NLP for Climate Change (Algor.u.formale Aspekte) SoSe 2024

Graduate course, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 13 Fakultät für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Department II, Centrum für Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung, 2024

Serve as: Teaching Assistant

Teacher: Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank, Dr. Siyao Peng, Daniela Teodorescu, Beiduo Chen

Course Schedule:

Week 1 (16.04) – Introduction to NLP for Climate Change – Part 1

Week 2 (23.04) – Introduction to NLP for Climate Change – Part 2

Week 3 (30.04) – Guest lecture: Dr. Simon Lübke & Nadezhda Ozornina from Computational Communication Science, LMU

Week 4 (07.05) – Technical tutorial by Beiduo Chen

Week 5 (14.05) – Student Paper Presentations

Week 6 (21.05) – No Class on Whit Tuesday

Week 7 (28.05) – Student Paper Presentations

Week 8 (04.06) – Cancelled

Week 9 (11.06) – 5-minute project proposal presentations

Week 10 (18.06) – Cancelled

Week 11 (25.06) – Guest lecture by Prof. Manfred Stede from the University of Potsdam

Week 12 (02.07) – Optional 10-minute project updates & discussions

Week 12-14 – No class during project weeks

Reading List:

  • Foundation Models for Weather and Climate Data Understanding: A Comprehensive Survey
  • Intensity-Valued Emotions Help Stance Detection of Climate Change Twitter Data
  • Conflicts, Villains, Resolutions: Towards models of Narrative Media Framing
  • Detecting Stance in Media on Global Warming
  • ClimateGPT: Towards AI Synthesizing Interdisciplinary Research on Climate Change

Final Project Suggestions:

  • Detecting Stance in Media on Global warming
  • NLP for Positive Impact Workshop (NLP4PI) – collocated with EMNLP 2024
  • NLP for Digital Humanities (NLP4DH 2024) – collocated with EMNLP 2024
  • NLP for Science (NLP4Science) – collocated with EMNLP 2024
  • COLING 2025 main conference