having faith in yourself.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/pavlick/

Richard Socher on conviction in research May 02, 2022

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The early days of the rise of deep learning in NLP, conviction, the importance of applied work in the current moment, start-up risks, the state of Web search, paramotoring, and over-looked gems in the U.S. National Park system.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/socher/

Omar Khattab on neural information retrieval Apr 25, 2022

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Pronouncing "ColBERT", the origins of ColBERT, doing NLP from an IR perspective, how getting "scooped" can be productive, OpenQA and related tasks, PhD journeys, why even retrieval plus attention is not all you need, multilingual knowledge-intensive NLP, and aiming high in research projects.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/khattab/

Douwe Kiela on research at Hugging Face Apr 18, 2022

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Hugging Face, multimodality, data and model auditing, ethics review, adversarial testing, attention as more and less than you ever needed, neural information retrieval, philosophy of mind and consciousness, augmenting human creativity, openness in science, and a defininitive guide to pronouncing Douwe.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/kiela/

Rishi Bommasani on Foundation Models Apr 11, 2022

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Deriving static representations from contextual ones, interdisciplinary research, training large models, the Foundation Models paper and CRFM, being an academic on Twitter, and progress in NLP.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/bommasani/

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