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