We vote for papers of recent conferences and discuss popular papers resulting from these votes. We (Rob and Gertjan) have selected the following papers:

• ACL 2015

The results of the vote can be seen here:

• Vote results

You are always welcome to suggest another paper. You can do this at the bottom of the form, or e-mail Rob van der Goot (r.van.der.goot [at] rug.nl). A lot of good and interesting papers can be found at the acl anthology: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/

Especially the papers of acl 15 and naacl 15 are usually of good quality.

• popular science blurb on it in 'New Scientist' at http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628916.300-twitter-shows-language-evolves-in-cities.html#.Uv4lw2JdV8E
• book: Probabilistic Models in the Study of Language (Harm, added 20110920)
• chapter 7 Answer Sets from the Handbook of Knowledge Representation (2007)
• book: Jurafsky and Martin: Speech and Natural Language Processing
• book: MacKay: Information Theory
• book: Marsland: Machine Learning

Within the research institure CLCG there are many other reading groups that could be of interest to Alfa-informatica people. For more information, check out the CLCG website. The Stanford NLP Reading Group covers many papers which are also interesting for us.

• ACL 2013 in Sofia: proceedings | favorite papers
• ACL 2014 in Baltimore