Date | In-Class Topic | Assignment Due |
Mon 24. Jan | Introducing the Course |
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Lecture:
Reading: Chapter 1 of Question Answering for
the Curated Web Tasks and Methods in QA over Knowledge Bases
and Text Collections
(Alternate link)
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Wed 26. Jan | QA History / Background | |
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Reading:
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Mon 31. Jan | Information Retrieval / tf-idf | |
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Lecture:
Readings:
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Wed 2. Feb | History of Computational Question Answering | |
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Lecture:
Readings:
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Fri 4. Feb | Homework Due | HW0 |
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Mon 7. Feb | Neural Sequence Models for Language | |
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Lecture:
Readings:
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Wed 9. Feb | QA Datasets | |
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Lecture:
Readings:
(Optional) Taxonomy of NLP QA
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Fri 11. Feb | Homework Due | HW1 |
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Mon 14. Feb | Computational Frameworks | |
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Lecture:
Reading: Minitorch (Up to autodiff)
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Wed 16. Feb | Machine Reading | |
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Reading: MRC Literature Review
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Mon 21. Feb | Paper Presentations I (ALL ZOOM) | |
Wed 23. Feb | Beyond Factoid QA: Generation,
Conversational, Long-form QA | |
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Reading: Conversational
information seeking (Chapters 2,7)
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Mon 28. Feb | Paper Presentations II | |
Wed 2. Mar | Entailment and Fact Checking | |
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Videos:
Readings:
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Fri 4. Mar | Homework Due | HW2 |
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Mon 7. Mar | Paper Presentations III | |
Wed 9. Mar | Multimodal QA: Audio, Video | |
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Videos:
Readings:
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Fri 11. Mar | Project Checkpoint | Abstract |
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Mon 14. Mar | Midterm Review | |
Wed 16. Mar | Midterm | |
Mon 28. Mar | Group Reformation, Checkin | |
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Videos:
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Wed 30. Mar | How to Write a Paper I | |
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Videos:
Readings:
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Fri 1. Apr | Project Checkpoint |
Experiment Plan, Introduction
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Mon 4. Apr | How to Write a Paper II | |
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Videos:
Readings:
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Wed 6. Apr | Evaluation: Leaderboards and IRT | |
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Videos:
Readings:
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Mon 11. Apr | Other QA Formats: MC, Crosswords | |
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Videos:
Readings:
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Wed 13. Apr | Project Conferences | |
Fri 15. Apr | Project Checkpoint |
Baselines, Related Work
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Mon 18. Apr | Graphics and Figures | |
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Reading:
Videos:
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Wed 20. Apr | Explainable, Cooperative, and Adversarial QA | |
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Reading:
Videos:
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Mon 25. Apr | Tabular QA (not flipped) | |
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Reading:
Slides:
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Wed 27. Apr | Fairness in Question Answering | |
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Reading:
Videos:
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Fri 29. Apr | Project Checkpoint | Conforming Draft
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Mon 2. May | Ask Me Anything: No Reading, No Videos | |
Wed 4. May | Paper Workshop | |
Fri 6. May | Project Checkpoint |
Optional Feedback
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Mon 9. May | Poster Session | |
Mon 16. May | Project Checkpoint | Final Submission
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