Spring 2012

Date

Event

Speaker

01/25/2012Practice job talkSteve
02/01/2012PlanningÌý
02/08/2012Talk 1: Template Based Extraction without Templates (Chambers and Jurafsky, ACL 2011)

Talk 2: Learning Dependency-Based Compositional Semantics (Liang, Jordan, and Klein, ACL 2011)
Talk 1: Ifeyinwa

Talk 2: Lee
02/15/2012Talk 1: Project talk

Talk 2: What Determines Inter-Coder Agreement in Manual Annotations? A Meta-Analytic Investigation
Talk 1: Rodney

Talk 2: Claire and Anwen
02/17/2012ICS ColloquiumKurt VanLehn
02/29/2012Talk 1: Analysis of a Web-based Network of Educators (Galyard, Aleahmad, Fienberg, Junker and Hargadon, CMU TR 2009)

Talk 2: Project talk
Talk 1: Keith

Talk 2: Rodney
03/02/2012Talk 1: ICS Colloquium

Talk 2: Learning from Natural Instructions (D. Goldwasser and D. Roth, IJCAI 2011)

Talk 3: Driving Semantic Parsing from the World's Response (J. Clarke, D. Goldwasser, M. Chang, D. Roth, CoNLL 2010)
Talk 1: Dan Roth
03/07/2012Talk 1: Which Noun Phrases Denote Which Concepts? (Krishnamurthy and Mitchell, ACL 2011)

Talk 2: Learning to Grade Short Answer Questions using Semantic Similarity Measures and Dependency Graph Alignments (Mohler, Bunescu and Mihalcea, ACL 2011)
Talk 1: Rodney

Talk 2: Sudha
03/14/2012Practice run for Avaya Labs job talkLee
03/21/2012Talk 1: MEANT: An inexpensive, high-accuracy, semi-automatic metric for evaluating translation utility via semantic frames (Lo and Wu, ACL 2011)

Talk 2: Using Granularity Concepts for Discovering Causal Relations (Mulkar-Mehta, Welty, Hobbs and Hovy, FLAIRS 2011)
Talk 1: Wei-Te

Talk 2: Steve
04/04/2012Talk 1: Stanford’s Multi-Pass Sieve Coreference Resolution System at the CoNLL-2011 Shared Task (Lee, Peirsman, Chang, Chambers, Surdeanu and Jurafsky, CoNLL 2011)

Talk 2: Local and Global Algorithms for Disambiguation to Wikipedia (Lev Ratinov, Dan Roth, Doug Downey, Mike Anderson, HLT '11)
Talk 1: Jinho

Talk 2: Soheil
04/11/2012Painless Unsupervised Learning with Features (Berg-Kirkpatrick, Bouchard-Cote, DeNero and Klein, NAACL 2010)Steve, Shumin
04/18/2012Master's Thesis DefenseWil St. Clair
04/25/2012Optimizing Semantic Coherence in Topic Models (Mimno, Wallach, Talley, Leenders, McCallum, EMNLP 2011)Ìý
04/27/2012ICS ColloquiumAndrew McCallum
05/02/2012Linguistic kernels for answer re-ranking in question answering systems (Moschitti and Quarteroni, Information Processing and Management 2011)Jim