The NLP Group at Penn State

Joint CSE/IST NLP Colloquium just had the second speaker in the fall semester, Professor Karthik Narasimhan from Princeton, with his talk, "Addressing Long-Term Dependencies for Language Generation"! Professor Rebecca J Passonneau is introducing the speaker Professor Karthik Narasimhan is giving the talk  Like previous years, we had great audiences coming with questions! Two more talks are coming on: October 25th, Prof. Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University, "Where Natural Language Processing Meets Societal Needs". December 13th, Prof.Mona Diab, Columbia University, title TBD. The colloquium is hosted by Professor Rebecca J Passonneau (CSE), Prof.Kenneth Ting-hao Huang, Prof.Shomir Wilson (both from IST). We are looking forward to seeing you in the audience!

Ready for the new semester? Joint CSE/IST NLP Colloquium Fall 2019 is happening with exciting talks! On September 27, we just had the first speaker, Elijah Mayfield, Entrepreneur-In-Residence from Carnegie Mellon University, giving his talk, "Explainable Humans: Algorithmic Decision-Making and Education Policy". Dr.Passonneau is giving the opening speech  Elijah Mayfield is presenting his talk  Cybertorium is almost full! With two members of NLP Lab: Yanjun Gao and Zhaohui Li, in Penn State Campus More talks are lining up! Save the dates:  October 11th, Prof. Karthik Narasimhan, Princeton University  October 25th, Prof. Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University  December 4th, Prof. Mona Diab, Columbia University  This year, the talks are hosted by Dr. Rebecca Passonneau (CSE), Dr. Shomir Wilson (IST), and Dr.  Kenneth Ting-hao Huang (IST).  Please see our website:  PSU NLP Lab  for more details! W...

Two years in a row, Yanjun Gao is presenting her work at the Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications!

Keep an eye out this August for Maryam's presentation at GAMNLP-19!

Our professor, Rebecca J. Passonneau, will give the keynote at The 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop !

Our professor, Rebecca J. Passonneau, will serve as ACL area chair for Dialogue and Interactive Systems !

We are closing this semester's invited talks with another Joint CSE/IST Colloquium for Fall 2018: Don't miss Robert Frank's rescheduled talk for December 7th!

The second Joint CSE/IST Colloquium is happening this Friday,  November 2nd!

Do not miss the Joint CSE/IST Colloquium this Friday,  October 19th!

Unfortunately this talk is cancelled, stay tuned for a possible reschedule. Our first Joint CSE/IST Colloquium for Fall 2018 is scheduled for October 5th!

We are excited to announce the lineup for the third year of our Joint CSE/IST Colloquium Series in Natural Language Processing! 🎉

Testing a Knowledge Inquiry System on Question Answering Tasks to appear in NLIWoD4!

Not one, but two papers were published this spring by our student Yanjun Gao!

Our professor, Rebecca J. Passonneau, is going to give a presentation at the annual Penn State Symposium for Teaching & Learning with Technology !

January 26 - Mark the date for our first Joint CSE/IST Colloquium for Spring 2018!

Our professor, Rebecca J. Passonneau, has been nominated as author for Test-of-Time Paper on Computational Linguistics Award!

Our professor, Rebecca J. Passonneau, is going to give the next EdTech Connect presentation!

The second  joint CSE/IST Colloquium on Natural Lan guage Processing was again a great success!

This year's  joint CSE/IST Colloquium on Natural Lan guage Processing just commenced with a great start!

Our workshop Connecting Language, Interaction and Education in Digital Environments was crowned with success and we are more than happy that our hard work paid off and received positive feedback from the Penn State community 🎆