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NLP Lunch is our group's lab meeting. Sorry, but it isn't open to others.
NLP Lunch Schedule — Spring 2008
Food this quarter: TBD
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| Apr 03 | David Hall | Tracking the Evolution of Science |
| Apr 10 | Sebastian Pado | Bootstrapping Semantic Role Analysis for Nominalisations |
| Apr 17 | Uriel Cohen Priva | Information Theoretic Explanations in Phonology |
| Apr 24 | Dan Cer | Regularization and Search for Minimum Error Rate Training |
| May 01 | Rion Snow, David Vickrey, and Brendan O'Connor (Dolores Labs) | Human Computation for Defeating the Data Bottleneck |
| May 08 | Daniel Ramage | An Informal Tour of Distributional Similarity for NLP |
| May 15 | Dan Jurafsky & Chris Manning | State of the Union |
| May 22 | Chloe Kiddon | |
| Mar 29 | Anna & Marie / Pi-Chuan Chang | |
| Jun 05 | David Vickrey / Nate Chambers | |
| Jun 12 | Sharon Goldwater / Jenny Finkel | |
NLP Lunch Schedule — Winter 2008
Food this quarter: Rob Munro
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| Jan 24 | Lyn Walker | Learning to Generate Naturalistic Utterances for Dialogue Systems by Mining User Reviews |
| Jan 31 | Anna Rafferty and Marie Catherine de Marneff | Finding Contradictions in Text |
| Feb 07 | Bill MacCartney | Natural Logic |
| Feb 14 | Yun-Hsuan Sung | Hidden Conditional Random Fields for Speech Recognition |
| Feb 21 | Daniel Ramage | Clustering the Tagged Web |
| Feb 28 | Mengqiu Wang | Learning with latent alignment structures: Quasi-synchronous Grammar and Tree-edit CRFs for QA and RTE |
| Mar 06 | Nate Chambers | Unsupervised Learning of Narratives |
| Mar 13 | ACL Abstracts | |
| Mar 20 | Jenny Finkel | Coreference Resolution |
NLP Lunch Schedule — Fall 2007
Food this quarter: Mengqui Wang
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| Oct 4 | Michel Galley | Synchronous grammars for MT and sentence compression |
| Oct 11 | Sebastian Padó | Cross-lingual Induction of Semantic Roles |
| Oct 18 | A delightful mix | Sharon Goldwater, Thad Hughes, and Yun-Hsuan Sung | |
| Oct 25 | Nate Chambers | An Inappropriately Casual Stroll through the TRIPS Dialogue System |
| Nov 1 | Dan Cer | Max Margin Methods for Statistical Machine Translation |
| Nov 8 | Jenny Finkel and Alex Kleeman | An Efficient Conditional Random Field based Context Free Grammar Parser |
| Nov 15 | David Vickrey | Sentence Simplification for Semantic Role Labeling |
| Nov 22 | Some Turkey | Reflections on the American experience |
| Nov 29 | Rion Snow | Learning Selectional Preferences over WordNet Synsets |
| Dec 6 | Pi-Chuan Chang | Improving Chinese Word Segmentation for Machine Translation |
NLP Lunch Schedule — Summer 2007
Food this quarter: Anna Rafferty
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| Aug 16 | Daniel Ramage | Wikipedia and Semantic Relatedness |
| Aug 23 | Marie-Catherine de Marneffe | Sparse Information Extraction: Unsupervised Language Models to the Rescue (Downey et al. 2007) |
| Aug 30 | Sharon Goldwater |
A Nonparametric Bayesian Framework for Language Learning &
Error Analysis for Speech Recognition |
| Sep 6 | Anna Rafferty | Guiding Statistical Word Alignment Models with Prior Knowledge (Deng et al. 2007) |
| Sep 13 | Dan Jurafsky and Chris Manning | Lab Projects Meeting |
NLP Lunch Schedule — Spring 2007
Food this quarter: Nate Chambers
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| Apr. 5 | Iddo Lev | Packing semantic computations |
| Apr. 12 | Ani Nenkova | NAACL practice talk |
| Apr. 19 | | NO MEETING (SAIL retreat) |
| Apr. 26 | Marie-Catherin | Logistic regression on kid's dative grammatical choices |
| May 3 | Yun-Hsuan | Hidden CRFs |
| May 10 | Alex | Stochastic Meta-Descent |
| May 17 | Sharon | Bayesian Syntactic Category Learning |
| May 24 | Nate | Events, Time and Recipes |
| May 31 | Surabhi | Addressee Detection |
| Jun. 7 | Dan Ramage & Thad
Pi-Chuan | Lexical Semantic Relatedness with Random Graph Walks
A Discriminative Syntactic Word Order Model for Machine Translation |
| Jun. 14 | Jenny
Rion
Sharon | Practice Talks |
NLP Lunch Schedule — Winter 2007
Food this quarter: Thad Hughes
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| Jan. 18 |
Jenny, Teg, Sharon, Dan, & David |
ACL Paper Abstracts |
| Jan. 25 |
Thad Hughes & Yun-Hsuan Sung |
Articulatory Phonology for Speech Recognition |
| Feb. 1 |
Huihsin Tseng |
Proposal Practice Talk |
| Feb. 8 |
Thad Hughes |
WordNet Sense Clustering |
| Feb. 15 |
Ani Nenkova |
Information structure and acoustic prominence in conversational speech
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| Feb. 22 |
Jenny Finkel & Teg Grenager |
Infinite Trees |
| Mar. 1 |
Stephan Stiller & Yun-Hsuan Sung |
Discriminative training methods used in speech recognition |
| Mar. 8 |
William Morgan |
Machine Translation |
| Mar. 15 |
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe |
Recognizing Textual Entailment |
| Mar. 22 |
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EMNLP/CoNLL abstracts |
NLP Lunch Schedule — Fall 2006
Food this quarter: Bill MacCartney
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| Oct. 5 |
Sebastian |
Scaling Up Probabilistic Inference For NLP? Just Relax! |
| Oct. 12 |
Jenny, Teg, ... |
NAACL abstracts |
| Oct. 19 |
Sharon |
Nonparametric Bayesian Models of Lexical Acquisition |
| Oct. 26 |
Dan Cer |
Structured Learning |
| Nov. 2 |
R. White |
{N,L,P} ^ {I,R,F} = {}? Is there really no intersection
between Natural Language Processing and Implicit Relevance Feedback?
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| Nov. 9 |
Uriel |
Breaking Down the Parser |
| Nov. 16 |
David V. |
Generative Semantic Role Labeling /\
Online Games for Word-Relationships /\
Induction of Meronyms |
| Nov. 30 |
Jenny |
Tutorial Hierarchical Dirichlet |
| Dec. 7 |
Teg |
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| Dec. 14 |
Dan R. |
Tutorial: Transfer Learning |
NLP Lunch Schedule — Summer 2006
Food this quarter: Thad Hughes
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| June 29 |
Marie |
RTE: where things stand |
| July 6 |
Teg |
EMNLP practice talk |
| July 13 |
Jenny |
EMNLP practice talk |
| July 20 |
Dan Cer |
reading group |
| July 27 |
Marie |
Generating dependency parses from phrase structure parses |
| August 3 |
Michael |
Recent efforts |
| August 10 |
Chloé |
Recent efforts |
| August 17 |
Thad |
Pronunciation Modeling for Conversational Speech using Articulatory Features |
| August 24 |
Michael |
CURIS presentation |
| August 31 |
Chloé |
CURIS presentation |
NLP Lunch Schedule — Spring 2006
Food this quarter: Yun-hsuan
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| April 6 |
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Administrative |
| April 13 |
Jenny, Teg, ... |
EMNLP abstracts |
| April 20 |
Dan2 |
Tutorial: bagging & boosting |
| April 27 |
Yun-Hsuan |
Detection of Word Fragments in Mandarin Telephone Conversation |
| May 4 |
Jenny Finkel |
Distributional similarity |
| May 11 |
Teg Grenager |
Dirichlet processes redux |
| May 18 |
Jeff Michels |
Recent efforts |
| May 25 |
Pedro Domingos |
The Naive Linguist:
A Complete NLP System in Markov Logic
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| June 1 |
Bill MacCartney |
NAACL practice talk: RTE; and: The State of the NLP Group (Chris & DanJ) |
| June 8 |
everybody who's around |
relax, chat |
| June 15 |
Discourse and Dialog |
Sundry topics of inquiry |
NLP Lunch Schedule — Winter 2005/2006
Food this quarter: Surabhi
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| Jan. 12 |
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Administrative |
| Jan. 19 |
Teg |
Semantic Role Labeling |
| Jan. 26 |
Bill |
RTE (and Australia Day Party with Chinese food and special cake decorated to resemble Australian flag) |
| Feb. 2 |
Pi-Chuan, Costas, Surabhi |
Adaptation |
| Feb. 9 |
Ani Nenkova |
Understanding the process of multi-document summarization: content
selection, rewrite and evaluation (and Jenny's birthday) |
| Feb. 16 |
William Morgan |
Statistical Significance Tests for NLP |
| Feb. 23 |
Various |
Discuss ACL abstracts |
| Mar. 2 |
Various |
Teaser talks |
| Mar. 9 |
Jenny |
Dealing with the Propagation of Errors in Linguistic Pipelines |
| Mar. 16 |
Rion |
Semantic Taxonomy Induction from Heterogenous Evidence |
NLP Lunch Schedule — Fall 2005
Food this quarter: Jenny
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| Sep. 29 |
Vijay |
Enhanced Answer Type Inference from Questions using Sequential Models (presented at EMNLP) |
| Oct. 6 |
Dan Cer |
FrameNet Semantic Role Labeling |
| Oct. 13 |
William |
Gaming Fluency: Bounds and Expectations on Translation Memories |
| Oct. 20 |
Rajat |
Tutorial on Online Learning Methods |
| Oct. 27 |
Teg |
Tutorial on MCMC |
| Nov. 3 |
Pedro |
Tutorial on Markov Logic Networs, Part I |
| Nov. 10 |
Pedro |
Tutorial on Markov Logic Networks, Part II |
| Nov 17 |
Costas |
Text classification by augmenting the bag-of-words representation with
redundancy-compensated bigrams |
| Nov. 24 |
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Thanksgiving holiday, no NLP lunch |
| Dec. 1 |
Rion |
Reinforcement Learning for Computational Linguistics |
| Dec. 8 |
Jenny |
Tutorial on SVD |
NLP Lunch Schedule — Summer 2005
Food this quarter: Aria
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| July 7 |
Bill |
Presenting an ACL 2005 paper |
| July 14 |
Teg |
Presenting an ACL 2005 paper |
| July 21 |
Hal Daume III |
Search, Learning and Features: An exploration in Entity Detection and Tracking |
| July 28 |
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe |
Word Sense Disambiguation |
| August 4 |
Pi-Chuan and Huihsin |
Chinese Word Segmentation |
| August 11 |
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CURIS presentations |
| August 18 |
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CURIS presentations |
| August 25 |
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CURIS presentations |
| September 1 |
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Grammatical Relations / Semantic Roles |
NLP Lunch Schedule — Spring 2005
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| Apr. 7 |
Jenny Finkel |
Coreference resolution |
| Apr. 14 |
Jiahong Yuan |
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| Apr. 20 |
Bill MacCartney |
Smoothing tutorial |
| Apr. 28 |
Chris Cox |
Cyc tutorial |
| May 5 |
Aria Haghighi |
MT tutorial |
| May 12 |
Roger Levy |
Wrap parsing |
| May 19 |
Pi-Chuan Chang |
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| May 26 |
Ari Steinberg |
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| June 2 |
TBA |
TBA |
| June 9 |
Kristina Toutanova & Aria Haghighi |
ACL practice talk (semantic role labeling?) |
| June 16 |
Jenny Finkel |
ACL practice talk |
| June 23 |
Teg Grenager |
ACL practice talk |
NLP Lunch Schedule — Winter 2005
| Date |
Food |
Speaker |
Topic |
| Jan. 13 |
Chris Cox |
Chris and Dan |
How to write abstracts and intros |
| Jan. 20 |
Jamie |
Galen and Huihsin |
Chinese Parsing |
| Jan. 27 |
Teg |
Roger |
Job talk practice |
| Feb. 3 |
Rion |
Kristina |
Job talk practice |
| Feb. 10 |
Huihsin |
Chris Cox/Jenny/Jamie |
Pascal IE |
| Feb. 17 |
Ari |
Jason |
TOBI Tutorial |
| Feb. 24 |
Kristina |
Teg |
Dirichlet Processes Tutorial |
| Mar. 3 |
Jenny |
Bill |
Scope resolution |
| Mar. 10 |
Jiahong |
Dan Jurafsky and Chris Manning |
Metatalk |
| Mar. 17 |
Pi-Chuan |
Jiahong |
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NLP Lunch Schedule — Autumn 2004
| Date |
Food |
Speaker |
Topic |
| Sep. 30 |
Jiahong |
Teg Grenager |
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| Oct. 7 |
Bill |
Marie |
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| Oct. 14 |
Roger |
Julia Hockenmaier |
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| Oct. 21 |
Marie |
Jenny Finkel |
CRFs, kernelized logistic regression |
| Oct. 28 |
Ari |
Kristina Toutanova & Aria Haghighi |
PropBank & semantic roles |
| Nov. 4 |
Rion |
Galen Andrew & Huihsin Tseng |
Chinese segmentation |
| Nov. 11 |
no meeting — CSLI/Edinburgh day |
| Nov. 18 |
Jason |
Rion Snow |
NIPS preview |
| Nov. 25 |
no meeting — Thanksgiving |
| Dec. 2 |
Galen |
Jason Brenier |
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NLP Lunch Schedule - Winter 2004
| Date |
Food |
Speaker |
Topic |
| Jan. 8 |
Huy |
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admin |
| Jan. 16 |
Jeanette |
Roger |
statistics |
| Jan. 23 |
Teg |
Dan K. |
PCA, SVD, ... |
| Jan. 30 |
Galen |
Kristina |
SVMs, kernels |
| Feb. 6 |
Bill |
Dan K. |
job talk |
| Feb. 13 |
Jenny |
Mona |
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| Feb. 20 |
Dan J. |
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Bring your kid to NLP Lunch |
| Feb. 27 |
Kristina |
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| Mar. 5 |
Satoshi |
Teg |
model merging |
| Mar. 12 |
Dan K. |
Teg/Galen |
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| Mar. 19 |
Satoshi |
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NLP Lunch Schedule - Fall 2003
| Date |
Food |
Speaker |
Topic |
| Oct. 16 |
Huy |
Kristina |
random forests |
| Oct. 23 |
Jenny |
Satoshi |
identity matching |
| Oct. 30 |
Roger |
Kristina |
PP attachment |
| Nov. 6 |
Galen |
Roger |
discontinuous parsing |
| Nov. 13 |
Bill |
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| Nov. 20 |
Kristina |
Huy/Jenny |
BioCreative |
| Nov. 27 |
no meeting — Thanksgiving |
| Dec. 4 |
Dan |
Galen/Teg |
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| Dec. 12 |
Satoshi |
Roger |
basic statistics |
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NLP lunch ordering spreadsheet
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