CS 775, Spring 2008
Seminar in Natural Language Understanding (NLP)

Two credits, S/U only. Time and location: Mondays, 4-5 p.m., Upson 5126.

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This weekly graduate-level seminar (two credits, S/U only) involves presentation and/or discussion of recent research results in natural language processing, computational linguistics, and related fields as relevant (e.g., information retrieval or machine learning).

See also the Cornell NLP page and the Cornell machine learning page.

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Date
Agenda
1/21/08
(No meeting: MLK day.)
Tuesday Jan 22, 4:15, Morrill 106: John Hale, Michigan State University (computational linguistics search candidate) speaking on “Quantifying Sentence Processing with Information Theory”
1/28/08
 No meeting: Roger Levy, UCSD (computational linguistics search candidate) speaking on “Probabilistic knowledge in human language comprehension and production” 4:15, Morrill 106.
Thursday Jan 31, 4:15, Morrill 106: Alexander Koller, University of Edinburgh (computational linguistics search candidate) speaking on “Natural Language Generation as Planning”
2/4/08
(No meeting: NACLO final preparations)
Thursday Feb 7, 4:15, Morrill 106: Sharon Goldwater, Stanford (computational linguistics search candidate) speaking on “From Sounds to Words: Bayesian Modeling of Early Language Acquisition”

2/11/08

Ganesh Ramanarayanan will lead discussion on Gao et al,. Cross-lingual query suggestion using query logs of different languages, SIGIR 2007
2/18/08
Yejin Choi leading discussion on sections 1-4 of “ Adaptor Grammars: a Framework for Specifying Compositional Nonparametric Bayesian Models”, Mark Johnson, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Sharon Goldwater, NIPS 2007.
Friday Feb 22, noon, Upson 5130: Bo Pang, Yahoo! Research and CUNLP alum speaking at the AI seminar
2/25/08
Tejaswini Deoskar leading discussion on Translation Lexicon Estimates from Non-Parallel Corpora Pairs, Markos Mylonakis, Khalil Sima'an. Best paper award, 19th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2007)
3/3/08  
(No meeting: PhD visit day)
3/10/08
(Paul Dourish Information Science colloquium, 340 Duffield?)
3/17/08
(no meeting: spring break)
3/24/08
Ainur Yessenalina leading discussion on Improved Machine Translation Performace via Parallel Sentence Extraction from Comparable Corpora, Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Alexander Fraser, Daniel Marcu, HLT/NAACL 2004.
3/31/08
 Eric Breck leading discussion on Is the End of Supervised Parsing in Sight?, Rens Bod, ACL 2007.
4/7/08
 (No meeting: CS colloquium)
Friday, April 11, 12:00, Upson 5130: Rebecca Hwa, University of Pittsburgh, Learning evaluation metrics for sentence-level machine translation (AI Seminar talk)
4/14/08
 Stephen Purpura leading discussion on Document Representation and Query Expansion Models for Blog Recommendation, Jaime Arguello, Jonathan Elsas, Jamie Callan, Jaime Carbonell, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media 2008. Best paper award nominee.
4/21/08
 Vladimir Barash leading discussion on HITS hits TREC: exploring IR evaluation results with network analysis, Stefano Mizzaro and Stephen Robertson, SIGIR 2007
4/28/08
 Cristian Danescu Niculescu-Mizil leading discussion on Natural logic for textual inference, Bill MacCartney and Christopher D. Manning, ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing, pp. 193--200, 2007.