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NLP Reading Group Schedule — Summer 2020
Monday 3:00-4:00pm, Video Chat
Person in charge: Reid Pryzant
Theme: we broke into random subgroups and each group picked papers.
| Date | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|
| Week of 10/5 | X-LXMERT: Paint, Caption and Answer Questions with Multi-Modal Transformers [pdf] Word meaning in minds and machines [pdf] Building machines that learn and think like people [pdf] Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks [pdf] It’s Not Just Size That Matters: Small Language Models Are Also Few-Shot Learners [pdf] |
| Week of 10/19 | ALICE: Active Learning with Contrastive Natural Language Explanations [pdf] Language Models are Few-Shot Learners [pdf] Vokenization: Improving Language Understanding with Contextualized, Visual-Grounded Supervision [pdf] With Little Power Comes Great Responsibility [pdf] |
| Week of 11/2 | Word Frequency Does Not Predict Grammatical Knowledge in Language Models [pdf] Unsupervised Question Decomposition for Question Answering [pdf] Graph-based, Self-Supervised Program Repair from Diagnostic Feedback [pdf] |
| Week of 11/16 | Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP models with CheckList [pdf] When Do You Need Billions of Words of Pretraining Data? [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Summer 2020
Monday 3:00-4:00pm, Video Chat
Person in charge: Reid Pryzant
Theme: StanfordNLP pubs
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 6 | Reid Pryzant | Organizational meeting |
| Jul 13 | Reid Pryzant | Zhang et al.Optimizing the Factual Correctness of a Summary: A Study of Summarizing Radiology Reports. ACL 2020. [pdf] |
| Jul 20 | Mina Lee | White, Mu et al.Learning to Refer Informatively by Amortizing Pragmatic Reasoning. CogSci 2020. [pdf] |
| Jul 27 | Shikhar Murty | Coleman et al.Selection via proxy: Efficient data selection via deep learning. ICLR 2020. [pdf] |
| Aug 3 | No meeting. | |
| Aug 10 | Isabel Papadimitriou | Geiger et al.Modular Representation Underlies Systematic Generalization in Neural Natural Language Inference Models. Arxiv. [pdf] |
| Aug 17 | Nelson Liu | ManningPart-of-Speech Tagging from 97% to 100%: Is It Time for Some Linguistics?. CICLing 2011. [pdf] |
| Aug 24 | No Meeting. | |
| Aug 31 | Michihiro Yasunaga | LiangLearning Executable Semantic Parsers for Natural Language Understanding. ACM 2016. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2019
Friday 3:00-4:00pm, Gates 219
Person in charge: Peter Henderson
Theme: Emergent Communication
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 10 | Organizational meeting | |
| Jan 17 | Kawin Ethayarajh | Andreas et al.Translating Neuralese. ACL 2017. [pdf] |
| Jan 24 | Ben Newman | Kharitonov et al.Entropy Minimization In Emergent Languages. Arxiv. [pdf] |
| Jan 31 | Mina Lee | Lee et al.Learning Autocomplete Systems as a Communication Game. Emergent Communication Workshop at Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2019. [pdf] |
| Feb 7 | Shikhar Murty | Andreas. Measuring Compositionality in Representation Learning. ICLR 2019. [pdf] |
| Nov 14 | No meeting | |
| Feb 21 | Dilip Arumugam | Mordatch and Abbeel.Emergence of Grounded Compositional Language in Multi-Agent Populations. AAAI 2018. [pdf] |
| Feb 29 | Siddharth Karamcheti | On the interaction between supervision and self-play in emergent communication. ICLR 2020. [pdf] |
| March 6 | Peter Henderson | Ease-of-Teaching and Language Structure from Emergent Communication. NeurIPS 2019. [pdf] |
| March 13 | Dan Iter | TBD TBD [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Autumn 2019
Friday 2:00-3:00pm, Gates 219
Person in charge: Amita Kamath
Theme: Topics from Language Grounding, Transfer Learning and Dialogue Systems
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 4 | Organizational meeting | |
| Oct 11 | Ashwin Paranjape | Niu et al. Polite Dialogue Generation without Parallel Data. TACL 2018. [pdf] |
| Oct 18 | Abigail See | Sankar et al.Do Neural Dialog Systems Use the Conversation History Effectively? An Empirical Study. ACL 2019. [pdf] |
| Oct 25 | Michihiro Yasunaga | Levy et al.Zero-Shot Relation Extraction via Reading Comprehension. CoNLL 2017. [pdf] |
| Nov 1 | Siddharth Karamcheti | Instruction Following as Reward Modeling Bahdanau et al.Learning to Understand Goal Specifications by Modelling Reward. ICLR 2019. [pdf] Fu et al.From Language to Goals: Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Instruction Following. ICLR 2019. [pdf] |
| Nov 8 | No meeting (EMNLP in progress) | |
| Nov 15 | Abigail See, John Hewitt, Nelson Liu, Robin Jia | Discussion: Interesting presentations from EMNLP 2019. |
| Nov 22 | Chris Donahue | Yang et al. XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding. Preprint 2019. [pdf] |
| Nov 29 | No meeting (Thanksgiving) | |
| Dec 6 | No meeting (ACL Deadline) | |
| Dec 13 | TBD: Wrap-up or discussion about Ethics in NLP. |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2019
Friday 12:00-1:00pm, Gates 219
Person in charge: Robin Jia
Theme: Reinforcement learning and NLP
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 5 | Organizational meeting | |
| Apr 12 | Peng Qi | Overview of reinforcement learning |
| Apr 19 | Ashwin Paranjape | Inverse reinforcement learning and NLP Wang et al.No Metrics Are Perfect: Adversarial Reward Learning for Visual Storytelling. ACL 2018. [pdf] |
| Apr 26 | Alex Tamkin | Hierarchical reinforcement learning and NLP Wang et al.Video Captioning via Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning. CVPR 2018. [pdf] |
| May 3 | Panupong Pasupat | Imitation learning and dynamic oracles Goldberg and Nivre. A Dynamic Oracle for Arc-Eager Dependency Parsing. COLING 2012. [pdf] |
| May 10 | Peter Henderson | Exploring latent search spaces with reward shaping Misra et al. Mapping Instructions and Visual Observations to Actions with Reinforcement Learning. EMNLP 2017. [pdf] |
| May 17 | No meeting (EMNLP deadline) | |
| May 24 | Henry Friedlander | Learning to ask questions Buck et al. Ask the Right Questions: Active Question Reformulation with Reinforcement Learning. ICLR 2018. [pdf] |
| May 31 | Mina Lee | Reinforcement learning and dialogue systems Liu et al.Dialogue Learning with Human Teaching and Feedback in End-to-End Trainable Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems. NAACL 2018. [pdf] |
| Jun 7 | Wrap-up: what did we learn about reinforcement learning and NLP? |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2019
Friday 12:00-1:00pm, Gates 219
Person in charge: Robin Jia
Theme: Analyzing and attacking NLP models
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 11 | Organizational meeting | |
| Jan 18 | Robin Jia | Kuncoro et al.LSTMs Can Learn Syntax-Sensitive Dependencies Well, But Modeling Structure Makes Them Better. ACL 2018. [pdf] [blog post] |
| Jan 25 | Amita Kamath | Belinkov and Bisk.Synthetic and Natural Noise Both Break Neural Machine Translation. ICLR 2018. [pdf] |
| Feb 1 | Allen Nie | Ribeiro et al.Semantically Equivalent Adversarial Rules for Debugging NLP Models. ACL 2018. [pdf] |
| Feb 8 | John Hewitt | Dalvi et al.What Is One Grain of Sand in the Desert? Analyzing Individual Neurons in Deep NLP Model. AAAI 2019. [pdf] |
| Feb 15 | Jesse Mu | Ribeiro et al.Anchors: High-Precision Model-Agnostic Explanations. AAAI 2018. [pdf] |
| Feb 22 | Sumith Kulal | Feng et al.Pathologies of Neural Models Make Interpretations Difficult. EMNLP 2018. [pdf] |
| Mar 1 | No meeting (ACL Deadline) | |
| Mar 8 | Kerem Goksel | Peters et al.Dissecting Contextual Word Embeddings: Architecture and Representation. EMNLP 2018. [pdf] |
| Mar 15 | Akhila Yerukola | Tenney et al.What do you learn from context? Probing for sentence structure in contextualized word representations. ICLR 2019. [pdf] |
| Mar 22 | Wrap-up: what did we learn about analyzing and attacking NLP models? |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Autumn 2018
Friday 12:00-1:00pm, Gates 219
Person in charge: Robin Jia
Theme: Natural language generation
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 5 | Organizational meeting | |
| Oct 12 | Ashwin Paranjape | Wiseman et al.Learning Neural Templates for Text Generation. 2018. [pdf] |
| Oct 19 | Akhila Yerukola | Clark et al.Neural Text Generation in Stories Using Entity Representations as Context. NAACL 2018. [pdf] |
| Oct 26 | Robin Jia | Holtzman et al.Learning to Write with Cooperative Discriminators. ACL 2018. [pdf] |
| Nov 2 | Amita Kamath | Guo et al.Top-Down Tree Structured Text Generation. 2018. [pdf] |
| Nov 9 | Alex Tamkin | Gu et al.Non-autoregressive Neural Machine Translation. ICLR, 2018 [pdf] |
| Nov 16 | Abigail See | Caccia et al.Language GANs Falling Short. 2018. [pdf] |
| Nov 23 | No meeting (Thanksgiving) | |
| Nov 30 | Hugh Zhang | Fan et al.Hierarchical Neural Story generation. ACL 2018. [pdf] |
| Dec 7 | No meeting (NAACL deadline) | |
| Dec 14 | Mina Lee | Cífka et al.Eval all, trust a few, do wrong to none: Comparing sentence generation models. 2018. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2018
Friday 1:00-2:00pm, Gates 304
Person in charge: Robin Jia
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| April 13 | Robin Jia | Recent work on unsupervised machine translation: Alexis Conneau, Guillaume Lample, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Ludovic Denoyer, and Herve Jegou. Word Translation without Parallel Data. ICLR 2018. [pdf] Guillaume Lample, Ludovic Denoyer, and Marc'Aurelio Ranzato. Unsupervised Machine Translation using Monolingual Corpora Only. ICLR 2018. [pdf] Mikel Artetxe, Gorka Labaka, Eneko Agirre, and Kyunghyun Cho. Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation. ICLR 2018. [pdf] |
| April 20 | Braden Hancock | Sebastian Ruder. An Overview of Multi-Task Learning in Deep Neural Networks. [pdf] |
| April 27 | Peng Qi | David Yarowsky. Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Rivaling Supervised Methods. ACL 1995. [pdf] |
| May 4 | Ashwin Paranjape | Hal Daume III. Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaptation. ACL 2007. [pdf] Baochen Sun, Jiashi Feng, and Kate Saenko. Return of Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaptation. AAAI 2016. [pdf] |
| May 11 | Dan Iter | Chelsea Finn, Pieter Abbeel, and Sergey Levine. Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks. ICML 2017. [pdf] Alex Nichol, Joshua Achiam, and John Schulman.On First-Order Meta-Learning Algorithms. [pdf] |
| May 18 | EMNLP break | |
| Mar 25 | Canceled due to Ilya Sutskever talk | |
| June 1 | Ice Pasupat | Yuan Zhang, David Gaddy, Regina Barzilay, and Tommi Jaakkola.Ten Pairs to Tag - Multilingual POS Tagging via Coarse Mapping between Embeddings. NAACL 2016. [pdf] Mikel Artetxe, Gorka Labaka, and Eneko Agirre.Learning bilingual word embeddings with (almost) no bilingual data. ACL 2017. [pdf] |
| June 8 | Abigail See | Yuan Zhang, Regina Barzilay, and Tommi Jaakkola.Aspect-augmented Adversarial Networks for Domain Adaptation. TACL 2017. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2018
Monday 2:00-3:00pm, Gates 219
Person in charge: Robin Jia
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 22 | Allen Nie | Tao Lei, Regina Barzilay, and Tommi Jaakkola. Rationalizing Neural Predictions. EMNLP 2016. [pdf] |
| Jan 29 | Peng Qi | Recent work that uses syntactic parses for neural machine translation: Akiko Eriguchi, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, and Kyunghyun Cho. Learning to Parse and Translate Improves Neural Machine Translation. ACL 2017. [pdf] Shuangzhi Wu, Dongdong Zhang, Nan Yang, Mu Li, and Ming Zhou.Sequence-to-Dependency Neural Machine Translation. ACL 2017. [pdf] Huadong Chen, Shujian Huang, David Chiang, Jiajun Chen. Improved Neural Machine Translation with a Syntax-Aware Encoder and Decoder. ACL 2017. [pdf] |
| Feb 5 | Will Monroe | Jacob Andreas, Dan Klein, and Sergey Levine. Learning with Latent Language. arXiv, 2017. [pdf] |
| Feb 12 | Braden Hancock | Shashank Srivastava, Igor Labutov, and Tom Mitchell. Joint Concept Learning and Semantic Parsing from Natural Language Explanations. EMNLP, 2017. [pdf] |
| Feb 19 | President's Day/ACL break | |
| Feb 26 | Yoav Artzi | Guest talk |
| Mar 5 | Ice Pasupat | Sanjeev Arora, Yingyu Liang, and Tengyu Ma. A Simple but Tough-to-beat Baseline for Sentence Embeddings. ICLR, 2017. [pdf] |
| Mar 12 | Dan Iter | Alec Radford, Rafal Jozefowicz, and Ilya Sutskever.Learning to Generate Reviews and Discovering Sentiment. [pdf] |
| Mar 19 | Yuhao Zhang | Amar Parkash and Devi Parikh. Attributes for Classifier Feedback. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Fall 2017
Monday 2:00-3:00pm, Gates 219
Person in charge: Robin Jia
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 23 | Ashwin Paranjape | Xi Chen, Yan Duan, Rein Houthooft, John Schulman, Ilya Sutskever, and Pieter Abbeel. InfoGAN: Interpretable Representation Learning by Information Maximizing Generative Adversarial Nets. NIPS 2016. [pdf] |
| Oct 30 | Peng Qi | Overview of the Turing Test, including: Alan Turing. Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind, 1950. [pdf] |
| Nov 6 | Siva Reddy | Brenden M. Lake, Marco Baroni. Still not systematic after all these years: On the compositional skills of sequence-to-sequence recurrent networks. arXiv, 2017. [pdf] |
| Nov 13 | Ice Pasupat | Tim Paek. Towards evaluation that leads to best practice: reconciling dialog evaluation in research and industry. NAACL, 2007. [pdf] |
| Nov 20 | Thanksgiving Week | |
| Nov 27 | Urvashi Khandelwal | Gábor Melis, Chris Dyer, and Phil Blunsom. On the State of the Art of Evaluation in Neural Language Models. arXiv, 2017. [pdf] |
| Dec 4 | Will Monroe | Zachary Lipton. The Mythos of Model Interpretability. ICML 2016 Workshop on Human Interpretability in Machine Learning (WHI 2016). [pdf] |
| Dec 11 | Ziang Xie | Huan Ling, Sanja Fidler. Teaching Machines to Describe Images via Natural Language Feedback. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Summer 2017
Wednesday 3:00-4:15pm, Gates 463A/219
Person in charge: Urvashi Khandelwal
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 28 | Siva Reddy | Adhiguna Kuncoro, Miguel Ballesteros, Lingpeng Kong, Chris Dyer, Graham Neubig, Noah A. Smith.What Do Recurrent Neural Network Grammars Learn About Syntax? EACL 2017. [pdf] |
| Jul 12 | Abi See | Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin.Attention is all you need. [pdf] |
| Jul 19 | Panupong (Ice) Pasupat | Lukasz Kaiser, Aidan N. Gomez, Noam Shazeer, Ashish Vaswani, Niki Parmar, Llion Jones, Jakob Uszkoreit.One Model To Learn Them All. [pdf] |
| Jul 26 | Robin Jia | Mandar Joshi, Eunsol Choi, Daniel S. Weld, Luke Zettlemoyer.TriviaQA: A Large Scale Distantly Supervised Challenge Dataset for Reading Comprehension. [pdf] |
| Aug 2 | ACL. | |
| Aug 9 | Ashwin Paranjape | Alex Gittens, Dimitris Achlioptas, Michael W. Mahoney.Skip-Gram – Zipf + Uniform = Vector Additivity. ACL 2017. [pdf] |
| Aug 16 | Fereshte Khani | Igor Mordatch, Pieter Abbeel.Emergence of Grounded Compositional Language in Multi-Agent Populations. [pdf] |
| Aug 23 | Sebastian Schuster | Jacob Andreas, Anca Dragan, Dan Klein.Translating Neuralese. ACL 2017. [pdf] |
| Sep 6 | Mihail Eric | Jason D. Williams, Kavosh Asadi, Geoffrey Zweig.Hybrid Code Networks: practical and efficient end-to-end dialog control with supervised and reinforcement learning ACL 2017. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2017
Wednesday 3:00-4:15pm, Gates 219
Person in charge: Peng Qi
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 5 | Sanjeev Arora | Guest talk on generative adversarial networks. |
| Apr 12 | EMNLP deadline (4/14). | |
| Apr 19 | Peng Qi | Tal Linzen, Emmanuel Dupoux, Yoav Goldberg.Assessing the Ability of LSTMs to Learn Syntax-Sensitive Dependencies. TACL 2017. [pdf] |
| Apr 26 | Fereshte Khani | Angeliki Lazaridou, Alexander Peysakhovich, Marco Baroni.Multi-Agent Cooperation and the Emergence of (Natural) Language. ICLR 2017. [pdf] |
| May 3 | Urvashi Khandelwal | Bhuwan Dhingra, Zhilin Yang, William W. Cohen, Ruslan Salakhutdinov.Linguistic Knowledge as Memory for Recurrent Neural Networks. arXiv. [pdf] |
| May 10 | Robin Jia | Ben Athiwaratkun, Andrew Gordon Wilson.Multimodal Word Distributions. ACL 2017. [pdf] |
| May 17 | Arun Chaganty | Zhiting Hu, Zichao Yang, Xiaodan Liang, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Eric P. Xing.Controllable Text Generation. arXiv. [pdf] |
| May 24 | Panupong (Ice) Pasupat | Haonan Yu, Haichao Zhang, Wei Xu.A Deep Compositional Framework for Human-like Language Acquisition in Virtual Environment. arXiv. [pdf] |
| May 31 | Kelvin Guu | Mohammad Norouzi, Samy Bengio, Zhifeng Chen, Navdeep Jaitly, Mike Schuster, Yonghui Wu, Dale Schuurmans.Reward Augmented Maximum Likelihood for Neural Structured Prediction. NIPS 2016. [pdf] |
| Jun 7 | Dor Arad | Alexander Miller, Adam Fisch, Jesse Dodge, Amir-Hossein Karimi, Antoine Bordes, Jason Weston.Key-Value Memory Networks for Directly Reading Documents. EMNLP 2016. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2017
Wednesday 3:00-4:15pm, Gates 219
Person in charge: Urvashi Khandelwal
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 18 | Will Monroe | Yoon Kim and Alexander M. Rush.Sequence-Level Knowledge Distillation. EMNLP 2016. [pdf] |
| Jan 25 | Fereshte Khani | E. Dario Gutierrez, Roger Levy and Benjamin K. Bergen.Finding Non-Arbitrary Form-Meaning Systematicity Using String-Metric Learning for Kernel Regression. ACL 2016. [pdf] |
| Feb 1 | ACL Deadline (2/6). | |
| Feb 8 | He He | Kazuma Hashimoto, Caiming Xiong, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Richard Socher.A Joint Many-Task Model: Growing a Neural Network for Multiple NLP Tasks. Under review at ICLR 2017. [pdf] |
| Feb 15 | Jon Gauthier | Eric Jang, Shane Gu, Ben Poole.Categorical Reparameterization with Gumbel-Softmax. ICLR 2017. [pdf] |
| Feb 22 | Kevin Clark | Karthik Narasimhan, Adam Yala, Regina Barzilay.Improving Information Extraction by Acquiring External Evidence with Reinforcement Learning. EMNLP 2016. [pdf] |
| Mar 1 | Yuhao Zhang | Minjoon Seo, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Ali Farhadi, Hannaneh Hajishirzi.Bidirectional Attention Flow for Machine Comprehension. arXiv:1611.01603. [pdf] |
| Victor Zhong | Caiming Xiong, Victor Zhong, Richard Socher.Dynamic Coattention Networks For Question Answering. Under review at ICLR 2017. [pdf] | |
| Mar 8 | Danqi Chen | Yoon Kim, Carl Denton, Luong Hoang, Alexander M. Rush.Structured Attention Networks. Under review at ICLR 2017. [pdf] |
| Mar 15 | Robin Jia | Kenton Lee, Mike Lewis, Luke Zettlemoyer.Global Neural CCG Parsing with Optimality Guarantees. EMNLP 2016. [pdf] |
| Mar 22 | Abi See | Chiyuan Zhang, Samy Bengio, Moritz Hardt, Benjamin Recht, Oriol Vinyals.Understanding Deep Learning Requires Rethinking Generalization. Under review at ICLR 2017. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Fall 2016
Wednesday 3:00-4:15pm, Gates 219/415
Person in charge: Urvashi Khandelwal
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 5th | Abi See | Joseph Weizenbaum.ELIZA - A Computer Program for the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man and Machine. Computational Linguistics 1966. [pdf] |
| Oct 12th | Kai Sheng Tai | Daniel G. Bobrow, Ronald M. Kaplan, Martin Kay, Donald A. Norman, Henry Thompson and Terry Winograd.GUS, A Frame-Driven Dialog System. Artificial Intelligence 1977. [pdf] |
| Oct 19th | Panupong Pasupat | Bhuwan Dhingra, Lihong Li, Xiujun Li, Jianfeng Gao, Yun-Nung Chen, Faisal Ahmed, Li Deng.End-to-End Reinforcement Learning of Dialogue Agents for Information Access. arXiv:1609.00777. [pdf] |
| Oct 26th | Jon Gauthier | Sainbayar Sukhbaatar, Arthur Szlam, Rob Fergus.Learning Multiagent Communication with Backpropagation. arXiv:1605.07736. [pdf] |
| Nov 2nd | Fereshte Khani | Steve Young, Milica Gasic, Blaise Thomson and Jason D. Williams.POMDP-based Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems: a Review. IEEE2013. [pdf] |
| Nov 9th | Robin Jia | Barbara J. Grosz and Candace L. Sidner.Attention, Intentions, and the Structure of Discourse. Computational Linguistics 1986. [pdf] |
| Nov 16th | He He | Iulian Vlad Serban, Alessandro Sordoni, Ryan Lowe, Laurent Charlin, Joelle Pineau, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio.A Hierarchical Latent Variable Encoder-Decoder Model for Generating Dialogues. arXiv:1605.06069. [pdf] |
| Nov 23rd | Thanksgiving break. | |
| Nov 30th | Yulia Tsvetkov | Kenneth Mark Colby, Sylvia Weber and Franklin Dennis Hilf.Artificial Paranoia. Artificial Intelligence 1971. [pdf] |
| Dec 7th | Ashwin Paranjape | Terry Winograd.Understanding Natural Language. Cognitive Psychology 1972. [pdf] |
| Dec 14th | Kevin Clark | Jason D. Williams, Geoffrey Zweig.End-to-end LSTM-based dialog control optimized with supervised and reinforcement learning. arXiv:1606.01269. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Summer 2016
Wednesday 12:00-1:15pm, Gates 120
Person in charge: Urvashi Khandelwal
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29th | Alex Wang | Sarath Chandar, Sungjin Ahn, Hugo Larochelle, Pascal Vincent, Gerald Tesauro, Yoshua Bengio.Hierarchical Memory Networks. arXiv:1605.07427. [pdf] |
| Jul 6th | Fereshte Khani | Dave Golland, Percy Liang, Dan Klein.A Game-Theoretic Approach to Generating Spatial Descriptions. EMNLP2010. [pdf] |
| Jul 13th | Mihail Eric | Antoine Bordes, Jason Weston.Learning End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog. arXiv:1605.07683. [pdf] |
| Jul 20th | Arun Chaganty | Sanjeev Arora, Yuanzhi Li, Yingyu Liang, Tengyu Ma, Andrej Risteski.Linear Algebraic Structure of Word Senses, with Applications to Polysemy. arXiv:1601.03764. [pdf] |
| Jul 27th | Sebastian Schuster | Siva Reddy, Oscar Tackstrom, Michael Collins, Tom Kwiatkowski, Dipanjan Das, Mark Steedman, Mirella Lapata.Transforming Dependency Structures to Logical Forms for Semantic Parsing. ACL2016 [pdf] |
| Aug 3rd | Grace Muzny | Mohit Iyyer, Anupam Guha, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Hal Daume III.Feuding Families and Former Friends: Unsupervised Learning for Dynamic Fictional Relationships. NAACL2016. [pdf] |
| Aug 10th | ACL. | |
| Aug 17th | ACL review. | |
| Aug 24th | Ellie Pavlick (guest talk) | Ellie Pavlick, Chris Callison-Burch.Most babies are little and most problems are_huge_: Compositional Entailment in Adjective-Nouns. ACL2016. [pdf] |
| Aug 31st | Panupong Pasupat | Daniel Andor, Chris Alberti, David Weiss, Aliaksei Severyn, Alessandro Presta, Kuzman Ganchev, Slav Petrov, Michael Collins.Globally Normalized Transition-Based Neural Networks. arXiv:1603.06042. [pdf] |
| Sep 7th | Urvashi Khandelwal | Tsung-Hsien Wen, David Vandyke, Nikola Mrksic, Milica Gasic, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, Pei-Hao Su, Stefan Ultes, Steve Young.A Network-based End-to-End Trainable Task-oriented Dialogue System. arXiv:1604.04562. [pdf] |
| Sep 14th | Yuhao Zhang | Rafal Jozefowicz, Oriol Vinyals, Mike Schuster, Noam Shazeer, Yonghui Wu.Exploring the Limits of Language Modeling. arXiv:1602.02410. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2016
Wednesday 12:15-1:15pm, Gates 219
Person in charge: Danqi Chen, Thang Luong
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 13th | Will Monroe | Jacob Andreas, Dan Klein.Reasoning About Pragmatics with Neural Listeners and Speakers. arXiv:1604.00562. [pdf] |
| April 20th | Kevin Clark | Marc’Aurelio Ranzato, Sumit Chopra, Michael Auli, Wojciech Zaremba.Sequence Level Training with Recurrent Neural Networks. ICLR2016. [pdf] |
| April 27th | Jon Krause | Alex Graves.Adaptive Computation Time for Recurrent Neural Networks. arXiv:1603.08983. [pdf] |
| May 4th | Robin Jia | Ben Hixon, Peter Clark, Hannaneh Hajishirzi.Learning Knowledge Graphs for Question Answering through Conversational Dialog. NAACL2015. [pdf] |
| May 11th | Fereshte Khani | Andreas Vlachos, Stephen Clark.A New Corpus and Imitation Learning Framework for Context-Dependent Semantic Parsing. TACL2014. [pdf] |
| May 18th | Peng Qi | Trevor Cohn, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Ekaterina Vymolova, Kaisheng Yao, Chris Dyer, Gholamreza Haffari.Incorporating Structural Alignment Biases into an Attentional Neural Translation Model. NAACL2016. [pdf] |
| May 25th | Arun Chaganty | Kai-Wei Chang, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Alekh Agarwal, Hal Daume; III, John Langford. Learning to Search Better than Your Teacher. ICML2015 [pdf] |
| Jun 1st | EMNLP deadline | |
| Jun 8th | Danqi Chen | Adam Trischler, Zheng Ye, Xingdi Yuan, Jing He, Phillip Bachman, Kaheer Suleman. A Parallel-Hierarchical Model for Machine Comprehension on Sparse Data. arXiv:1603.08884. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2016
Wednesday 1-2pm, Gates 120 (usually)
Person in charge: Thang Luong
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 20th | Panupong Pasupat | Jacob Andreas, Marcus Rohrbach, Trevor Darrell, Dan Klein.Composing neural network modules for question answering. arXiv2015/2016. [paper1] [paper2] |
| Jan 27th | Arun Chaganty | Judith Eckle-Kohler, Roland Kluge, Iryna Gurevych.On the Role of Discourse Markers for Discriminating Claims and Premises in Argumentative Discourse. EMNLP2015. [pdf] |
| Feb 3rd | Sam Bowman | Survey of four papers on NNs for textual entailment. [paper1] [paper2] [paper3] [paper4] |
| Feb 10th | Robin Jia | Felix Hill, Antoine Bordes, Sumit Chopra, Jason WestonThe Goldilocks Principle: Reading Children's Books with Explicit Memory Representations. arXiv2015. [pdf] |
| Feb 17th | Fereshte Khani | Volodymyr Kuleshov, Percy Liang.Calibrated Structured Prediction. NIPS2015. [pdf] |
| Feb 24th | Suzanne Tamang | Clinical event extraction. [paper1] [paper2] [paper3] |
| Mar 2nd | Thang Luong | Multi-task neural translation. [paper1] [paper2] |
| Mar 9th | Rob Voigt | More than Words + Media and Bias. [paper1] [paper2] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Fall 2015
Wednesday 1:00-2:00pm, Gates 120 (usually)
Person in charge: Thang Luong
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 7th | Russell Stewart | S. Sukhbaatar, A. Szlam, J. Weston & R. Fergus.End-To-End Memory Networks. arXiv2015. [pdf] |
| Oct 14th | Panupong Pasupat | Yoav Artzi, Kenton Lee and Luke Zettlemoyer.Broad-coverage CCG Semantic Parsing with AMR. EMNLP2015. [pdf] |
| Oct 21st | Peng Qi | Karthik Narasimhan, Tejas Kulkarni and Regina Barzilay.Language Understanding for Text-based Games using Deep Reinforcement Learning. EMNLP2015. [pdf] |
| Oct 28th | Danqi Chen | Survey of attention-based papers: neural machine translatione, summarization, textual entailment, and reading comprehension. |
| Nov 4th | Quoc Le | Invited Talk. End-to-end Deep Learning for Text and Speech . Venue: Gates 219. |
| Nov 11th | Wil Hamilton | Tatsunori B. Hashimoto, David Alvarez-Melis, Tommi S. Jaakkola.Word, graph and manifold embedding from Markov processes. arXiv2015. [pdf] |
| Nov 18th (Gates 219) | Fereshte Khani | Jacob Andreas and Dan Klein.Alignment-Based Compositional Semantics for Instruction Following. EMNLP2015. [pdf] |
| Nov 25th | Thanksgiving Break. | |
| Dec 2nd | Robin Jia | Minjoon Seo, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Ali Farhadi, Oren Etzioni, Clint Malcolm.Solving Geometry Problems: Combining Text and Diagram Interpretation. EMNLP2015. [pdf] |
| Dec 9th | Kevin Clark | Ryan Kiros, Yukun Zhu, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Richard S. Zemel, Antonio Torralba, Raquel Urtasun, Sanja Fidler.Skip-Thought Vectors. arXiv2015. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2015
Wednesday 11:30-1:00pm, Gates 120 (usually)
Person in charge: Thang Luong
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 1st | Sam Bowman | Joel Legrand, Ronan Collobert.Joint RNN-based Greedy Parsing and Word Composition. arXiv2014. [pdf] |
| Apr 8th | Brainstorming | |
| Apr 15th | Gabor Angeli | Marjan Ghazvininejad, Kevin Knight.How to Memorize a Random 60-Bit String. NAACL2015. [pdf] |
| Apr 22nd | Panupong Pasupat | Greg Durrett Dan Klein.A Joint Model for Entity Analysis: Coreference, Typing, and Linking. TACL2014. [pdf] |
| Apr 29th | Will Monroe | Jason Weston, Antoine Bordes, Sumit Chopra, Tomas Mikolov.Towards AI-Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks. arXiv2015 [pdf] |
| May 6th | Danqi Chen | Jonathan Malmaud, Jonathan Huang, Vivek Rathod, Nick Johnston, Andrew Rabinovich, and Kevin Murphy.What’s Cookin’? Interpreting Cooking Videos using Text, Speech and Vision. NAACL2015. [pdf] |
| May 13th | Cancelled due to Sanjeev Arora's talk. | |
| May 20th | Ilya Sutskever | Invited Talk. Sequence to sequence parsing and the Reinforcement Learning Neural Turing Machine. Venue: Gates 219. |
| Mar 27th | Break (EMNLP). | |
| Jun 3rd | Kai Sheng | Luke Vilnis, Andrew McCallum.Word Representations via Gaussian Embeddings. ICLR2015. [pdf] |
| Jun 10th | Tim O'Donnell | Invited Talk. Productivity, Reuse, and Lexicon Learning. |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2015
Wednesday 12:30-2:00pm, Gates 120 (usually)
Person in charge: Thang Luong
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 14th | Oriol Vinyal | Invited Talk. Recurrent Neural Nets as Language Decoders. Venue: Gates 219. |
| Jan 21st | Thang Luong | Sebastien Jean, Kyunghyun Cho, Roland Memisevic, Yoshua Bengio.On Using Very Large Target Vocabulary for Neural Machine Translation.. arXiv2014. [pdf] |
| Jan 28th | Panupong Pasupat | Antoine Bordes, Sumit Chopra, Jason Weston.Question Answering with Subgraph Embeddings. EMNLP2014. [pdf] |
| Feb 4th | Sebastian Schuster | Lingpeng Kong, Nathan Schneider, Swabha Swayamdipta, Archna Bhatia, Chris Dyer, Noah A. Smith.A Dependency Parser for Tweets. EMNLP2014. [pdf] |
| Feb 11th | Russell Stewart | Jason Weston, Sumit Chopra, Antoine Bordes.Memory Networks. arXiv2014 [pdf] |
| Feb 18th | Arun Chaganty | R. Tsarfaty, E. Pogrebezky, G. Weiss, Y. Natan, S. Szekely, D. Harel.Semantic Parsing Using Content and Context: A Case Study from Requirements Elicitation. EMNLP2014. [pdf] |
| Feb 25th | Break. | |
| Mar 4th | Fei-Fei Li | TED Talk Practice. |
| Mar 11th | Chris Callison-Burch | Invited Talk. Crowdsourcing Translation. Venue: Gates 104 (12pm-1pm). |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Fall 2014
Wednesday 12:30-2:00pm, Gates 120 (usually)
Person in charge: Thang Luong
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 1st | Thang Luong | Dzmitry Bahdanau, Kyunghyun Cho, Yoshua Bengio.Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate. arXiv2014. [pdf] |
| Oct 8th | Arun Chaganty | Siva Reddy, Mirella Lapata, Mark Steedman. Large-scale Semantic Parsing without Question-Answer Pairs. TACL2014. [pdf] |
| Oct 15th | Kai Sheng (Gates 463) | Ryan Kiros, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Richard Zemel.Multimodal Neural Language Models. ICML2014. [pdf] |
| Oct 22nd | Mike Kayser | Nal Kalchbrenner, Edward Grefenstette, Phil Blunsom.A Convolutional Neural Network for Modelling Sentences. ACL2014. [pdf] |
| Oct 29th | Break | |
| Nov 5th | Alex Ratner | Nate Kushman, Yoav Artzi, Luke Zettlemoyer, Regina Barzilay.Learning to Automatically Solve Algebra Word Problems. ACL2014. [pdf] |
| Nov 12th | Jiwei Li | Miao Fan, Deli Zhao, Qiang Zhou, Zhiyuan Liup, Thomas Fang Zheng, Edward Y. Chang.Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction with Matrix Completion. ACL2014. [pdf] |
| Nov 19th | Thang Luong | Quoc Le, Tomas Mikolov.Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents. ICML2014. [pdf] |
| Nov 26th | Thanksgiving break. | |
| Dec 3rd | Will Hamilton | Jacob Andreas, Andreas Vlachos, Stephen Clark.Semantic Parsing as Machine Translation. ACL2013. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Summer 2014
Wednesday 12:30-2:00pm, Gates 159 (usually)
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 16th | Keenon Werling | David Hall, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, John Canny, Dan Klein.Sparser, Better, Faster GPU parsing. ACL2014. [pdf] |
| Jul 23rd | Angel Chang | Qi Li, Heng Ji. Incremental Joint Extraction of Entity Mentions and Relations. ACL2014. [pdf] |
| Jul 30th | Gabor Angeli | Ce Zhang, Christopher Ré.DimmWitted: A Study of Main-Memory Statistical Analytics. VLDB2014. [pdf] |
| Aug 6th | Caroline | Mohit Bansal, David Burkett, Gerald de Melo, Dan Klein.Structured Learning for Taxonomy Induction with Belief Propagation. ACL2014. [pdf] |
| Aug 13th | Arthur | Thomas Kollar, Stefanie Tellex, Matthew R. Walter, Albert Huang, Abraham Bachrach, Sachi Hemachandra, Emma Brunskill, Ashis Banerjee, Deb Roy, Seth Teller, Nicholas Roy.Generalized Grounding Graphs: A Probabilistic Framework for Understanding Grounded Language. JAIR2013. [pdf] |
| Aug 20th | Yushi | Junwei Bao, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou, Tiejun Zhao.Knowledge-Based Question Answering as Machine Translation. ACL2014. [pdf] |
| Aug 27th | Sebastian | Nicholas Andrews, Jason Eisner, Mark Dredze.Robust Entity Clustering via Phylogenetic Inference. ACL2014. [pdf] |
| Sep 3rd | Kelvin Guu | Tao Lei, Yu Xin, Yuan Zhang, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola.Low-Rank Tensors for Scoring Dependency Structures. ACL2014. [pdf] |
| Sep 10th | Sonal Gupta. | Islam Beltagy, Katrin Erk, Raymond Mooney.Probabilistic Soft Logic for Semantic Textual Similarity. ACL2014. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2014
Wednesday 12:30-2:00pm, Gates 159 (usually)
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 23rd | Jonathan | Anthony Fader, Luke Zettlemoyer, Oren Etzioni.Open Question Answering Over Curated and Extracted Knowledge Bases. KDD2014. [pdf] |
| Apr 30th | Sam Bowman | Karl Moritz Hermann, Phil Blunsom.A Simple Model for Learning Multilingual Compositional Semantics. arXiv:1312.6173. [pdf] |
| May 7th | Sebastian | Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li, Frederick R. Reiss.Rule-based Information Extraction is Dead! Long Live Rule-based Information Extraction Systems!. ACL2013. [pdf] |
| May 14th | Gabor Angeli | Jeffrey Flanigan, Sam Thomson, Jaime Carbonell, Chris Dyer, Noah A. Smith.A Discriminative Graph-Based Parser for the Abstract Meaning Representation. ACL2014. [pdf] |
| May 21st | Mike Kayser | Jacob Devlin, Rabih Zbib, Zhongqiang Huang, Thomas Lamar, Richard Schwartz, John Makhoul.Fast and Robust Neural Network Joint Models for Statistical Machine Translation. ACL2014. [pdf] |
| May 28th | Sonal Gupta | Ni Lao, Amarnag Subramanya, Fernando Pereira, William W. Cohen.Reading The Web with Learned Syntactic-Semantic Inference Rules. EMNLP2012. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2014
Wednesday 12:30-2:00pm, Gates 159 (usually)
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 22nd | Gabor Angeli | Benjamin Roth, Dietrich Klakow.Combining Generative and Discriminative Model Scores for Distant Supervision. EMNLP2013. [pdf] |
| Jan 29th | Panupong Pasupat | Peter D. Turney.Distributional Semantics Beyond Words: Supervised Learning of Analogy and Paraphrase. TACL2013. [pdf] |
| Feb 5th | Jacob Steinhardt | Qi Zhang, Jin Qian, Huan Chen, Jihua Kang, Xuanjing Huang.Discourse Level Explanatory Relation Extraction from Product Reviews Using First-order Logic. EMNLP2013. [pdf] |
| Feb 12th | Roy Frostig | Shay B. Cohen, Karl Stratos, Michael Collins, Dean P. Foster, Lyle Ungar.Experiments with Spectral Learning of Latent-Variable PCFGs. NAACL2013. [pdf] |
| Feb 19th | Arun Chaganty | Greg Durrett, Dan Klein.Easy Victories and Uphill Battles in Coreference Resolution. EMNLP2013. [pdf] |
| Feb 26th | Angel Chang | Alan Ritter, Luke Zettlemoyer, Mausam, Oren Etzioni.Modeling Missing Data in Distant Supervision for Information Extraction. TACL2013. [pdf] |
| Mar 5th | Adam Vogel | Anais Cadilhac, Nicholas Asher, Farah Benamara, Alex Lascarides.Grounding Strategic Conversation: Using negotiation dialogues to predict trades in a win-lose game. EMNLP2013. [pdf] |
| Mar 12th | Danqi Chen | He He, Hal Daume III, Jason Eisner.Dynamic Feature Selection for Dependency Parsing. EMNLP2013. [pdf] |
| Mar 19th | Ziang Xie. | Jimmy Dubuisson, Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Christian Scheible, Hinrich Schutze.The Topology of Semantic Knowledge. EMNLP2013. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Fall 2013
Wednesday 12:30-2:00pm, Gates 159 (usually)
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 16th | Sonal (Gates 400) | Hector J. Levesque.On our best behaviour. IJCAI13. [pdf] |
| Oct 23rd | Roy Schwartz | Roy Schwartz. Semantic representation using Flexible Patterns. EMNLP2013. [pdf] |
| Oct 30th | Kenneth Heafield | Barry Haddow.Applying Pairwise Ranked Optimisation to Improve the Interpolation of Translation Models. [pdf] |
| Nov 6th | Jonathan Berant | Anthony Fader et al.Paraphrase-Driven Learning for Open Question Answering [pdf] |
| Nov 13th | Danqi Chen | Liang Huang et al.Structured Perceptron with Inexact Search [pdf] |
| Nov 20th | Sida Wang | Alexander Rush.Optimal Beam Search for Machine Translation [pdf] |
| Nov 27th | Break | Break |
| Dec 4 | Angel Cheng | Sebastian Riedel.Relation Extraction with Matrix Factorization and Universal Schemas [pdf] |
| Dec 11th | Gabor Angeli | Johan van Benthem.A Brief History of Natural Logic [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Summer 2013
Thursdays 4:00pm-5:30pm, Gates 260
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 25 | Rob | Shutova, Teufel, and Korhonen.Statistical Metaphor Processing.CL 2013. [pdf] |
| Aug 15 | Arun | Artzi and Zettlemoyer.Weakly Supervised Learning of Semantic Parsers for Mapping Instructions to Actions.TACL 2013. [pdf] |
| Aug 22 | Gabor | Cai and Yates.Large-scale Semantic Parsing via Schema Matching and Lexicon Extension..ACL 2013. [pdf] |
| Aug 29 | Thang | Liu, Watanabe, Sumita, and Zhao.Additive Neural Networks for Statistical Machine Translation.ACL 2013. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2013
Wednesdays 12:00pm-1:30pm, Gates 159
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 10 | Dan and Spence | Chiang, Knight, and Wang.11,001 New Features for Statistical Machine Translation.NAACL 2009. [pdf] |
| Apr 17 | Jacob | Clark and Lappin.Computational Learning Theory and Language Acquisition.Philosophy of Linguistics. [pdf] |
| Apr 24 | Rob | Bamman, O'Connor, and Smith.Censorship and Content Deletion in Chinese Social Media.First Monday 2012. [text] |
| May 1 | Sida | Goodfellow, Warde-Farley, Mirza, Courville, and Bengio.Maxout Networks.arXiv 2013. [pdf] |
| May 8 | Roy | Macherey, Och, Thayer, and Uszkoreit.Lattice-based Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation..EMNLP 2008. [pdf] |
| May 15 | Jonathan | Das and Smith.Graph-Based Lexicon Expansion with Sparsity-Inducing Penalties.NAACL/HLT 2012. [pdf] |
| May 22 | Roy | Rush and Petrov.Vine Pruning for Efficient Multi-Pass Dependency Parsing.NAACL/HLT 2012. [pdf] |
| May 29 | Arun | Rush and Collins.Exact Decoding of Syntactic Translation Models through Lagrangian Relaxation.ACL/HLT 2011. [pdf] |
| June 5 | Miriam | Webber and Joshi.Discourse Structure and Computation: Past, Present and Future.ACL 2012. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2013
Wednesdays 12:00pm-1:30pm, Gates 359
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 23 | Kevin | Huang and Riloff.Modeling Textual Cohesion for Event Extraction.AAAI 2012. [pdf] |
| Jan 30 | Sida | Chiang.Hope and Fear for Discriminative Training of Statistical Translation Models.JMLR 2012. [pdf] |
| Feb 6 | Will | Dyer, Clark, Lavie, and Smith.Unsupervised Word Alignment with Arbitrary Features.ACL 2011. [pdf] |
| Feb 13 | Jacob | McDonald, Pereira, Ribarov, and Hajic.Non-projective Dependency Parsing using Spanning Tree Algorithms.HLT/EMNLP 2005. [pdf] |
| Feb 27 | Arun | Scheible and Schuetze.Cutting Recursive Auto-encoder Trees.arXiv 2013. [pdf] |
| Mar 6 | Rob | Mikolov, Chen, Corrado, and Dean.Efficient Estimation of Word Representation in Vector Space.arXiv 2013. [pdf] |
| Mar 13 | Adam | Branavan, Kushman, Lei, and Barzilay.Learning High-Level Planning from Text.ACL 2012. [pdf] |
| Mar 20 | Arun | Yahya, Berberich, Elbassuoni, Ramanath, Tresp, and Weikum.Natural Language Questions for the Web of Data.EMNLP 2012. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Fall 2012
Wednesdays 12:30pm-2:00pm, Gates 159
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 10 | Gabor | Samdani, Chang, and Roth.Unified Expectation Maximization.NAACL 2012. [pdf] |
| Oct 17 | Julie | Bootkrajang and Kaban.Label-noise Robust Logistic Regression and Its Applications.ECML/PKDD 2012. [pdf] |
| Oct 24 | Sonal | Mukherjee and Liu.Aspect Extraction through Semi-Supervised Modeling.ACL 2012. [pdf] |
| Oct 31 | Rob | Yao, Riedel, and McCallum.Unsupervised Relation Discovery with Sense Disambiguation.ACL 2012. [pdf] |
| Nov 7 | Jonathan | Gillenwater, Kulesza, and Taskar.Discovering Diverse and Salient Threads in Document Collections.EMNLP 2012. [pdf] |
| Nov 14 | Wanxiang | Berg-Kirkpatrick, Burkett, and Klein.An Empirical Investigation of Statistical Significance in NLP..EMNLP 2012. [pdf] |
| Nov 28 | Jean | Shindo, Miyao, Fujino, and Nagata.Bayesian Symbol-Refined Tree Substitution Grammars for Syntactic Parsing.ACL 2012. [pdf] |
| Dec 5 | Everyone | Writing Group - NAACL 2013 and Beyond |
| Dec 12 | Risk Extraction Paper. |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2012
Wednesdays 1:00pm-3:00pm, Gates 159
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 11 | Marta | Barzilay and Lapata.Modeling Local Coherence: An Entity-Based Approach.ACL 2005. [pdf;CL 2008 version] |
| Apr 18 | Val | Bille.A Survey on Tree Edit Distance and Related Problems.TCS 2005. [pdf] |
| Apr 25 | Mengqiu | Mao and Lebanon.Isotonic Conditional Random Fields and Local Sentiment Flow.NIPS 2007. [pdf] |
| May 2 | David | Mohamed, Hruschka and Mitchell.Discovering Relations between Noun Categories.EMNLP 2011. [pdf] |
| May 9 | Rob | Elson, Dames and McKeown.Extracting Social Networks from Literary Fiction.ACL 2010. [pdf] |
| May 16 | Gabor | Bernstein, Little, Miller, Hartmann, Ackerman, Karger, Crowell and Panovich.Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside.UIST 2010. [pdf](and/or Bernstein, Brandt, Miller and Karger.Crowds in Two Seconds: Enabling Realtime Crowd-Powered Interfaces.UIST 2011. [pdf]) |
| May 23 | Wanxiang | Martins, Smith and Xing.Concise Integer Linear Programming Formulations for Dependency Parsing.ACL-IJCNLP 2009. [pdf] |
| May 30 | Mihai | McIntosh, Yencken, Curran and Baldwin.Relation Guided Bootstrapping of Semantic Lexicons.ACL 2011. [pdf] |
| Jun 6 | Heeyoung | Lerman, Gilder, Dredze and Pereira.Reading the Markets: Forecasting Public Opinion of Political Candidates by News Analysis.COLING 2008. [pdf] |
| Jun 13 | Sonal | Popescu and Etzioni.Extracting Product Features and Opinions from Reviews.HLT-EMNLP 2005. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2012
Fridays 1:15pm-2:30pm, Gates 392
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 27 | Mengqiu | Zhang, Fang, Xu and Wu.Binarized Forest to String Translation.ACL 2011. [pdf] |
| Feb 3 | Kevin | Li.Understanding the Semantic Structure of Noun Phrase Queries.ACL 2010. [pdf] |
| Feb 10 | Angel | Das and Petrov.Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging with Bilingual Graph-Based Projections.ACL 2011. [pdf] |
| Feb 17 | Natalia | Kim and Mooney.Generative Alignment and Semantic Parsing for Learning from Ambiguous Supervision.COLING 2010. [pdf] |
| Feb 24 | Heeyoung | Berg-Kirkpatrick, Bouchard-Côté, DeNero and Klein.Painless Unsupervised Learning with Features.NAACL 2010. [pdf] |
| Mar 2 | Sonal | Ganchev, Graça, Gillenwater and Taskar.Posterior Regularization for Structured Latent Variable Models.MLR 2010. [pdf] |
| Mar 9 | Rob | Berant, Gross, Mussel, Sandbank, Ruppin and Edelman.Boosting Unsupervised Grammar Induction by Splitting Complex Sentences on Function Words.BUCLD 2006. [pdf] |
| Mar 16 | Wanxiang | McDonald, Petrov and Hall.Multi-Source Transfer of Delexicalized Dependency Parsers.EMNLP 2011. [pdf] |
| Mar 23 | Gabor | Mulkar-Mehta, Welty, Hobbs and Hovy.Using Granularity Concepts for Discovering Causal Relations.FLAIRS 2011. [pdf] |
| Mar 30 | Marta | Ittoo, Bouma, Maruster and Wortmann.Extracting Meronymy Relationships from Domain-Specific, Textual Corporate Databases.NLDB 2010. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Fall 2011
Wednesdays 12:15pm-2:00pm, Gates 359
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 12 | Adam | Artzi and Zettlemoyer.Bootstrapping Semantic Parsers from Conversations.EMNLP 2011. [pdf] |
| Oct 19 | David | Tsarfaty, Nivre and Andersson.Evaluating Dependency Parsing: Robust and Heuristics-Free Cross-Annotation Evaluation.EMNLP 2011. [pdf] |
| Oct 26 | Kevin | Poon and Domingos.Sum-Product Networks: A New Deep Architecture.UAI 2011. [pdf] |
| Nov 2 | Chris | Manning.Part-of-Speech Tagging from 97% to 100%: Is It Time for Some Linguistics? CICLing 2011. [pdf] |
| Nov 9 | Marta | Baroni and Lenci.Distributional Memory: A General Framework for Corpus-Based Semantics.CL 2010. [pdf] |
| Nov 16 | Gabor | Chen, Benson, Naseem and Barzilay.In-domain Relation Discovery with Meta-constraints via Posterior Regularization.ACL 2011. [pdf] |
| Nov 30 | Angel | Clark.Efficient, correct, unsupervised learning of context-sensitive languages.CoNLL 2010. [pdf] |
| Dec 7 | Val | Atkinson.Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa.Science 2011. [abstract] |
| Dec 14 | Mihai | Hoffmann, Zhang, Ling, Zettlemoyer and Weld.Knowledge-Based Weak Supervision for Information Extraction of Overlapping Relations.ACL 2011. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2011
Wednesdays 12:00pm-1:30pm, Gates 159
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 13 | Nate | Eisenstein, O'Connor, Smith and Xing. A Latent Variable Model for Geographic Language Variation EMNLP 2010. [pdf] |
| Apr 20 | Adam | Poon and DomingosUnsupervised Ontology Induction from Text. ACL 2010. [pdf] |
| Apr 27 | Yves | Reisinger and MooneyMulti-Prototype Vector-Space Models of Word Meaning. NAACL 2010. [pdf] |
| May 4 | Nikhil | Hoffman, Blei and BachOnline Learning for Latent Dirichlet Allocation. NIPS 2010. [pdf] |
| May 11 | Gabor | Corlett and PennAn Exact A* Method for Deciphering Letter-Substitution Ciphers. ACL 2010. [pdf] |
| May 18 | Angel | Liang, Jordan and KleinLearning Dependency-Based Compositional Semantics. ACL 2011. [pdf] |
| May 25 | David | Dredze, Oates and PiatkoWe're Not in Kansas Anymore: Detecting Domain Changes in Streams. EMNLP 2010. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2011
Tuesdays 12:00pm-1:30pm, Gates 200
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 18 | Robert | Bergsma, Bhargava, He and Kondrak. Predicting the Semantic Compositionality of Prefix Verbs. EMNLP 2010. [pdf] |
| Jan 25 | Yves | Mitchell and Lapata.Composition in Distributional Models of Semantics. Cognitive Science 34(8): 1388-1429, November 2010. [pdf] |
| Feb 1 | Adam | Daume, Langford, and Marcu. Search-based Structured Prediction. Machine Learning Journal 2006. [pdf] |
| Feb 8 | Nikhil | Dunning.Accurate Methods for the Statistics of Surprise and Coincidence. Computational Linguistics 19(1): 61-74, 1993. [pdf] |
| Feb 15 | Sonal | Sauper, Haghighi and Barzilay. Incorporating Content Structure into Text Analysis Applications. EMNLP 2010. [pdf] |
| Feb 22 | Heeyoung | Grosz and Sidner.Attention, Intentions and the Structure of Discourse. Computational Linguistics 12(3), 1986. [pdf] |
| Mar 1 | Gabor | Michel et al. Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books. Science 17 December 2010: 1600. [pdf] |
| Mar 8 | David | Charniak.Top-Down Nearly Context-Sensitive Parsing. EMNLP 2010. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Fall 2010
Mondays 11:00am-12:30pm, Gates 200
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 4 | Valentin Spitkovsky | Adwait Ratnaparkhi. A Linear Observed Time Statistical Parser Based on Maximum Entropy Models |
| Oct 11 | Adam Vogel | Dave Golland, Percy Liang and Dan Klein.A Game-Theoretic Approach to Generating Spatial Descriptions 2010. EMNLP [pdf] |
| Oct 18 | David McClosky | Hagen Fuerstenau and Mirella Lapata.Graph Alignment for Semi-Supervised Semantic Role Labeling 2009. EMNLP. [pdf] |
| Oct 25 | Reza Zadeh | Aria Haghighi, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick and Dan Klein.Learning Bilingual Lexicons from Monolingual Corpora 2008. ACL [pdf] |
| Nov 1 | Richard Socher | Mark Johnson, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Sharon Goldwater.Adaptor Grammars: A Framework for Specifying Compositional Nonparametric Bayesian Models 2007. NIPS. [pdf] |
| Nov 8 | Nate Chambers | Andrew Carlson, Justin Betteridge, Richard C. Wang, Estevam R. Hruschka Jr. and Tom Mitchell.Coupled Semi-Supervised Learning for Information Extraction 2010. WSDM [pdf] |
| Nov 15 | Spence Green | Kuzman Ganchev, Joao Graca, Jennifer Gillenwater and Ben Taskar.Posterior Regularization for Structured Latent Variable Models 2010 JMLR. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2010
Tuesdays 1:30-3:00pm, Gates 200
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 30 | Spence Green | Organizational Meeting |
| Apr 6 | Dan Ramage | Arthur Asuncion, Max Welling, Padhraic Smyth, and Yee Whye Teh.On Smoothing and inference for Topic Modeling 2009. UAI [pdf] |
| Apr 13 | Adam Vogel | Fei Xu, Joshua TenenbaumWord Learning as Bayesian Inference 2007. Psychological Review 114(2). [pdf] |
| Apr 20 | Sonal Gupta | Jonathan Chang, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and David M. Blei.Connecting Between the Lines: Augmenting Social Networks with Text. 2009. In KDD. [pdf] |
| Apr 27 | Richard Socher | Three New Graphical Models for Statistical Language Modeling. 2007. In ICML. [pdf] |
| May 4 | Steven Bethard | Cohn, T.A Bayesian Model of Syntax-Directed Tree to String Grammar Induction. 2009. In EMNLP. [pdf] |
| May 11 | David McClosky | Huang, L.Bilingually-Constrained (Monolingual) Shift-Reduce Parsing. 2009. In EMNLP. [pdf] |
| May 18 | Adam Vogel | Bengio et al.Curriculum Learning. 2009. In ICML. [pdf] |
| May 25 | Spence Green | Smith and Eisner.Parser Adaptation and Projection with Quasi-synchronous Grammar Features. 2009. In EMNLP. [pdf] |
| Jun 8 | Michel Galley | M. Hopkins and G. Langmead.Cube Pruning as Heuristic Search 2009. In EMNLP. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2011
Tuesdays 12:00pm-1:30pm, Gates 200
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 18 | Robert | Bergsma, Bhargava, He and Kondrak. Predicting the Semantic Compositionality of Prefix Verbs. EMNLP 2010. [pdf] |
| Jan 25 | Yves | Mitchell and Lapata.Composition in Distributional Models of Semantics. Cognitive Science 34(8): 1388-1429, November 2010. [pdf] |
| Feb 1 | Adam | Daume, Langford, and Marcu. Search-based Structured Prediction. Machine Learning Journal 2006. [pdf] |
| Feb 8 | Nikhil | Dunning.Accurate Methods for the Statistics of Surprise and Coincidence. Computational Linguistics 19(1): 61-74, 1993. [pdf] |
| Feb 15 | Sonal | Sauper, Haghighi and Barzilay. Incorporating Content Structure into Text Analysis Applications. EMNLP 2010. [pdf] |
| Feb 22 | Heeyoung | Grosz and Sidner.Attention, Intentions and the Structure of Discourse. Computational Linguistics 12(3), 1986. [pdf] |
| Mar 1 | Gabor | Michel et al. Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books. Science 17 December 2010: 1600. [pdf] |
| Mar 8 | David | Charniak.Top-Down Nearly Context-Sensitive Parsing. EMNLP 2010. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Fall 2010
Mondays 11:00am-12:30pm, Gates 200
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 4 | Valentin Spitkovsky | Adwait Ratnaparkhi. A Linear Observed Time Statistical Parser Based on Maximum Entropy Models |
| Oct 11 | Adam Vogel | Dave Golland, Percy Liang and Dan Klein.A Game-Theoretic Approach to Generating Spatial Descriptions 2010. EMNLP [pdf] |
| Oct 18 | David McClosky | Hagen Fuerstenau and Mirella Lapata.Graph Alignment for Semi-Supervised Semantic Role Labeling 2009. EMNLP. [pdf] |
| Oct 25 | Reza Zadeh | Aria Haghighi, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick and Dan Klein.Learning Bilingual Lexicons from Monolingual Corpora 2008. ACL [pdf] |
| Nov 1 | Richard Socher | Mark Johnson, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Sharon Goldwater.Adaptor Grammars: A Framework for Specifying Compositional Nonparametric Bayesian Models 2007. NIPS. [pdf] |
| Nov 8 | Nate Chambers | Andrew Carlson, Justin Betteridge, Richard C. Wang, Estevam R. Hruschka Jr. and Tom Mitchell.Coupled Semi-Supervised Learning for Information Extraction 2010. WSDM [pdf] |
| Nov 15 | Spence Green | Kuzman Ganchev, Joao Graca, Jennifer Gillenwater and Ben Taskar.Posterior Regularization for Structured Latent Variable Models 2010 JMLR. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2010
Tuesdays 1:30-3:00pm, Gates 200
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 30 | Spence Green | Organizational Meeting |
| Apr 6 | Dan Ramage | Arthur Asuncion, Max Welling, Padhraic Smyth, and Yee Whye Teh.On Smoothing and inference for Topic Modeling 2009. UAI [pdf] |
| Apr 13 | Adam Vogel | Fei Xu, Joshua TenenbaumWord Learning as Bayesian Inference 2007. Psychological Review 114(2). [pdf] |
| Apr 20 | Sonal Gupta | Jonathan Chang, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and David M. Blei.Connecting Between the Lines: Augmenting Social Networks with Text. 2009. In KDD. [pdf] |
| Apr 27 | Richard Socher | Three New Graphical Models for Statistical Language Modeling. 2007. In ICML. [pdf] |
| May 4 | Steven Bethard | Cohn, T.A Bayesian Model of Syntax-Directed Tree to String Grammar Induction. 2009. In EMNLP. [pdf] |
| May 11 | David McClosky | Huang, L.Bilingually-Constrained (Monolingual) Shift-Reduce Parsing. 2009. In EMNLP. [pdf] |
| May 18 | Adam Vogel | Bengio et al.Curriculum Learning. 2009. In ICML. [pdf] |
| May 25 | Spence Green | Smith and Eisner.Parser Adaptation and Projection with Quasi-synchronous Grammar Features. 2009. In EMNLP. [pdf] |
| Jun 8 | Michel Galley | M. Hopkins and G. Langmead.Cube Pruning as Heuristic Search 2009. In EMNLP. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2010
Tuesdays 1:30-3:00pm, Gates 200
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 12 | Spence Green | Organizational Meeting |
| Jan 19 | Steven Bethard | Brown, P., deSouza, P, Mercer, R, Della Pietra, V and Lai, J.Class-based n-gram models of natural language. 1992. Computational Linguistics. [pdf] |
| Jan 26 | David McClosky and Mihai Surdeanu | Collins, M. and Singer, Y.Unsupervised Models for Named Entity Classification. 1999. [pdf] |
| Feb 2 | Sonal Gupta and Chris Manning | Evans, N., & Levinson, S. C.The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. 2009. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32(5), 429-492. [pdf] |
| Feb 9 | Spence Green | Evans, N., & Levinson, S. C.The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. 2009. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32(5), 429-492. [On cluster: /scr/spenceg/lev2.pdf] |
| Feb 16 | Val Spitkovsky | Daelemans, W.Memory-Based Lexical Acquisition and Processing. 1995. Proc. of the Third International EAMT Workshop on Machine Translation and the Lexicon [pdf] |
| Feb 23 | Spence Green | Fong, S. and Berwick, R. Treebank Parsing and Knowledge of Language: A Cognitive Perspective. 2008. Proc. of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society [pdf] |
| Mar 2 | Nate Chambers | Liszkowski, U., Schäfer, M., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M.Prelinguistic infants, but not chimpanzees, communicate about absent entities. 2009. Psychological Science, 20(5), 654-660. [pdf] |
| Mar 9 | Richard Socher | Bengio, Y., Ducharme, R., Vincent, P., and Jauvin, C.A Neural Probabilistic Language Model. Journal of Machine Learning Research 3 (2003) 1137-1155. [pdf] |
| Mar 16 | Adam Vogel | Collobert, Ronan and Weston, Jason.A Unified Architecture for Natural Language Processing: Deep Neural Networks with Multitask Learning. In ICML. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Fall 2009
Wednesdays at 12:00-1:30pm, Gates 200
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 30 | Spence Green | Organizational Meeting |
| Oct 7 | Ramesh Nallapati | G. Druck, B. Settles and A. McCallum.Active Learning by Labeling Features. EMNLP 2009. [pdf] |
| Oct 14 | David Vickrey | P. Liang, M. Jordan and D. Klein.Learning Semantic Correspondences with Less Supervision. ACL 2009. [pdf] |
| Oct 21 | Jenny Finkel | A. Haghighi and D. Klein. Simple Coreference Resolution with Rich Syntactic and Semantic Features. NAACL 2009. [pdf] |
| Oct 28 | Nate Chambers | S. Patwardhan and E. Riloff.A Unified Model of Phrasal and Sentential Evidence for Information Extraction. EMNLP 2009. [pdf] |
| Nov 4 | Mihai Surdeanu | J. Suzuki, H. Isozaki, X. Carreras and M. Collins.An Empirical Study On Semi-Supervised Structured Conditional Models For Dependency Parsing. EMNLP 2009. [pdf] |
| Nov 11 | Adam Vogel | S.R.K. Branavan, H. Chen, L. Zettlemoyer and R. Barzilay. Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions. ACL 2009. [pdf] |
| Nov 18 | Spence Green | R. Tsarfaty, K. Sima'an, and R. Scha. An Alternative to Head-Driven Approaches for Parsing a (Relatively) Free Word-Order Language. EMNLP 2009. [pdf] |
| Nov 25 | Thanksgiving | |
| Dec 2 | Steven Bethard | C. Callison-Burch. Fast, Cheap, and Creative: Evaluating Translation Quality Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk. EMNLP 2009. [pdf] |
| Dec 9 | Uriel Cohen-Priva | J. Nivre.Non-Projective Dependency Parsing in Expected Linear Time. ACL 2009. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Summer 2009
Mondays at 2:30-4:00pm, Gates 400
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15 | Jenny Finkel | Organizational Meeting |
| Jun 22 | Dan Ramage | C. Wang, B. Thiesson, C. Meek, and D. Blei.Markov Topic Models. AIStats 2009. [pdf] |
| Jun 29 | Adam Vogel | Hoifung Poon, Colin Cherry and Kristina Toutanova .Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models. NAACL 2009. [pdf] |
| Jul 6 | David Vickrey | Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos. Unsupervised Semantic Parsing. EMNLP 2009. [pdf] |
| Jul 13 | Jenny Finkel | Andrew Carlson, Justin Betteridge, Estevam Rafael Hruschka Junior and Tom M. Mitchell.Coupling Semi-Supervised Learning of Categories and Relations. [pdf] |
| Jul 20 | -- | No Meeting - Pi-Chuan's defense!!!!! |
| Jul 27 | Val Spitkovsky | D. Roth, K. Small, and I. Titov . Sequential Learning of Classifiers for Structured Prediction Problems. AIStats 2009. [pdf] |
| Aug 3 | -- | No Meeting - ACL/EMNLP |
| Aug 10 | ||
| Aug 17 | Mihai Durdeanu | J. Reisinger and M. Pasca. Latent Variable Models of Concept-Attribute Attachment. ACL 2009. [pdf] |
| Aug 24 | Yun-Hsuan Sung | D. Chiang, K. Knight, and W. Wang. 11,001 New Features for Statistical Machine Translation. NAACL 2009. [pdf] |
| Aug 31 | Val Spitkovsky | Y. Albert Park and Roger Levy. Minimal-length linearizations for mildly context-sensitive dependency trees. NAACL 2009. [pdf] |
| Sept. 7 | ||
| Sept. 14 | Dan Cer | Chun-Nam John Yu, Thorsten Joachims. Learning Structural SVMs with Latent Variables. ICML 2009. [pdf] |
| Sept. 21 | Ramesh Nallapati | Chen, Branavan, Berzilay and Karger.Global Models of Document Structure using Latent Permutations. NAACL 2009. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2009
Tuesdays at 12:0-1:30pm, Gates 200
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 31 | Jenny Finkel | Organizational Meeting |
| Apr 14 | Adam Vogel | Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng, Wee Sun Lee, Luke S. Zettlemoyer. A Generative Model for Parsing Natural Language to Meaning Representations EMNLP 2008. [pdf] |
| Apr 21 | Nate Chambers | Finding and Linking Incidents in the News [pdf] |
| Apr 28 | -- | No Meeting - Good Luck with EMNLP Submissions! |
| May 5 | Jenny Finkel | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data [pdf] |
| May 12 | David Vickrey | S. Cohen and N. Smith.Shared Logistic Normal Distributions for Soft Parameter Tying in Unsupervised Grammar Induction NAACL 2009 [pdf] |
| May 19 | Ramesh Nallapati | David Mimno, Hanna Wallach and Andrew McCallum. Gibbs Sampling for Logistic Normal Topic Models with Graph-Based Priors. NIPS Workshop on Analyzing Graphs, 2008, Whistler, BC. [pdf] |
| May 26 | Steven Bethard | Amarnag Subramanya, Jeff Bilmes.Soft-Supervised Learning for Text Classification EMNLP 2008 [pdf] |
| Jun 2 | Mihai Surdeanu | Yi Zhang, Jeff Schneider, Artur Dubrawski.Learning the Semantic Correlation: An Alternative Way to Gain from Unlabeled Text NIPS 2008 [pdf] |
| Jun 9 | Jenny Finkel | Syntactic Topic Models NIPS 2008 [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2009
Mondays at 2:30-4:00pm, Gates 200
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 26 | Sebastian Pado | O. Zaidan, J. EisnerModelling Annotators: A Generative Approach to Learning from Annotator Rationales. EMNLP 2008. [pdf] |
| Feb 2 | David Hall | Kemp, C., & Tenenbaum, J. B.The discovery of structural form. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(31), 10687-10692. [pdf] |
| Feb 9 | Marie-Catherine de Marneffe | Ritter, Soderland, Downey, and EtzioniIt's a Contradiction -- no, it's not: A Case Study using Functional Relations. EMNLP 2008. [pdf] |
| Feb 16 | all | ACL abstracts & more |
| Feb 23 | Mihai Surdeanu | Mustafa Bilgic and Lise Getoor Effective Label Acquisition for Collective Classification. KDD 2008 [pdf] |
| Mar 2 | Nate Chambers | Stanley Kok and Pedro Domingos Extracting Semantic Networks from Text Via Relational Clustering. ECML 2008 [pdf] |
| Mar 9 | Yun-Hsuan Sung | Gross, Russakovsky, Do, and BatzoglouTraining Conditional Random Fields for Maximum Labelwise Accuracy. NIPS 2006 [pdf] |
| Mar 16 | Val Spitkovsky | David Smith and Jason EisnerDependency Parsing by Belief Propagation. EMNLP 2008 [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Autumn 2008
Mondays at 12:30-2:00pm, Gates 359
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 29 | Jenny Finkel | Organizational Meeting |
| Oct 6 | Jenny Finkel | M.D. Escobar and M. West.Bayesian Density Estimation and Inference Using Mixtures. JASA 1995. [pdf] |
| Oct 13 | Val Spitkovsky | Yoav SeginerFast Unsupervised Incremental Parsing. ACL 2007. [pdf] |
| Oct 20 | David Hall | Kemp, C., & Tenenbaum, J. B.The discovery of structural form. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(31), 10687-10692. [pdf] |
| Oct 27 | -- | No Meeting - Have fun at EMNLP! |
| Nov 3 | Dan Ramage | Perci DiaconisThe MCMC Revolution [pdf] |
| Nov 10 | Nate Chambers | Stanley Kok and Pedro Domingos Extracting Semantic Networks from Text Via Relational Clustering ECML 2008 [pdf] |
| Nov 17 | Ramesh Nallapati | Mustafa Bilgic and Lise Getoor Effective Label Acquisition for Collective Classificatio KDD 2008 [pdf] |
| Nov 24 | -- | No Meeting - Happy Thanksgiving! |
| Dec 1 | -- | NAACL abstracts |
| Dec 8 | Sebastian Pado | Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin and Randy Goebel Discriminative Learning of Selectional Preference from Unlabeled Text EMNLP 2008 [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Summer 2008
Tuesdays at 12:15-1:45pm, Gates 260
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 23 | Jenny Finkel | Organizational Meeting |
| Jul 1 | -- | No Meeting - Good luck on EMNLP submissions |
| Jul 8 | Jenny Finkel | Benjamin Snyder and Regina Barzilay.Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for Morphological Segmentation. ACL 2008. [pdf] |
| Jul 15 | Daniel Ramage | Branavan, S.R.K., Harr Chen, Jacob Eisenstein and Regina Barzilay. Learning Document-Level Semantic Properties from Free-text Annotations. ACL 2008. [pdf] |
| Jul 22 | Anna Rafferty | Joakim Nivre and Ryan McDonald.Integrating Graph-Based and Transition-Based Dependency Parsers. ACL 2008. [pdf] |
| Jul 29 | Mengqiu Wang | Kuzman Ganchev, Joao Graca and Ben Taskar.Better Alignments = Better Translations? ACL 2008. [pdf] |
| Aug 5 | Eric Yeh | Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval |
| Aug 12 | David Hall | Shiqi Zhao; Haifeng Wang; Ting Liu; Sheng Li. Pivot Approach for Extracting Paraphrase Patterns from Bilingual Corpora. ACL 2008. [pdf] |
| Aug 19 | Ramesh Nallapati | Approximate Inference using conditional entropy decomposition. [pdf] |
| Aug 26 | Sebastian Pado | Shane Bergsma; Dekang Lin; Randy Goebel. Distributional Identification of Non-Referential Pronouns. ACL 2008. [pdf] |
| Sep 2 | David Hall | Jason Wolfe, Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein. Fully Distributed EM for Very Large Datasets. ICML 2008. [pdf] |
| September 9 | Jenny Finkel | Mark Johnson, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Sharon Goldwater. Bayesian Inference for PCFGs via Markov Cain Monte Carlo. Proceedings of NAACL, 2007. [pdf] |
| September 16 | Pi-chuan Chang | Zhu, Xiaojin; Andrew B. Goldberg; Michael Rabbat; Robert Nowak Learning Bigrams from Unigrams [pdf] |
| September 23 | Ramesh Nallapati | Accurate max margin training for structured output spaces. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2008
Tuesdays at 1:00-2:30pm, Gates 159
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 15 | Jenny Finkel | Organizational Meeting |
| Apr 22 | David Hall | Li, Wei and McCallum, Andrew.Pachinko allocation: DAG-structured mixture models of topic correlations ICML 2006. [pdf] |
| Apr 29 | Daniel Ramage | Andrew McCallum, Chris Pal, Greg Druck, Xuerui Wang.Multi-Conditional Learning: Generative/Discriminative Training for Clustering and Classification AAAI 2006. [pdf] |
| May 6 | Anna Rafferty | Coarse-to-fine parsing |
| May 13 | Sebastian Pado | Learning on the test data. |
| May 20 | Jenny Finkel | Scalable Models of Real Graphs |
| May 27 | Pichuan Chang | author-topic model (or community topic model) |
| Jun 2 | Ramesh Nallapati | Gal Chechik, Geremy Heitz, Gal Elidan, Pieter Abbeel, Daphne Koller Max Margin classification of incomplete data. [long version] [short version] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2008
Tuesdays at 2:30-4:00pm, Gates ???
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 15 | Jenny Finkel | Organizational Meeting |
| Jan 22 | Jenny Finkel | Kristina Toutanova and Mark Johnson.A Bayesian LDA-based model for semi-supervised part-of-speech tagging. NIPS 2007. [pdf] |
| Jan 29 | Anna Rafferty | John Blitzer, Koby Crammer, Alex Kulesza, Fernando Pereira, Jennifer Wortman.Learning Bounds for Domain Adaptation. NIPS 2007 [pdf] |
| Feb 5 | David Hall | TBD David Blei topic models papers [pdf] |
| Feb 12 | Nate Chambers | Dan Shen and Mirella Lapata.Using Semantic Roles to Improve Question Answering. [pdf] Michael Kaisser and Bonnie Webber. Question Answering based on Semantic Roles. [pdf] |
| Feb 19 | Pi-Chuan Chang | Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsochantaridis, Vibhu Mittal and Yi Liu.Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval. [pdf] |
| Feb 26 | Bill MacCartney | Wong and Mooney. Learning Synchronous Grammars for Semantic Parsing with Lambda Calculus. ACL 2007. [pdf] |
| Mar 4 | Jenny Finkel | Pascal Denis and Jason Baldridge. Global, Joint Determination of Anaphoricity and Coreference Resolution using Integer Programming. NAACL 2007. [pdf] |
| Mar 11 | --== No Meeting ==-- | |
| Mar 18 | Pichuan Chang & Michel Galley | TBD MT paper [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2006-2007
Wednesdays at 1:30-3:00pm, Gates 359
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 18 | Jenny Finkel | Organizational Meeting |
| Apr 25 | Rion Snow | Daniel Gildea and Daniel Jurafsky.Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles. ACL 2000. [pdf] |
| May 2 | Dan Ramage | McCarthy, D., Koeling, R., Weeds, J. and Carroll, J.Finding predominant word senses in untagged text. ACL 2004. [pdf] |
| May 9 | Bill MacCartney | P. Blackburn and J. Bos. Computational Semantics. Theoria 18 [pdf] |
| May 16 | Nate Chambers | Mann, W. C. and S. A. Thompson.Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a Functional Theory of Text Organization. [pdf] |
| May 23 | Pi-Chuan Chang | Jerry R. Hobbs, Mark Stickel, Paul Martin and Douglas Edwards.Interpretation as Abduction. ACL 1988 [pdf] |
| May 30 | Yun-Hsuan Sung | Fei Sha and Lawrence K. Saul. Large margin hidden Markov models for automatic speech recognition. NIPS 2007. [pdf] |
| Jun 6 | Jenny Finkel | Rie K. Ando and Tong Zhang. A Framework for Learning Predictive Structures from Multiple Tasks and Unlabeled Data. JMLR 2005. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2006-2007
Wednesdays at 1:30-3:00pm, Gates 459
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 24 | Jenny Finkel | Organizational Meeting |
| Jan 31 | Jenny Finkel | John Blitzer, Ryan McDonald, and Fernando Pereira. Domain Adaptation with Structural Correspondence Learning. EMNLP 2006. [pdf] |
| Feb 7 | Pi-Chuan | David Chiang.A Hierarchical Phrase-Based Model for Statistical Machine Translation. ACl 2005. [pdf] |
| Feb 14 | Dan Cer | P Liang, A Bouchard-Cote, D Klein, B Taskar. An End-to-End Discriminative Approach to Machine Translation. ACL 2006. [pdf. |
| Feb 21 | Sharon | Ellison, M. and Kirby, S.Measuring Language Divergence by Intra-lexical Comparison. ACL 2006. [pdf] |
| Feb 28 | Chris | Slav Petrov, Leon Barrett, Romain Thibaux and Dan Klein. Learning Accurate, Compact, and Interpretable Tree Annotation. ACL 2006. [pdf] |
| Mar 7 | Bill | S Harabagiu, A Hickl. Methods for Using Textual Entailment in Open-Domain Question Answering. ACL 2006. [pdf] |
| Mar 14 | Alex | NN Schraudolph.Local Gain Adaptation in Stochastic Gradient Descent. Artificial Neural Nets 1999. [pdf] |
| Mar 21 | Dan R. | E Gabrilovich, S Markovitch,Text Categorization with Many Redundant Features: Using Aggressive Feature Selection to Make SVMs Competitive with C4.5. ICML 2004 [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Autumn 2006
Mondays at 2:00-3:30pm, Gates 459
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 25 | Jenny Finkel | Organizational Meeting |
| Oct 2 | William Morgan | David J. Hand.Classifier Technology and the Illusion of Progress. Statistical Science, 2006. [pdf] Leo Breiman.Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures. Statistical Science, 2001. [pdf] |
| Oct 9 | Surabhi | Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu.Bayseian Query-Focused Summarization. ACL 2006. [pdf] |
| Oct 16 | Dan Ramage | Mochihashi and Matsumoto.Context as Filtering. NIPS 2005. [pdf] |
| Oct 23 | Jenny | Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein.Prototype-driven Learning for Sequence Models. NAACL 2006. [pdf] |
| Oct 30 | Sebastian | Ioannis Tsochantaridis, et al.Support Vector Machine Learning for Interdependent and Structured Output Spaces. ICML 2004. [pdf] |
| Nov 6 | Dan Cer | Vishwanathan et al.Accelerated training of CRFs with stochastic gradient methods. ICML 2006. [pdf] |
| Nov 13 | Jeff | Li and Yang.Loss function analysis for classification methods in text categorization. ICML 2003. [pdf] |
| Nov 27 | Teg | Galen Andrew. Hybrid Markov/Semi-Markov Conditional Random Field for Sequence Segmentation. EMNLP 2006. [pdf] |
| Dec 4 | Dan Cer | Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu.Learning as Search Optimization. ICML 2005. [pdf] |
| Dec 11 | John Hale | Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie. Parsing Mildly Context Sensitive Languages with Thread Automata. Coling 2002. [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Winter 2006
Mondays at 4:15-5:45pm, Gates 359
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 23 | Jenny Finkel | Organizational Meeting |
| Jan 30 | William Morgan | Franz Josef Och. Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2003. [pdf] |
| Feb 6 | Dan Ramage | M. Narasimhan, N. Jojic, and J. Bilmes.Q-Clustering NIPS 2005. [pdf] |
| Feb 13 | Chris Manning | S. Reynolds and J. Bilmes.Part-of-Speech Tagging with Virtual Evidence and Negative Training HLT 2005. [pdf] |
| Feb 20 | Rajat Raina | Structured Prediction Via the Extragradient Method/M3NS |
| Feb 27 | -- | NO MEETING - Good Luck with ACL submissions! |
| Mar 6 | Bill MacCartney | Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, Eyal Amir, and Dan RothLifted First-Order Probabilistic Inference IJCAI 2005 [pdf] |
| Mar 13 | Teg Grenager | S. Goldwater, T. Griffiths, and M. JohnsonInterpolating Between Types and Tokens by Estimating Power-Law Generators NIPS 2005 [pdf] |
| Mar 20 | Jenny Finkel | Latent Head Models For Parsing |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Fall 2005
Mondays at 10:45pm, Gates 400
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 3 | Jenny Finkel | Organizational Meeting |
| Oct 10 | Teg | Andrew McCallum, Kedar Bellare and Fernando Pereira. A Conditional Random Field for Discriminatively-trained Finite-state String Edit Distance. Conference on Uncertainty in AI (UAI), 2005. [pdf] |
| Oct 17 | Pi-Chuan | Noah A. Smith and Jason Eisner.Contrastive Estimation: Training Log-Linear Models on Unlabeled Data. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2005), Ann Arbor, Michigan. [pdf] |
| Oct 24 | Teg | Ryan McDonald, Koby Crammer and Fernando Pereira.Online Large-Margin Training of Dependency Parsers. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2005. Ann Arbor, Michigan. [pdf][longer version] |
| Oct 31 | Jenny | Mark A. Paskin.Maximum Entropy Probabilistic Logic. Technical Report UCB/CSD-01-1161, University of California, Berkeley. [pdf] |
| Nov 7 | Rion | Brian Milch, Bhaskara Marthi, and Stuart Russell. BLOG: Relational Modeling with Unknown Objects. Proc. ICML-04 Workshop on Statistical Relational Learning. [pdf] |
| Nov 14 | Jenny | B. Taskar, V. Chatalbashev and D. Koller.Learning Associative Markov Networks. Twenty First International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML04), Banff, Canada, July 2004. [ps] |
| Nov 21 | -- | NO MEETING - Happy Thanksgiving! |
| Nov 28 | Bill | Luke S. Zettlemoyer and Michael Collins. Learning to Map Sentences to Logical Form: Structured Classification with Probabilistic Categorial Grammars. In Proceedings of the Twenty First Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-05), 2005. [pdf] |
| Dec 5 | Rajat | Sheila M. Reynolds and Jeff A. BilmesPart-of-Speech Tagging using Virtual Evidence and Negative Training. Human Language Technology (HLT) Conference/ Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Oct, 2005 [pdf] |
NLP Reading Group Schedule — Spring 2005
Fridays at 12:45pm, Gates 400
| Date | Moderator | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 22 | Jenny Finkel | Organizational Meeting |
| Apr 29 | Jenny Finkel | Relational Markov Networks B. Taskar, P. Abbeel and D. Koller.Discriminative Probabilistic Models for Relational Data. Eighteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI02), Edmonton, Canada, August 2002. [pdf] [ps] |
| May 6 | Rion Snow | Inductive Logic Programming Mary Elaine Califf and Raymond J. MooneyRelational Learning of Pattern-Match Rules for Information Extraction Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), Orlando, FL, pp. 328-334, July 1999. [pdf]-- Fabio Ciravegna.Adaptive Information Extraction from Text by Rule Induction and Generalisation in Proceedings of 17th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2001), Seattle, August 2001. [pdf]-- optional longer versions: Mary Elaine Califf and Raymond J. MooneyBottom-Up Relational Learning of Pattern Matching Rules for Information Extraction Journal of Machine Learning Research, 4, (2003), pp. 177-210. [pdf]-- Fabio Ciravegna.(LP)2, an Adaptive Algorithm for Information Extraction from Web-related Texts in Proceedings of the IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining, Seattle, August, 2001 [pdf] |
| May 13 | Aria Haghighi | SVMs |
| May 20 | Aria Haghighi | Maximum Margin Markov Networks B. Taskar, C. Guestrin and D. Koller.Max-Margin Markov Networks. Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS03), Vancouver, Canada, December 2003. [ps] |
| May 27 | Rajat Raina | Latent Dirichlet Allocation David Blei, Andrew Y. Ng, and Michael Jordan.Latent Dirichlet Allocation. In NIPS 14, 2002. [ps] [pdf]-- optional longer version: David Blei, Andrew Y. Ng and Michael Jordan.Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 3:993-1022, 2003. [ps] [pdf] |
| Jun 3 | Marie-Catherine de Marneffe | Integrating Topics and Syntax T. Griffiths, M. Steyvers, D. Blei, and J. Tenenbaum.Integrating topics and syntax. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 17, 2004. [pdf] |
| Jun 10 | Chris Cox | Rule Learning |