Fall 2014 Schedule

2014.08.27	Md Arafat Sultan - Back to Basics for Monolingual Alignment: Exploiting Word Similarity and Contextual Evidence http://www.transacl.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/53.pdf
2014.09.03	Bill Foland - Natural Language Processing with Hierarchical Neural Network Models; Claire Bonial - Take a Look at this! Form, Function and Productivity of English Light Verb Constructions
2014.09.10	Khang Lam (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs) - Automatically Creating Multilingual Lexical Resources
2014.09.17	Event extraction report
2014.09.19	ICS colloquium: Samar Husain - Strong expectations cancel locality effects: Evidence from Hindi
2014.09.24	Chris Jenkins - The Natural Sciences need better Semantics Data: NLP and ML technologies from Biomedicine can help
2014.10.01	Skatje - Dependency-Based Word Embeddings Omer Levy and Yoav Goldberg and james - Efficient Non-parametric Estimation of Multiple Embeddings per Word in Vector Space
2014.10.08	Viet-An Nguyen - Job talk practice (Bayesian models for political discourse)
2014.10.15	MEETING IN 184G. Jena - Job talk practice
2014.10.22	MEETING IN 184G. Ke Zhai - Scalable Topic Modeling with Variational Inference
2014.10.29	MEETING IN 184G. Kevin - Concreteness and Subjectivity as Dimensions of Lexical Meaning and Ashwini Dissertation Discussion
2014.11.05	MEETING IN 184G. Arafat - Multilingual Models for Compositional Distributed Semantics and Nicholas - A Convolutional Neural Network for Modelling Sentences
2014.11.12	Arafat - PhD Proposal
2014.11.19	Naho Orita / He He - Computational modeling of how humans use discourse information / Imitation Learning for NLP Tasks
2014.11.26	Fall break
2014.12.03	NAACL Paper Clinic - bring your submission draft for mutual editing purposes
2014.12.05	FRIDAY, 10:30 AM, CINC Karl Hermann, guest speaker, Distributed Representations for Compositional Semantics
2014.12.10	Nicholas - Linguistic Structured Sparsity in Text Categorization
2014.12.17	Fleming Field Trip Meet in the lobby