Spring_2023

Week	Topic	Presenter	Paper (With Link)
January 23, 2023	Welcome and Topic Selection	David Yarowsky and Kenton Murray
January 30, 2023	Low-Resource	Kenton Murray	FLEURS with slides and some FLoRes-101 and v1.0 and a bit of FLORES-200
February 6, 2023	Typology	Rachel Wicks	From Phonology to Syntax: Unsupervised Linguistic Typology at Different Levels with Language Embeddings with maybe some background
February 13, 2023	Phonology	Henry Li	Investigating phonological theories with crowd-sourced data: The Inventory Size Hypothesis in the light of Lingua Libre and Domain-Informed Probing of wav2vec 2.0 Embeddings for Phonetic Features
February 20, 2023	Code-switching	Stella Li	Are Multilingual Models Effective in Code-Switching? and Language Models for Code-switch Detection of te reo Maori and English in a Low-resource Setting
February 27, 2023	Codeswitching	Bismarck Odoom	End-to-End Speech Translation for Code Switched Speech
March 6, 2023	Representation Learning	Tianjian Li	Discovering Low-rank Subspaces for Language-agnostic Multilingual Representations (Xie et al., EMNLP 2022) and slides
March 13, 2023	Representation Learning	Kenton Murray	IsoScore: Measuring the Uniformity of Embedding Space Utilization and slides
March 20, 2023	Spring Break
March 27, 2023
April 3, 2023	Representation Learning	Ujvala Pradeep	An Isotropy Analysis in the Multilingual BERT Embedding Space and slides
April 10, 2023	Multilingual Transfer	Neha Verma	Match the Script, Adapt if Multilingual: Analyzing the Effect of Multilingual Pretraining on Cross-lingual Transferability and slides
April 17, 2023	Multilingual Modeling	Nikhil Sharma	XLM-V: Overcoming the Vocabulary Bottleneck in Multilingual Masked Language Models
April 24, 2023	Corpus Quality	Kelly Marchisio	Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets and Does Corpus Quality Really Matter for Low-Resource Languages?