====== Meetings in 2014/2015 ====== ^ Date and Room ^ Speaker and Topic ^ | **26 June 2015** \\ 1312.0012 | **Kilian Evang**: on his cross-lingual semantic parsing research. | | **19 June 2015** \\ 1312.0012 | Student thesis work presentations: **Manuela Huerlimann**, **Benno Weck**. | | **12 June 2015** \\ 1312.0012 | Invited talk: **Tejaswini Deoskar**, University of Edinburgh: "Generalising Strongly-Lexicalised Parsers" [[abstract_12062015_tejaswini.txt|abstract/bio]]\\ Student thesis work presentations: **Lennart Kloppenburg**, **Min Fang**. | | **5 June 2015** | TABU dag. | | **29 May 2015, 12:10-13:10 ** \\ Van Swinderen Huys, Oude Boteringestraat 19 | **Johan Bos** \\ "Lost in Translation: Using Big Data to Study the Meaning of Language". BCN Symposium: Using Big Data | | **15 May 2015** | Holiday. | | **22 May 2015** \\ 1312.0013 | Visiting talk: **Ivan Titov**, ILLC, University of Amsterdam \\ Inducing Semantic Representations from Text with Little or No Supervision \\ [[abstract_13022015_ivan.txt|abstract]] \\ | | **8 May 2015** \\ 1312.0013 | **Valerio Basile**: WordNet as an Ontology for Generation \\ | | **1 May 2015** \\ 1312.0013 | **Simon Šuster** \\ Bender, Emily M. 2011. On Achieving and Evaluating Language-Independence in NLP. [[http://elanguage.net/journals/lilt/article/download/2624/2603]] Linguistic Issues in Language Technology. Special Issue on Interaction of Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, 6(3):1-26. \\ | | **24 April 2015** \\ 1312.0013 | **Pieter Nauta** \\ Bhagat, Rahul and Hovy, Eduard (2013) Squibs: What Is a Paraphrase? [[http://aclweb.org/anthology/J13-3001]]. Computational Linguistics vol 39: 3. \\ | | **17 April 2015** \\ 1312.0013 | **Sander Kersten** \\ Marjan Ghazvininejad and Kevin Knight (2015) How to Memorize a Random 60-Bit String [[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/mt/memorize-random-60.pdf]]. NAACL. \\ | | **10 April 2015** \\ 1312.0013 | **Valerio Basile** \\ Rubicon grant application presentation \\ | | **27 March 2015** \\ 1312.0013 | **Rob van der Goot** \\ Foster, Jennifer, et al. (2011) "# hardtoparse: POS Tagging and Parsing the Twitterverse." AAAI 2011 Workshop on Analyzing Microtext. [[https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00702445/document]] \\ | | **3 April 2015** \\ 1312.0013 | holidays \\ | | **20 March 2015** \\ 1312.0013 | **Jaap Nanninga** \\ Marek Rei and Ted Briscoe (2014) Looking for Hyponyms in Vector Space. [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1608]] \\ | | **13 March 2015** \\ 1312.0013 | Video: Learning to Behave by Reading, by Regina Barzilay. \\ [[http://videolectures.net/aaai2012_barzilay_learning/?q=regina%20barzilay]] \\ | | **6 March 2015** \\ 1312.0013 | **Gertjan van Noord** \\ //"Historical paper series"// \\ Kay, M. (1997). The proper place of men and machines in language translation. Machine translation, 12(1-2), 3-23. \\ | | **27 February 2015** \\ 1312.0013 | **Jaap Nanninga** \\ Master's thesis topic presentation \\ **Gosse Bouma** \\ Grant proposal on "Twitter linguistics" | | **20 February 2015** \\ 11:00-13:00 **(!)** \\ 1312.0025 | **Malvina Nissim** and **Simon Šuster** \\ On authorship verification (based on student projects) \\ Reading: PAN 2013 and 2014 task overviews | | **13 February 2015**\\ 1312.0013 | A short meeting without paper presentation | | **13 February 2015**\\ //postponed// | Visiting talk: **Ivan Titov**, ILLC, University of Amsterdam \\ Inducing Semantic Representations from Text with Little or No Supervision \\ | | **6 February 2015** | No meeting (Clin Antwerp) | | **30 January 2015** \\ 1313.0346 | Clin try-out talks (2):\\ **Dieke** \\ **Gregory** \\ **Hessel** \\ **Rik** | | **23 January 2015** \\ 1313.0346 | Clin try-out talks (1):\\ **Gosse** \\ **Johannes** \\ **Rob** \\ **Simon** | | **9 January 2015** | No meeting | | **16 January 2015** \\ 1313.0346 | New Year's introductory meeting | | **26 December 2014** | No meeting | | **2 January 2015** | No meeting | | **19 December 2014** \\ 1315.0037 | **MA-thesis topic presentations:** \\ Heleen Feijen \\ Martijn Boekema \\ Mark Doggen \\ Lennart Kloppenburg \\ | | **12 December 2014** \\ 1315.0037 | **MA-thesis topic presentations:** \\ Patrick Derichs \\ Erik Nijenhuis \\ Darlington Isaacs \\ Casper Gehner \\ | | **5 December 2014** | No meeting | | **28 November 2014** \\ 1315.0037 | ** Mark Doggen ** \\ Andrea Moro, Alessandro Raganato, Roberto Navigli (2014) Entity Linking meets Word Sense Disambiguation: a Unified Approach [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/Q14-1019.pdf]] \\ **Valerio Basile** \\ CLiC-it try-out \\ **MA thesis topic suggestions by staff:** \\ Kilian Evang: {{bang.pdf|How Much Bang for the Buck?}} \\ Simon Šuster: {{sustermaproposal2014.pdf|The role of annotation scheme and parser accuracy in learning word representations}} \\ Gregory Mills: \\ Johan Bos: \\ Malvina Nissim: {{projectideas.pdf|1. Winograd Schema Challenge; 2. Patterns of moods}}\\ Gosse Bouma: {{abbreviations.pdf|Abbreviated (and other OOV) words in Dutch tweets}} \\ Rob van der Goot: {{proposal_rob.pdf|Lexical Normalisation taking into account one-to- multiple relations}}\\ Leonie Bosveld: \\ Martijn Wieling: {{ma.pptx|Automatically judging the native-likeness of a learner’s English pronunciation}} \\ Martijn Wieling and Gosse Bouma: {{ma.pptx|Characterizing Dutch and Flemish language use on Twitter}} \\ John Nerbonne and Jelke Bloem: {{ma.pptx|Discovering typical characteristics of English accents; Accents and the language tree}} \\ | | **21 November 2014** \\ 1315.0037 | **Martijn Boekema** \\ Patrick Pantel, Michael Gamon, Ariel Fuxman (2014) Smart Selection [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P14/P14-1143.pdf]] \\ | | **14 November 2014** \\ 1315.0037 | **Erik Nijenhuis** \\ Deyu Zhou, Liangyu Chen, Yulan He (2014) A Simple Bayesian Modelling Approach to Event Extraction from Twitter [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P14/P14-2114.pdf]] \\ | | **7 November 2014** \\ 1315.0037 | **Heleen Feijen** \\ Aditya Joshi, Abhijit Mishra, Nivvedan Senthamilselvan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2014) Measuring Sentiment Annotation Complexity of Text [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P14/P14-2007.pdf]] \\ | | **31 October 2014** \\ TBA | Digital Humanities Day\\ registration: cdh@rug.nl | | **24 October 2014** \\ 1315.0037 | **Casper Gehner ** Byron C. Wallace, Do Kook Choe, Laura Kertz, Eugene Charniak (2014) Humans Require Context to Infer Ironic Intent (so Computers Probably do, too) [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P14/P14-2084.pdf]] \\ | | **17 October 2014** \\ 1315.0037 | **Lennart Kloppenburg ** Ryo Nagata, Mikko Vilenius, Edward Whittake (2014) Correcting Preposition Errors in Learner English Using Error Case Frames and Feedback Messages [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P14-1071.pdf]] \\ | | **10 October 2014** \\ 1315.0037 | **Simon Šuster** \\ Introducing word embeddings (continuing) | | **3 October 2014** \\ 1315.0037 | **Darlington Isaacs** \\ Jonathan Berant, Percy Liang 2014 Semantic Parsing via Paraphrasing [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P14/P14-1133.pdf]] \\ | | **26 September 2014** \\ 1315.0037 | **Simon Šuster** \\ Introducing word embeddings \\ | | **19 September 2014** \\ 1315.0037 | **Patrick Derichs** \\ Omer Levy and Yoav Goldberg (2014): Linguistic Regularities in Sparse and Explicit Word Representations [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/K/K14/W/W14/W14-1618.pdf]]\\ | | **12 September 2014** \\ 1315.0037 | **Gertjan van Noord** \\ Marco Baroni; Georgiana Dinu; Germán Kruszewski (2013) Don't count, predict! A systematic comparison of context-counting vs. context-predicting semantic vectors. [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P14/P14-1023.pdf]]\\ | | **5 September 2014** \\ 1315.0037 | Introductory meeting | | **27 June 2014** \\ 1312.0012 | **Çağrı Çöltekin** \\ A Bayesian tutorial\\ | | **20 June 2014** \\ | No meeting \\ | | **13 June 2014** | No meeting (TABU Dag), see 11 June. \\ | | **11 June 2014** \\ 1312.0018 \\ at **16:00** | **Gertjan van Noord** \\ ACL president talk try-out | | **6 June 2014** \\ 1312.0012 | ** John Nerbonne **\\ Eisenstein et al (2012) Mapping the Geographical Diffusion of New Words [[http://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.5268v1.pdf]]| | **30 May 2014** | No meeting \\ | | **23 May 2014** \\ Turf.12,\\ at **13:45** | **Barbara Plank (video)** \\ B. Plank, D. Hovy and A. Søgaard (2014) Learning POS taggers with inter-annotator agreement loss. [[http://cst.dk/bplank/papers/eacl2014-costsensitive.pdf]]| | **16 May 2014** \\ 1312.0012 | **Rob van der Goot** \\ Master's thesis presentation | | **9 May 2014** | No meeting (PyGrunn) \\ | | **2 May 2014** \\ 1312.0012 | **Kilian Evang**: PyGrunn try-out talk ([[abstract_02052014_kilian.txt|abstract]])\\ **Valerio Basile**: PyGrunn talk outline| | **25 April 2014** \\ 1312.0012 | Research round only. \\ | | **18 April 2014** | No meeting (Good Friday) \\ | | **11 April 2014** \\ 1312.0019 | ** Harm Brouwer ** \\ The Electrophysiology of Language Comprehension: A Neurocomputational Model [[abstract_11042014.txt|abstract]]\\ | | **4 April 2014** \\ 1312.0012 | ** Dieke Oele **\\ Chi-kiu Lo, Dekai Wu (2011), MEANT, an inexpensive, high-accuracy, semi-automatic metric for evaluating translation utility via semantic frames. [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P11-1023.pdf]]| | **28 March 2014** | No meeting (afdelingsuitje) \\ | | **21 March 2014** \\ 1312.0012 | ** Noortje Venhuizen ** \\ Henk Zeevat (2013), Perspectives on Bayesian Natural Language Semantics and Pragmatics (link to pdf sent by e-mail)| | **14 March 2014** \\ 1312.0012 | **Çağrı Çöltekin** \\ Goldwater et al. paper cont'd| | **7 March 2014** | No meeting. \\ **John Nerbonne**'s talk at [[http://dbaskent.org/Auditory_seminars.html]] | | **28 February 2014** \\ 1312.0012 | **Gregory Mills** \\ Semantic coordination in dialogue: miscommunication drives abstraction (tentative)| | **21 February 2014** \\ 1312.0012 | **Çağrı Çöltekin** \\ Sharon Goldwater, Thomas L. Griffiths, Mark Johnson (2011), Producing Power-Law Distributions and Damping Word Frequencies with Two-Stage Language Models. [[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2021075&CFID=292420605&CFTOKEN=25125968]]| | **14 February 2014** \\ 1312.0012 | **Gosse Bouma** \\ David Bamman, Jacob Eisenstein, Tyler Schnoebelen (2012), Gender in Twitter: Styles, stances, and social networks (under review). [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.4567]]| | **7 February 2014** \\ 1312.0012 | **Çağrı Çöltekin** \\ his work on morphological analysis and disambiguation | | **24 January 2014** \\ Oude Boteringestraat 23, room 15 | **Mark Doggen** \\ work that he and Robert-Jan Verheggen did for their B.A. thesis and that has lead to the web site [[http://www.nieuwscitaten.nl]] | | **10 January 2014** \\ Oude Boteringestraat 23, room 15 | **Valerio Basile** \\ **Vinnie Ko** \\ **Simon Suster** \\ **Noortje Venhuizen** \\ CLIN tryout talks |