Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) Informatics Forum (4.31/4.33) *** PAST TALKS *** Tuesday 31 July 2018 2018 test talk1 Bob Fisher (rbf) Tuesday 31 July 2018, 13:05 - 13:55 Series: 30_07_2018 test list http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1421/show Friday 17 November 2017 A formal distributional semantics for cognitively-plausible reference acts Aurelie Herbelot Friday 17 November 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1225/show Friday 07 October 2016 A Kernel Independence Test for Geographical Language Variation Dong Nguyen Friday 07 October 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/717/show Friday 14 July 2017 A Mostly Data-driven Approach to Inverse Text Normalization Bharat Ram Ambati Friday 14 July 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1057/show Friday 13 November 2015 A Noisy Channel Model of Recipe Understanding Eugene Charniak Friday 13 November 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/281/show Tuesday 24 November 2015 A Statistical, Grammar-Based Approach to Micro-Planning Claire Gardent Tuesday 24 November 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/295/show Thursday 05 March 2015 Abel González Garcia, Andreea Radulescu, Yiming Yang will be speaking various Thursday 05 March 2015, 12:45 - 14:00 Series: Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/8/show Friday 27 January 2017 Agents of Jazz (?): Understanding and designing for interaction between improvising musicians Evan Morgan Friday 27 January 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: Informatics: Agents Group Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/801/show Tuesday 19 June 2018 ANC Seminar: Peter Richtarik Peter Richtarik Tuesday 19 June 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1398/show Tuesday 24 March 2015 ANC Workshop Talks from Konstantinos Georgatzis & Scott Lowe - details in Summary Talks from Konstantinos Georgatzis & Scott Lowe Tuesday 24 March 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/42/show Thursday 17 September 2015 Are Minority Dialects "Noisy Text"?: Implications of Social and Linguistic Diversity for Social Media NLP Brendan O'Connor Thursday 17 September 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/207/show Tuesday 26 May 2015 Aridhia Informatics Rodrigo Barnes Tuesday 26 May 2015, 16:30 - 17:30 Series: Data Science Industry Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/78/show Monday 16 March 2015 Auction Mechanism for Mixed Ads Sofia Ceppi, Microsoft Monday 16 March 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Series: Informatics: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/32/show Friday 14 August 2015 Automated Inference of Concurrency Structure for Safe Execution Gul Agha Friday 14 August 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Series: Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/130/show Wednesday 16 March 2016 Bias and Variance of Learning with Weighted Automata Borja Balle Wednesday 16 March 2016, 14:00 - 15:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/491/show Thursday 17 November 2016 Bringing Neural Machine Translation to Production at Large Scale Macduff Hughes Thursday 17 November 2016, 15:30 - 17:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/845/show Friday 01 April 2016 Building a large Parallel Meaning Bank Johan Bos Friday 01 April 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/516/show Monday 22 June 2015 Building Effective and Efficient Information Retrieval Systems Jimmy Lin Monday 22 June 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/90/show Tuesday 26 May 2015 CANCELLED Federico Ricci Tersengh, Associate Professor, Dept of Physics, Universita Sapienza, Rome Federico Ricci Tersengh, Associate Professor, Dept of Physics, Universita Sapienza, Rome Chair Matthias Hennig Tuesday 26 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/23/show Friday 14 September 2018 Challenges in Response Generation and Conversational AI Ondrej Dusek Friday 14 September 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1435/show Friday 26 February 2016 Cognitive ontologies: from the bottom up? Edouard Machery Friday 26 February 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/484/show Thursday 18 February 2016 Collision free whole-body Motion Planing on Humanoid Robots Vladimir Ivan Thursday 18 February 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Series: Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/486/show Friday 31 August 2018 Combining Human Knowledge with Neural Network Models: A Case Study for SLU and Beyond Yansong Feng Friday 31 August 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1430/show Monday 15 August 2016 Communication Without Mindreading Julian Schlöder Monday 15 August 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Series: Informatics: Agents Group Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/615/show Friday 14 October 2016 Computation and Storage in Language Timothy J. O'Donnell Friday 14 October 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/791/show Monday 25 May 2015 Computational Design of Functional Objects Niloy J. Mitra Monday 25 May 2015, 10:00 - 11:00 Series: Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/81/show Monday 30 March 2015 Computer Science and the Technological Revolution in Education Kobi Gal, Ben-­Gurion University Monday 30 March 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Series: Informatics: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/34/show Tuesday 17 March 2015 Confident predictions against an adversary Andrew Drucker Tuesday 17 March 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Series: Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/39/show Wednesday 08 April 2015 Creating Video Stories Lynda Hardman, CWI Amsterdam Wednesday 08 April 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Series: Informatics: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/52/show Tuesday 28 April 2015 Data Mining for Personalized Medicine Karsten Borgwardt, Professor of Data Mining, Department of Biosystems at ETH Zurich Chair: Guido Sanguinetti Tuesday 28 April 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/20/show Friday 19 May 2017 Data Visualization for Exploration, Explanation, and Beyond. Benjamin Bach Friday 19 May 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1030/show Friday 09 March 2018 Deep Learning Methods for Knowledge Base Population Heike Adel Friday 09 March 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1332/show Friday 10 November 2017 Dependency Minimal Recursion Semantics: what, why, how? Ann Copestake Friday 10 November 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1182/show Thursday 28 April 2016 Designing adaptive user technologies through automating collaborative experimentation: Coordinating practitioners and researchers in HCI, psychology, education, and statistical machine learning Joseph Williams Thursday 28 April 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/542/show Friday 27 February 2015 Detecting Figurative Language in Discourse Caroline Sporleder Friday 27 February 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/9/show Friday 07 October 2016 Distributed Linked Data as a Framework for Human-Machine Collaboration Paolo Pareti Friday 07 October 2016, 15:00 - 16:00 Series: Informatics: Agents Group Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/621/show Friday 22 June 2018 Do Programming Languages need Designers? Alan Blackwell Friday 22 June 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1402/show Thursday 03 December 2015 Efficient Constrained Inference and Structured Neural Networks for Semantic Role Labeling Oscar Täckström Thursday 03 December 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/344/show Monday 23 March 2015 Efficient Query Rewriting under Ontology Change Eleni Tsalapati, National Technical University of Athens Monday 23 March 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Series: Informatics: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/33/show Friday 27 October 2017 Emergence of linguistic knowledge in a visually-grounded model of speech Afra Alishahi Friday 27 October 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1104/show Friday 17 February 2017 Entailment in Compositional Distributional Semantics Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh Friday 17 February 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/904/show Tuesday 21 April 2015 EPSRC's Liam Blackwell, 15:45 Liam Blackwell Tuesday 21 April 2015, 15:45 - 16:45 Series: Informatics: Special Events http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/61/show Friday 05 May 2017 Explorations in the borderlands between vision and language. Timothy Hospedales Friday 05 May 2017, 12:30 - 14:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/998/show Friday 05 August 2016 Global Neural CCG Parsing with Optimality Guarantees Mike Lewis Friday 05 August 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/597/show Friday 09 March 2018 Grammars for generating isiXhosa and isiZulu weather bulletin verbs Zola Mahlaza Friday 09 March 2018, 15:00 - 16:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1343/show Friday 26 January 2018 Grammatical error correction across the spectrum of error types Matt Post Friday 26 January 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1303/show Friday 23 February 2018 Hints of linguistic structure in neural models of language and translation. Arianna Bisazza Friday 23 February 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1291/show Tuesday 11 September 2018 How Languages Carve Up the World: Modeling Developmental and Linguistic Relativity Effects Suzanne Stevenson Tuesday 11 September 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1434/show Friday 23 October 2015 How much linguistics is needed for NLP? Edward Grefenstette Friday 23 October 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/111/show Friday 10 June 2016 How social learning adds up to culture: from birdsong to human public opinion Ofer Tchernichovski Friday 10 June 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/571/show Friday 18 August 2017 Human active learning in dynamic physical microworlds Neil Bramley Friday 18 August 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1078/show Monday 08 January 2018 ICSA Colloquium - Dr. Thomas Pasquier (University of Cambridge) Dr. Thomas Pasquier (University of Cambridge) Monday 08 January 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Computing Systems Architecture Colloquium http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1270/show Tuesday 21 April 2015 Idris Eckley, Coherence analysis of locally stationary multivariate time series Idris Eckley, Deputy Director of the STOR-i Doctoral Training Centre, Lancaster University Chair Chris Williams Tuesday 21 April 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/18/show Tuesday 21 April 2015 Idris Eckley: Coherence analysis of locally stationary multivariate time serie Prof Idris Eckley, Deputy Director of the STOR-i Doctoral Training Centre, Lancaster University Tuesday 21 April 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: CDT in Data Science Academic Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/114/show Friday 17 July 2015 Improving and Better Understanding Word Vector Representations Manaal Faruqui Friday 17 July 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/109/show Tuesday 05 May 2015 Investigating cell-to-cell variability with Bayesian model selection and approximate likelihood Dr Sarah Filippi, Lecturer in Statistics, Oxford University Chair: Tom Thorne Tuesday 05 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/21/show Thursday 24 January 2019 IPAB Seminar - Hedi Tabia Hedi Tabia Thursday 24 January 2019, 13:00 - 14:00 Series: Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1707/show Thursday 28 May 2015 IPAB Workshop - 28/05/2015 @ 12:45 - Jasper Uijlings and Benjamin Risse Jasper Uijlings and Benjamin Risse Thursday 28 May 2015, 11:45 - 13:45 Series: Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/89/show Thursday 22 November 2018 IPAB Workshop - John Pisokas, Christian Rauch John Pisokas, Christian Rauch Thursday 22 November 2018, 12:45 - 14:00 Series: Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1653/show Thursday 21 December 2017 IPAB Workshop - Optimisation and stability - Michael Herrmann Michael Herrmann Thursday 21 December 2017, 12:45 - 13:45 Series: Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1271/show Tuesday 11 August 2015 John Quinn: Telecoms data analysis for disaster response and humanitarian planning Dr John Quinn, UN Global Pulse Kampala, Uganda Tuesday 11 August 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: CDT in Data Science Academic Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/113/show Friday 03 August 2018 Knowledge-Rich Deep Learning for Precision Medicine Hoifung Poon Friday 03 August 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1418/show Friday 04 November 2016 Language learning in humans and machines: making connections to make progress Sharon Goldwater Friday 04 November 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/804/show Tuesday 31 March 2015 Large-Scale Gaussian Process regression Marc Deisenroth, Research Fellow, Imperial College, Dept of Computing, Statistical Machine Learning Chair: Amos Storkey Tuesday 31 March 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/17/show Friday 24 April 2015 Learning about Shape Andrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research Cambridge) Friday 24 April 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Series: Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/64/show Tuesday 03 March 2015 Learning Analytics: Using Data to understand Learning Professor Dragan Gasevic, Chair in Learning Analytics and Informatics Tuesday 03 March 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/25/show Friday 02 December 2016 Learning Commonsense Event Schemas from Unlabeled Text Nate Chambers Friday 02 December 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/846/show Monday 27 June 2016 Learning from Weak Supervision: Combinatory Categorial Grammars and Historical Document Transcription Dan Garrette Monday 27 June 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/580/show Friday 13 May 2016 Learning from Zero Percy Liang Friday 13 May 2016, 11:30 - 13:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/552/show Tuesday 08 September 2015 Learning to Decipher the Heap for Program Verification Danny Tarlow, Microsoft Research, Cambridge Tuesday 08 September 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/115/show Friday 18 May 2018 Learning with limited labelled data in NLP: multi-task learning and beyond Isabelle Augenstein Friday 18 May 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1380/show Thursday 30 April 2015 LFCS Seminar: Francisco Ortin Francisco Ortin Thursday 30 April 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Series: Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/55/show Tuesday 12 May 2015 LFCS seminar: Magnus Myreen Speaker to be confirmed Tuesday 12 May 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Series: Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/56/show Tuesday 19 May 2015 LFCS seminar: Neelakantan (Neel) Krishnaswami Speaker to be confirmed Tuesday 19 May 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Series: Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/57/show Monday 02 March 2015 Logging-in Insecurely: Reverse-Engineering the Smart-Card Communication Layer Andriana Gkaniatsou Monday 02 March 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Series: Informatics: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/26/show Friday 02 February 2018 Machines that read and reason: Multi-hop reading comprehension across documents Pontus Stenetorp Friday 02 February 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1266/show Friday 29 January 2016 Making speech tangible: for better understanding of human speech communication Hideki Kawahara Friday 29 January 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/409/show Friday 13 April 2018 Metareasoning and mental simulation Jessica Hamrick Friday 13 April 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1352/show Tuesday 12 May 2015 Michael Black, Managing Director, Max Planck Institute Title and Abstract to follow Michael Black, Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tuebingen, Germany Chair: Chris Williams Tuesday 12 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/22/show Friday 20 May 2016 Modeling Dyadic Phenomena in Conversational Agents Justine Cassell Friday 20 May 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/551/show Thursday 24 March 2016 Modeling Topic-Partitioned Network Structure Hanna Wallach Thursday 24 March 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/522/show Monday 05 September 2016 Monolingual and multilingual, explicit and latent vector representations of meaning Roberto Navigli Monday 05 September 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/652/show Thursday 15 September 2016 Mozart's Laptop: Utilising Music Information Retrieval to Enhance Creativity David Bainbridge Thursday 15 September 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/655/show Friday 24 August 2018 Neural and symbolic semantic parsing with typed graph algebras Alexander Koller Friday 24 August 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1424/show Thursday 22 October 2015 Neural machine translation -- Progress Report Kyunghyun Cho Thursday 22 October 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/274/show Wednesday 04 November 2015 Next generation cross-lingual natural language processing Anders Søgaard Wednesday 04 November 2015, 14:00 - 15:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/250/show Friday 06 July 2018 NLP and Group Dynamics Gabriel Murray Friday 06 July 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1407/show Friday 18 November 2016 On #agony and #ecstasy: Potential and pitfalls of linguistic sentiment analysis (joint work with Karim Kassam) Seth Flaxman Friday 18 November 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/778/show Friday 03 July 2015 On the Goodness of Word Embeddings Hinrich Schuetze Friday 03 July 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/99/show Friday 12 May 2017 Open-Universe Probabilistic Models Vaishak Belle Friday 12 May 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1021/show Monday 06 July 2015 Padhraic Smyth: Latent Variable and Temporal Event Models for Network Data Prof Padhraic Smyth Monday 06 July 2015, 10:15 - 11:15 Series: CDT in Data Science Academic Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/104/show Thursday 05 April 2018 Parsing Scoped Meaning Representations Johan Bos Thursday 05 April 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1358/show Friday 25 November 2016 Polysemy and coercion - a frame-based approach using LTAG and Hybrid Logic Laura Kallmeyer Friday 25 November 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/851/show Wednesday 15 August 2018 post move test Bob Fisher (rbf) Wednesday 15 August 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Series: 30_07_2018 test list http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1428/show Friday 25 May 2018 Probabilistic modelling for NLP powered by deep learning Wilker Ferreira Aziz Friday 25 May 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1389/show Friday 29 May 2015 Probabilistic models of human language comprehension Roger Levy Friday 29 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/83/show Thursday 23 April 2015 Probabilistic synapses Professor Peter Latham, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL Chair: Mark van Rossum Thursday 23 April 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/27/show Monday 05 September 2016 Procedural Language and How-to-Knowledge: Learning to Parse and Compose Recipes Yejin Choi Monday 05 September 2016, 14:00 - 15:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/681/show Friday 24 April 2015 Pronominal Anaphora in Statistical Machine Translation Christian Hardmeier Friday 24 April 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/63/show Friday 03 March 2017 Quantitative Computational Syntax: Facets of Multi-linguality Paola Merlo Friday 03 March 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/963/show Thursday 28 May 2015 Quantum Coin Flipping Anna Pappa (University of Edinburgh) Thursday 28 May 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Series: Informatics: Security Seminar/Club http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/59/show Friday 04 September 2015 Readability analysis as an exploration of linguistic complexity Detmar Meurers Friday 04 September 2015, 14:00 - 15:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/117/show Friday 13 March 2015 Reasoning in Referential Games: Individual- vs. Population-Level Probabilistic Modeling Michael Franke Friday 13 March 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/16/show Friday 19 February 2016 Referential relations in the Polish Coreference Corpus Maciej Ogrodniczuk Friday 19 February 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/431/show Tuesday 12 January 2016 Reshma Munbodh - Univeristy of Pennsylvania - Sub-millimetre 2D-3D registration for image-guided radiation therapy Reshma Munbodh Tuesday 12 January 2016, 14:30 - 15:30 Series: Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/375/show Monday 08 August 2016 Semantic Alignment for Agent Interactions: making communication meaningful in open environments Paula Chocron Monday 08 August 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Series: Informatics: Agents Group Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/614/show Friday 30 September 2016 Semantic typology and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in computational perspective Terry Regier Friday 30 September 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/716/show Friday 04 March 2016 Sensing human behaviour with Internet data Suzy Moat Friday 04 March 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/495/show Friday 12 January 2018 Sensory maps Daniele Quercia Friday 12 January 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1265/show Friday 21 October 2016 Should Neural Network Architecture Reflect Linguistic Structure? Chris Dyer Friday 21 October 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/798/show Friday 15 April 2016 Simplicity and Specificity in Language: Domain-General Biases Have Domain-Specific Effects Simon Kirby & Jenny Culbertson Friday 15 April 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/515/show Friday 20 January 2017 Social Media Treasures for Data Science Walid Magdy Friday 20 January 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/892/show Thursday 06 August 2015 Social Power in Interactions: Computational Analysis and Detection of Power Vinodkumar Prabhakaran Thursday 06 August 2015, 15:00 - 16:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/110/show Friday 06 October 2017 Some tough and strange problems in automatic summarisation Natalie Schluter Friday 06 October 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1207/show Friday 04 December 2015 Statistical modelling of metaphor Ekaterina Shutova Friday 04 December 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/289/show Thursday 08 June 2017 Structure-sensitive dependency learning in recurrent neural networks Tal Linzen Thursday 08 June 2017, 15:30 - 17:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1032/show Friday 22 June 2018 test1 Bob Fisher (rbf) Friday 22 June 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 Series: rbf's Personal List http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1412/show Wednesday 06 April 2016 Testing low-level speech features against human perceptual data Naomi Feldman Wednesday 06 April 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/533/show Thursday 05 March 2015 Text-to-Speech Text Normalization at Google (Joint work with Keith Hall, Brian Roark, and many members of the TTS team in London) Richard Sproat Thursday 05 March 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/12/show Friday 10 April 2015 Texts Come from People - how Demographic Factors Influence NLP Dirk Hovy Friday 10 April 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/50/show Friday 15 May 2015 Textual Knowledge Representation and Exploration Ido Dagan Friday 15 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/73/show Thursday 04 August 2016 The Blocks World Redux Martha Palmer Thursday 04 August 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/595/show Tuesday 09 June 2015 The PolisGnosis Project: Enabling the Computational Analysis of City Performance Mark Fox, Global Cities Institute, University of Toronto Tuesday 09 June 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Series: Informatics: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/93/show Monday 20 April 2015 The Softer Side of Machine-Checked Proof Gerwin Klein, NICTA / UNSW Monday 20 April 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Series: Informatics: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/60/show Friday 16 September 2016 The unBias project Michael Rovatsos (mrovatso) Friday 16 September 2016, 15:00 - 16:00 Series: Informatics: Agents Group Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/711/show Tuesday 03 November 2015 TITLE AND ABSTRACT T/F Mykola Pechenizkiy, Dept of Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology Mykola Pechenizkiy, Dept of Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology Tuesday 03 November 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/116/show Tuesday 27 October 2015 Title and Abstract to follow: Prof Dirk Husmeier ,Chair of Statistics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Glasgow University Prof Dirk Husmeier ,Chair of Statistics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Glasgow University Tuesday 27 October 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/103/show Friday 22 May 2015 Towards a Universal Grammar for Natural Language Processing Joakim Nivre Friday 22 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/72/show Friday 24 November 2017 Towards dynamic adaptation in Natural Language Processing - where are we now? Barbara Plank Friday 24 November 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1254/show Friday 05 February 2016 Towards linguistic reference with distributional semantics Gemma Boleda Torrent Friday 05 February 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/434/show Friday 13 May 2016 Towards New Models of Question Answering Christopher Manning Friday 13 May 2016, 14:00 - 15:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/570/show Friday 28 April 2017 Transfer learning for discourse parsing Chloe Braud Friday 28 April 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1008/show Monday 20 April 2015 Two Methods for Exploiting Richer Source Information in SMT Roland Kuhn Monday 20 April 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/53/show Wednesday 15 August 2018 Two recent advances in Monte Carlo Tree Search Martin Müller Wednesday 15 August 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1419/show Friday 25 September 2015 Uncertainty in language and thought Noah Goodman Friday 25 September 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/182/show Friday 16 October 2015 Understanding Word Embeddings Omer Levy Friday 16 October 2015, 10:00 - 11:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/225/show Friday 22 September 2017 Usor Economicus - Modelling Search Interaction using Economics Leif Azzopardi Friday 22 September 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1183/show Friday 20 November 2015 Visualizing Linguistic Structure Miriam Butt Friday 20 November 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/303/show Friday 10 March 2017 What can an interdisciplinary Neuropolitics approach add to our understanding of public attitudes, behaviours and decision-processes? Laura Cram Friday 10 March 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Series: Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/974/show Monday 22 August 2016 Why semantics when pragmatics? And which? Replicator dynamics meets iterated Bayesian learning Thomas Brochhagen Monday 22 August 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Series: Informatics: Agents Group Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/622/show Monday 23 November 2015 YAMZ: better, faster, cheaper vocabulary standardization John Kunze, Berkeley/The California Digital Library Monday 23 November 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Series: Informatics: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications Seminars http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/345/show Powered by http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk