Welcome¶
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Welcome to the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP!
In this Jupyter book you will find all the necessary information related to the workshop.
Organizers¶
David Jurgens, University of Michigan
Varada Kolhatkar, University of British Columbia
Lucy Li, University of California, Berkeley
Margot Mieskes, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Why Teaching NLP workshop?¶
The field of natural language processing (NLP) is growing rapidly with emergence of new state-of-the-art methods almost every year. As educators in the field, we are faced to make many decisions as to what to teach and how to do it. The fast-paced nature of NLP and popularity of NLP in different disciplines bring some unique challenges for curriculum design:
What fundamental concepts should we be teaching future NLP researchers and practitioners?
What kinds of paths through courses should we provide for students traversing an NLP-related degree?
How should we tailor our courses for wider audiences (e.g., for students from social sciences, humanities, medicine, and statistics)?
How do we scale our teaching for larger class sizes while preserving the accessibility of complex material?
How do we teach resposible and ethical use of NLP?
There have been four Teaching NLP workshops in the past. The last workshop happened in 2013 co-located with ACL in Sofia, Bulgaria. The field has changed quite a bit in the last 8 years and it is definitely time for the next workshop in the series.
Goals¶
By the end of of the workshop we hope to achieve the following high level goals.
Encourage a dialogue and collaboration between NLP educators and researchers in academia and industry to address the questions above.
Identify and document challenges in teaching and learning NLP in different contexts.
Provide a forum to share teaching and learning methodologies and tools in NLP education.
Compile resources for teaching and learning NLP that can last beyond the discussions held during the workshop.
Highlights of the program¶
2 keynote talks
2 panel discussions
5 participatory events
6 oral presentations
20 posters
More information on the accepted papers¶
13 long papers on NLP pedagogy and courses & curriculum
13 short papers with teaching materials
6 on courses & curriculum
7 on tools & assignments
Demographics
13 accepted submissions are from Europe
13 from north America (12 USA, 1 Canada)