Natural Language Learning


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The Natural Language Learning (NLL) reading group is a student-run group at UT Austin and part of the UT Austin NLP and Computational Linguistics community. We discuss recent papers in NLP, ML, and Computational Linguistics, and occasionally host invited talks. All students, postdocs, and faculty interested in language technologies are welcome to join!

The group is currently organized by Juan Diego Rodriguez.

Spring 2026

January 30, Eric Bigelow et al.. Belief Dynamics Reveal the Dual Nature of In-Context Learning and Activation Steering. arXiv 2025 (pdf)

February 13, Weller et al.. FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow Instructions. NAACL 2025 (pdf)

February 27 - A Jennifer Hu paper (TBD)

March 13 - TBD

March 27 - Matthew Finlayson (invited talk)

April 10 - TBD

April 24 - TBD

May 8 - TBD

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History

NLL was created by Ray Mooney in 1991. It was previously organized by: For previous discussions, see Previous Discussions.