Natural Language Processing Reading Group


2008-10-29 13:00: Which are the Best Features for Automatic Verb Classification? (Andreas Vlachos (Computer Laboratory))

2008-11-05 13:00: Cheap and Fast - But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations for Natural Language Tasks ( Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (Computer Laboratory))

2008-11-12 13:00: Modeling Semantic Containment and Exclusion in Natural Language Inference (Øistein Andersen, Computer Laboratory)

2008-11-19 13:00: Instance-based Evaluation of Entailment Rule Acquisition (Aurelie Herbelot (Computer Laboratory))

2008-11-26 13:00: The Fourth PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge (Richard Bergmair (Computer Laboratory))

2008-12-03 13:00: A Fluid Knowledge Representation for Understanding and Generating Creative Metaphors (Ekaterina Shutova (Computer Laboratory))

2009-01-12 12:30: Frustratingly easy domain adaptation (Lin Sun (Computer Laboratory))

2009-01-19 12:30: A Structured Vector Space Model for Word Meaning in Context (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (Computer Laboratory))

2009-01-26 12:30: On the nature of syntactic variation (Lu Gram (Computer Laboratory))

2009-02-09 12:30: Acquiring Sense Tagged Examples using Relevance Feedback (Stuart Moore (Computer Laboratory))

2009-02-16 12:30: Unsupervised Models for Coreference Resolution (Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge))

2009-02-23 12:30: Scope underspecification with tree descriptions: Theory and practice (Richard Bergmair (Computer Laboratory))

2009-03-02 12:30: Predicting Strong Associations on the Basis of Corpus Data (Colin Kelly (Computer Laboratory))

2009-03-09 12:30: The Puzzle of Ambiguity (Mohan Ganesalingam (Computer Laboratory))

2009-04-27 13:00: Active Learning Literature Survey (Andreas Vlachos (Computer Laboratory))

2009-05-04 13:00: Unsupervised Relation Disambiguation Using Spectral Clustering (Lin Sun (Computer Laboratory))

2009-05-11 13:00: A Study on Similarity and Relatedness Using Distributional and WordNet-based Approaches (Stephen Clark (Computer Laboratory))

2009-05-18 13:00: A Seed-driven Bottom-up Machine Learning Framework for Extracting Relations of Various Complexity (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (Computer Laboratory))

2009-06-15 13:00: Special RG Meeting: NAACL-HLT-09 Reports (Various Presenters)

2009-10-12 12:00: Reading Group Special Edition: ACL/EMNLP Review (NLIP Group Members)

2009-10-19 12:30: Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Schemas and their Participants (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge))

2009-10-26 12:30: Bayesian Word Sense Induction (Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge))

2009-11-02 12:30: Coupling Semi-Supervised Learning of Categories and Relations (Stuart Moore (University of Cambridge))

2009-11-09 12:30: Speed and Accuracy in Shallow and Deep Stochastic Parsing (Ted Briscoe and Steve Clark)

2009-11-16 12:30: Automatic Humour Detection (Ekaterina Shutova (University of Cambridge))

2009-11-23 12:30: Predicting Human Brain Activity Associated with the Meanings of Nouns (Colin Kelly (University of Cambridge))

2009-11-30 12:30: TransType2: The Last Word (Nikiforos Karamanis)

2009-12-07 12:30: Learning the scope of hedge cues in biomedical texts (Andrew MacKinlay)

2010-01-11 12:30: Discovering interesting usage patterns in text collections (Marek Rei and Helen Yannakoudakis)

2010-01-18 12:30: A Gibbs Sampler for Phrasal Synchronous Grammar Induction (Juan Pino (University of Cambridge))

2010-01-25 12:30: Dependency grammar and dependency parsing (Laura Rimell and Andreas Vlachos)

2010-02-02 12:30: Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for Morphological Segmentation (Tom Lippincott)

2010-02-08 12:30: Using Citations to Generate surveys of Scientific Paradigms (Jimme Jardine (University of Cambridge))

2010-02-15 12:30: Reliable methods for plain text information hiding (Ching-Yun Chang)

2010-02-22 12:30: Randomized Language Models via Perfect Hash Functions (Lin Sun)

2010-03-01 12:30: Generalizing Dependency Features for Opinion Mining (Awais Athar (University of Cambridge))

2010-03-08 12:30: Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge))

2010-04-26 12:30: Learning to Tell Tales: A Data-driven Approach to Story Generation (Ekaterina Shutova (University of Cambridge))

2010-05-17 12:30: Combinatory Categorial Grammar (Stephen Clark (Computer Laboratory))

2010-05-24 12:30: Improving Grammaticality in Statistical Sentence Generation (Yue Zhang)

2010-10-11 12:30: Report-back on ACL2010 (Marek Rei & Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge))

2010-10-18 12:30: Overview of: Measuring the non-compositionality of multiword expressions. [best paper award at COLING] (Laura Rimell (University of Cambridge))

2010-10-25 12:30: Extracting social networks from literary fiction... (Ekaterina Shutova (University of Cambridge))

2010-11-01 12:30: Conditional Random Fields (Thomas Lippincott (University of Cambridge))

2010-11-08 12:30: Term Weighting Schemes for Latent Dirichlet Allocation (James Jardine, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge)

2010-11-15 12:30: Unsupervised Modeling  of Twitter Conversations (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge))

2010-11-22 12:45: A Simple Unsupervised Learner for POS Disambiguation Rules Given Only a Minimal Lexicon. (Yue Zhang)

2010-11-29 12:30: Distributional Identification of Non-Referential Pronouns (Frannie Chang)

2011-01-17 12:30: Improving Multiclass Text Classification with Error-Correcting Output Coding and Sub-class Partitions (Stuart Moore)

2011-01-27 12:00: Automatic Evaluation of Linguistic Quality in Multi-Document Summarization (Helen Yannakoudakis)

2011-02-03 12:00: Identifying Non-Explicit Citing Sentences for Citation-Based Summarization (Awais Athar (University of Cambridge))

2011-02-10 12:00: Guided Learning for Bidirectional Sequence Classification (Yue Zhang ())

2011-02-17 12:00: Something a little different... (Stephen Clark (Computer Laboratory))

2011-02-24 12:00: An Introduction to Random Indexing (Jimme Jardine (University of Cambridge))

2011-03-03 12:00: The automated assessment of texts produced by learners of English (Helen Yannakoudakis (University of Cambridge))

2011-05-12 12:00: NLIP reading group: Connecting the Dots Between News Articles (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge))

2011-05-19 12:00: NLP reading group - Who should I cite: learning literature search models from citation behavior (Jimme Jardine (University of Cambridge))

2011-05-26 12:00: NLIP reading group - Fully unsupervised core-adjunct argument classification (Laura Rimell (University of Cambridge))

2011-06-02 12:00: NLIP reading group: What's great and what's not: learning to classify the scope of negation for improved sentiment analysis (Awais Athar (University of Cambridge))

2011-06-09 12:00: NLP Reading group - Template-Based Information Extraction without the Templates (Saad Aloteibi (University of Cambridge))

2011-10-13 12:00: NLIP Reading Group: Unsupervised Decomposition of a Document into Authorial Components (Thomas Lippincott (University of Cambridge))

2011-10-20 12:00: NLIP reading group: Fast and Robust Joint Models for Biomedical Event Extraction (Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge))

2011-11-10 12:00: NLIP reading group: Semi-Supervised Recursive Autoencoders for Predicting Sentiment Distributions (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge))

2011-11-17 12:15: NLIP reading group: Global learning of typed entailment rules (Marek Rei (University of Cambridge))

2011-11-24 12:00: NLIP Reading Group: Target-dependent Twitter Sentiment Classification (Awais Athar (University of Cambridge))

2012-01-26 12:00: NLIP reading group: Bayesian Smoothing for Language Models (Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge))

2012-02-02 12:00: NLP Reading Group: Cross-Cutting Models of Lexical Semantics (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge))

2012-02-09 12:00: NLP Reading Group: Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction via Split-Merge Clustering (Laura Rimell (University of Cambridge))

2012-02-16 14:00: NLP Reading Group: Collaborative topic modeling for recommending scientific articles (Jimme Jardine (University of Cambridge))

2012-03-01 12:00: NLP Reading Group: Large-margin Learning of Submodular Summarization methods (Helen Yannakoudakis (University of Cambridge))

2012-03-08 12:00: NLP Reading Group: Measuring Distributional Similarity in Context (Marek Rei (University of Cambridge))

2012-03-15 12:00: NLP Reading Group: Learning Continuous Phrase Representations and Syntactic Parsing with Recursive Neural Networks (Wenduan Xu)