NLP Reading Group
Fridays, 2:00 PM, 9th Floor CR
Spring 2012
| Date | Moderator | Paper |
|---|
| Feb 17 |
Yang Gao |
Two-Level, Many Paths Generation
Kevin Knight, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou
pdf
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| Mar 2 |
Shu Cai |
Probabilistic Frame-Semantic Parsing
Dipanjan Das, Nathan Schneider, Desai Chen and Noah A. Smith
pdf
|
| April 6 |
Qing Dou |
Automatically Learning Source-side Reordering Rules for Large Scale Machine Translation
Dmitriy Genzel
pdf
|
| April 20 |
Ashish Vaswani |
TBD
|
| May 4 |
Hui Zhang |
TBD
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Fall 2011
| Date | Moderator | Paper |
|---|
| Nov 4 |
Shu Cai |
A Probabilistic Forest-to-String Model for Language Generation from Typed Lambda Calculus Expressions
Wei Lu and Hwee Tou Ng
pdf
|
| Oct 21 |
Hui Zhang |
Conversational Speech Transcription Using Context-Dependent Deep Neural Networks
Frank Seide, Gang Li, and Dong Yu
pdf
|
| Oct 7 |
Jason Riesa |
Structured Sparsity in Structured Prediction
Andre F. T. Martins, Noah A. Smith, Pedro M. Q. Aguilar, and Mario A. T. Figueiredo
pdf
|
| Sep 23 |
Ashish Vaswani |
A Unified Architecture for Natural Language Processing: Deep Neural Networks with Multitask Learning
Ronan Collobert and Jason Weston
pdf
|
Summer 2011
| Date | Moderator | Paper |
|---|
| Aug 12 |
Sravana Reddy |
A Probabilistic Approach to Language Change
Alexandre Bouchard-Cote, Percy Liang, Thomas L.Griffiths and Dan Klein
pdf
|
| July 15 |
Hui Zhang |
Joint Parsing and Translation
Yang Liu and Qun Liu
pdf
|
| July 1 |
Licheng Fang
Liang Huang
Suzy Howlett
Xuchen Yao
Kevin Knight
Hui Zhang
Qing Dou
Shu Cai
|
ACL 2011 paper summaries and discussions
Learning Hierarchical Translation Structure with Linguistic Annotations
Markos Mylonakis and Khalil Sima'an
pdf
Incremental Syntactic Language Models for Phrase-based Translation
Lane Schwartz, Chris Callison-Burch, William Schuler, Stephen Wu
pdf
Simple Unsupervised Grammar Induction from Raw Text with Cascaded Finite State Models
Elias Ponvert, Jason Baldridge and Katrin Erk pdf
Model-Based Aligner Combination Using Dual Decomposition
John DeNero and Klaus Macherey pdf
Combining Morpheme-based Machine Translation with Post-processing Morpheme Prediction
Ann Clifton and Anoop Sarkar pdf
Binarized Forest to String Translation
Hao Zhang, Licheng Fang, Peng Xu, Xiaoyun Wu pdf
Maps of the Impossible: Capturing semantic anomalies in distributional space
Eva Maria Vecchi and Marco Baroni and Roberto Zamparelli pdf
Learning Dependency-Based Compositional Semantics
Percy Liang, Michael Jordan, Dan Klein pdf
|
| June 17 |
Qing Dou |
A model for matching semantic maps between languages
Sabine Ploux and Hyungsuk Ji
pdf
|
| June 3 |
Shu Cai |
Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos
pdf
|
Spring 2011
| Date | Moderator | Paper |
|---|
| May 6 |
Dirk Hovy |
Constructing Semantic Space Models from Parsed Corpora
Sebastian Pado, Mirella Lapata
pdf, expanded CL article
|
| Apr 22 |
Jason Riesa |
Ensemble Models for Dependency Parsing: Cheap and Good?
Mihai Surdeanu and Christopher D. Manning
pdf
|
| Apr 8 |
Shu Cai |
Integrating Graph-Based and Transition-Based Dependency Parsers
Joakim Nivre and Ryan McDonald
pdf
|
| Mar 11 |
Ashish Vaswani |
Painless Unsupervised Learning with Features
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Alexandre Bouchard-Cote, John DeNero, and Dan Klein
pdf
slides
discussion
|
| Feb 25 |
Qing Dou |
Immediate-Head Parsing for Language Models
Eugene Charniak
pdf
|
| Feb 11 |
Victoria Fossum |
A New String-to-Dependency Machine Translation Algorithm with a Target Dependency Language Model
Libin Shen, Jinxi Xu, Ralph Weischedel
pdf
|
| Jan 28 |
Steven Tratz |
Non-projective dependency parsing using spanning tree algorithms
Ryan McDonald, Fernando Pereira, Kiril Ribarov, Jan Hajic
pdf
|
| Jan 14 |
Steve DeNeefe |
SCFG Decoding Without Binarization
Mark Hopkins and Greg Langmead
pdf
|
Fall 2010
| Date | Moderator | Paper |
|---|
| Dec 3 |
David Chiang |
Contextual dependencies in unsupervised word segmentation
Sharon Goldwater, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Mark Johnson
pdf
A note on the implementation of Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes
Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Sharon Goldwater, and Mark Johnson
pdf
|
| Nov 19 |
Erica Greene |
Contrastive Estimation: Training Log-Linear Models on Unlabeled Data
Noah A. Smith and Jason Eisner
pdf
|
| Nov 5 |
Erica Greene |
Organizational Meeting
EMNLP Retrospective
|
Summer 2010
| Date | Moderator | Paper |
|---|
| Aug 17 |
Liang Huang
Sasha Rush |
Dependency parsing introduction
Efficient Third-Order Dependency Parsers
(Terry Koo and Michael Collins) [pdf]
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Spring 2010
| Date | Moderator | Paper |
|---|
| Jan 15 |
Ashish Vaswani |
Organizational Meeting |
Fall 2009
| Date | Moderator | Paper |
|---|
| Dec 18 |
Lightning Round
Sujith Ravi
Zori Kozareva
Steve DeNeefe |
Reinforcement Learning for mapping instructions to actions
(S.R.K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Luke S. Zettlemoyer, and Regina Barzilay) [pdf]
Fast, Cheap and Creative: Evaluating Translation Quality with Amazon's Mechanical Turk
(Chris Callison-Burch) [pdf]
Topological Ordering of Function Words in Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation
(Hendra Setiawan, Min-Yen Kan, Haizhou Li, and Philip Resnik) [pdf]
|
| 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] |
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