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Zhijiang Guo (HKUST (GZ) | HKUST).
Friday 17 April 2026, 12:00-13:00
Language Sciences for Graduate Students
A selection of talks for graduate students in the Language Sciences.
For more information about the Cambridge Language Sciences initiative, see: https://www.languagesciences.cam.ac.uk/graduate-students
Contact: Guy Edward Toh Emerson ; 26863 ; Jamie Douglas
12 upcoming talks View 993 archived talks
NLIP Seminar Series
CodeScaler: Scaling Code LLM Training and Test-Time Inference via Execution-Free Reward Models
NLIP Seminar Series
AI Metrics: Theoretical Foundations, Design, and Selection of Evaluation Metrics Based on Ground Truth
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Beyond Surface Matching: Reasoning, Grounding, and Retrieval in Vision-Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Formal symbolic models for LLMs: pretraining, evaluation and post-training
NLIP Seminar Series
Generalised measures of predictive uncertainty in online language processing
NLIP Seminar Series
What Happens When They're Smarter Than Us?
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Actionable Interpretability for AI Safety
NLIP Seminar Series
Large Language Models' Complicit Responses to Illicit Instructions across Socio-Legal Contexts
NLIP Seminar Series
The emerging causal paradigm in interpretability
Language Technology Lab Seminars
You Know It or You Donβt: Categorical Differences in Language Model Behavior
NLIP Seminar Series
Memorization as a Feature, Not a Bug
NLIP Seminar Series
Competence, Pain and the Geometry of Intelligence: Three Perspectives on Learning and Representation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Talk by Uri Berger: Multimodality and Human Alignment in Vision-Language Models (University of Melbourne & Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Cultural Biases in LLMs: From Behavioural analysis to Internal Representations
NLIP Seminar Series
Building and Understanding Human-scale Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Why don't models generalize?
NLIP Seminar Series
A computational model of language production
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Mapping the (Jagged) Landscape of LLM Capabilities
Cambridge Sociolinguistics Circle
Exploring constructed languages: A sociolinguistic approach
NLIP Seminar Series
With great power... My journey in Responsible AI
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Model Merging β A Tale of Two Settings
Cambridge Sociolinguistics Circle
Rate of change in London English:Β Continual change or punctuated equilibria?
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Just asking questions (MIT)
NLIP Seminar Series
Extrapolating model performance across training horizons
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Retrieving and Sampling Diverse Outputs
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Interpretability as the Inverse Machine Learning Pipeline
Cambridge Sociolinguistics Circle
Mapping Swiss German: Creating a Dialect Atlas in the Digital Age
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Emergence of Linear Representations in LMs (NYU)
NLIP Seminar Series
Evaluation with LLMs - Theoretical and Practical insights
Cambridge Sociolinguistics Circle
A speaker of Cockney, Estuary English, Essex, MLE, SSBE or RP? Identifying separable accents from patterns of language variation and change in South East England
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Reading Between the Lines: Using Language Models to Amplify Human Data in Robot Learning (MIT)
NLIP Seminar Series
Making and breaking tokenizers
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Implicit Chain-of-Thought: Internalizing Reasoning in Language Models
NLIP Seminar Series
NLIP 2025 Social: Meet New PhD Students
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Explanations as a Catalyst: Leveraging Large Language Models to Embrace Human Label Variation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Protocols over Implementations
NLIP Seminar Series
LLMs, Implicit Bayesian inference and compositional Generalization
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Value Reasoning and Test-Time Verification for Trustworthy LLMs
NLIP Seminar Series
MultiBLiMP: A Multilingual Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Model Interpretability: from Illusions to Opportunities
NLIP Seminar Series
When is Multilinguality a Curse? Language Modeling for 350 Languages
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Interactive and Grounded Learning
NLIP Seminar Series
Unveiling the Secret Sauce: A Causal Look at Data Memorisation and Tokenisation in Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
On Interacting and Writing with LLMs
NLIP Seminar Series
Robust Alignment of Large Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
AI Interacting with People (through Language)
Cambridge Sociolinguistics Circle
How can historical linguistics matter to speakers today, and why are streetnames important?
NLIP Seminar Series
Measuring Political Bias in Large Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Balanced and Efficient tokenization across languages
Cambridge Sociolinguistics Circle
Language Ideologies in Education: Insights from Galicia
NLIP Seminar Series
Research Progress in Mechanistic Interpretability
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Human-Centered AI: Addressing the Ecological Fallacy in LLMs
NLIP Seminar Series
Asymmetry in Supposedly Equivalent Facts: Pre-training Bias in Large Language Models
Cambridge Sociolinguistics Circle
Language policy as practice: Advancing the empirical turn in language policy research
Language Technology Lab Seminars
New Advances in Multimodal Reasoning
Cambridge Sociolinguistics Circle
Mapping Swiss German: Creating a Dialect Atlas in the Digital Age
NLIP Seminar Series
Formal syntactic theory in the current NLP landscape
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Discourse models with language models
NLIP Seminar Series
Natural Language meets Control Theory
NLIP Seminar Series
Typological Diversity in NLP: What, Why and a Way Forward
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Grammar, reasoning, learning: Three short stories on comparative & rational analysis of language model capabilities
Cambridge Sociolinguistics Circle
Onward Migration and Heritage Languages: The Case of 'New Italians' in England
NLIP Seminar Series
Assessing language-specific capabilities of LLMs: Lessons from Swedish NLP
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Whatβs not an Autoregressive LLM?
Cambridge Sociolinguistics Circle
Language purism in language contact: A case study of New Zealand English and New Zealand Maori
NLIP Seminar Series
Metrized Deep Learning: Fast & Scalable Training
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Languages, Values, & Attitudes: On Reflections of Culture in LLMs
NLIP Seminar Series
LLMs as supersloppers and other metaphors
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Behavioral machine learning
NLIP Seminar Series
Preference Alignment, with Reference Mismatch, and without Reference Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Between the Lines: Contextual Understanding and Bias in LLMs
NLIP Seminar Series
Analysing Memorisation in ClassificationΒ and TranslationΒ through LocalisationΒ and Cartography
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Linear Transformers for Efficient Sequence Modeling
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Mechanistic Understanding of Language Models in Arithmetic Reasoning and Code Generation
NLIP Seminar Series
The Past, Present and Future of Tokenization
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Data Repurposing: Improving LLM Capabilities with Synthetic Data Generation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
LLMs and Low-Resource Languages
NLIP Seminar Series
Scansion-based Lyric Generation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models
NLIP Seminar Series
Linguistics in the Age of Large Language Models.
NLIP Seminar Series
10 Slides on Human Feedback
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Subtleties about Pre-Training Data: Imbalance and Staleness
NLIP Seminar Series
Adaptive Tokenization and Memory in Foundation Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Pluralistic Alignment through Personalized Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
NLIP Seminar Series
Language Modelling with Phonemes
Language Technology Lab Seminars
LLM Generalization in Social Context
NLIP Seminar Series
Truth conditions at scale, and beyond
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Specializing LLMs for Factuality and Soft Reasoning
NLIP Seminar Series
NLIP 2024 Social: Meet New PhD Students
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Ten Years of Universal Dependencies
NLIP Seminar Series
The tradeoff governing efficient language model architectures
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Can Sparsity Lead to Efficient LLMs?
NLIP Seminar Series
Evaluating Large Language Models as Model Systems for Language
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Generative AI for Science
NLIP Seminar Series
Title to be confirmed
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Practical and Specialised NLP Solutions: The Case of Social Media
NLIP Seminar Series
Open-Endedness and General Intelligence
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Incremental Accumulation of Linguistic Context in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks
NLIP Seminar Series
The intersection of Interpretability and Fairness
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Data Selection for Pre-training and Instruction-tuning of LLMs
NLIP Seminar Series
Automated Fact-Checking of Climate Change Claims with Large Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
"What it can create, it may not understand" Studying the Limits of Transformers.
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Language modelling for the sake of language modelling
NLIP Seminar Series
Title to be confirmed
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Large language models for enabling constructive online conversations
NLIP Seminar Series
Misinformation: Will it get better or worse and what can we do about it?
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Inverting Language Models
NLIP Seminar Series
Understanding Comparative Questions and Retrieving Argumentative Answers
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Large Language Models in Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges
NLIP Seminar Series
LLMs: Everythingβs Different and Nothing Has Changed
Language Technology Lab Seminars
What do sentence transformers know, and how can we find out?
NLIP Seminar Series
Integrating Combinatorial Solvers and Neural Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Making Better Use of (Large) Language and Translation Models with Simple Inference Improvements.
NLIP Seminar Series
Scaling Multilingual Generation for Low-Resource Languages
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Prosocial Language Models
NLIP Seminar Series
Employing Psycholinguistics to Understand Decoding in Probabilistic Language Generators
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Understanding LLMs via their Generative Successes and Shortcomings.
NLIP Seminar Series
This talk is cancelled - Modeling Cognitive Complexity in NLP
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Geographically Grounded Language Models
NLIP Seminar Series
Revisiting the Optimality of Word Lengths
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Replicating and auditing black-box Language Models.
NLIP Seminar Series
Faster Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Confidence-based Pruning
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness?
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness?
NLIP Seminar Series
Fairness Evaluation in Generative NLP
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Assessing the Social Capacity of Large Language Models
NLIP Seminar Series
Efficiency by Construction
Language Technology Lab Seminars
A sanity check on emergent properties
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Language Understanding for the Political Sciences
NLIP Seminar Series
Numerical Reasoning in Natural Language Processing
Language Technology Lab Seminars
One Size Does Not Fit All: Towards AI For Everyone
NLIP Seminar Series
Avoiding AI's "Moore's Law": Why we are building a ladder to the moon
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Unhumanizing Models. Why we Need to Change how We Think about AI
NLIP Seminar Series
Natural Language Processing for Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Language Technology Lab Seminars
ViLMA: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Linguistic and Temporal Grounding in Video-Language Models
NLIP Seminar Series
Collaborative Pretraining on Evolving Pretraining and Small Manageable Tasks
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Learning disentangled representation for interpretable language model. / Interactive Narrative Understanding.
NLIP Seminar Series
Fighting Bad Information with AI
NLIP Seminar Series
Does Syntax Still Matter in the World of LLMs?
NLIP Seminar Series
Knowledge Issues and Language Models
NLIP Seminar Series
Investigating Reasons for Disagreement in Natural Language Inference
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Mind the Data
NLIP Seminar Series
Fighting Misinformation in Science Communication with NLP
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Towards Human-Centered Explanations of AI Predictions
NLIP Seminar Series
Interpretable Multi-hop Question Answering
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Quantity implicature and perspective-taking: insights from a novel task
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Pretraining, Instruction Tuning, Alignment: Towards Building Large Language Models from First Principles
NLIP Seminar Series
Challenges of Low-Resource Natural Language Processing: A Focus on Sentiment Analysis and Hate Speech Detection in Amharic
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Probing Language Models for Paraphrastic Representations of Negation and Antonymy
NLIP Seminar Series
Reality Check: NLP in the era of Large Language Models
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Moving up and down parameter hierarchies: markedness, third factors and diachrony
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Writing for the Public: Immigration Discourse and Language Ideology
NLIP Seminar Series
Improving Model Robustness for Natural Language Inference
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
The interaction of gender marking and perspective-taking
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Real-world task assistance with GRILLBot, the winning Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot.
NLIP Seminar Series
Navigating the AI Hype: Building Natural Language Processing for Low Resource Languages
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Towards a Responsible NLP: Walking the walk
NLIP Seminar Series
An Affordance Account of Value Embedding in Technology: Why Good Intentions are Not Enough
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Efficient Transformers with Dynamic Token Pooling
NLIP Seminar Series
Modular and Compositional Transfer Learning
Language Technology Lab Seminars
One-shot visual language understanding with cross-modal translation and LLMs
NLIP Seminar Series
Narrative Summarization from Multiple Views
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Challenges and Opportunities in NLP for Under-represented Languages
NLIP Seminar Series
Processing Multiword Expressions for Grammatical Error Correction
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Narrative Summarization From Multiple Views
NLIP Seminar Series
GenBench -- State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Getting Passive by Extending Classes: A Novel Verb-Learning Study with Adults and Children
Language Technology Lab Seminars
SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety in Open-domain Conversational Systems
NLIP Seminar Series
Exploring andΒ Controlling Social Values in Large Language Models through Role-PlayingΒ
NLIP Seminar Series
Rethinking the role of tokenization in the NLP pipeline
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Revisiting Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning
NLIP Seminar Series
CANCELLED
NLIP Seminar Series
Towards Trustworthy Natural Language Processing
Language Technology Lab Seminars
End-to-End Fine-grained Multi-modal Understanding
NLIP Seminar Series
Decoding is deciding under uncertainty β the case of NMT
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Sentiment analysis: methods and applications
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Program Synthesis and Understanding with Pretrained Language Models
NLIP Seminar Series
NLP for Science: Advances and Challenges
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning
NLIP Seminar Series
Efficient Structured Prediction on Long Texts
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Vowel harmony as a cue for phonological phrasing
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NLIP Seminar Series
A study of recent techniques to estimate the difficulty of exam questions from text
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Contextualized embeddings for lexical semantics
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Complement clause section as a (non-)local relation
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Quantifying Linguistic Variation
NLIP Seminar Series
The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD)
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Detect β Verify β Communicate: Combating Misinformation with More Realistic NLP
NLIP Seminar Series
Claim-Dissector: An Interpretable Fact-Checking System with Joint Re-ranking and Veracity Prediction
NLIP Seminar Series
Pitfalls with ablation in neural network architectures
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Gold Doesn't Always Glitter: Spectral Removal of Linear and Nonlinear Guarded Attribute Information
NLIP Seminar Series
(Modeling) Morality? On Machine Learning and Phrenology
NLIP Seminar Series
An aperitivo of efforts against harming online contents: propaganda, hate speech, spam
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Cross-lingual Learning, and Applications in Dialog and Translation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
A Contrastive Framework for Neural Text Generation
NLIP Seminar Series
Measuring Causal Effects of Data Statistics on Language Model Predictions
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
The grammar of self-talk. What different modes of talking reveal about the language faculty.
NLIP Seminar Series
Language (In)Equality in Parsing and Machine Translation: Data Size is Only One Term in the Equation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Can we automatically anonymize text documents?
NLIP Seminar Series
Neuro-Symbolic Deep Natural Language Understanding
Second Language Education Group
Participative multilingual identity education: Theory, evidence and impact of the βWe Are Multilingualβ Campaign
NLIP Seminar Series
Diagnosing AI Explanation Methods with Folk Concepts of Behavior
Language Technology Lab Seminars
The acquisition and processing of grammatical structure: insights from deep learning
NLIP Seminar Series
Interactive and decomposed approaches for NLP: the case of multi-text summarization
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
[Postponed to ET] 'Lying, bullshit and Desinformatsiya'
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NLIP Seminar Series
Multilingual Autoregressive Entity Linking
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
TBC
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer for XNLU
NLIP Seminar Series
Hugging Face: a hub for the whole ML community to collaborate
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
'When can you passivize causatives? A phase-based analysis'
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
IGLUE: A Benchmark for Transfer Learning across Modalities, Tasks, and Languages
NLIP Seminar Series
Using NLP and graph theory to capture speech abnormalities in psychosis
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Exploring Multicultural London English across Offline and Online space
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Spoken Language Understanding, with and without Pre-training
NLIP Seminar Series
Learning from Past: Bringing Planning Back to Neural Generators
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Living in Kriolu, Learning in Portuguese: language ideologies and language education in Cape Verde
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Hierarchical Interpretation of Neural Text Classification
Second Language Education Group
Seeking Education for All through Multilingual Mother Tongue Education (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2021-2022)
NLIP Seminar Series
[POSTPONED] Parametric vs Nonparametric Knowledge, and what we can learn from Knowledge Bases
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Talking College: A Community Based Language and Racial Identity Development Model for Black College Student Justice
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Systematic Inequalities in Language Technology Performance across the World's Languages
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
V2, V3, and the left periphery of Finnish and Estonian
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Learning the Difference that Makes a Difference with Counterfactually Augmented Data
NLIP Seminar Series
When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks Principle that shapes the lexicon
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
The development of Old English conjunct clauses: How syntactic changes interact
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Neural Search
NLIP Seminar Series
Towards Out-of-distribution generalization in NLP
NLIP Seminar Series
Expectations vs. Reality: Lessons learned from Working on Toxic Content Detection in NLP
NLIP Seminar Series
CANCELLED
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Zero-shot learning and out-of-distribution generalization: two sides of the same coin
NLIP Seminar Series
Sparse Latent Structure with Overlapping Constraints
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Dynamics of multilingualism in language revitalisation and activism: Applied linguistic insights from Oaxaca, Mexico
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Clinical De-Identification and Semantic Relatedness
NLIP Seminar Series
Analyzing and Summarizing Movies using Turning Points
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The Role of Root Semantics in Determining Argument Alternations
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Supervising Robot Learning with Language and Video from the Web
NLIP Seminar Series
How language understanding unfolds in minds and machines
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Vulnerable Left Periphery: Why there is no other alternative to change
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Document Summarisation: Modelling, Datasets and Verification of Content
Second Language Education Group
Motivational persistence in multiple language learning: Identities, vision, and goal self-concordance (Cambridge Distinguished Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2021-2022)
NLIP Seminar Series
Integrating Human Cognition with Natural Language Processing
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Phonotactics and rules interacting in change: understanding Mid-Scots ΞΈ-Debuccalisation and Late Middle English Syncope
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Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Morphophonological issues in the development of Huave language revitalisation materials
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Measuring Factuality in Text Generation: When Language Models Are Twisting the Facts
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Vowel harmony as a cue for phonological phrasing
NLIP Seminar Series
Toward Broad and Deep Language Understanding for Intelligent Systems
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Empirical Results on Morphological Convergence in English
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Causal analysis of the syntactic representations of Transformers
NLIP Seminar Series
Exploring Feedback Comment Generation for Language Learners
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Unlikelihood-training and Back-training for robust natural language understanding
NLIP Seminar Series
NMT Analysis: The Trade-Off Between Source and Target, and (a Bit of) the Training Process
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Translating the Deaf Self: Translanguaging, interpreting & identities of deaf signers at work
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NLIP Seminar Series
Challenges in evaluating natural language generation systems
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Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
How (not) to do (areal) phonological typology
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Towards Knowledge-Robust and Multimodally-Grounded NLP
NLIP Seminar Series
Beyond Facts: The Problem of Framing in Assessing What is True
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Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Identity construction and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile statuses: What does our status say about us?
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Cambridge Linguistics Forum
How do stylistic features βworkβ in news texts about a violent event that took place abroad? A cross-cultural case study.
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Learning across Adverse Conditions in Natural Language Processing
NLIP Seminar Series
Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Training for Deployment: Methods for Small and Efficient NLP
NLIP Seminar Series
Incorporating Structure into NLP Models with Graph Neural Networks
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Ecological links between L2 learning and L1 change
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
NLP beyond English and mBERT's 100 languages
NLIP Seminar Series
Adaptation and Control in Enterprise Language Technology
Language Technology Lab Seminars
CausaLM: Causal Model Explanation Through Counterfactual Language Models
NLIP Seminar Series
Cross domain similarities and intra-person changes
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Language contact in syntax: The view from Romanian
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Domain Adaptation in NLP - Towards Adaptation to Any Domain
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Transcending Dependencies
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
On the phonetics and phonology of English H* and L+H* pitch accents
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Learning language by observing the world and learning about the world from language
NLIP Seminar Series
ππππ₯³ NLP Social Hour π₯³πππ
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Internal arguments disguised as external arguments: Lessons from an active alignment system
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NLIP Seminar Series
Representation Learning for Text Retrieval: Learning and Pretraining Strategies for Dense Retrieval
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Achieving Universality in Machine Translation: M4 - Massively Multilingual, Massive MT Models for the Next 1000 Languages
NLIP Seminar Series
[RESCHEDULED] Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Rethinking Benchmarking in AI
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Multiethnolects as contact languages: the case for the Jamaican influence in London
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Second Language Education Group
Language Teacher Wellbeing: Dispelling Myths, Complexifying Constructs, and Setting an Agenda (Cambridge Distinguished Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2020-2021)
NLIP Seminar Series
Papers with Code and the automatic extraction of results from papers
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The role of language professionals in minority language revitalisation: Variation in rhotic production
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Scalable Structural Inductive Biases in Neural Language Models
NLIP Seminar Series
The Science of Knowledge Equity - Research at Wikimedia
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Efficient sentence encoders for Conversational AI in the industry
NLIP Seminar Series
Detecting the "Fake News" Before It Was Even Written, Media Literacy, and Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19 Infodemic
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Adapters in Transformers. A New Paradigm for Transfer Learning�
NLIP Seminar Series
A Graph-Based Framework for Structured Prediction Tasks in Sanskrit
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Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Language change in bilingual returnee children: mutual effects of bilingual experience and cognition
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
From Translation Divergences to Structure-aware Neural Machine Translation
Second Language Education Group
Raising multilingual autistic children: Challenges and opportunities
NLIP Seminar Series
Learning with Graphs in Natural Language Generation and Relation Extraction
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Heritage grammars and linguistic complexity: A view from grammatical gender
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Towards explainable fact checking
NLIP Seminar Series
Revisiting and re-evaluating rumour stance classification
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Towards Perfect Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Translation
Second Language Education Group
Translanguaging: A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Claims (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy (2020-2021)
NLIP Seminar Series
Compositional Neural Meaning Representation Parsing
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Focus Association with ONLY
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Pitfalls in Evaluation of Multilingual Text Representations
NLIP Seminar Series
Improving Speech Translation with Linguistically-Informed Representations
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Voice-Prosody and Technologies to Give Voice to Endangered Languages: an Irish Perspective
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
From Sparse Modeling to Sparse Communication
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Bilingual Brains
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Understanding Event Processes in Natural Language
Second Language Education Group
English Medium Education (EME) in Basic and Higher Education: Lessons learned from across the globe
NLIP Seminar Series
Predicting Text Readability and Reading Comprehension from Reading Interactions
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
The crucial role of truth-compatible interferences
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Semiparametric Language Models
NLIP Seminar Series
How far have we come in giving our NLU systems common sense?
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Cambridge Linguistics Forum
The pronoun interpretation problem in bilingual Dutch-German children
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NLIP Seminar Series
Five Sources of Biases and Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Revisiting contact-induced change in creole languages
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NLIP Seminar Series
What are the Goals of Distributional Semantics?
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Culture, language and cognition: a methodological and theoretical exploration with reference to spatial concepts
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Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Polysemy: Pragmatics and Linguistic Conventions
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NLIP Seminar Series
Towards explainable fact checking
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
[Online talk] - Iconic Plurals
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Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
[Online talk] - Peircean Semiotics, Archaeology, and the Origin of Human Language: Was Homo erectus the first talking human?
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Cambridge Linguistics Forum
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC
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Cambridge Linguistics Forum
[Online talk] - Monosyllabic Salience in Cantonese: Facilitation of transference of monosyllabic English words (MEWs) into Hong Kong Cantonese-English mixed code
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NLIP Seminar Series
Methodological advances in creating time sensitive sensors from language and heterogeneous user generated content
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Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC
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Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
[Online talk] - The Syntax of Verbs: Language Typology, Language Change and a little bit of Language Acquisition
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Cambridge Linguistics Forum
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC
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Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
[Online talk] - Linguists who use probabilistic models love them: An introduction to Functional Distributional Semantics
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NLIP Seminar Series
Reducing gender bias in neural machine translation as a domain adaptation problem
β οΈ Online Seminar
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
[Online talk] L2 phonological learning in adults: The role of language background, age of acquisition, and exposure
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Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Intonational phonology in the light of cross-linguistic evidence of variability
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Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Title: How Language Began: A Peircean Approach to Language Evolution
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NLIP Seminar Series
Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs
NLIP Seminar Series
Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Mechanisms in non-native speech perception
β οΈ There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Variational Smoothing in Recurrent Neural Network Language Models
NLIP Seminar Series
Shaping Recommendations in a Marketplace via User & Content Understanding
Second Language Education Group
The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching
β οΈ Refreshments available from 4.30pm
NLIP Seminar Series
Beat the AI: Investigating Adversarial Human Annotations for Reading Comprehension
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Developing technologies for health, mental health and wellbeing
β οΈ A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies
Second Language Education Group
Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice
β οΈ ALL WELCOME, Drinks reception from 6.30pm
NLIP Seminar Series
Zero-shot Language Learning through Bayesian Neural Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Computational Models of the Influence of Context on Sentence Acceptability
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Conveying quantity pragmatically
β οΈ There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.
Second Language Education Group
Micro-level Language Policy and Planning: Levels, Agency and Structure (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2019-2020)
β οΈ Open to staff and students of Cambridge University. Booking is required and please contact Yongcan Liu ( yl258@cam.ac.uk)
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Urban Dictionary Embeddings for Slang NLP Applications
Second Language Education Group
Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations
β οΈ Refreshments available from 4.30pm
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them
β οΈ A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Correlations Between Word Vector Sets
β οΈ A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies
NLIP Seminar Series
Long Form Question Answering
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
t-glottalling, flapping and pre-glottalisation in British Englishes: patterns in phonological and social variability
β οΈ There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.
Second Language Education Group
Plurilingualism and Assessment (with reference to the new Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Companion Volume)
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Natural Language Understanding and Generation with Abstract Meaning Representation
NLIP Seminar Series
CANCELLED Probabilistic models of graphs for meaning representations
β οΈ Extra talk: note unusual day and time
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Sociolinguistic Vulnerability: Disaster Linguicism and Crisis Translation
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
BioNLP Research at Google
Second Language Education Group
Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2019 Specificity, Academic Writing and EAP
Second Language Education Group
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Multilingual Classrooms: From Conceptualisation to Implementation to Professional Development
NLIP Seminar Series
A Mutual Information Maximization Perspective of Language Representation Learning
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Learning region based representations of categories
NLIP Seminar Series
Automatic Analysis of Affect and Personality Analysis in Multiperson Settings
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence from Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish
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Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence from Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Unsupervised Question Answering
NLIP Seminar Series
Multimodal natural language processing: when text is not enough
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Tensor product representations for RNNs / Revisiting post-processing for word embeddings
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Latent Variable Models for Text Generation
NLIP Seminar Series
βProfit factoryβ and βbathroom breakβ: How to analyse compounds and how to predict their emergence
Second Language Education Group
Promoting multilingual literacy and reader identity:Global Storybooks and open technology
NLIP Seminar Series
Natural Language Generation in the Wild
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Bilingualism in the community: Code-switching and grammars in contact
β οΈ There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.
NLIP Seminar Series
Duolingo: Improving Language Learning and Assessment with A.I.
NLIP Seminar Series
An Operation Sequence Model for Explainable Neural Machine Translation
NLIP Seminar Series
Continuous feature structures: Can we learn structured representations with neural networks?
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Relational knowledge in vector spaces
NLIP Seminar Series
Towards secure and efficient DNNs
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Language dynamics - what we hear and how we hear it
β οΈ There will be a tea reception from 4pm.
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checking
NLIP Seminar Series
Mitigating Gender Bias in Morphologically Rich Languages
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Driving a wedge between communication and language learning in autism
β οΈ There will be a coffee reception from 4pm.
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Predicting and Analysing Online User Behaviour with Natural Language Processing
NLIP Seminar Series
AI Extenders: The Ethical and Societal Implications of Humans Cognitively Extended by AI
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
On the multidimensionality of natural language semantics and the myth of conventional implicature
Second Language Education Group
Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy in conjunction with the launching of Cambridge Masterclass Series on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy
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Second Language Education Group
How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?
β οΈ in conjunction of the launching Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching
NLIP Seminar Series
Factorising AMR generation through syntax
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Motivations for speaker intervention in phonetic implementation: Meanings and forms
Language Technology Lab Seminars
How to Pay Attention: Learning to Transfer Knowledge between Sentences and Tokens
NLIP Seminar Series
Languages* in Formal Reasoning: Accessibility vs. Formality
NLIP Seminar Series
Word Sense Disambiguation and Other Systems in Japanese
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
The interaction between simplicity and naturalness in nominal word order typology
β οΈ There will be a tea reception from 4pm.
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Finding translations in unordered text using multilingual sentence representations
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Disagreements in anaphoric interpretation
NLIP Seminar Series
K.A.T.E.: Scaling personalised tech education for professionals
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
TBC
β οΈ There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Improving Literature-based Discovery with Neural Networks
NLIP Seminar Series
Learning multi-domain dialogues
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Predictors of listening comprehension skills in bilingual children
β οΈ There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.
NLIP Seminar Series
Large-scale analyses of language variation and change in social media
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Seeking cross-linguistic interaction in the phonetic and phonological development of bilingual French-speaking children
β οΈ There will be a tea reception from 4pm.
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Teaching Artificial Agents to Understand Language by Modelling Reward
NLIP Seminar Series
Understanding Source Code using Natural Language and Graph Neural Networks
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Getting the gist: experience and expectation in the interpretation of novel compound nouns
β οΈ There will be a tea reception from 4pm.
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Do Deep Generative Models Know What They Don't Know?
Second Language Education Group
The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and cultural knowledge in development programmes
β οΈ There will be a drinks reception after the seminar
NLIP Seminar Series
Learning to navigate without a map (but with instructions)
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
The Evolutionary Typology of Verbal Person-Number Indexes
β οΈ There will be a tea reception from 4pm.
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Probabilistic Typology
NLIP Seminar Series
Topic-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Extreme Summarization
Second Language Education Group
Creativity in the languages classroom: Learners' responses to literary text
NLIP Seminar Series
**CANCELLED** Probabilistic Typology: Deep Generative Models of Vowel Inventories
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Learning and testing compositionality
NLIP Seminar Series
What makes psychotherapy work? Using deep learning to quantify the relationship between therapy content and outcomes
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Linguistic Measures for the Detection of Clinical Conditions
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Emergence of (linguistic) communication through multi-agent interactions
Second Language Education Group
EMI in Francophone Cameroon: What can we learn from victims of English?
β οΈ There will be a drinks reception after the seminar
NLIP Seminar Series
The Ethics of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology
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Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Timing in dyslexia: Language, reading and writing
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Learning with Explanations
NLIP Seminar Series
Knowledge Representation and Extraction at Scale
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The push to pool: Testing the effects of matched and mismatched reference populations in forensic voice comparison
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings in 60 Minutes
Second Language Education Group
Pardon my French! Exploring the myths and realities of Second Language Education in Canada
Language Technology Lab Seminars
On KL divergence and beyond
NLIP Seminar Series
Deep learning for automatically assessing the pronunciation of non-native English speakers
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Representation Learning and Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language
Second Language Education Group
The role of medium of instruction for multilingual children: a study of primary school children in India".
NLIP Seminar Series
Learning, Representing, and Understanding Language
LTL Seminars 2018/2019
Practical Approaches to Conversational AI
NLIP Seminar Series
Some lessons learned in Multimodal Representations and Transfer
LTL Seminars 2018/2019
LION-LBD: Literature-Based Discovery for Cancer Biology
NLIP Seminar Series
Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checking
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Language Adaptation experiments: Cross-lingual embeddings for related languages
Cambridge PhD Clinic
Time Management
NLIP Seminar Series
Functional Distributional Semantics: Learning Linguistically Informed Representations from a Precisely Annotated Corpus
Cambridge PhD Clinic
Want to be an academic? Learn How to track your Impact!
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Methods and Interactive Tools for Exploring the Semantics of Essentially Contested Concepts
NLIP Seminar Series
Learning hierarchical structure: strong learning of PCFGs
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Syntactic Change in Postcolonial Englishes: Substrates and Input
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Imitation learning for language generation
NLIP Seminar Series
NAACL practice talks
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Grammatical innovations in Multicultural London English
NLIP Seminar Series
The potential of synthetic data for more informative evaluation in Visual Question Answering
NLIP Seminar Series
Emergent Communication through Negotiation
NLIP Seminar Series
Predictive Uncertainty in Deep Learning
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Singing in tone: text-setting constraints in tone languages
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Scalable Non-Markovian Language Modelling
NLIP Seminar Series
Multilingual NLP via Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Linguistics and education: a case of mutual dependency?
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Understanding Ellipsis: Corpus, Annotation, Theory
β οΈ Note: This is a special out-of-term session. Note unusual time (Monday instead of Thursday)
NLIP Seminar Series
** cancelled **
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
CANCELLED - Diversity of Expression in Utterance and the Idea of Language
β οΈ This talk has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Knowledge Acquisition from Corpora and the Wisdom of Crowds
NLIP Seminar Series
Virtual bargaining as a micro-foundation for communication
β οΈ Note unusual time
Second Language Education Group
Multilingual Identities and Heterogeneous Language Ideologies in the New Latino Diaspora
NLIP Seminar Series
Jointly Learning Syntax and Semantics
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Sources of Variability in Language Activation and Control in Spanish/English bilinguals and L2 learners
Language Technology Lab Seminars
NLP in the clinical domain - data, approaches and considerations
Cambridge PhD Clinic
How to track the impact of your publications
NLIP Seminar Series
Constructing datasets for multi-hop reading comprehension across documents
NLIP Seminar Series
Deep reinforcement learning for dialogue policy optimisation
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
The semantics and pragmatics of racial and ethnic language: Towards a comprehensive radical contextualist account
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Predicting Judicial Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights
NLIP Seminar Series
Pruning and grafting syntactic trees for cross-lingual transfer tasks
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Third language acquisition at the initial stages: An event-related potential study probing for transfer
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Graph Convolutional Networks for Natural Language Processing and Relational Modeling
Second Language Education Group
Changing languages in European Higher Education: from official policies to unofficial classroom practices
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Using quantile regression and dynamic survival analysis to study the time course of the lexical processing of complex words
Second Language Education Group
Multilingual practices and attitudes among university students in Europe and the US: implications for the teaching of languages
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Grammar as a Maturationally Controlled Behavior: Minimality in language Development and Impairment
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Interdisciplinarity: The art of unsettling multiple disciplines
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Languages adapt to minute differences in their speakersβ ecology
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Context Sensitive Distributional Semantics
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Senses can help vector space models of lexical substitution
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Sentence Generation using a Dynamic Canvas
NLIP Seminar Series
Imitation learning for structured prediction and automated fact checking
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Twitter evolution: Birdsong, speech and language
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Learning to Create and Reuse Words in Open-Vocabulary Language Modeling
Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Powered by Cambridge: Devices, data and interDisciplinarity
β οΈ Registration required
Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Linguistic Yardsticks: Evaluating Language Technology Using Insights from Linguistic Theory
β οΈ Registration required
Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Using Social Media to Investigate Linguistic Variation and Change
β οΈ Registration required
Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Individualised Language in the Big Data Era
β οΈ Registration required
Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
The Use of Deep Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems
β οΈ Registration required
NLIP Seminar Series
Internal seminar - new PhD students
NLIP Seminar Series
Labelling Topics Using Neural Networks
Language Technology Lab Seminars
What can online collaborative dictionaries tell us about language and social dynamics?
Second Language Education Group
Multilingualism in foreign language learning: students' and teachers' perspectives in the Norwegian context
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Grammar, pragmatics and referential interpretation in English
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Corpus-Based Analysis of the Canonical Word Order of Japanese Double Object Constructions
Second Language Education Group
Vocabulary: Principles and Practice
NLIP Seminar Series
Grounded language learning in simulated worlds
NLIP Seminar Series
Towards More Robust and Interpretable Models for Structured Prediction and Language Generation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Internal LTL Seminar
NLIP Seminar Series
Neural Models for Information Retrieval
Second Language Education Group
The Influence of Multilingual Identity on Foreign Language Learning
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Internal LTL Seminar
Cambridge PhD Clinic
Academic Speed Dating
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Detecting Semantic Change Using LDA in Historical Texts: a Case Study on Dutch
NLIP Seminar Series
Text-to-text Generation Beyond Machine Translation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Detecting Text Reuse in Large Historical Corpora and Authorship Attribution of Premodern Documents
NLIP Seminar Series
Finite-State Transducers as a Theory of Dependency Structured Natural Language
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Natural Language Processing to Bridge Heterogeneous Data
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Modeling Context-sensitive Selectional Preference with Distributed Representations
NLIP Seminar Series
Deep NLP in language tutoring
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Linguists-defined and Machine-induced Natural Language Structures to Executable Logical Forms
NLIP Seminar Series
Predicting Rich Linguistic Structure with Neural Networks
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Vanishing laws of semantic change - studying semantic change using distributional word representations and proper control condition
NLIP Seminar Series
Functional Distributional Semantics
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
How children break into language and become interesting talkers within 3 years.
NLIP Seminar Series
NLP, the perfect social (media) science?
NLIP Seminar Series
Sentence-level Topic Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Statistical Properties and Applications of Word Tensors
NLIP Seminar Series
Text Simplification: Where are we now, and where are we headed?
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Learning Syntax with Deep Neural Networks
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Location Resolution in Language Processing
NLIP Seminar Series
Neural Architectures for Sequence Labelling
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Reading and Reasoning with Vector Representations
NLIP Seminar Series
Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking using Semantically Specialised Vector Spaces
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Building a True Semantic World: Generalizing set-theoretic semantics in vector spaces
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Using smartphones to collect big data on English dialects
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Cross-lingual Learning 2.0
Cambridge PhD Clinic
Fake News
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Semantic (Vector) Representations of Word Senses, Concepts and Entities and their Applications
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Internal LTL meeting
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Scientific Paper Analysis: JST CREST Project of Big Data Application
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
A tale of one city: A sociophonetic study of 100+ years of Glaswegian vernacular
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Internal LTL meeting
NLIP Seminar Series
Neural Variational Inference for NLP
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Knowledge Base Population from Text and Graphs
NLIP Seminar Series
Learning Hierarchical Word and Sentence Representations
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The (socio)linguistics of Cypriot Greek as a heritage language in present-day London
Second Language Education Group
Cross-linguistic Transfer of Learning Strategies between First and Foreign Language Classroom Contexts: Making a Case for a Multilingual Approach to Writing Pedagogy
NLIP Seminar Series
EACL potpourri
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Computational approaches for deciphering the regulation of cancer genomes
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Title to be confirmed
NLIP Seminar Series
Imitation learning for language generation from unaligned data
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Challenges and opportunities in the use of Internet data for insights on medicine
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Notes on the verbal domain in Meadow Mari
Second Language Education Group
On the Margins: Slovak Roma Children Negotiating Language and Education in Sheffield
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Learning to Generate Textual Data
NLIP Seminar Series
Learning Commonsense Event Schemas from Unlabeled Text
Second Language Education Group
Cognitive Discourse Functions as joint concern in language and content pedagogy
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Reflections on Universal Dependencies
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Internal LTL meeting
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Fox's son, they slept five, imitation of people: Kuikuro numerals and counting
β οΈ This talk is held in conjunction with the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group (http://groups.ds.cam.ac.uk/celc/)
NLIP Seminar Series
Internal Seminar pt. 2
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Misreading and language change: a foray into cognitive historical linguistics?
NLIP Seminar Series
On-line Active Reward Learning for Policy Optimisation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Sensing well-being using heterogeneous smartphone data and stance identification in social media conversations
Second Language Education Group
Language Development and School Achievement of EAL Students: EALead Project II
NLIP Seminar Series
Learning to Detect Stance and Represent Emojis
Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
A molecular genetic perspective on speech and language
β οΈ Registration is required for this event
Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Does natural language understanding have anything to do with understanding natural language?
β οΈ Registration is required for this event
Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Poster session II
β οΈ Registration is required for this event
Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Natural Language Processing and online health reports (or OMG U got flu?)
β οΈ Registration is required for this event
Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Language dynamics: a neurocognitive approach to incremental interpretation
β οΈ Registration is required for this event
Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Poster session I
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Industrial NLP Applications of Machine Learning in Different Domains
NLIP Seminar Series
Recommending relevant citations using CoreSC and Argumentative Zoning
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Monolingual and multilingual, explicit and latent vector representations of meaning
Second Language Education Group
Lexical Patterns of Austerity in UK Broadsheet Text 2007-15
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Creativity and discourse strategies in recent Spanish social protest movements
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Biomedical Text Mining: Structuring the Unstructured
Language Technology Lab Seminars
User-generated content mining: From collective disease rates to individual demographics
Second Language Education Group
The Value of Languages: Towards a UK Strategy for Languages
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Nursing Turing's Child: How to Grow Communication-based Intelligent Machines
NLIP Seminar Series
Numerically Grounded Language Models
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The origins of speech and anti-rhythms
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Building and using the Finnish Internet Parsebank
NLIP Seminar Series
Internal Seminar pt. 1
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Internal LTL meeting
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Multiword Expressions and Compositionality Detection: Giving Word Embeddings a Hard Time
NLIP Seminar Series
Text Readability Assessment for Second Language Learners
NLIP Seminar Series
Strong Structural Priors for Neural Network Architectures
NLIP Seminar Series
Incremental CCG parsing and its applications
NLIP Seminar Series
Conversation Trees: A Grammar Model for Topic Structure in Online Forums
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Phonotactics with[awt] rules: the learnability of a simple, unnatural pattern in English
NLIP Seminar Series
Generating Natural-Language Video Descriptions using LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks
NLIP Seminar Series
Maternal Health in Uganda: Listen Intelligently to Local Voices combining Language and Technology
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The language of higher-order uncertainty
NLIP Seminar Series
From passive to interactive (multimodal) language learning
NLIP Seminar Series
Where Can I Buy a Boulder? Searching for Offline Retail Locations
NLIP Seminar Series
Texts Come from People - How Demographic Factors Influence NLP Models
NLIP Seminar Series
Tracing concepts through time
NLIP Seminar Series
General-Purpose Representation Learning from Words to Sentences
β οΈ ***PLEASE NOTE CHANGED (DIFFERENT) TIME***
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Rumours, Diseases and Drugs: Tackling Textual Data for Knowledge Discovery in Health
NLIP Seminar Series
Understanding generative learning in the individual brain
NLIP Seminar Series
Data Science at The Guardian
Second Language Education Group
English as a Lingua Franca: Past, Present, and (Possible) Future
NLIP Seminar Series
What Happens Next? Event Prediction Using a Compositional Neural Network Model
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Language variation and change within the individual
NLIP Seminar Series
Modern Deep Learning through Bayesian Eyes
Second Language Education Group
Native speaker and learner language data in Applied Linguistics: what's next?
NLIP Seminar Series
Multilingual Image Description with Neural Sequence Models
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Language families and language contact: Latin, Sabellian and Greek
NLIP Seminar Series
Sentence Entailment in Categorical Compositional Distributional Semantics
Second Language Education Group
Marking progression in second language production: EAL pupilsβ use of spoken and written English
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Reconceptualising conditionals
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
On the cartography of the clause in Old Celtic
Cambridge PhD Clinic
Research Collaborations outside of academia
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Efficient Constrained Inference and Structured Neural Networks for Semantic Role Labeling
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Lacking Integrity: HPSG as a Morphosyntactic Theory
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Eliminating A/A'-positions
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Born Global: Rethinking Language Policy for 21st Century Britain
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The βMultilingual Turnβ in Languages Education - a future for EAL?
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Motivation and learning in citizen science: The role of automatically generated feedback.
Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Turn-taking, language processing and the evolution of language
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Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Annual open meeting
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Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Poster Session II
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Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Understanding generative learning in the individual brain
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Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Crowdsourcing big data in English dialectology
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Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Sunnyside
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Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Statistical Acoustic-Phonetic Historical Linguistics: A short introduction
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Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Poster Session I
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How much linguistics is needed for NLP?
Cambridge PhD Clinic
Academia vs. Industry
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Internal Seminar
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Anaphora resolution in young and not-so-young adults: the role of language experience and cognitive skills
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Task-based Language Teaching with Technology: The EU-Funded CAMELOT Project
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Internal Seminar
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Phonetics from blog to book
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Understanding Word Embeddings
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Unweaving The Lexical Rainbow: Grounding Linguistic Creativity in Perceptual Semantics
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Game of Tropes: Exploring the Placebo Effect in Computational Creativity
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Joint A* Syntactic and Semantic Parsing for CCG
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Semantically Conditioned LSTM-based Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
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Learning Structural Kernels for Natural Language Processing
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Cross-lingual transfer of a semantic parser via parallel data
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Improving & Better Understanding Word Vector Representations
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Crowdsourcing the annotation of rumours in social media
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Natural Language Generation from Semantic Web Ontologies
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Deep consequences: Why syntax (as we know it) isn't a thing, and other (shocking?) conclusions from modelling language with neural nets.
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Open System Categorical Quantum Semantics in Natural Language Processing
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The neural correlates of intonation
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Model Theory and the Semantics of Natural Languages
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Injecting Logical Background Knowledge into Embeddings for Relation Extraction
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Disfluency detection in spoken learner English
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Modelling implicit language learning with distributional semantics
Cambridge PhD Clinic
Fourth workshop: Research Outreach & Public Engagement
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Statistical modelling of metaphor
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The Cultural Origins of Structure
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The Geometry of Machine Translation
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Hierarchical Statistical Semantic Realization for Minimal Recursion Semantics
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Leveraging a Semantically Annotated Corpus to Disambiguate Prepositional Phrase Attachment
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Learning Latent Syntactic Representations with Joint Models
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Are you losing Structures in Distributional Vectors? Smoothed Distributed Tree Kernels and the Convolution Conjecture
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Scalar Particles as Alternative-Sensitive Expressions
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Argument Mining from Text for Teaching and Assessing Writing
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The importance of SLA theory when designing L2 corpora
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Language development, social integration and achievement of recently-arrived EAL children in schools in the East of England
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Interpreting Document Collections Using Topic Models
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A Probabilistic Framework for Modeling Cross-Lingual Semantic Similarity (out of and in Context) Based on Latent Cross-Lingual Concepts
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Disentangling focus constructions in Luganda
Second Language Education Group
CANCELLED: Task-based language teaching with technology: the EU-Funded CAMELOT project
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Towards quantum algorithms for natural language processing
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Frontiers in Named Entity Recognition and Linking
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Negation and negative concord in Greek: evidence for a tripartite 'cycle' for negative indefinites
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Relating Native Language Typology to Foreign Language Usage
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Self-efficacy in foreign language learning
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A New Corpus and Imitation Learning Framework for Context-Dependent Semantic Parsing
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An embodied model of clause syntax
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Mining the Social Web: A series of statistical NLP case studies
Second Language Education Group
Shaping language policy and practice in South Africa : the next twenty years
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Composed, Distributed Reflections on Semantics and Statistical Machine Translation
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Phylogenetic approaches to language history and diversity
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Examining child language brokering in schools: Developing guidance for good practice
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A Polya Urn Document Language Model for Information Retrieval
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Exploratory Search and Trend Detection
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
I saw, I unsaw, I resaw: how we access and make use of unconscious knowledge about verbal roots
Centre for Commonwealth Education (CCE)
MASTERCLASS: Case study research in applied linguistics: What can case studies of L2 learners tell us?
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Centre for Commonwealth Education (CCE)
Multilingual socialization: Negotiating multiple languages, identities, ideologies, and practices
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The Theory and Practice of Compositional Distributed Semantics
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The case for a Computational Neurolinguistics
Cambridge PhD Clinic
Third Workshop: Scientific Publishing
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Internal Seminar 2
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Disjunction at prosodic boundaries
Second Language Education Group
The 'social' in English language teaching: Situated accomplishments
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First Step toward Neural Machine Translation
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Creative Coding in Education
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Morphosyntactic complexity: a typology of lexical splits
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Internal Seminar 1
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Language and Demographics on Twitter: Inferring Latent User Attributes from Streaming Communications
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Detecting Learner Errors in the Choice of Content Words Using Compositional Distributional Semantics
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Unsupervised learning of rhetorical structure with un-topic models
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Distributional semantics and beyond: Composition, generation and alignment
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Context-dependent Semantic Parsing for Time Expressions
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Helping 10% of the people to read and write better
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Multilingual Models for Distributed Semantics
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Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing with a Dependency Model
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Looking for hyponyms in vector space
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Grammatical error correction using hybrid systems and type filtering
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Robust multilingual syntactic parsing
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Advanced Graph-based and Transition-based Dependency Parsing Approaches and Recent Trends towards Joint Syntactic and Morphologic Disambiguation
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Identifying Deixis to Communicative Artifacts in Text
Cambridge PhD Clinic
Second Workshop: Academic Survival Tips
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Natural Language Parsing -- for what purpose?
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Feature sharing in agreement? Evidence from Latin nominalized participles
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Towards empiricist models of language acquisition
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Adjective modification in compositional distributional semantics
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Using Semantics to help learn Phonetic Categories
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Design decisions in web corpus construction and their impact on distributional semantic models
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Exploiting Large Corpora for Parsing
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Exploiting Query Logs to Build Adaptive Domain Models for Search and Navigation
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The semantics of poetry: a distributional reading
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Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Change, Choice and Functional Ecology: The case of the historical present
Cambridge PhD Clinic
First Workshop: Student Presentations
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Constructing topical hierarchies for Expertise Mining
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A Quest Towards Understanding the Challenges of Spoken Content Retrieval
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The role of semantic and structural constraints in ellipsis
Second Language Education Group
Constructing identities in multilingual classrooms: the experiences of immigrant-background children in primary schools in France and England
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Towards a model of morphological processing grounded in principles of discriminative learning
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Categorical compositional distributional semantics: state-of-the-art!
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New times, researcher mobility and multilingual research practice: opportunities, innovation and constraints
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Spectral Learning and Decoding for Natural Language Parsing
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Which take which?
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GPstruct: Bayesian non-parametric structured prediction model
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Parsing Jazz: Harmonic Analysis of Music Using Combinatory Categorial Grammar
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A Standard Document Score for Information Retrieval
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Language Learning and the brain
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βIntercultural citizenshipβ β a purpose for foreign language education?
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Three Stories on Aggregated Search
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Literacy Instruction and the Bilingual Learner
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Learning to Generate Natural Source Code
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Distribution of processing capacities across bilateral and left-lateralised language networks
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Data Management, Integration and Retrieval in Life Sciences Using Semantic Web Technology
Second Language Education Group
How can you help your students become autonomous learners? One-on-one counselling-based teaching through an autonomous learning model
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BrainNet: Using Brain (and Corpus) Data to Investigate Conceptual Knowledge
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Sign language in Burma: Yangon Sign language and its relationship with spoken Burmese
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The onset of borrowing: Somali and English
NLIP Seminar Series
Chinese CCGbank: Deep derivations and dependencies for Chinese CCG parsing
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Where did it all go wrong? New Tools for Automatic Error Analysis in NLP
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Recursive Deep Learning for Modeling Semantic Compositionality
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Spicy adjectives and nominal donkeys: Capturing semantic deviance using compositionality in distributional spaces
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Apposition Extraction and Named Entity Linking
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Using Grammars in On-line Education: Automatic error correction to improve writing skills
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Representing Abstract and Concrete Concepts - Why and When Features should Feature
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Developing and testing a self-assessment and tutoring system
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Individual variation and the roles of L1 and proficiency in the L2 development of English grammatical morphemes
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Improved Information Structure Analysis of Scientific Documents Through Discourse and Lexical Constraints
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Dialect syntax as a testbed for models of innovation and change
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Zipf's law and the grammar of languages: A (potential) cross-linguistic measure of syntheticity
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The role of dynamic pragmatics in negation processing
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How to Give a Technical Presentation in Computer Science
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Unsupervised Domain Tuning to Improve Word Sense Disambiguation
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Distinguishing two routes to silent meaning through hemodynamic and electrophysiological techniques
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Two Approaches to Grammar Induction: From Plain Text to Semantic Supervision
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Class in multilingualism research
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Natural Language Generation as Planning under Uncertainty for Statistical Interactive Systems
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Distributional Semantics and Kernels
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Coordinate structures, morphosyntactic representations, and production experiments in Slovenian
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Linguistic Indicators for Estimating the Quality of Machine Translations
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Move in the Right Direction: What phonetic variation can tell us about phonological representations
Second Language Education Group
How the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages (EPOSTL) works in different European contexts
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Null objects and markedness in L1 acquisition
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What you get is not only what you see! A distributional analysis of semantic features from congenital blind subjects
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Machine translation from the user's perspective: what is it good for?
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The Domain of Content
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Predict, Price and Cut: Column and Row Generation for Structured Prediction
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Compositionality modelling and non-compositionality detection with distributional semantics
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Discrete bilectalism, multilingualism, and (a)typical language development
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A fast and simple algorithm for training neural probabilistic language models
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Derogatives: Meaning or Metadata?
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Second Language Education Group
Beyond multilingualism: Heteroglossia and social diversity
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NLIP Seminar Series
Handling obsolete information in classification: is there a one-size-fits-all strategy?
Second Language Education Group
The European Survey on Language Competences: Aims, Outcomes and Conclusions
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A New Twist on Methodologies for ESL Grammatical Error Detection
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Neurocognitive universals in types of morphological process?
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NLIP Seminar Series
Data Mining and Information Extraction for CiteSeerX and Friends
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Fuse Project and Citation Analysis
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Learning Syntactic Verb Frames Using Graphical Models
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Following Wisdom in Machine Learning
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Semi-supervised learning for automatic conceptual property extraction
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Modelling selectional preferences in a lexical hierarchy
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Modeling coherence in ESOL learner texts
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Context-Enhanced Citation Sentiment Detection
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Repair and adherence in patient-clinician dialogues
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
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Beyond Shallow Semantics
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
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Automating Second Language Acquisition Research: Integrating Information Visualisation and Machine Learning
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Helping computers talk from experience
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Entity-based Models for Discourse Structure
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Learning to communicate: The development of reference from 9 months to 5 years.
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Backward control of adjuncts in Ancient Greek
NLIP Seminar Series
Beyond MaltParser -- Recent Advances in Transition-Based Dependency Parsing
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Automatically Creating Reading Lists with Topical PageRank
Second Language Education Group
εΏε»ζΉ― [gei lim tong], ε₯Άζ²Ήζ΅ζ±€ (nai you nong tang) and βcream soupβ: the collection, representation and analysis of multidialectal data for a study of language attitudes in Guangzhou, China
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Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
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Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Reason, passion and genius in linguistic thought from the Neo-Epicureans to the Saussure brothers
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Bayesian Smoothing for Language Models
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Which factors influence sentence continuation in children?
Second Language Education Group
Medium of instruction policy and multilingual pupilsβ experience of learning to read and write in primary school in Cameroon
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Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Working memory, language, and classroom learning
NLIP Seminar Series
Probabilistic models of similarity and plausibility in context
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What is meaning? - Formalising the Distributional Hypothesis
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Phonetics vs. phonology in Huave consonant-vowel interactions
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Stream-based Statistical Machine Translation
Second Language Education Group
Second language listening comprehension in England: strategy instruction and teacher understanding.
Second Language Education Group
βSecond language listening comprehension in England: strategy instruction and teacher understandingβ
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Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The effects of language contact on event construal: insights from language production of L1 and very advanced L2-speakers of German
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Second Language Education Group
Creativity, criticality and multilingual practices: code- and mode-switching by British Chinese children in complementary schools
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Unsupervised Word Alignment and Part of Speech Induction with Undirected Models
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Resumption and the Design of Grammar
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Biomedical Natural Language Figure Processing
Second Language Education Group
Redefining the narrative in contemporary educational discourse
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Search-based Structured Prediction applied to Biomedical Event Extraction
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The Syntax of Meteorology
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Better Together: Large Monolingual, Bilingual and Multimodal Corpora in NLP
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Learning hard chart constraints for efficient context-free parsing
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Graph-Based Methods for Large-Scale Multilingual Knowledge Integration
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A Weakly-supervised Approach to Argumentative Zoning of Scientific Documents
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A New Dataset and Method for Automatically Grading ESOL Texts
Second Language Education Group
Research and practice in content and language integrated learning (CLIL)
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Unsupervised Entailment Detection between Dependency Graph Fragments
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Language in 3D: semantic tensor space
Second Language Education Group
Talking Classrooms -Interim findings from a classroom-based enquiry exploring the relationship between input, interaction and spontaneous talk in the primary classroom.
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Minimum Bayes-Risk Lattice Rescoring Methods for Statistical Machine Translation
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To what extent does the acquisition of conceptual categories depend on language?
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Understanding and believing
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Accurate CCG Parsing with Approximate Language Intersection and Task-specific Optimization
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Individual differences in native language attainment (with implications for language acquisition)
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Relational-Realizational Syntax: An Architecture for Describing and Parsing Rich Morphosyntactic Descriptions
Second Language Education Group
Using metaphorical representations to discern young learnersβ beliefs about foreign language learning
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Surprisingly Efficient Parsing for a Wide-Coverage Lexicalised-Grammar Parser
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The semantics of numerical classifiers in Indonesian
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Categorical Compositionality for Distributional Semantics, Without Tears
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Automatic speech act identification in business emails
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Phases and semantics
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Interpreting Early Middle English Spelling: Anachronism and historical orthography
Second Language Education Group
Comparing language learning and proficiency across Europe
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
On historical language dictionaries and language boundaries
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Is linguistics useful?: From Wittgenstein to meaning, brain, and questions about how to treat language-impaired stroke patients
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Towards a Stochastic Model of Linguistic Competence
Second Language Education Group
Gender Construction and its Negotiation in the Course of Second Language Learning
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Two robust semi-supervised learning algorithms for natural language processing
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Language change and language evolution in the lab
Semantics Lunch (Computer Laboratory)
A Language for Mathematics
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Event Extraction from Biomedical Texts by Trimming Dependency Graphs
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Morphosyntactic conditioning in phonology: the case of pronominal clitics in European Portuguese
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ACS project presentations
Second Language Education Group
Learning French from ages 5, 7 and 11: an investigation into starting ages, rates and routes of learning amongst early foreign language learners
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BioCaster 2.0: Online text analysis for early alerting of disease outbreaks
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Patent Search: a challenging problem for IR and NL
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The Case of Giorgione: Indexicality, Logophoricity, and Non Truth-Conditional Meaning
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Open Problems for Literary Text Generation in the WASP System
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A Fast Decoder for Joint Word Segmentation and POS-Tagging using a Single Discriminative Model
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Practical Linguistic Steganography using Contextual Synonym Substitution and Vertex Colour Coding
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Semantics, Text, and Biomedical Knowledge Discovery: Challenges and Opportunities
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Evaluation of Dependency Parsers on Unbounded Dependencies
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Models of Metaphor in NLP
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Latent Variable Models of Selectional Preference
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Natural mathematical language for the computer
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Combining Manual Rules and Supervised Learning for Hedge Cue and Scope Detection
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Log-linear models with hidden features for label and link prediction
Second Language Education Group
Identity Problems
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Evolution, sex/gender and sociolinguistics
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Automatic Metaphor Interpretation as a Paraphrasing Task
NLIP Seminar Series
Linguistic Steganography using Automatically Generated Paraphrases
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Enhancing NLP with Knowledge: Ontology-Based Information Retrieval for Handwritten Text
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Why _morning pΓ‘per_, but _jΓΊry selection_? The variability of compound stress in English
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Ethnolinguistic identities and language revitalisation in small society: the case of the Faeroe Isles
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Latent TAG Derivations for Semantic Role Labeling
NLIP Seminar Series
Metaphor in language, thought, and communication
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Keeping (eye)track(s) of multiple worlds
Second Language Education Group
Negotiating varied proficiency levels in Lingua Franca English
NLIP Seminar Series
Subjectivity Recognition on Word Senses
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Eye get it! What eye-movements can tell us about language processing in autism spectrum disorder
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Making the World's Scientific Information (More) Organized, Accessible, and Usable
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Influence of r-resonance information on speech intelligibility for native and non-native English speakers of different ages
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Learnable representations for natural language
Second Language Education Group
The Great Wall of China is Moving away: the Social Construction of Ideas about English in China
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The Web as an Implicit Training Set: Application to Noun Compounds' Syntax and Semantics
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A Bottom-up Approach to Sentence Ordering for Multi-document Summarization
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Accent of birth? Linking phonological variation to attitudes and identities on the Scottish/English border
Second Language Education Group
LANGUAGES IN THE CURRICULUM - REMOVING THE MONOCULTURAL STRAIT JACKET
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Learning to Follow Orders: Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions
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Inducing Synchronous Grammars for Machine Translation
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences
NLIP Seminar Series
Making Computer Science more Social: Speed Dating and the History of Science
Second Language Education Group
The English Profile (2): Identifying criterial features in learner languages
NLIP Seminar Series
Semiring Parsing without Parsing
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Fine-grained sentiment analysis in text and multi-party conversation
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Towards Understanding the Brain Basis of Developmental Dyslexia: A Cross-Language Approach
Second Language Education Group
The English Profile Programme (1): Delivering descriptions of reference levels for English as a second language
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
See, say and remember: Motion events in witness interviews, translation and memory
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Bayesian non-parametric models for parsing and translation
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Ontology Learning for Portuguese
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Against PP extraposition in nominals
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Clitic Pregroups: in search for a uniform pattern of clitic movement in natural languages
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Unbounded Dependency Recovery for Parser Evaluation
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A Proposal on Evaluation Measures for RTE
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Portuguese Text Simplification for Digital Inclusion and Accessibility
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Phonetic and phonological aspects of gemination in Lebanese Arabic
Second Language Education Group
Innovation and Reform in Language Teaching: Legacies from the Past
NLIP Seminar Series
Extending a Surface Realizer to Generate Coherent Discourse
NLIP Seminar Series
Mildly non-projective dependency parsing: algorithms and applications
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The pragmatic bases of musical meaning
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Cycling to Enrich and Enhance Dictionary Glosses
Second Language Education Group
Equality before the law, irrespective of language and culture?
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Processing Geographic Language
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Towards automated understanding of scientific papers
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Loan Word Typology
NLIP Seminar Series
BioNLP 2009 event detection task
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Dealing with disasters: the problem of polysemy
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Asymmetries in the intonation system of the Maastricht dialect of Limburgian
Second Language Education Group (duplicate)
Francophone and Anglophone Primary school teachersβ representations of language and linguistic policies in Cameroon
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Disambiguation of Biomedical Text
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Eye tracking and syntactic processing in children with Williams Syndrome
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A Tale of Two Parsers: investigating and combining graph-based and transition-based dependency parsing using beam-search
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Dialogue Act Prediction Using Stochastic Context-Free Grammar Induction
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Constructions, functional heads and unbounded dependencies
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Optimization over violable constraints in linguistic performance
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ASKNet: Creating and Evaluating Large Scale Integrated Semantic Networks
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Quantifying dialect similarity by comparison of the lexical distribution of phonemes
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Almost-unsupervised multilingual sentiment analysis
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
New wine in old bottles? Change and continuity in form-function relationships
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
"Reslicing the Clitic/Affix Distinction"
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Variation in British Sign Language
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Learning to Adapt in Dialogue Systems: Data-driven Models for Personality Recognition and Generation
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Adapting a WSJ-trained Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to New Domains
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
From morphology to syntax or the other way around: Re-thinking the directionality of change in historical syntax
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Infinite Hidden Markov Models and Applications in NLP
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Understanding the minds of others: A psycholinguistic approach to Theory of Mind
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Statistical anaphora resolution in biomedical texts
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Nobody Writes Letters Anymore: Helping people make sense of historically significant email collections
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Fuzzy Logic: Fading Hype or Technology of the Future?
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Language as a Window Into Human Nature
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NLIP Seminar Series
Multiword Expressions: Evaluation of Extraction Methods and their Impact on Grammar Engineering
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
How to learn and use a language
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Contributions of phonetic detail to understanding speech processing
NLIP Seminar Series
A maximum entropy approach to preposition and determiner selection
NLIP Seminar Series
Error-Aware Probabilistic Parsing
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Immanuel Kantβs Sparrow: High level acoustic communication in songbirds and humans
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
What goes wrong when speakers stutter?
NLIP Seminar Series
Computer-generated Cryptic Crossword Clues: exploring creative NLG
Second Language Education Group
Conceptualising On-line Spaces as Communities: Analysis of an Online Italian-speaking community
NLIP Seminar Series
Applications of Discourse Structure for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Referential intentions and minimal semantics
Second Language Education Group
Researching the impact of recent foreign language policy initiatives on provision and practice in schools in England
NLIP Seminar Series
Monte Carlo Semantics: Robust Inference and Logical Pattern Processing Based on
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The role of statistical learning in early generative L2 grammars
NLIP Seminar Series
Learning to Classify Noun-Noun Semantic Relations
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Tone contrast maintenance driving phonological change in intonation grammars
Second Language Education Group
The other side of Bricklane? Second language proficiency, linguistic vitality and identity construction in the London Benglasdeshi Community
NLIP Seminar Series
Annotating Genericity: How Do Humans Decide?- A Case Study in Ontology Extraction
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
'A fair knowledge of their tongue': Re-evaluating Missionary Linguistics
β οΈ change of time
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
When and where does language change? Syntax, phonology, acquisition and diachrony
β οΈ *back to usual venue*
NLIP Seminar Series
A Rebel Alliance in Babel's Aftermath: Combining rules and probabilities in machine translation
Second Language Education Group
Micro-teaching and self-evaluation
NLIP Seminar Series
Kernels for graph comparison
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Inflectional Economy
β οΈ *NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE*
Second Language Education Group
Maturational constraints on L2 Acquisition : Do they exist and are they relevant to early L2 instruction
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Historical sociolinguistics and the transmission of language change
Second Language Education Group
Japanese Language Education and the Impact of Testing
NLIP Seminar Series
Analysing biomedical text with the Stanford dependency grammar
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The fascinating first year
NLIP Seminar Series
Random Walks on the Click Graph
NLIP Seminar Series
The ILIAD Project: Language Technology Meets Linux Troubleshooting
NLIP Seminar Series
Annotating and Learning Compound Noun Semantics
NLIP Seminar Series
Annotation of Chemical Named Entities
NLIP Seminar Series
Semantic enrichment of journal articles using chemical named entity recognition
NLIP Seminar Series
Semi-supervised Training of a Statistical Parser from Unlabeled Partially-bracketed Data
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
βCannot believe have not realised this beforeβ: subject omission in present-day written English
NLIP Seminar Series
Term Mining in Biomedicine
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Why are humans the only species to have language?
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Discourse variation, grammaticalisation, and stuff like that
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Title to be confirmed
Second Language Education Group
Insights into optimal and natural language from deaf and hearing children of deaf parents
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Inference about inference: pragmatics and stylistic analysis
Second Language Education Group
Exploring language learning through communication: How far is task repetition repetition?
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Compounding in English and the nature of attribution
β οΈ Dinner with speaker afterwards at Sala Thong (Thai); email apc38 if interested
Second Language Education Group
"Can you read what I can read?: Case studies of German, Japanese and Urdu learners"
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Some aspects of verb morphology and syntax in Modern Aramaic
β οΈ *Back to usual venue*
NLIP Seminar Series
Generating appropriate referring expressions in news summaries
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Differentiating morphology, syntax and meaning in the human brain
β οΈ *NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE*
NLIP Seminar Series
Generation of Referring Expressions: Evaluating some standard algorithms
NLIP Seminar Series
Evaluating Centering for Information Ordering using Corpora
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Problems with phonemes
β οΈ *NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE*
NLIP Seminar Series
Fuzzy Language Models and Closed Domain Question Answering using Fuzzy Semantics
NLIP Seminar Series
The Weakest Link: Detecting and Correcting Errors in Learner English
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Challenges and results of large-scale mapping of contemporary English dialects using online surveys
NLIP Seminar Series
Acquiring Ontological Relationships from Wikipedia Using RMRS
β οΈ Short talk (20 minutes) to be presented at International Semantic Web Conference workshop
NLIP Seminar Series
Putting Linguistics into Speech Recognition: The Regulus Grammar Compiler
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Concord, convergence and accommodation in bilingual children
NLIP Seminar Series
Multiple Instance Learning for Natural Language Tasks
Please see above for contact details for this list.