CompSem Meeting Schedule

The CompSem meeting for the Fall 2010 semester will be on Wednesdays from 11:00AM-12:30PM in the CINC Fishbowl.

Fall 2010

2010.08.25	Kick-off meeting
2010.09.01	Group Reading: Beyond NomBank: A Study of Implicit Arguments for Nominal Predicates, Matthew Gerber and Joyce Chai (Winner of best paper at ACL 2010),
2010.09.08	Group Reading: Coreference Resolution in a Modular, Entity-Centered Model, Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein (Winner best long paper at NAACL 2010), Simple Coreference Resolution with Rich Syntactic and Semantic Features Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein (suggested background reading for the other Haghihi/Klein paper)
2010.09.15	Group discussion: significance tests Jinho's presentation One sample t-test, Paired two sample t-test Wilcoxon signed-rank test, Fisher's exact test, Pearson's chi-square test , McNemar's test
2010.09.22
2010.09.29	Group discussion: Bootstrap Hypothesis Testing
2010.10.06
2010.10.13	Special Guest - Gary McClelland answers our questions about statistics.
2010.10.20
2010.10.27
2010.11.03	AMTA Conference in Denver
2010.11.10	Praful's defense
2010.11.11	Lee's Proposal (Thursday 1:30pm, so not really a CompSem meeting)
2010.11.15	Jinho's proposal
2010.11.17	Philipp's defense (10 am start)
2010.11.24	Week of thanksgiving break
2010.12.01	Jing's prelim (place holder, I prefer earlier if possible)
2010.12.06	Philip Ogren's defense (Monday, 10am)
2010.12.08
2010.12.15