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From: cesare-spinoso <36133778+cesare-spinoso@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:42:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update RG (#359)

* new speakers

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* May 27th talk

* add future talks without descriptions

* added talk info

* fix typo

* fix again

* added nathan schneider

* Create 2024-07-15-wenyu-du.md

* Update reading-group.md

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* nelson filipe costa
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 | July 22nd @ 11:00 | Erfan Shayegani | Cross-Modality Safety Alignment in Multi-Modal LLMs | [click here]({% link _posts/reading-group/summer-2024/2024-07-22-erfan-shayegani.md %}) | 
 | July 29th @ 11:00 | Ivan Vulić | Balancing between Efficiencies, Modularity, and Performance of (L)LMs | [click here]({% link _posts/reading-group/summer-2024/2024-07-29-ivan-vulic.md %}) | 
 | Talks for the 5th, 12th and 19th will be rescheduled due to ACL 2024 |
-| August 26th @ 11:00 | Nelson Filipe Costa | Implicit Discourse Relations | *TBA* | 
+| August 26th @ 11:00 | Nelson Filipe Costa | Implicit Discourse Relations | [click here]({% link _posts/reading-group/summer-2024/2024-08-26-nelson-costa.md %}) | 
 
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+---
+title: "Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition"
+venue: Concordia University
+names: Nelson Filipe Costa
+author: Nelson Filipe Costa
+tags:
+- NLP RG
+categories:
+    - Reading-Group
+    - Summer-2024
+layout: archive
+classes:
+    - wide
+    - no-sidebar
+---
+
+*{{ page.names }}*
+
+**{{ page.venue }}**
+
+{% include display-publication-links.html pub=page %}
+
+The [NLP Reading Group]({% link _pages/reading-group.md %}) is happy to receive [Nelson Filipe Costa](https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=rWV9FaoAAAAJ&hl=en) who will be giving a talk **in-person** on "Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition".
+
+## Talk Description
+
+In this presentation, we address the inherent ambiguity in Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition (IDRR) by introducing a novel multi-task classification model capable of learning both multi-label and single-label representations of discourse relations. Leveraging the DiscoGeM corpus, we train and evaluate our model on both multi-label and traditional single-label classification tasks. To the best of our knowledge, our work presents the first truly multi-label classifier in IDRR, establishing a benchmark for multi-label classification and achieving SOTA results in single-label classification on DiscoGeM. Additionally, we evaluate our model on the PDTB 3.0 corpus for single-label classification without any prior exposure to its data. While the performance is below the current SOTA, our model demonstrates promising results indicating potential for effective transfer learning across both corpora.
+
+## Speaker Bio
+
+Nelson is a PhD student at the Computational Linguistics lab (CLaC) at Concordia University under the supervision of Professor Leila Kosseim.
+
+## Logistics
+
+Date: August 26th<br>
+Time: 11:00AM <br>
+Location: F01 or via Zoom (See email)