An almost-weekly discussion group held on Tuesdays at 11am in 401.
Spring 2010
- Jan 19 - organizational meeting
Jan 26 - no meeting (Markus & Sandra gone)
- Feb 2 - Nathan Sanders on interning at Microsoft/bing
Feb 9 - Markus Dickinson & Marwa Ragheb - Dependency Annotation for Learner Language
- Feb 16 - OPEN SLOT
- Feb 23 - Emad Mohamed - Arabic POS tagging
- Mar 2 - Mike Gasser - Morphological Analysis for Lexicon Extension (focusing on Tigrinya)
- Mar 9 - No meeting ... go to Michael White's talk on Mar 12
- Mar 16 - No meeting - spring break
- Mar 23 - Larry Moss - Natural Logic
- Mar 30 - Wren Thornton - Extending CCG for freer word order languages
- Apr 6 - Joshua Herring - Parsing Minimalist Languages
Apr 13 - Markus Dickinson & Amber Smith - Dependency Parser Error Detection
Apr 20 - Mike Gasser & Alex Rudnick
- Apr 27 - Patrick Grosz (MIT)Optative in German (working title)
Fall 2009
- Sep 1 - organizational meeting
- Sep 8 - no meeting
- Sep 15 - no meeting (RANLP)
- Sep 22 - Sandra Kuebler - Semi-supervised learning for word sense disambiguation
Sep 29 - Rehj Cantrell & Sandra Kuebler - Instance sampling for pronoun resolution
Oct 6 - Emad Mohammed & Sandra Kuebler - Arabic vocalization
- Oct 13 - Wren Thornton - Using Joshua (phrase-based SMT)
Oct 20 - NASSLLI discussion
Oct 27 - Ross Israel & Markus Dickinson - Building a web corpus for analyzing learner Korean
- Nov 3 - No meeting - Go to Mike Hammond's talk on Nov. 6, 10-11am (GEN with Lazy Evaluation)
- Nov 10 - OPEN SLOT
- Nov 17 - Jason Kessler - Crowdsourcing opinion annotation
- Nov 24 - no meeting (Thanksgiving)
- Dec 1 - Mike Gasser - Constraint satisfaction for dependency parsing
- Dec 8 - Josh Herring - Parsing sideward movement
If you want to present, please let Markus or Sandra know.
Past topics (Spring 2009)
Jan 23 - Nathan Sanders - Using Phonological Features to Induce Dialect Boundaries (Slides)
- Jan 30 - Brian Riordan - Redundancy in perceptual and linguistic experience: Comparing feature-based and distributional theories of semantic representation
- Feb 6 - David Heise - Distilling Social Institutions From Lexicographic Texts And Semantic Networks
- Feb 13 - Markus Dickinson - Correcting Dependency Annotation Errors
- Feb 20 - Erhard Hinrichs (Tuebingen)
- Feb 27 - No Meeting (Ling. Department Professionalization Workshop)
- Mar 6 - Julia Hockenmaier (UIUC)
- Mar 13 - Suriani Sulaiman
- Mar 20 - No Meeting (Spring Break)
- Mar 27 - No Meeting (Linguistics Student Conference)
- Apr 3 - No Meeting (EACL)
- Apr 10 - Sandra Kuebler
- Apr 17 - L700 Students - Automatic Analysis of Learner Language
- Apr 24 - Lauri Karttunen (PARC/Stanford)
May 1 - L700 Students - Automatic Analysis of Learner Language: Rehj & Tony
Past Topics (Fall 2008)
- Sep. 12 - NO MEETING
Sep. 19 - John Goldsmith - Linguistica (http://linguistica.uchicago.edu/linguistica.html)
Sep. 26 - Sandra Kuebler & Matthias Scheutz
Oct. 3 - Nathan Sanders - Syntactic and Phonological distance in British dialects (Slides) (Paper)
Oct. 10 - NO MEETING → Richard Oerhle will be in town giving a talk
- Oct. 17 - Charles Jochim - relating corpus annotation to category induction
- Oct. 24 - Josh Herring
- Oct. 31 - Mike Gasser
Nov. 7 - the InfraWare team - cleaning up ASR output for medical transcription
- Nov. 14 - Josh Herring - developing a Russian ICALL system
- Nov. 21 - NO MEETING/OPEN SLOT
- Nov. 28 - NO MEETING - THANKSGIVING
- Dec. 5 - Markus Dickinson - detecting ad hoc rules in treebanks
Other Possible Topics
- Software demos (POS taggers, parsers, ML systems)
Early or on-going research (i.e., new & untested ideas, trouble solving an efficiency issue, etc.)
- Using version control
- Debugging (gdb, pdb, etc)
Past Topics (Spring 2008)
- How to use the clusters
- LaTeX and some useful packages
- Working with Unicode and, generally, different character sets (especially for corpus-based work)
These topics could be revisited in the future if there is demand. This spring we also ran the Professionalization Workshop for the entire linguistics department.
- Introduction to LaTeX
part 1: basic intro (Josh Herring & Markus Dickinson plan to work on this for early spring)
- part 2: useful packages for linguists (e.g., tipa, qtree, beamer)
- Corpus searching tools (Sandra will do a session on TIGERSearch)
- Introduction to Unix
- Unicode
- SPSS
- R