Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation Seminar Series
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2018 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Address: The Lost Combinator |
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Mark Steedman |
Fri 28 Sep 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) |
Challenges in Response Generation and Conversational AI |
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Ondrej Dusek |
Fri 14 Sep 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
How Languages Carve Up the World: Modeling Developmental and Linguistic Relativity Effects |
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Suzanne Stevenson |
Tue 11 Sep 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Combining Human Knowledge with Neural Network Models: A Case Study for SLU and Beyond |
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Yansong Feng |
Fri 31 Aug 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Neural and symbolic semantic parsing with typed graph algebras |
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Alexander Koller |
Fri 24 Aug 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Two recent advances in Monte Carlo Tree Search |
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Martin Müller |
Wed 15 Aug 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Knowledge-Rich Deep Learning for Precision Medicine |
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Hoifung Poon |
Fri 03 Aug 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
NLP and Group Dynamics |
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Gabriel Murray |
Fri 06 Jul 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Do Programming Languages need Designers? |
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Alan Blackwell |
Fri 22 Jun 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Probabilistic modelling for NLP powered by deep learning |
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Wilker Ferreira Aziz |
Fri 25 May 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Learning with limited labelled data in NLP: multi-task learning and beyond |
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Isabelle Augenstein |
Fri 18 May 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Metareasoning and mental simulation |
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Jessica Hamrick |
Fri 13 Apr 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Parsing Scoped Meaning Representations |
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Johan Bos |
Thu 05 Apr 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Grammars for generating isiXhosa and isiZulu weather bulletin verbs |
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Zola Mahlaza |
Fri 09 Mar 2018, 15:00 - 16:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Deep Learning Methods for Knowledge Base Population |
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Heike Adel |
Fri 09 Mar 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Hints of linguistic structure in neural models of language and translation. |
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Arianna Bisazza |
Fri 23 Feb 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Machines that read and reason: Multi-hop reading comprehension across documents |
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Pontus Stenetorp |
Fri 02 Feb 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Grammatical error correction across the spectrum of error types |
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Matt Post |
Fri 26 Jan 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Sensory maps |
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Daniele Quercia |
Fri 12 Jan 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Towards dynamic adaptation in Natural Language Processing - where are we now? |
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Barbara Plank |
Fri 24 Nov 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
A formal distributional semantics for cognitively-plausible reference acts |
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Aurelie Herbelot |
Fri 17 Nov 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Dependency Minimal Recursion Semantics: what, why, how? |
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Ann Copestake |
Fri 10 Nov 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Emergence of linguistic knowledge in a visually-grounded model of speech |
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Afra Alishahi |
Fri 27 Oct 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Some tough and strange problems in automatic summarisation |
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Natalie Schluter |
Fri 06 Oct 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Usor Economicus - Modelling Search Interaction using Economics |
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Leif Azzopardi |
Fri 22 Sep 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Human active learning in dynamic physical microworlds |
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Neil Bramley |
Fri 18 Aug 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
A Mostly Data-driven Approach to Inverse Text Normalization |
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Bharat Ram Ambati |
Fri 14 Jul 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Structure-sensitive dependency learning in recurrent neural networks |
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Tal Linzen |
Thu 08 Jun 2017, 15:30 - 17:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Automatically drawing inferences |
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Marie-Catherine de Marneffe |
Wed 24 May 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) |
Data Visualization for Exploration, Explanation, and Beyond. |
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Benjamin Bach |
Fri 19 May 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Open-Universe Probabilistic Models |
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Vaishak Belle |
Fri 12 May 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Explorations in the borderlands between vision and language. |
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Timothy Hospedales |
Fri 05 May 2017, 12:30 - 14:00 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Transfer learning for discourse parsing |
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Chloe Braud |
Fri 28 Apr 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
What can an interdisciplinary Neuropolitics approach add to our understanding of public attitudes, behaviours and decision-processes? |
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Laura Cram |
Fri 10 Mar 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Quantitative Computational Syntax: Facets of Multi-linguality |
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Paola Merlo |
Fri 03 Mar 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Entailment in Compositional Distributional Semantics |
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Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh |
Fri 17 Feb 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Social Media Treasures for Data Science |
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Walid Magdy |
Fri 20 Jan 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Learning Commonsense Event Schemas from Unlabeled Text |
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Nate Chambers |
Fri 02 Dec 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Polysemy and coercion - a frame-based approach using LTAG and Hybrid Logic |
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Laura Kallmeyer |
Fri 25 Nov 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
On #agony and #ecstasy: Potential and pitfalls of linguistic sentiment analysis (joint work with Karim Kassam) |
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Seth Flaxman |
Fri 18 Nov 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Bringing Neural Machine Translation to Production at Large Scale |
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Macduff Hughes |
Thu 17 Nov 2016, 15:30 - 17:00 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Language learning in humans and machines: making connections to make progress |
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Sharon Goldwater |
Fri 04 Nov 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Should Neural Network Architecture Reflect Linguistic Structure? |
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Chris Dyer |
Fri 21 Oct 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Computation and Storage in Language |
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Timothy J. O'Donnell |
Fri 14 Oct 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
A Kernel Independence Test for Geographical Language Variation |
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Dong Nguyen |
Fri 07 Oct 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Semantic typology and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in computational perspective |
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Terry Regier |
Fri 30 Sep 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Mozart's Laptop: Utilising Music Information Retrieval to Enhance Creativity |
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David Bainbridge |
Thu 15 Sep 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
From the Periphery Towards the Centre of the Information Society: Alt-i, NLP, HLT and African Languages |
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Tunde Adegbola |
Wed 07 Sep 2016, 11:30 - 13:00 |
Chrystal MacMillan Building - Seminar Room 5 |
Procedural Language and How-to-Knowledge: Learning to Parse and Compose Recipes |
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Yejin Choi |
Mon 05 Sep 2016, 14:00 - 15:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Monolingual and multilingual, explicit and latent vector representations of meaning |
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Roberto Navigli |
Mon 05 Sep 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Global Neural CCG Parsing with Optimality Guarantees |
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Mike Lewis |
Fri 05 Aug 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
The Blocks World Redux |
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Martha Palmer |
Thu 04 Aug 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Learning from Weak Supervision: Combinatory Categorial Grammars and Historical Document Transcription |
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Dan Garrette |
Mon 27 Jun 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
How social learning adds up to culture: from birdsong to human public opinion |
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Ofer Tchernichovski |
Fri 10 Jun 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Modeling Dyadic Phenomena in Conversational Agents |
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Justine Cassell |
Fri 20 May 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Towards New Models of Question Answering |
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Christopher Manning |
Fri 13 May 2016, 14:00 - 15:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Learning from Zero |
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Percy Liang |
Fri 13 May 2016, 11:30 - 13:00 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Simplicity and Specificity in Language: Domain-General Biases Have Domain-Specific Effects |
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Simon Kirby & Jenny Culbertson |
Fri 15 Apr 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Testing low-level speech features against human perceptual data |
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Naomi Feldman |
Wed 06 Apr 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Building a large Parallel Meaning Bank |
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Johan Bos |
Fri 01 Apr 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Modeling Topic-Partitioned Network Structure |
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Hanna Wallach |
Thu 24 Mar 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Bias and Variance of Learning with Weighted Automata |
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Borja Balle |
Wed 16 Mar 2016, 14:00 - 15:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Sensing human behaviour with Internet data |
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Suzy Moat |
Fri 04 Mar 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Cognitive ontologies: from the bottom up? |
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Edouard Machery |
Fri 26 Feb 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Referential relations in the Polish Coreference Corpus |
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Maciej Ogrodniczuk |
Fri 19 Feb 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Towards linguistic reference with distributional semantics |
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Gemma Boleda Torrent |
Fri 05 Feb 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Making speech tangible: for better understanding of human speech communication |
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Hideki Kawahara |
Fri 29 Jan 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Statistical modelling of metaphor |
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Ekaterina Shutova |
Fri 04 Dec 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Efficient Constrained Inference and Structured Neural Networks for Semantic Role Labeling |
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Oscar Täckström |
Thu 03 Dec 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
A Statistical, Grammar-Based Approach to Micro-Planning |
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Claire Gardent |
Tue 24 Nov 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Visualizing Linguistic Structure |
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Miriam Butt |
Fri 20 Nov 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
A Noisy Channel Model of Recipe Understanding |
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Eugene Charniak |
Fri 13 Nov 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Next generation cross-lingual natural language processing |
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Anders Søgaard |
Wed 04 Nov 2015, 14:00 - 15:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
How much linguistics is needed for NLP? |
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Edward Grefenstette |
Fri 23 Oct 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Neural machine translation -- Progress Report |
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Kyunghyun Cho |
Thu 22 Oct 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Understanding Word Embeddings |
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Omer Levy |
Fri 16 Oct 2015, 10:00 - 11:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Uncertainty in language and thought |
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Noah Goodman |
Fri 25 Sep 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Are Minority Dialects "Noisy Text"?: Implications of Social and Linguistic Diversity for Social Media NLP |
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Brendan O'Connor |
Thu 17 Sep 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Readability analysis as an exploration of linguistic complexity |
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Detmar Meurers |
Fri 04 Sep 2015, 14:00 - 15:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Social Power in Interactions: Computational Analysis and Detection of Power |
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Vinodkumar Prabhakaran |
Thu 06 Aug 2015, 15:00 - 16:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Improving and Better Understanding Word Vector Representations |
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Manaal Faruqui |
Fri 17 Jul 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
On the Goodness of Word Embeddings |
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Hinrich Schuetze |
Fri 03 Jul 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Building Effective and Efficient Information Retrieval Systems |
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Jimmy Lin |
Mon 22 Jun 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Probabilistic models of human language comprehension |
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Roger Levy |
Fri 29 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Towards a Universal Grammar for Natural Language Processing |
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Joakim Nivre |
Fri 22 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Textual Knowledge Representation and Exploration |
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Ido Dagan |
Fri 15 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Pronominal Anaphora in Statistical Machine Translation |
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Christian Hardmeier |
Fri 24 Apr 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Two Methods for Exploiting Richer Source Information in SMT |
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Roland Kuhn |
Mon 20 Apr 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Texts Come from People - how Demographic Factors Influence NLP |
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Dirk Hovy |
Fri 10 Apr 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Reasoning in Referential Games: Individual- vs. Population-Level Probabilistic Modeling |
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Michael Franke |
Fri 13 Mar 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Text-to-Speech Text Normalization at Google (Joint work with Keith Hall, Brian Roark, and many members of the TTS team in London) |
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Richard Sproat |
Thu 05 Mar 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Detecting Figurative Language in Discourse |
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Caroline Sporleder |
Fri 27 Feb 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |