NLIP Reading Group
Mondays at 12:30pm in GS15 (unless otherwise stated) until 17 Jan 2011. From 27 Jan 2011 reading group will be on Thursdays 12:00-13:00.
There is a list on talks.cam which you can use to get reminders: http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/15421
If you have any comments, or there's a paper you'd like to present, please get in touch with James (jgj29) or Marek (mr472).
Lent 2011 Term
Date |
Room |
Presenter |
Paper |
17/01 |
GS15 |
Stuart Moore |
Baoli Li and Carl Vogel. Improving Multiclass Text Classification with Error-Correcting Output Coding and Sub-class Partitions, 2010 springerlink |
27/01 |
GS15 |
Helen Yannakoudakis |
Emily Pitler, Annie Louis, Ani Nenkova. Automatic Evaluation of Linguistic Quality in Multi-Document Summarization, ACL 2010 pdf |
3/02 |
GS15 |
Awais Athar |
Vahed Qazvinian and Dragomir R. Radev. Identifying Non-Explicit Citing Sentences for Citation-Based Summarization, ACL 2010 pdf |
17/02 |
GS15 |
Stephen Clark |
Mark Steedman [2008] On Becoming a Discipline. Computational Linguistics Vol. 34, No. 1, Pages 137--144. Nat Lang [2010] Are We Near the End of the Journal? Computational Linguistics Vol. 36, No. 4, Pages 817--821 |
17/02 |
GS15 |
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24/02 |
GS15 |
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3/03 |
GS15 |
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10/03 |
GS15 |
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17/03 |
GS15 |
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Lent 2010 Term
Date |
Room |
Presenter |
Paper |
11/01 |
GS15 |
Marek Rei and Helen Yannakoudakis |
Don, Zheleva, Gregory, Tarkan, Auvil, Clement, Shneiderman & Plaisant. Discovering interesting usage patterns in text collections: integrating text mining with visualization, CIKM 2007 pdf |
18/01 |
GS15 |
Juan Pino |
Blunsom, Cohn, Dyer & Osborne. A Gibbs sampler for phrasal synchronous grammar induction, ACL 2009 pdf |
25/01 |
GS15 |
Laura Rimell & Andreas Vlachos |
Nivre. Dependency grammar and dependency parsing, Technical Report, Vaxjo University. pdf |
02/02 |
GS15 |
Tom Lippincott |
Snyder & Barzilay. Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for Morphological Segmentation, ACL 2008 pdf |
08/02 |
GS15 |
Jimme Jardine |
Mohammad, Dorr, Egan, Hassan, Muthukrishan, Qazvinian, Radev & Zajic. Using Citations to Generate Surveys of Scientific Paradigms, NAACL-HLT 2009 pdf |
15/02 |
GS15 |
Ching-Yun Chang |
Murphy & Vogel. The syntax of concealment: reliable methods for plain text information hiding, SPIE International Conference on Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents 2007 pdf |
22/02 |
GS15 |
Lin Sun |
Talbot & Brants. Randomized Language Models via Perfect Hash Functions, ACL 2008 pdf |
01/03 |
GS15 |
Awais Athar |
Joshi & Penstein-Rosé. Generalizing Dependency Features for Opinion Mining, ACL-IJCNLP 2009 pdf |
08/03 |
GS15 |
Diarmuid O'Seaghdha |
Poon, Cherry & Toutanova. Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models, NAACL 2009 pdf |
Michaelmas 2009 Term
Date |
Room |
Presenter |
Paper |
12/10 |
GS15 |
ACL/EMNLP attendants |
Exciting papers from ACL/EMNLP 2009 and collocated workshops proceedings, people's choices |
19/10 |
GS15 |
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha |
Chambers & Jurafsky. Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Schemas and their Participants, ACL-IJCNLP 2009 pdf |
26/10 |
GS15 |
Andreas Vlachos |
Brody & Lapata. Bayesian Word Sense Induction, EACL 2009 pdf |
02/11 |
GS15 |
Stuart Moore |
Carlson, Betteridge, Hruschka Jr. & Mitchell. Coupling semi-supervised learning of categories and relations, NAACL-HLT 2009 Workshop on Semi-Supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing pdf |
09/11 |
GS15 |
Ted Briscoe & Steve Clark |
Kaplan, Riezler, King, Maxwell III, Vasserman & Crouch. Speed and Accuracy in Shallow and Deep Stochastic Parsing, HLT-NAACL 2004 pdf |
16/11 |
GS15 |
Katia Shutova |
Michalcea & Strapparava. Making Computers Laugh: Investigations in Automatic Humor Recognition, HLT-EMNLP 2005 pdf |
23/11 |
GS15 |
Colin Kelly |
Mitchell, Shinkareva, Carlson, Chang, Malave, Mason & Just. Predicting Human Brain Activity Associated with the Meanings of Nouns, Science 320:1191-1195, 2008. pdf |
30/11 |
GS15 |
Nikiforos Karamanis |
Macklovitch. TransType2: The Last Word, LREC 2006. pdf |
07/12 |
GS15 |
Andrew MacKinlay |
Morante & Daelemans. Learning the scope of hedge cues in biomedical texts, BioNLP 2009. pdf |
Easter 2009 Term
Date |
Room |
Presenter |
Paper |
27/04 |
GS15 |
Andreas Vlachos |
Settles. Active Learning Literature Survey, Computer Sciences Technical Report 1648 pdf |
04/05 |
GS15 |
Lin Sun |
Chen, Ji, Tan & Niu. Unsupervised relation disambiguation using spectral clustering, COLING/ACL 2006 pdf |
11/05 |
GS15 |
Steve Clark |
Agirre, Alfonseca, Hall, Kravalova, Pasca & Soroa. A Study on Similarity and Relatedness Using Distributional and WordNet-based Approaches, NAACL-HLT 2009 pdf |
18/05 |
GS15 |
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha |
Xu, Uszkoreit & Li. A Seed-driven Bottom-up Machine Learning Framework for Extracting Relations of Various Complexity, ACL 2007 pdf |
15/06 |
GS15 |
NAACL attendants |
Exciting papers from NAACL 2009 and collocated workshops html |
Lent 2009 Term
Date |
Room |
Presenter |
Paper |
12/01 |
GS15 |
Lin Sun |
Daume III. Frustratingly easy domain adaptation, ACL2007 pdf |
19/01 |
GS15 |
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha |
Erk & Padó. A Structured Vector Space Model for Word Meaning in Context, EMNLP2008 pdf |
26/01 |
GS15 |
Lu Gram |
Snyder. On the nature of syntactic variation: evidence from complex predicates and complex word-formation, Language, 2001 pdf |
09/02 |
GS15 |
Stuart Moore |
Stevenson, Guo & Gaizauskas. Acquiring Sense Tagged Examples using Relevance Feedback, COLING2008 pdf |
16/02 |
GS15 |
Andreas Vlachos |
Ng. Unsupervised Models for Coreference Resolution, EMNLP2008 pdf |
23/02 |
GS15 |
Richard Bergmair |
Koller, Thater & Pinkal. Scope underspecification with tree descriptions: Theory and Practice, in Siekmann & Crocker (eds.), Resource Adaptive Cognitive Processes pdf |
02/03 |
GS15 |
Colin Kelly |
Peirsman & Geeraerts. Predicting Strong Associations on the Basis of Corpus Data, EACL2009 pdf |
09/03 |
GS15 |
Mohan Ganesalingam |
Wasow, Perfors & Beaver. The puzzle of ambiguity, in Orgun & Sells (eds.), Morphology and The Web of Grammar: Essays in Memory of Steven G. Lapointe, 2005 pdf |
Michaelmas 2008 Term
Date |
Room |
Presenter |
Paper |
29/10 |
GS15 |
Andreas Vlachos |
Li & Brew. Which are the Best Features for Automatic Verb Classification, ACL2008 pdf |
5/11 |
GS15 |
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha |
Snow, O'Connor, Jurafsky & Ng. Cheap and Fast - But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations for Natural Language Tasks, EMNLP2008 pdf |
12/11 |
GS15 |
Øistein Andersen |
MacCartney & Manning. Modelling semantic containment and exclusion in natural language inference, COLING2008 pdf |
19/11 |
GS15 |
Aurelie Herbelot |
Szpektor, Shnarch & Dagan. Instance-based Evaluation of Entailment Rule Acquisition, ACL2007 pdf |
26/11 |
GS15 |
Richard Bergmair |
Giampicolo, Dang, Magnini, Dagan & Dolan. The Fourth PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge, TAC2008 |
3/12 |
GS15 |
Katia Shutova |
Veale & Hao. A Fluid Knowledge Representation for Understanding and Generating Creative Metaphors, COLING2008 pdf |
Other reading groups of interest (with ideas for paper suggestions):
The Stanford Natural Language Processing Group
Johns Hopkins NLP Reading Group
University of Washington NLP Reading Group
University of Amsterdam Computational Linguistics Reading Group
Edinburgh University Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing