NLP Reading Group
The reading group attempts to keep abreast of current trends in natural language processing research. We typically read one or two recent NLP conference papers each week, and occasionally look at material from the machine learning, statistics, and linguistics communities as well.
Starting in 2008, we will be posting the weekly readings here. Past readings since 2001 will be posted shortly.
Summer 2007
| Date/Time | Presenter | Paper(s) | Supporting Papers/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| May. 10 | David Smith | M. Johnson, T. Griffiths, and S. Goldwater
Bayesian Inference for PCFGs via Markov Chain Monte Carlo HLT/NAACL 2007 |
Spring 2007
| Date/Time | Presenter | Paper(s) | Supporting Papers/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr. 19 | John Blatz | A. Prieditis
Machine discovery of Effective Admissible Heuristics Machine Learning Journal, 1993 | |
| Apr. 12 | Markus Dreyer | A. Haghighi, J. DeNero and D. Klein
Approximate Factoring for A* Search NAACL-HLT 2007 | |
| Mar. 29 & Apr. 5 | Zhifei Li | H. Daume III, J. Langford, and D. Marcu
Search-based structured prediction. Machine Learning Journal, forthcoming | |
| Mar. 8 | David Smith | H. Daume III & D. Marcu
Learning as search optimization: approximate large margin methods for structured prediction. ICML 2005 | |
| Mar. 1 | Wei Chen | M. Kaisser, S. Scheible, and B. Webber
Experiments at the University of Edinburgh for the TREC 2006 QA track. TREC-15
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