An almost-weekly discussion group held on Tuesdays at 11am in 401.

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 - Effect of syntactic parsing schemes on alignment

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