Paper Discussions and Participation

We are having 5 paper reading & discussion classes: 1/22, 2/10, 2/19, 2/26, and 3/12. For each reading class, we will have 2 papers and a team of 3 students for each paper. The 3 students will play three different roles in presenting the paper. You can read more about role-play paper discussion here for more detail, but we have simplified to three roles as described below:

1. Original Authors: present the assigned paper in a 10-15 min presentation as the original authors, describing its research question, motivation, methodology, results, and more. Please argue for the merits and novelty of the assigned paper.

2. Peer Reviewer: conduct a peer review in a conference paper review format (for example, in ACL Rolling Review format) for the assigned paper. Discuss the strengths, weaknesses, potential room for improvement, ethics and social impact, etc.

3. Area Chair: present a broader perspective and moderate the discussion between the Authors, Reviewers, and the Class. Discuss whether there’s relevant prior work and assess novelty, assess social impact, collect comments/opinions from the class.

Non-Official Presenters

For people not presenting, please submit a written artifact about one of the papers (summary, interesting opinions, etc.) to this folder in a google doc. You are required to submit a written artifact for the 4 discussion topics that you are not presenting.

Academic Honesty & Grading Policy

• Each role-playing presentation should be completed by a team of four students.
• Each written artifact should be completed independently.
• The presentation must be submitted by 11.59pm a day before the class.
• All written artifacts should be submitted by noon a day before the class.
• The presentation material can be borrowed from elsewhere so long as the original source is acknowledged.
• The written artifact should not contain any plagiarism (e.g., a blog post elsewhere on the same paper/topic cannot be submitted as is or even after paraphrasing).