Spring 2012
Spring 2012
Date | Event | Speaker |
| 01/25/2012 | Practice job talk | Steve |
| 02/01/2012 | Planning | Ìý |
| 02/08/2012 | Talk 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 |
| 02/15/2012 | Talk 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 |
| 02/17/2012 | ICS Colloquium | Kurt VanLehn |
| 02/29/2012 | Talk 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 |
| 03/02/2012 | Talk 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 |
| 03/07/2012 | Talk 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 |
| 03/14/2012 | Practice run for Avaya Labs job talk | Lee |
| 03/21/2012 | Talk 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 |
| 04/04/2012 | Talk 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 |
| 04/11/2012 | Painless Unsupervised Learning with Features (Berg-Kirkpatrick, Bouchard-Cote, DeNero and Klein, NAACL 2010) | Steve, Shumin |
| 04/18/2012 | Master's Thesis Defense | Wil St. Clair |
| 04/25/2012 | Optimizing Semantic Coherence in Topic Models (Mimno, Wallach, Talley, Leenders, McCallum, EMNLP 2011) | Ìý |
| 04/27/2012 | ICS Colloquium | Andrew McCallum |
| 05/02/2012 | Linguistic kernels for answer re-ranking in question answering systems (Moschitti and Quarteroni, Information Processing and Management 2011) | Jim |