Spring 2012 Schedule

Spring 2012

2012.01.25	Practice job talk: Steve.
2012.02.01	Planning.
2012.02.08	Reading: Ifeyinwa - Template Based Extraction without Templates (Chambers and Jurafsky, ACL 2011) Reading: Lee - Learning Dependency-Based Compositional Semantics (Liang, Jordan, and Klein, ACL 2011)
2012.02.15	Project talk: Rodney Reading: Claire and Anwen - What Determines Inter-Coder Agreement in Manual Annotations? A Meta-Analytic Investigation
2012.02.17	ICS Colloquium: Kurt VanLehn
2012.02.22	No meeting - Attend CS Colloquium - Tom Yeh
2012.02.29	Reading: Keith - Analysis of a Web-based Network of Educators (Galyard, Aleahmad, Fienberg, Junker and Hargadon, CMU TR 2009) Project talk: Rodney
2012.03.02 (Friday)	ICS Colloquium: Dan Roth Reading: Learning from Natural Instructions D. Goldwasser and D. Roth, Proc. of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) - 2011 Driving Semantic Parsing from the World's Response, J. Clarke and D. Goldwasser and M. Chang and D. Roth, Proc. of the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) - 2010
2012.03.07	Reading: Rodney - Which Noun Phrases Denote Which Concepts? (Krishnamurthy and Mitchell, ACL 2011) Reading: Sudha - Learning to Grade Short Answer Questions using Semantic Similarity Measures and Dependency Graph Alignments (Mohler, Bunescu and Mihalcea, ACL 2011)
2012.03.14	Lee - practice run for Avaya Labs job talk
2012.03.21	Reading: Wei-Te - MEANT: An inexpensive, high-accuracy, semi-automatic metric for evaluating translation utility via semantic frames (Lo and Wu, ACL 2011) Reading: Steve - Using Granularity Concepts for Discovering Causal Relations (Mulkar-Mehta, Welty, Hobbs and Hovy, FLAIRS 2011)
2012.03.28	Spring break.
2012.04.04	Reading: Jinho - Stanford’s Multi-Pass Sieve Coreference Resolution System at the CoNLL-2011 Shared Task (Lee, Peirsman, Chang, Chambers, Surdeanu and Jurafsky, CoNLL 2011) Reading: Soheil - Local and Global Algorithms for Disambiguation to Wikipedia (Lev Ratinov, Dan Roth,Doug Downey, Mike Anderson, HLT '11)
2012.04.11	Reading: Steve, Shumin - Painless Unsupervised Learning with Features (Berg-Kirkpatrick, Bouchard-Cote, DeNero and Klein, NAACL 2010)
2012.04.18	Wil St. Clair - Master's Thesis Defense
2012.04.25	Reading: Optimizing Semantic Coherence in Topic Models(Mimno, Wallach, Talley, Leenders, McCallum, EMNLP 2011)
2012.04.27	ICS Colloquium: Andrew McCallum
2012.05.02	Reading: Jim - Linguistic kernels for answer re-ranking in question answering systems (Moschitti and Quarteroni, Information Processing and Management 2011)

To do: submitted paper presentations, paper reviews