NLP Reading Group
Fridays, 2:00 PM, 9th Floor CR
Fall 2009
| Date | Moderator | Paper |
|---|
|
|
|
| Nov 20 |
Dirk Hovy |
Semantic-based Estimation of Term Informativeness
(Kirill Kireyev) [pdf] |
| Nov 6 |
Oana Nicolov |
A fully Bayesian approach to unsupervised part-of-speech tagging.
(Sharon Goldwater and Thomas L. Griffiths) [pdf] |
| Oct 23 |
Ashish Vaswani |
Better Alignments = Better Translations?
(Kuzman Ganchev, Joao Graca, Ben Taskar) [pdf] |
| Oct 16 |
Ashish Vaswani |
Organizational meeting |
Summer 2009
| Date | Moderator | Paper |
|---|
| July 10 |
Steve DeNeefe et al. |
Highlights from NAACL HLT 09 |
| June 26 |
Adam Pauls
David Chiang
|
Gibbs Sampling
Dirichlet priors and the Dirichlet process |
Spring 2009
| Date | Moderator | Paper |
|---|
| Apr. 3 |
Dirk Hovy |
Unsupervised word sense disambiguation rivaling supervised methods
(David Yarowsky) [pdf] |
| Mar. 20 |
No Meeting |
Spring Break |
| Mar. 6 |
Marta Recasens |
Modeling Local Coherence: An Entity-Based Approach
(Regina Barzilay and Mirella Lapata) [pdf] |
| Feb. 20 |
Jason Riesa |
Structured Output Prediction with Structural SVMs
(Thorsten Joachims) [video lecture] |
| Feb. 6 |
William Chang |
Inverse Document Frequency (IDF): A Measure of Deviations from Poisson
(Kenneth W. Church and William A. Gale) [pdf] |
| Jan. 23 |
Jason Riesa |
Organizational Meeting |
Fall 2008
| Date | Moderator | Paper |
|---|
| Dec. 10 |
Ashish Vaswani |
Discriminative Word Alignment with Conditional Random Fields
(Phil Blunsom and Trevor Cohn) [pdf] |
| Nov. 21 |
Steve DeNeefe |
Language and Translation Model Adaptation using Comparable Corpora
(Matthew Snover, Bonnie Dorr, and Richard Schwartz) [pdf] |
| Nov. 7 |
Oana Postolache |
Dependency Parsing by Belief Propagation
(David Smith and Jason Eisner) [pdf] |
| Oct. 24 |
No Meeting |
Conference Travel |
| Oct. 10 |
Dirk Hovy |
A Spreading-Activation Theory of Retrieval in Sentence Production
(Gary S. Dell) [pdf] |
| Sep. 26 |
William Chang |
Tutorial: Gibbs Sampling and LDA
Background: Parameter estimation for text analysis (Gregor Heinrich) [pdf] |
| Sep. 19 |
Jason Riesa |
Organizational Meeting |
Summer 2008
| Date | Moderator | Paper |
|---|
| Aug. 15 |
Jason Riesa |
Alignment and segmentation of parallel text for statistical machine translation
(Yonggang Deng, Shankar Kumar, and William Byrne) [pdf]
|
| Aug. 1 |
Kyle Gorman |
Class-based n-gram models of natural language
(Peter F. Brown, Peter V. deSouza, Robert L. Mercer, Vincent J. Della Pietra, Jennifer C. Lai) [pdf]
Aggregate and mixed-order Markov models for statistical language processing
(Laurence Saul and Fernando Pereira) [pdf]
|
| Jul. 16 |
John DeNero |
Learning Bilingual Lexicons from Monolingual Corpora
(Aria Haghighi, Percy Liang, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, and Dan Klein) [pdf] |
| Jun. 27 |
Kyle Gorman |
Robust Incremental Parsing using Human-Like Memory Constraints
(William Schuler, Tim Miller, Samir AbdelRahman, and Lane Schwartz) [pdf] (draft) |
| Jun. 13 |
Ashish Vaswani |
The Power of Amnesia
(Dana Ron, Yoram Singer, and Naftali Tishby) [pdf] |
| May 30 |
Sujith Ravi |
Improving Statistical Machine Translation Performance by Training Data
Selection and Optimization
(Yajuan Lu, Jin Huang, and Qun Liu) [pdf] |
Spring 2008
| Date | Moderator | Paper |
|---|
| May 9 |
Vishnu Sethumadhavan |
Semantic Taxonomy Induction from Heterogenous Evidence
(Rion Snow, Dan Jurafsky, Andrew Y. Ng) [pdf] |
| Apr. 25 |
Oana Postolache |
Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaptation
(Hal Daume III) [pdf] |
| Mar. 28 |
Jason Riesa |
Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar Induction Based on Structural Zeros (Mehryar Mohri and Brian Roark) [pdf]
Accurate Methods for the Statistics of Surprise and Coincidence (Ted Dunning) [pdf] |
| Mar. 14 |
William Chang |
Latent Dirichlet Allocation
(David M. Blei, Andrew Y. Ng, and Michael I. Jordan) [pdf] [handout] |
| Feb. 29 |
Rahul Bhagat |
Randomized Decoding for Selection-and-Ordering Problems
(Pawan Deshpande, Regina Barzilay, and David Karger) [pdf] |
| Feb. 22 |
no meeting |
ISD Retreat |
| Feb. 8 |
Rahul Bhagat |
Organizational meeting |
Fall 2007
| Date | Moderator | Paper |
|---|
| Nov. 16 |
Tom Murray |
Computationally Efficient M-Estimation of Log-Linear Structure Models
(Noah Smith, Douglas Vail, and John Lafferty)
[pdf] |
| Nov. 2 |
David Chiang |
Continuation of last week |
| Oct. 26 |
David Chiang |
Why Doesn't EM find good HMM POS-taggers?
(Mark Johnson)
[pdf]
A Fully Bayesian Approach to Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging
(Sharon Goldwater and Thomas L. Griffiths).
Section 2.1
[pdf] |
| Oct. 12 |
Steve DeNeefe |
An End-to-End Discriminative Approach to Machine Translation
(Percy Liang, Alexandre Bouchard-Cote, Dan Klein, and Ben Taskar)
[pdf] |
| Sep. 28 |
Gully Burns |
Imitating Manual Curation of Text-mined Facts in Biomedicine
(Raul Rodriguez-Esteban, Ivan Iossifov, Andrey Rzhetsky)
[pdf] |
|
