NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2010
Tuesdays 1:30-3:00pm, Gates 200
| Date |
Moderator |
Topic / Paper |
| January 12 |
Spence Green |
Organizational Meeting
|
| January 19 |
Steven Bethard |
Brown, P., deSouza, P, Mercer, R, Della Pietra, V and Lai, J.
Class-based n-gram models of natural language.
1992. Computational Linguistics.
[pdf]
|
| January 26 |
David McClosky and Mihai Surdeanu |
Collins, M. and Singer, Y.
Unsupervised Models for Named Entity Classification.
1999.
[pdf]
|
| February 2 |
Sonal Gupta and Chris Manning |
Evans, N., & Levinson, S. C.
The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science.
2009. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32(5), 429-492.
[pdf]
|
| February 9 |
Spence Green |
Evans, N., & Levinson, S. C.
The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science.
2009. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32(5), 429-492.
[On cluster: /scr/spenceg/lev2.pdf]
|
| February 16 |
Val Spitkovsky |
Daelemans, W.
Memory-Based Lexical Acquisition and Processing.
1995. Proc. of the Third International EAMT Workshop on Machine Translation and the Lexicon
[pdf]
|
| February 23 |
Spence Green |
Fong, S. and Berwick, R.
Treebank Parsing and Knowledge of Language: A Cognitive Perspective.
2008. Proc. of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
[pdf]
|
| March 2 |
Nate Chambers |
Liszkowski, U., Schäfer, M., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M.
Prelinguistic infants, but not chimpanzees, communicate about absent entities.
2009. Psychological Science, 20(5), 654-660.
[pdf]
|
| March 9 |
Jenny Finkel |
BBN MUC-7
|
| March 16 |
Adam Vogel |
TBD - linguistics paper
|
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Fall 2009
Wednesdays at 12:00-1:30pm, Gates 200
| Date |
Moderator |
Topic / Paper |
| September 30 |
Spence Green |
Organizational Meeting
|
| October 7 |
Ramesh Nallapati |
G. Druck, B. Settles and A. McCallum.
Active Learning by Labeling Features.
EMNLP 2009.
[pdf]
|
| October 14 |
David Vickrey |
P. Liang, M. Jordan and D. Klein.
Learning Semantic Correspondences with Less Supervision.
ACL 2009.
[pdf]
|
| October 21 |
Jenny Finkel |
A. Haghighi and D. Klein.
Simple Coreference Resolution with Rich Syntactic and Semantic Features.
NAACL 2009.
[pdf]
|
| October 28 |
Nate Chambers |
S. Patwardhan and E. Riloff.
A Unified Model of Phrasal and Sentential Evidence for Information Extraction.
EMNLP 2009.
[pdf]
|
| November 4 |
Mihai Surdeanu |
J. Suzuki, H. Isozaki, X. Carreras and M. Collins.
An Empirical Study On Semi-Supervised Structured Conditional Models
For Dependency Parsing.
EMNLP 2009.
[pdf]
|
| November 11 |
Adam Vogel |
S.R.K. Branavan, H. Chen, L. Zettlemoyer and R. Barzilay.
Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions.
ACL 2009.
[pdf]
|
| November 18 |
Spence Green |
R. Tsarfaty, K. Sima'an, and R. Scha.
An Alternative to Head-Driven Approaches for Parsing a (Relatively) Free Word-Order Language.
EMNLP 2009.
[pdf]
|
| November 25 |
Thanksgiving |
|
| December 2 |
Steven Bethard |
C. Callison-Burch.
Fast, Cheap, and Creative: Evaluating Translation Quality Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
EMNLP 2009.
[pdf]
|
| December 9 |
Uriel Cohen-Priva |
J. Nivre.
Non-Projective Dependency Parsing in Expected Linear Time.
ACL 2009.
[pdf]
|
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Summer 2009
Mondays at 2:30-4:00pm, Gates 400
| Date |
Moderator |
Topic / Paper |
| June 15 |
Jenny Finkel |
Organizational Meeting
|
| June 22 |
Dan Ramage |
C. Wang, B. Thiesson, C. Meek, and D. Blei.
Markov Topic Models.
AIStats 2009.
[pdf]
|
| June 29 |
Adam Vogel |
Hoifung Poon, Colin Cherry and Kristina Toutanova .
Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models.
NAACL 2009.
[pdf]
|
| July 6 |
David Vickrey |
Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos.
Unsupervised Semantic Parsing.
EMNLP 2009.
[pdf]
|
| July 13 |
Jenny Finkel |
Andrew Carlson, Justin Betteridge, Estevam Rafael Hruschka Junior and
Tom M. Mitchell.
Coupling Semi-Supervised Learning of Categories and Relations.
[pdf]
|
| July 20 |
-- |
No Meeting - Pi-Chuan's defense!!!!!
|
| July 27 |
Val Spitkovsky |
D. Roth, K. Small, and I. Titov .
Sequential Learning of Classifiers for Structured Prediction
Problems. AIStats 2009.
[pdf]
|
| August 3 |
-- |
No Meeting - ACL/EMNLP
|
| August 10 |
|
|
| August 17 |
Mihai Durdeanu |
J. Reisinger and M. Pasca.
Latent Variable Models of Concept-Attribute Attachment.
ACL 2009.
[pdf]
|
| August 24 |
Yun-Hsuan Sung |
D. Chiang, K. Knight, and W. Wang.
11,001 New Features for Statistical Machine Translation.
NAACL 2009.
[pdf]
|
| August 31 |
Val Spitkovsky |
Y. Albert Park and Roger Levy.
Minimal-length linearizations for mildly context-sensitive
dependency trees.
NAACL 2009.
[pdf]
|
| Sept. 7 |
|
|
| Sept. 14 |
Dan Cer |
Chun-Nam John Yu, Thorsten Joachims.
Learning Structural SVMs with Latent Variables.
ICML 2009.
[pdf]
|
| Sept. 21 |
Ramesh Nallapati |
Chen, Branavan, Berzilay and Karger.
Global Models of Document Structure using Latent Permutations.
NAACL 2009.
[pdf]
|
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2009
Tuesdays at 12:0-1:30pm, Gates 200
| Date |
Moderator |
Topic / Paper |
| March 31 |
Jenny Finkel |
Organizational Meeting
|
| April 14 |
Adam Vogel |
Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng, Wee Sun Lee, Luke S. Zettlemoyer.
A Generative Model for Parsing Natural Language to Meaning Representations
EMNLP 2008.
[pdf]
|
| April 21 |
Nate Chambers |
Finding and Linking Incidents in the News
[pdf]
|
| April 28 |
-- |
No Meeting - Good Luck with EMNLP Submissions!
|
| May 5 |
Jenny Finkel |
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
[pdf]
|
| May 12 |
David Vickrey |
S. Cohen and N. Smith.
Shared Logistic Normal Distributions for Soft Parameter Tying in Unsupervised Grammar Induction
NAACL 2009
[pdf]
|
| May 19 |
Ramesh Nallapati |
David Mimno, Hanna Wallach and Andrew McCallum.
Gibbs Sampling for Logistic Normal Topic Models with Graph-Based Priors.
NIPS Workshop on Analyzing Graphs, 2008, Whistler, BC.
[pdf]
|
| May 26 |
Steven Bethard |
Amarnag Subramanya, Jeff Bilmes.
Soft-Supervised Learning for Text Classification
EMNLP 2008
[pdf]
|
| June 2 |
Mihai Surdeanu |
Yi Zhang, Jeff Schneider, Artur Dubrawski.
Learning the Semantic Correlation: An Alternative Way to Gain from
Unlabeled Text
NIPS 2008
[pdf]
|
| June 9 |
Jenny Finkel |
Syntactic Topic Models
NIPS 2008
[pdf]
|
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2009
Mondays at 2:30-4:00pm, Gates 200
| Date |
Moderator |
Topic / Paper |
| Jan 26 |
Sebastian Pado |
O. Zaidan, J. Eisner
Modelling Annotators: A Generative Approach to Learning from
Annotator Rationales.
EMNLP 2008.
[pdf]
|
| Feb 2 |
David Hall |
Kemp, C., & Tenenbaum, J. B.
The discovery of structural form.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(31), 10687-10692.
[pdf]
|
| Feb 9 |
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe |
Ritter, Soderland, Downey, and Etzioni
It's a Contradiction -- no, it's not: A Case Study using Functional Relations.
EMNLP 2008.
[pdf]
|
| Feb 16 |
all |
ACL abstracts & more |
| Feb 23 |
Mihai Surdeanu |
Mustafa Bilgic and Lise Getoor
Effective Label Acquisition for Collective Classification.
KDD 2008
[pdf]
|
| Mar 2 |
Nate Chambers |
Stanley Kok and Pedro Domingos
Extracting Semantic Networks from Text Via Relational Clustering.
ECML 2008
[pdf]
|
| Mar 9 |
Yun-Hsuan Sung |
Gross, Russakovsky, Do, and Batzoglou
Training Conditional Random Fields for Maximum Labelwise Accuracy.
NIPS 2006
[pdf]
|
| Mar 16 |
Val Spitkovsky |
David Smith and Jason Eisner
Dependency Parsing by Belief Propagation.
EMNLP 2008
[pdf]
|
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Autumn 2008
Mondays at 12:30-2:00pm, Gates 359
| Date |
Moderator |
Topic / Paper |
| Sept. 29 |
Jenny Finkel |
Organizational Meeting |
| Oct. 6 |
Jenny Finkel |
M.D. Escobar and M. West.
Bayesian Density Estimation and Inference Using Mixtures.
JASA 1995.
[pdf]
|
| Oct. 13 |
Val Spitkovsky |
Yoav Seginer
Fast Unsupervised Incremental Parsing.
ACL 2007.
[pdf]
|
| Oct. 20 |
David Hall |
Kemp, C., & Tenenbaum, J. B.
The discovery of structural form.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(31), 10687-10692.
[pdf]
|
| Oct. 27 |
-- |
No Meeting - Have fun at EMNLP!
|
| Nov. 3 |
Dan Ramage |
Perci Diaconis
The MCMC Revolution
[pdf]
|
| Nov. 10 |
Nate Chambers |
Stanley Kok and Pedro Domingos
Extracting Semantic Networks from Text Via Relational Clustering
ECML 2008
[pdf]
|
| Nov. 17 |
Ramesh Nallapati |
Mustafa Bilgic and Lise Getoor
Effective Label Acquisition for Collective Classificatio
KDD 2008
[pdf]
|
| Nov. 24 |
-- |
No Meeting - Happy Thanksgiving!
|
| Dec. 1 |
-- |
NAACL abstracts
|
| Dec. 8 |
Sebastian Pado |
Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin and Randy Goebel
Discriminative Learning of Selectional Preference from Unlabeled Text
EMNLP 2008
[pdf]
|
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Summer 2008
Tuesdays at 12:15-1:45pm, Gates 260
| Date |
Moderator |
Topic / Paper |
| June 23 |
Jenny Finkel |
Organizational Meeting |
| July 1 |
-- |
No Meeting - Good luck on EMNLP submissions
|
| July 8 |
Jenny Finkel |
Benjamin Snyder and Regina Barzilay.
Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for Morphological Segmentation.
ACL 2008.
[pdf]
|
| July 15 |
Daniel Ramage |
Branavan, S.R.K., Harr Chen, Jacob Eisenstein and Regina Barzilay.
Learning Document-Level Semantic Properties from Free-text
Annotations.
ACL 2008.
[pdf]
|
| July 22 |
Anna Rafferty |
Joakim Nivre and Ryan McDonald.
Integrating Graph-Based and Transition-Based Dependency Parsers.
ACL 2008.
[pdf]
|
| July 29 |
Mengqiu Wang |
Kuzman Ganchev, Joao Graca and Ben Taskar.
Better Alignments = Better Translations?
ACL 2008.
[pdf]
|
| August 5 |
Eric Yeh |
Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval
|
| August 12 |
David Hall |
Shiqi Zhao; Haifeng Wang; Ting Liu; Sheng Li.
Pivot Approach for Extracting Paraphrase Patterns from Bilingual
Corpora. ACL 2008.
[pdf]
|
| August 19 |
Ramesh Nallapati |
Approximate Inference using conditional entropy decomposition.
[pdf]
|
| August 26 |
Sebastian Pado |
Shane Bergsma; Dekang Lin; Randy Goebel.
Distributional Identification of Non-Referential Pronouns. ACL 2008.
[pdf]
|
| September 2 |
David Hall |
Jason Wolfe, Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein.
Fully Distributed EM for Very Large Datasets. ICML 2008.
[pdf]
|
| September 9 |
Jenny Finkel |
Mark Johnson, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Sharon Goldwater.
Bayesian Inference for PCFGs via Markov Cain Monte Carlo.
Proceedings of NAACL, 2007.
[pdf]
|
| September 16 |
Pi-chuan Chang |
Zhu, Xiaojin; Andrew B. Goldberg; Michael Rabbat; Robert Nowak
Learning Bigrams from Unigrams
[pdf]
|
| September 23 |
Ramesh Nallapati |
Accurate max margin training for structured output spaces.
[pdf]
|
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2008
Tuesdays at 1:00-2:30pm, Gates 159
| Date |
Moderator |
Topic / Paper |
| April 15 |
Jenny Finkel |
Organizational Meeting |
| April 22 |
David Hall |
Li, Wei and McCallum, Andrew.
Pachinko allocation: DAG-structured
mixture models of topic correlations
ICML 2006.
[pdf]
|
| April 29 |
Daniel Ramage |
Andrew McCallum, Chris Pal, Greg Druck, Xuerui Wang.
Multi-Conditional Learning: Generative/Discriminative Training for Clustering and Classification
AAAI 2006.
[pdf]
|
| May 6 |
Anna Rafferty |
Coarse-to-fine parsing
|
| May 13 |
Sebastian Pado |
Learning on the test data.
|
| May 20 |
Jenny Finkel |
Scalable Models of Real Graphs
|
| May 27 |
Pichuan Chang |
author-topic model (or community topic model)
|
| June 2 |
Ramesh Nallapati |
Gal Chechik, Geremy Heitz, Gal Elidan, Pieter Abbeel, Daphne Koller
Max Margin classification of incomplete data.
[long version]
[short version]
|
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2008
Tuesdays at 2:30-4:00pm, Gates ???
| Date |
Moderator |
Topic / Paper |
| January 15 |
Jenny Finkel |
Organizational Meeting |
| January 22 |
Jenny Finkel |
Kristina Toutanova and Mark Johnson.
A Bayesian LDA-based model for semi-supervised part-of-speech tagging.
NIPS 2007.
[pdf]
|
| January 29 |
Anna Rafferty |
John Blitzer, Koby Crammer, Alex Kulesza, Fernando Pereira, Jennifer Wortman.
Learning Bounds for Domain Adaptation.
NIPS 2007
[pdf]
|
| February 5 |
David Hall |
TBD David Blei topic models papers
[pdf]
|
| February 12 |
Nate Chambers |
Dan Shen and Mirella Lapata.
Using Semantic Roles to Improve Question Answering.
[pdf]
Michael Kaisser and Bonnie Webber.
Question Answering based on Semantic Roles.
[pdf]
|
| February 19 |
Pi-Chuan Chang |
Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsochantaridis, Vibhu
Mittal and Yi Liu.
Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval.
[pdf]
|
| February 26 |
Bill MacCartney |
Wong and Mooney.
Learning Synchronous Grammars for Semantic Parsing with Lambda Calculus.
ACL 2007.
[pdf]
|
| March 4 |
Jenny Finkel |
Pascal Denis and Jason Baldridge.
Global, Joint Determination of Anaphoricity and Coreference Resolution using Integer Programming.
NAACL 2007.
[pdf]
|
| March 11 |
|
--== No Meeting ==--
|
| March 18 |
Pichuan Chang & Michel Galley |
TBD MT paper
[pdf]
|
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2006-2007
Wednesdays at 1:30-3:00pm, Gates 359
| Date |
Moderator |
Topic / Paper |
| April 18 |
Jenny Finkel |
Organizational Meeting |
| April 25 |
Rion Snow |
Daniel Gildea and Daniel Jurafsky.
Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles.
ACL 2000.
[pdf]
|
| May 2 |
Dan Ramage |
McCarthy, D., Koeling, R., Weeds, J. and Carroll, J.
Finding predominant word senses in untagged text.
ACL 2004.
[pdf]
|
| May 9 |
Bill MacCartney |
P. Blackburn and J. Bos.
Computational Semantics.
Theoria 18
[pdf]
|
| May 16 |
Nate Chambers |
Mann, W. C. and S. A. Thompson.
Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a Functional Theory of Text Organization.
[pdf]
|
| May 23 |
Pi-Chuan Chang |
Jerry R. Hobbs, Mark Stickel, Paul Martin and Douglas Edwards.
Interpretation as Abduction.
ACL 1988
[pdf]
|
| May 30 |
Yun-Hsuan Sung |
Fei Sha and Lawrence K. Saul.
Large margin hidden Markov models for automatic speech recognition.
NIPS 2007.
[pdf]
|
| June 6 |
Jenny Finkel |
Rie K. Ando and Tong Zhang.
A Framework for Learning Predictive Structures from Multiple Tasks and Unlabeled Data.
JMLR 2005.
[pdf]
|
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2006-2007
Wednesdays at 1:30-3:00pm, Gates 459
| Date |
Moderator |
Topic / Paper |
| Jan. 24 |
Jenny Finkel |
Organizational Meeting |
| Jan. 31 |
Jenny Finkel |
John Blitzer, Ryan McDonald, and Fernando Pereira.
Domain Adaptation with Structural Correspondence Learning.
EMNLP 2006.
[pdf]
|
| Feb. 7 |
Pi-Chuan |
David Chiang.
A Hierarchical Phrase-Based Model for Statistical Machine Translation.
ACl 2005.
[pdf]
|
| Feb. 14 |
Dan Cer |
P Liang, A Bouchard-Cote, D Klein, B Taskar.
An End-to-End Discriminative Approach to Machine Translation.
ACL 2006.
[pdf.
|
| Feb. 21 |
Sharon |
Ellison, M. and Kirby, S.
Measuring Language Divergence by Intra-lexical Comparison.
ACL 2006.
[pdf]
|
| Feb. 28 |
Chris |
Slav Petrov, Leon Barrett, Romain Thibaux and Dan Klein.
Learning Accurate, Compact, and Interpretable Tree Annotation.
ACL 2006.
[pdf]
|
| March 7 |
Bill |
S Harabagiu, A Hickl.
Methods for Using Textual Entailment in Open-Domain Question Answering.
ACL 2006.
[pdf]
|
| March 14 |
Alex |
NN Schraudolph.
Local Gain Adaptation in Stochastic Gradient Descent.
Artificial Neural Nets 1999.
[pdf]
|
| March 21 |
Dan R. |
E Gabrilovich, S Markovitch,
Text Categorization with Many Redundant Features: Using Aggressive Feature
Selection to Make SVMs Competitive with C4.5.
ICML 2004
[pdf]
|
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Autumn 2006
Mondays at 2:00-3:30pm, Gates 459
| Date |
Moderator |
Topic / Paper |
| Sept. 25 |
Jenny Finkel |
Organizational Meeting |
| Oct. 2 |
William Morgan |
David J. Hand.
Classifier Technology and the Illusion of Progress.
Statistical Science, 2006.
[pdf]
Leo Breiman.
Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures.
Statistical Science, 2001.
[pdf]
|
| Oct. 9 |
Surabhi |
Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu.
Bayseian Query-Focused Summarization.
ACL 2006.
[pdf]
|
| Oct. 16 |
Dan Ramage |
Mochihashi and Matsumoto.
Context as Filtering.
NIPS 2005.
[pdf]
|
| Oct. 23 |
Jenny |
Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein.
Prototype-driven Learning for Sequence Models.
NAACL 2006.
[pdf]
|
| Oct. 30 |
Sebastian |
Ioannis Tsochantaridis, et al.
Support Vector Machine Learning for Interdependent and Structured
Output Spaces.
ICML 2004.
[pdf]
|
| Nov. 6 |
Dan Cer |
Vishwanathan et al.
Accelerated training of CRFs with stochastic gradient methods.
ICML 2006.
[pdf]
|
| Nov. 13 |
Jeff |
Li and Yang.
Loss function analysis for classification methods in text categorization.
ICML 2003.
[pdf]
|
| Nov. 27 |
Teg |
Galen Andrew.
Hybrid Markov/Semi-Markov Conditional Random Field for Sequence Segmentation.
EMNLP 2006.
[pdf]
|
| Dec. 4 |
Dan Cer |
Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu.
Learning as Search Optimization.
ICML 2005.
[pdf]
|
| Dec. 11 |
John Hale |
Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie.
Parsing Mildly Context Sensitive Languages with Thread Automata.
Coling 2002.
[pdf]
|
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2006
Mondays at 4:15-5:45pm, Gates 359
| Date |
Moderator |
Topic / Paper |
| Jan. 23 |
Jenny Finkel |
Organizational Meeting |
| Jan. 30 |
William Morgan |
Franz Josef Och.
Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation
ACL 2003.
[pdf]
|
| Feb. 6 |
Dan Ramage |
M. Narasimhan, N. Jojic, and J. Bilmes.
Q-Clustering
NIPS 2005.
[pdf]
|
| Feb. 13 |
Chris Manning |
S. Reynolds and J. Bilmes.
Part-of-Speech Tagging with Virtual Evidence and Negative Training
HLT 2005.
[pdf]
|
| Feb. 20 |
Rajat Raina |
Structured Prediction Via the Extragradient Method/M3NS
|
| Feb. 27 |
-- |
NO MEETING - Good Luck with ACL submissions! |
| Mar. 6 |
Bill MacCartney |
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, Eyal Amir, and Dan Roth
Lifted First-Order Probabilistic Inference
IJCAI 2005
[pdf]
|
| Mar. 13 |
Teg Grenager |
S. Goldwater, T. Griffiths, and M. Johnson
Interpolating Between Types and Tokens by Estimating Power-Law Generators
NIPS 2005
[pdf]
|
| Mar. 20 |
Jenny Finkel |
Latent Head Models For Parsing
|
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Fall 2005
Mondays at 10:45pm, Gates 400
| Date |
Moderator |
Topic / Paper |
| Oct. 3 |
Jenny Finkel |
Organizational Meeting |
| Oct. 10 |
Teg |
Andrew McCallum, Kedar Bellare and Fernando Pereira.
A Conditional Random Field for Discriminatively-trained Finite-state String Edit Distance.
Conference on Uncertainty in AI (UAI), 2005.
[pdf]
|
| Oct. 17 |
Pi-Chuan |
Noah A. Smith and Jason Eisner.
Contrastive Estimation: Training Log-Linear Models on Unlabeled Data.
Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2005), Ann Arbor, Michigan.
[pdf]
|
| Oct. 24 |
Teg |
Ryan McDonald, Koby Crammer and Fernando Pereira.
Online Large-Margin Training of Dependency Parsers.
43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2005. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
[pdf][longer version]
|
| Oct. 31 |
Jenny |
Mark A. Paskin.
Maximum Entropy Probabilistic Logic.
Technical Report UCB/CSD-01-1161, University of California, Berkeley.
[pdf]
|
| Nov. 7 |
Rion |
Brian Milch, Bhaskara Marthi, and Stuart Russell. BLOG: Relational Modeling with Unknown Objects. Proc. ICML-04 Workshop on Statistical Relational Learning. [pdf]
|
| Nov. 14 |
Jenny |
B. Taskar, V. Chatalbashev and D. Koller.
Learning Associative Markov Networks.
Twenty First International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML04), Banff, Canada, July 2004.
[ps]
|
| Nov. 21 |
-- |
NO MEETING - Happy Thanksgiving!
|
| Nov. 28 |
Bill |
Luke S. Zettlemoyer and Michael Collins.
Learning to Map Sentences to Logical Form: Structured Classification with Probabilistic Categorial Grammars.
In Proceedings of the Twenty First Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-05), 2005.
[pdf]
|
| Dec. 5 |
Rajat |
Sheila M. Reynolds and Jeff A. Bilmes
Part-of-Speech Tagging using Virtual Evidence and Negative Training.
Human Language Technology (HLT) Conference/ Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Oct, 2005
[pdf]
|
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2005
Fridays at 12:45pm, Gates 400
| Date |
Moderator |
Topic / Paper |
| Apr. 22 |
Jenny Finkel |
Organizational Meeting |
| Apr. 29 |
Jenny Finkel |
Relational Markov Networks
B. Taskar, P. Abbeel and D. Koller.
Discriminative Probabilistic Models for Relational Data.
Eighteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI02), Edmonton, Canada, August 2002.
[pdf]
[ps]
|
| May 6 |
Rion Snow |
Inductive Logic Programming
Mary Elaine Califf and Raymond J. Mooney
Relational Learning of Pattern-Match Rules for Information
Extraction
Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-99), Orlando, FL, pp. 328-334, July 1999.
[pdf] --
Fabio Ciravegna.
Adaptive Information Extraction from Text by Rule Induction and Generalisation
in Proceedings of 17th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2001), Seattle, August 2001.
[pdf] --
optional longer versions:
Mary Elaine Califf and Raymond J. Mooney
Bottom-Up Relational Learning of Pattern Matching Rules for Information Extraction
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 4, (2003), pp. 177-210.
[pdf] --
Fabio Ciravegna.
(LP)2, an Adaptive Algorithm for Information Extraction from Web-related Texts
in Proceedings of the IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining, Seattle, August, 2001
[pdf]
|
| May 13 |
Aria Haghighi |
SVMs |
| May 20 |
Aria Haghighi |
Maximum Margin Markov Networks
B. Taskar, C. Guestrin and D. Koller.
Max-Margin Markov Networks.
Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS03),
Vancouver, Canada, December 2003.
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| May 27 |
Rajat Raina |
Latent Dirichlet Allocation
David Blei, Andrew Y. Ng, and Michael Jordan.
Latent Dirichlet Allocation.
In NIPS 14, 2002.
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David Blei, Andrew Y. Ng and Michael Jordan.
Latent Dirichlet Allocation.
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 3:993-1022, 2003.
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| June 3 |
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe |
Integrating Topics and Syntax
T. Griffiths, M. Steyvers, D. Blei, and J. Tenenbaum.
Integrating topics and syntax.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 17, 2004.
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| June 10 |
Chris Cox |
Rule Learning |
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