Seminars and Meetings of the Reading Group in Computational Linguistics
Time: Fridays, 13-15
Place: Mostly in 9-2029 (for PhD seminars and reading group),
9-1017 or 9-1016 for other seminars (please, always check the
schedule below!)
Contact: Suggestions for the reading group can be
sent to Jörg Tiedemann
Fall 2012
Ideas for the reading group sessions:- ?
datum |
information |
|
|---|---|---|
| 2012-09-07 | report from conferences | 9-1017 |
| 2012-09-14 | Lambert Schomaker: Recent advances in computer-based access to large handwritten collections | seminar, 16-0054 |
| 2012-09-21 | Berg-Kirkpatrick, Taylor and Burkett, David and Klein, Dan: An Empirical Investigation of Statistical Significance in NLP (EMNLP 2012) | reading group, 9-3068 (Christian) |
| 2012-10-05 | Marco Kuhlmann: Beyond the Trees: Formalisms and Algorithms for Semantic Dependency Parsing | seminar, 16-0054 |
| 2012-10-12 | Christian Hardmeier | PhD seminar, 9-2029 |
| 2012-10-18 | Sara Stymne: Text harmonization for statistical machine translation | seminar, 9-3042, kl 10! |
| 2012-11-08 | Andreas Maletti Syntax-Based Machine Translation Using Multi Bottom-Up Tree Transducers | seminar, 7-0017, kl10! |
| 2012-11-23 | Hrafn Loftsson, School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University | seminar, 9-2029 |
| 2012-11-30 | Bonnie Webber: Discourse Relations and Machine Translation [slides] | seminar, 9-1016 |
| 2012-12-07 | seminar / reading group / PhD seminar, 7-1013 |
Spring 2012
Ideas for the reading group sessions:- Continue with (selected chapters of) Noah Smith: Linguistic Structure Prediction, Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, available in PDF from the UU library (follow the link)
datum |
information |
|
|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-27 | Beáta Megyesi: The Copiale Cipher | seminar, 9-1016 |
| 2012-02-03 | Noah Smith: Linguistic Structure Prediction, Chapter 4.1 | reading group, 9-2029 |
| 2012-02-10 | Richard Johansson | seminar, 9-1016 |
| 2012-02-17 | Mojgan Seraji | PhD seminar, 9-2029 |
| 2012-03-02 | reading group, 9-2029 | |
| 2012-03-09 | John Hale, Shravan Vasisht, Walter Daelemans | workshop |
| 2012-03-16 | Aaron Clauset, Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, M. E. J. Newman Power-law distributions in empirical data | reading group, 9-2029 |
| 2012-03-23 | Sharon Goldwater, Thomas L. Griffiths, Mark Johnson. Producing Power-Law Distributions and Damping Word Frequencies with Two-Stage Language Models. JMLR 12(Jul):2335-2382, 2011. | reading group, 9-2029 |
| 2012-03-30 | Miguel Ballesteros | PhD seminar, 9-2029 |
| 2012-04-13 | Fredrik Wahlberg, Mats Dahllöf, Lasse Mårtensson, Anders Brun: "Historical Handwritten Text Recognition" | seminar, 9-1016 |
| 2012-05-04 | Oscar Täckström | PhD seminar, 9-2029 |
| 2012-05-11 | Lluís Màrquez | seminar, 9-1016 |
| 2012-05-25 | Eva Pettersson | PhD seminar, 9-2029 |
| 2012-06-01 | Christian Hardmeier | PhD seminar, 9-2029 |
| 2012-06-08 | reading group, 9-2029 | |
| 2012-06-15 | reading group, 9-2029 |
Fall 2011
Ideas for the reading group sessions:- (Selected chapters of) Noah Smith: Linguistic Structure Prediction, Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, available in PDF from the UU library (follow the link)
datum |
information |
|
|---|---|---|
| 2011-09-02 | Filip Ginter: Mass-Scale Information Extraction in the Biomedical Domain | seminar |
| 2011-09-09 | Christian Hardmeier | PhD seminar |
| 2011-09-16 | Noah Smith: Linguistic Structure Prediction, Chapter 1 | reading group |
| 2011-09-23 | Jörg Tiedemann: Machine Translation for Under-Resourced Languages and Domains | seminar room 9-1017 |
| 2011-09-30 | Eva Pettersson | PhD seminar |
| 2011-10-07 | Noah Smith: Linguistic Structure Prediction, Chapter 2.1 and 2.2 | reading group |
| 2011-10-14 | Miguel Ballesteros | PhD seminar |
| 2011-10-21 | Oscar Täckström | PhD seminar |
| 2011-10-28 | Noah Smith: Linguistic Structure Prediction, Chapter 2.3 and 2.4 | reading group |
| 2011-11-11 | Bernd Bohnet: Fast and Accurate Graph-based and Transition-based Dependency Parsing | seminar |
| 2011-11-18 | PhD seminar | |
| 2011-11-25 | Oscar Täckström | PhD seminar |
| 2011-12-02 | Reut Tsarfati | seminar |
| 2011-12-09 | Mattias Nilsson | PhD seminar |
| 2011-12-16 | Noah Smith: Linguistic Structure Prediction, Chapter 3.4 - 3.7 (Miguel) | reading group |
Vårtermin 2011
Förslag för kommande möten:- Gregor Heinrich: Parameter estimation for text analysis
- Pauls, Adam & Dan Klein: Hierarchical Search for Parsing
- Hadoop/MapReduce tutorial, baserat på en tutorial på NAACL (Markus), kolla t.ex. http://hadoop.apache.org/mapreduce/
datum |
att läsa |
diskussionsledare |
|---|---|---|
| 2011-02-04 | Discussion about WMT11 | |
| 2011-02-11 | Discussion about WMT11 | |
| 2011-04-08 | Abhishek Arun et al. Monte Carlo techniques for phrase-based translation. Machine Translation 24 (2010), 103-121. | Christian |
| 2011-05-06 | KOF-genrep | |
| 2011-05-27 | Koo et
al. Dual
Decomposition for Parsing with Non-Projective Head Automata,
Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in
Natural Language Processing (further reading: Rush et al. On Dual Decomposition and Linear Programming Relaxations for Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) |
Joakim |
| 2011-06-10 |
Hösttermin 2010
datum |
att läsa |
diskussionsledare |
|---|---|---|
| 2010-09-24 | Introducing a Dependency Spanning Tree Algorithm with an Argument Satisfaction Model | Yue Zhang |
| 2010-10-15 | Liang Huang and Kenji Sagae. Dynamic Programming for Linear-Time Incremental Parsing. ACL 2010. | Marco |
| 2010-10-22 | meeting to discuss publication strategies (Different room: Turing (computer lab)) | Joakim |
| 2010-10-29 | (additional session if there is any need) Different room: Turing (computer lab) | |
| 2010-11-5 | (additional session if there is any need; school vacation) | |
| 2010-11-19 | (additional session if there is any need) | |
| 2010-11-26 | Posterior Regularization for Structured Latent Variable Models, Kuzman Ganchev, João Graça, Jennifer Gillenwater, Ben Taskar | Oscar |
| 2010-12-3 | (additional session if there is any need) | |
| 2010-12-17 | (additional session if there is any need) |
Vårtermin 2010
datum |
att läsa |
diskussionsledare |
|---|---|---|
| 2010-02-05 | Halevy, A., Norvig, P. and Pereira, F. (2009) The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data. IEEE Intelligent Systems 24:2, 8-12 | Joakim |
| 2010-02-26 | Alshawi, Hiyan, Srinivas Bangalore & Shona Douglas (2000) "Learning Dependency Translation Models as Collections of Finite-State Head Transducers" in Computational Linguistics 26(1). | Markus |
| 2010-03-12 | Bayesian Inference with Tears by Kevin Knight | Oscar |
| 2010-04-09 | Shieber, Stuart M.: Synchronous Grammars as Tree Transducers | Marco |
| 2010-05-28 |
Hösttermin 2009
datum |
att läsa |
diskussionsledare |
|---|---|---|
| 2009-09-25 | Constraint satisfaction inference: Non-probabilistic global inference for sequence labelling, Authors: Sander Canisius, Antal van den Bosch, and Walter Daelemans In Proceedings of the EACL 2006 Workshop on Learning Structured Information in Natural Language Applications, Trento, April 2006 | Jörg |
| 2009-10-16 | Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight, Jonathan May: Training Tree Transducers, Computational Linguistics, 34(3), 2008 | Marco |
| 2009-10-30 | J. Clarke and M. Lapata (2008) "Global Inference for Sentence Compression: An Integer Linear Programming Approach", Volume 31, pages 399-429 | Oscar |
| 2009-11-20 | Rens Bod, Is the End of Supervised Parsing in Sight? in Proc. of ACL 2007 | Carlos |
| 2009-12-04 | Shalom Lappin and Stuart M. Shieber. Machine learning theory and practice as a source of insight into universal grammar. Journal of Linguistics, 43(2):393-427, 2007. | Joakim |