Some NLP-related seminar series at UMass:

• UMass NLP Seminar meets approximately weekly during the semester. (Formerly was the NLP Reading Group.) Coordination and announcements are typically through the umass-nlp mailing list and/or #reading-group within the umass-nlp slack group.
• Machine Learning and Friends Lunch (MLFL)
, a seminar series including some NLP-related speakers.
• Computational Social Science Institute (CSSI), which hosts a seminar series with some NLP-related speakers.

NLP-related institutes and groups at or near UMass:

• Center for Data Science
• Cognitive Science Institute
• Research groups in CICS:
  • Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR)
  • Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory (IESL)
  • Socio-Statistical Language Analysis (SLANG)
• Linguistics:
  • Linguistics Department
  • Computational Linguistics research area
  • Five Colleges Linguistics