====== Past RG sessions ====== (For the current semester see [[courses::rg|the main RG page]]) === Spring&Summer 2016 === ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | ^ Feb 22 | Martin Popel | W Ammar, G Mulcaire, M Ballesteros, C Dyer, NA Smith: [[http://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.01595.pdf|One Parser, Many Languages]] 2016 | ^ Feb 29 | | cont. | ^ Mar 7 | Jindřich Libovický | Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Sumit Chopra, Michael Auli, Wojciech Zaremba: [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06732|Sequence Level Training with Recurrent Neural Networks]], 2016 | ^ Mar 14 | Jindřich Libovický | cont. | ^ May 21 | Jindřich Helcl | Debanjan Ghosh, Weiwei Guo, Smaranda Muresan: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D15-1116|Sarcastic or Not: Word Embeddings to Predict the Literal or Sarcastic Meaning of Words]] EMNLP 2015 | ^ Mar 28 | no RG | Easter Monday | ^ Apr 4 | Milan Straka | Stack LSTM http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.08075 | ^ Apr 11 | Milan Straka | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06270|Multi-Task Cross-Lingual Sequence Tagging from Scratch]] and eventually also [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01360|Network Architectures for NER]] | ^ Apr 18 | Rudolf Rosa | Rico Sennrich, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch: [[http://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.07909v3.pdf|Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units]], 2016| ^ Apr 25 | Tom Kocmi | Jiwei Li, Michel Galley, Chris Brockett, Jianfeng Gao, Bill Dolan: [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06155|A Persona-Based Neural Conversation Model]], 2016| ^ May 2 | Pasky | Petr Baudiš, Jan Šedivý: [[http://pasky.or.cz/sps.pdf|Sentence Pair Scoring: Towards Unified Framework for Text Comprehension]], 2016 | ^ May 9 | Martin Popel | Zhaopeng Tu, Zhengdong Lu, Yang Liu, Xiaohua Liu, Hang Li: [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.04811v3.pdf|Modeling Coverage for Neural Machine Translation]], 2016 | ^ May 16 | Shadi Saleh | Guido Zuccon et al. [[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2838936|Integrating and evaluating neural word embeddings in information retrieval]], 2015 | ^ May 23 | special last RG | travelling to LREC | === Autumn&Winter 2015/2016 === ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | ^ Oct 5 | | startup meeting | ^ Oct 12 | Lukáš, Milan | Programming hackaton, based on [[http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs168/|The Modern Algorithmic Toolbox]], read in advance lecture [[http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs168/l/l1.pdf|1]] and [[http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs168/l/l2.pdf|2]] | ^ Oct 19 | Martin | Mark Johnson: [[http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs195-5/fall2009/docs/lecture_10-27.pdf|A brief introduction to kernel classifiers]], 2009. You can also read [[http://ciml.info/dl/v0_9/ciml-v0_9-ch09.pdf|a chapter from ciml.info]]. [[courses:rg:2014:kernels|Questions]] | ^ Oct 26 | Lukáš, Milan | hands-on tutorial on using some neural network toolkit | ^ Nov 2 | Adéla | Michael Collins: [[http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/acl/W/W02/W02-1001.pdf|Discriminative Training Methods for Hidden Markov Models: Theory and Experiments with Perceptron Algorithms]], EMNLP 2002. [[courses:rg:2014:perceptron|Questions]] | ^ Nov 9 | — | no RG, dean's day | ^ Nov 16 | | cont. from last RG | ^ Nov 23 | Milan, Lukáš | NN hackaton | ^ Nov 30 | Aneta | Andrew McCallum, Dayne Freitag, Fernando Pereira: [[http://www.ai.mit.edu/courses/6.891-nlp/READINGS/maxent.pdf|Maximum Entropy Markov Models for Information Extraction and Segmentation]], Conference on Machine Learning 2000, [[http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i290-dm/s11/SECURE/gidofalvi.pdf|slides]] [[courses:rg:2014:memm|Questions]]| ^ Dec 7 | Adéla | Charles J. Fillmore: [[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.494.5064&rep=rep1&type=pdf|Border Conflicts: FrameNet Meets Construction Grammar]], 2008 | ^ Dec 14 | Aneta | Tomas Mikolov, Kai Chen, Greg Corrado, Jeffrey Dean: [[http://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.3781.pdf|Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space]], ICLR 2013 | === Autumn&Winter 2014/2015 === ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | ^ Oct 6 | | startup meeting | ^ Oct 13 | Jindřich Libovický | Peter F. Brown et all.: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/J92-4003|Class-Based n-gram Models of Natural Language]], Computational Linguistics, 1992. See also [[http://statmt.blogspot.cz/2014/07/understanding-mkcls.html| notes about the mkcls implementation]] | ^ Oct 20 | Tomáš Kraut | Michael Collins: [[http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/acl/W/W02/W02-1001.pdf|Discriminative Training Methods for Hidden Markov Models: Theory and Experiments with Perceptron Algorithms]], EMNLP 2002. [[courses:rg:2014:perceptron|Questions]]| ^ Oct 27 | Roman Sudarikov | Andrew McCallum, Dayne Freitag, Fernando Pereira: [[http://www.ai.mit.edu/courses/6.891-nlp/READINGS/maxent.pdf|Maximum Entropy Markov Models for Information Extraction and Segmentation]], Conference on Machine Learning 2000, [[http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i290-dm/s11/SECURE/gidofalvi.pdf|slides]] [[courses:rg:2014:memm|Question]]| ^ Nov 3 | Dušan Variš | John Lafferty, Andrew McCallum, Fernando Pereira: [[http://www.cs.utah.edu/~piyush/teaching/crf.pdf|Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data]], 2001. [[courses:rg:2014:crf|Questions]] | ^ Nov 10 | Duc Tam Hoang | Joseph Turian, Lev Ratinov, Yoshua Bengio: [[http://anthology.aclweb.org//P/P10/P10-1040.pdf|Word representations: A simple and general method for semi-supervised learning]], ACL 2010. [[courses:rg:2014:wr|Questions]]| ^ Nov 17 | --- | no RG (Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day) | ^ Nov 24 | Vendula Michlíková | Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward, and Wei-Jing Zhu: [[http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P02/P02-1040.pdf|BLEU: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation]], ACL 2002. [[courses:rg:2014:bleu|Questions]] | ^ Dec 1 | Richard Ejem | Marco Pennacchiotti, Patrick Pantel: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D09-1025|Entity Extraction via Ensemble Semantics]], ACL 2009. [[courses:rg:2014:entity|Questions]] | ^ Dec 8 | Nguyen Tien Dat| Elia Bruni,... and Marco Baroni: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W11-2503.pdf|Distributional semantics from text and images]], EMNLP 2011 : [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P12-1015.pdf|Distributional Semantics in Technicolor]], ACL 2012 [[courses:rg:2014:mDSM|Questions]]| ^ Dec 15 |Ahmad Aghaebrahimian |Qingqing Cai, Alexander Yates: [[http://knight.cis.temple.edu/~yates/papers/open-sem-parsing.pdf|Semantic Parsing Freebase: Towards Open-domain Semantic Parsing]] SEM,2013 [[courses:rg:2014:start|Questions]]| ^ Jan 5 | Michal Auersperger | Mark Johnson: [[http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs195-5/fall2009/docs/lecture_10-27.pdf|A brief introduction to kernel classifiers]], 2009. You can also read [[http://ciml.info/dl/v0_9/ciml-v0_9-ch09.pdf|a chapter from ciml.info]]. [[courses:rg:2014:kernels|Questions]] | === Spring&Summer 2014 === ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | ^ Feb 24 | | startup meeting, John Langford: [[http://hunch.net/?p=224|All Models of Learning have Flaws]], 2007 | ^ Mar 3 | Vincent | RExtractor – A Framework for Extracting Relations from Texts, 2014 | ^ Mar 10 | Rudolf | MLFix | ^ Mar 17 | Petra | paraphrases | ^ Mar 23 | Martin | [[http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~popel/treex/sheet.pdf|Treex]] | ^ Mar 31 | Ivana | Sun, Grishman, Sekine: [[http://aclweb.org/anthology/P/P11/P11-1053.pdf|Semi-supervised Relation Extraction with Large-scale Word Clustering]], ACL 2011 | ^ Apr 7 | Loganathan | McDonald, Petrov, Hall: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D11-1006.pdf|Multi-source Transfer of Delexicalized Dependency Parsers]], EMNLP 2011 | ^ Apr 14 | Vincent | Keith Hall: [[http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P07/P07-1050.pdf|k-best Spanning Tree Parsing]], ACL 2007 | ^ Apr 21 | no RG | Easter | ^ Apr 28 | Rudolf | Goldberg, Elhadad: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N10-1115.pdf|An Efficient Algorithm for Easy-First Non-Directional Dependency Parsing]], NAACL 2010 | ^ May 5 | Petra | Goldberg, Orwant: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/S13-1035.pdf|A Dataset of Syntactic-Ngrams over Time from a Very Large Corpus of English Books]], 2013 | ^ May 12 | Ivana | short paper for LAW VIII | ^ May 19 | Ruda, Petra | dry-run presentations for LREC | === Autumn&Winter 2013/2014 === ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | ^ Oct 7 | | startup meeting | ^ Oct 14 | Martin Popel | Joseph P. Simmons, Leif D. Nelson, Uri Simonsohn: [[http://people.psych.cornell.edu/~jec7/pcd%20pubs/simmonsetal11.pdf|False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant]], Psychological Science, 2011. [[courses:rg:2013:false-positive-psychology|Questions]]| ^ Oct 21 | Rudolf Rosa | Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Christopher D. Manning: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W08-1301.pdf|The Stanford typed dependencies representation]], Coling 2008. [[courses:rg:2013:stanford-dependencies|Questions and Answers]] | ^ Oct 28 | — | no RG, Independent Czechoslovak State Day | ^ Nov 4 | Jan Mašek | Slav Petrov, Dipanjan Das, Ryan McDonald: [[http://www.petrovi.de/data/universal.pdf|A Universal Part-of-Speech Tagset]] and McDonald et al.: [[http://ryanmcd.com/papers/treebanksACL2013.pdf|Universal Multilingual Annotation for Dependency Parsing]] [[courses:rg:2013:ut-and-udt|Questions]]| ^ Nov 11 | Ondřej Fiala | Xuchen Yao, Benjamin Van Durme, Chris Callison-Burch, Peter Clark: [[http://cs.jhu.edu/~xuchen/paper/yao-jacana-wordalign-acl2013.pdf|A Lightweight and High Performance Monolingual Word Aligner]], Proceedings of ACL, 2013. [[courses:rg:2013:jacana-align|Questions]]| ^ Nov 18 | Shadi Saleh |Bhagwani, Sumit and Satapathy, Shrutiranjan and Karnick, Harish:[[http://aclweb.org/anthology/S/S12/S12-1085.pdf| Semantic textual similarity using maximal weighted bipartite graph matching]] [[courses:rg:2013:semantic-textual-similarity|Questions]]|| ^ Nov 25 | Matous Machacek | Satanjeev Banerjee , Alon Lavie [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W05-0909|METEOR: An Automatic Metric for MT Evaluation with Improved Correlation with Human Judgments]] [[courses:rg:2013:meteor|Questions]]| ^ Dec 2 | Petr Jankovský | Petrovic, Mathews: [[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0894589/petrovic13unsupervised.pdf | Unsupervised joke generation from big data ]] [[courses:rg:2013:jokes|Questions]] \\ there will be a double Monday seminar in S1 before RG, I hope we will start not much later than at 16:00 | ^ Dec 9 | Anna Vernerová | T. Berg-Kirkpatrick, D. Burkett, D. Klein: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D/D12/D12-1091.pdf|An Empirical Investigation of Statistical Significance in NLP]] [[courses:rg:2013:significance-bootstrap|Questions]] | ^ Dec 16 | Petra Barančíková | Bill Dolan, Chris Quirk, and Chris Brockett: [[http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/68974/para_coling2004.pdf|Unsupervised Construction of Large Paraphrase Corpora: Exploiting Massively Parallel News Sources ]] [[courses:rg:2013:paraphrase-corpora|Questions]] | ^ Jan 6 | | last RG, scientific discussion | === Spring&Summer 2013 === ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | ^ Feb 18 | | startup meeting| ^ Feb 25 | Martin Popel| Mark Johnson: [[http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs195-5/fall2009/docs/lecture_10-27.pdf|A brief introduction to kernel classifiers]], 2009. You can also read [[http://ciml.info/dl/v0_8/ciml-v0_8-ch09.pdf|a chapter from cimpl.info]] | ^ Mar 4 | Ondřej Dušek | Michael Collins, Nigel Duffy: [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/NIPS/NIPS2001/papers/psgz/AA58.ps.gz|Convolution kernels for natural language]], NIPS 2001. [[courses:rg:2013:convolution-kernels|Questions and Answers]] | ^ Mar 11 | Ondřej Košarko | Aron Culotta, Jeffrey Sorensen: [[http://www.newdesign.aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P04/P04-1054.pdf|Dependency Tree Kernels for Relation Extraction]], ACL 2004. [[courses:rg:2013:dep-tree-kernels|Questions]] | ^ Mar 18 |Jindřich Helcl | Michael Collins: [[http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/acl/W/W02/W02-1001.pdf|Discriminative Training Methods for Hidden Markov Models: Theory and Experiments with Perceptron Algorithms]], EMNLP 2002. [[courses:rg:2013:hmm-perc-experiments|Questions]] | ^ Mar 25 | Sara van de Moosdijk | Andrew McCallum, Dayne Freitag, Fernando Pereira: [[http://www.ai.mit.edu/courses/6.891-nlp/READINGS/maxent.pdf|Maximum Entropy Markov Models for Information Extraction and Segmentation]], Conference on Machine Learning 2000, [[http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i290-dm/s11/SECURE/gidofalvi.pdf|slides]] [[courses:rg:2013:memm|Questions]] | ^ Apr 1 |--- | no RG, Easter (and April Fool's Day) | ^ Apr 8 | Vincent Kríž | John Lafferty, Andrew McCallum, Fernando Pereira: [[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~pereira/papers/crf.pdf|Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data]], 2001 [[courses:rg:2013:crf|Questions]] | ^ Apr 15 | Ondřej Fiala | Ashish Venugopal, Jakob Uszkoreit, David Talbot, Franz J. Och, Juri Ganitkevitch: [[http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D11/D11-1126.pdf|Watermarking the Outputs of Structured Prediction with an application in Statistical Machine Translation]], 2011 This time, we'll meet in the corridor instead of S1. [[courses:rg:2013:watermarking|Questions]] | ^ Apr 22 | Matěj Korvas | Yansong Feng, Mirella Lapata: [[http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N10/N10-1125.pdf|Topic Models for Image Annotation and Text Illustration]] [[courses:rg:2013:visiterms|Questions]] | ^ Apr 29 | Petr Mácha | Rohrbach, Regneri et al.: [[http://www.d2.mpi-inf.mpg.de/sites/default/files/rohrbach12eccv.pdf|Script Data for Attribute-based Recognition of Composite Activities]][[courses:rg:2013:composite-activities|Questions]]| ^ May 6 | Jan Mašek | Kojima, Tamura: [[http://www.cs.ucf.edu/courses/cap6412/2001/kojima.pdf|Natural Language Description of Human Activities from Video Images Based on Concept Hierarchy of Actions]] [[courses:rg:2013:kojima|Questions]]| ^ May 13 | Matouš Macháček | Nicolas Stroppa, Karolina Owczarzak, Andy Way: [[http://doras.dcu.ie/15227/1/stroppa_owczarzak_07.pdf|A Cluster-Based Representation for Multi-System MT Evaluation]], 2007. | ^ May 20 | Ondřej Fiala | A. Pak, P. Paroubek: [[http://deepthoughtinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Twitter-as-a-Corpus-for-Sentiment-Analysis-and-Opinion-Mining.pdf|Twitter as a Corpus for Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining]] | === Autumn&Winter 2012/2013 === ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | ^ Oct 1 | | startup meeting| ^ Oct 8 | Rudolf Rosa | Hanna Béchara, Yanjun Ma, Josef van Genabith: [[http://mt-archive.info/MTS-2011-Bechara.pdf|Statistical Post-Editing for a Statistical MT System]], MT Summit 2011, [[courses:rg:2012:spe-for-smt|report by Jindra Helcl]] | ^ Oct 15 | Ales Tamchyna | Ferhan Ture, Douglas W. Oard and Philip Resnik: [[http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N12/N12-1046.pdf|Encouraging Consistent Translation Choices ]], NAACL 2012, [[courses:rg:2012:encouraging-consistent-translation|report by Ondřej Dušek]], [[courses:rg:2012:encouraging-consistent-translation-bushra|report by Bushra Jawaid]] | ^ Oct 22 | Jindra Helcl | Zhongqiang Huang, Martin Cmejrek, Bowen Zhou: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D10-1014|Soft Syntactic Constraints for Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Using Latent Syntactic Distributions]], EMNLP 2010: 138-147, [[courses:rg:2012:soft-synt-consts-for-hierarchiacl-phrase-based-trans|report by Petr Jankovský]] | ^ Oct 29 | Matěj Korvas | Percy Liang, Ben Taskar, Dan Klein: [[http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~taskar/pubs/naacl06_aba.pdf|Alignment by Agreement]], HLT-NAACL '06, [[courses:rg:2012:alignment-by-agreement|report by Aleš Tamchyna]] | ^ Nov 5 | Petr Jankovský | Chi-kiu Lo and Dekai Wu: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P11-1023|MEANT: An inexpensive, high-accuracy, semi-automatic metric for evaluating translation utility via semantic frames]] (ACL 2011), [[courses:rg:2012:meant|report by Rudolf Rosa]] | ^ Nov 12 | Matous Machacek| Philipp Koehn: [[http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/acl2004/emnlp/pdf/Koehn.pdf|Statistical significance tests for machine translation evaluation]], EMNLP 2004, [[courses:rg:2012:sigtest-mt|report by Aleš Tamchyna]] [[courses:rg:2012:sigtest-mt-zilka|report by Lukáš Žilka]] | ^ Nov 19 | Karel Bílek | Stefan Riezler and John T. Maxwell III: [[http://stefanriezler.com/PAPERS/ACL05WS.pdf|On Some Pitfalls in Automatic Evaluation and Significance Testing for MT]], MTSE 2005, [[courses:rg:2012:riezler+iii|report by Matěj Korvas]] | ^ Nov 26 | Ondřej Dušek | François Mairesse, Milica Gašić, Filip Jurčíček, Simon Keizer, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu and Steve Young: [[http://newdesign.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P10/P10-1157.pdf|Phrase-based Statistical Language Generation using Graphical Models and Active Learning]], ACL 2010, [[courses:rg:2012:stat-nlg|report by Honza Václ]] | ^ Dec 3 | Honza Václ | Mohit Bansal, Dan Klein: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P12/P12-1041.pdf|Coreference Semantics from Web Features]], ACL 2012 | ^ Dec 10 | Lukas Zilka | Ryan McDonald, Keith Hall, Gideon Mann: [[http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N10/N10-1069.pdf|Distributed Training Strategies for the Structured Perceptron]], NAACL 2010, [[courses:rg:2012:distributed-perceptron|report by Matous Machacek]] | ^ Dec 17 | Josef Čech | M. Lopatková, T.Holan : [[http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~lopatkova/literatura/09-lata.pdf | Segmentation Charts for Czech – Relations among Segments in Complex Sentences]], LATA 2009, [[courses:rg:2012:segments|report by Karel Bílek]] | ^ Jan 7 | last RG | selected problems of reading group:-) | === Spring&Summer 2012 === ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | ^ Feb 27 | Martin Popel | Kevin Knight, Beáta Megyesi and Christiane Schaefer: [[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/copiale-11.pdf|The Copiale Cipher]], BUCC 2011 | ^ Mar 5 | Ales Tamchyna | Arne Mauser, Saša Hasan and Hermann Ney: [[http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/publications/download/628/Mauser-EMNLP-2009.pdf |Extending Statistical Machine Translation with Discriminative and Trigger-Based Lexicon Models.]] EMNLP 2009. | ^ Mar 12 | Joachim Daiber | Adam Pauls and Dan Klein: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P11/P11-1027.pdf|Faster and Smaller N-Gram Language Models]], ACL 2011. [[courses:rg:2012:longdtreport|report by Long DT]] | ^ Mar 19 | Rudolf Rosa | Wenliang Chen, Jun’ichi Kazama, Min Zhang, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Yujie Zhang, Yiou Wang, Kentaro Torisawa and Haizhou Li: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D/D11/D11-1007.pdf|SMT Helps Bitext Dependency Parsing]], EMNLP 2011 | ^ Mar 26 | Long DT | Jakob Uszkoreit, Thorsten Brants: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P08/P08-1086.pdf|Distributed Word Clustering for Large Scale Class-Based Language Modeling in Machine Translation]], ACL 2008. [[courses:rg:2012:jodaiberreport|report by J. Daiber]]| ^ Apr 2 | Petra Galuščáková | Rion Snow, Daniel Jurafsky and Andrew Y. Ng: [[http://ai.stanford.edu/~rion/papers/semtax_acl06.pdf|Semantic Taxonomy Induction from Heterogenous Evidence]], ACL 2006 [[courses:rg:2012:atreport|report by Ales Tamchyna]] | ^ Apr 16 | Bushra Jawaid | Joern Wuebker, Arne Mauser and Hermann Ney: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P10/P10-1049.pdf|Training Phrase Translation Models with Leaving-One-Out]], ACL 2010. [[courses:rg:2012:rosareport|report by R. rosa]]| ^ Apr 23 | Amir Kamran | Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki, and Achim Ruopp: [[http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/69506/acl08kristinahisamiachim.camera.final.pdf|Applying Morphology Generation Models to Machine Translation]], ACL 2008. [[courses:rg:2012:applying-morphology-to-MT|report by M. Popel]] | ^ May 7 | Martin Popel | Hal Daumé III, John Langford and Daniel Marcu: [[http://hal3.name/docs/daume06searn-practice.pdf|Searn in Practice]], 2006. See [[http://searn.hal3.name]] for the SimpleSearn.tgz implementation. [[courses:rg:2012:searn-in-practice|report by Petra Galuščáková]] | ^ May 14 | Martin Majlis | [[courses:rg:2012:The-Unreasonable-Effectiveness-of-Data-Paper|The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data]] | ^ May 21 | | POSTER SESSION | === Autumn&Winter 2011/2012 === ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | ^ Oct 3 | | startup meeting| ^ Oct 10 | | discussion about [[http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/download/monday_joakim_nivre_woods.pdf|Joakim Nivre's talk]] If you haven't heard about transition-based parsing (MALT parser) read e.g. [[http://stp.ling.uu.se/~nivre/docs/GoTAL3.pdf|one of Nivre's presentations]] | ^ Oct 17 | Martin Popel | Stephen Tratz, Eduard Hovy: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D11/D11-1116.pdf|A Fast, Accurate, Non-Projective, Semantically-Enriched Parser]], EMNLP 2011, [[courses:rg:2011-report-parser|report by Michal Novák]] | ^ Oct 24 | Martin Majliš | Valentin Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Daniel Jurafsky: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N/N10/N10-1116.pdf|From Baby Steps to Leapfrog: How “Less is More” in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing]], HLT/NAACL 2010, [[courses:rg:From-Baby Steps-to-Leapfrog-How-Less-is-More-in-Unsupervised-Dependency-Parsing:majlis|MM notes]], [[courses:rg:2011-report-baby-steps|report Oldřich Krůza]]| ^ Oct 31 | Michal Novák | Dipanjan Das, Slav Petrov: [[http://www.petrovi.de/data/acl11.pdf|Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging with Bilingual Graph-Based Projections]], ACL 2011, [[courses:rg:unsupervised_pos_tagging|report by Marie Konárová]] | ^ Nov 7 | Oldřich Krůza | Oldřich Krůza and Vladislav Kuboň: [[http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/sixtease/junk/a2clauses.pdf|Automatic Extraction of Clause Relationships from a Treebank]], CICLing 2009, report by Petr Jankovský | ^ Nov 14 | Marie Konárová | Majid Yazdani and Andrei Popescu-Belis: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W11/W11-1105.pdf|Using a Wikipedia-based Semantic Relatedness Measure for Document Clustering]], TextGraphs Workshop 2011, report by [[courses:rg:Using a Wikipedia-based Semantic Relatedness Measure for Document Clustering|Martin Majliš]] | ^ Nov 21 | Petr Jankovský | Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward, and Wei-Jing Zhu: [[http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P02/P02-1040.pdf|BLEU: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation]], ACL 2002, report by [[courses:rg:2011:bleu-a-method-for-automatic-evaluation-of-machine-translation|Petra Galuščáková]] | ^ Nov 28 | Jindřich Libovický | Philipp Koehn, Jean Senellart: [[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/pkoehn/publications/tm-smt-amta2010.pdf|Convergence of Translation Memory and Statistical Machine Translation]], AMTA 2010 | ^ Dec 5 | Tomáš Kraut | Sujith Ravi and Kevin Knight: [[http://aclweb.org/anthology/P/P11/P11-1002.pdf | Deciphering Foreign Language]], ACL 2011, [[courses:rg:2011:deciphering_foreign_language|report by Ke Tran]] | ^ Dec 12 | Petra Galuščáková | Maja Popović, Aljoscha Burchardt: [[http://www.mt-archive.info/EAMT-2011-Popovic.pdf| From Human to Automatic Error Classification for Machine Translation Output]], EAMT 2011, [[courses:rg:2011:error_classification_of_MT|report by Jindřich Libovický]] | ^ Dec 19 | no RG | there is no RG this week (because of UFAL Xmas seminar) | ^ Jan 9 | Ke Tran | Yoong Keok Lee, Aria Haghighi and Regina Barzilay: [[http://people.csail.mit.edu/regina/my_papers/morph_conll2011.pdf|Modeling Syntactic Context Improves Morphological Segmentation]], CONLL 2011 | === Spring&Summer 2011 === ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | ^ May 23 | Nathan Green |McClosky, Charniak, and Johnson: [[http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N10/N10-1004.pdf|Automatic Domain Adaptation for Parsing. NAACL 2010]] [[courses:rg:automatic-domain-adaptation-for-parsing | comments by Katerina Topilova]] [[courses:rg:automatic-domain-adaptation-for-parsing1 | comments by Loganathan]]| ^ May 16 | Zdeněk Žabokrtský |Federico Sangati, Willem Zuidema: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E/E09/E09-1080.pdf|Unsupervised methods for head assignments. EACL 2009]] [[courses:rg:unsupervised-methods-for-head-assignments|comments by Eda Bejček and Lasha Abzianidze]]| ^ May 9 | Ximena Gutiérrez | Jason R. Smith Chris Quirk and Kristina Toutanova: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N10/N10-1063.pdf |Extracting Parallel Sentences from Comparable Corpora using Document Level Alignment]] [[courses:rg:extracting-parallel-sentences-from-comparable-corpora|comments by Angelina Ivanova ]] | ^ May 2 | Lasha Abzianidze | Bill MacCartney, Christopher D. Manning (2007): [[http://nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/natlog-wtep07.pdf | Natural Logic for Textual Inference]] [[courses:rg:natural-logic-for-textual-inference#discussions|comments by Ximena Gutiérrez]] | ^ Apr 25 | | no RG - Easter | ^ Apr 18 | Nathan Green | Slav Petrov, Pi-Chuan Chang, Michael Ringgaard, Hiyan Alshawi (2010): [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D/D10/D10-1069.pdf|Uptraining for Accurate Deterministic Question Parsing]] | ^ Apr 11 | Kateřina Topilová| McDonald et al. (2005): [[http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/H/H05/H05-1066.pdf|Non-Projective Dependency Parsing using Spanning Tree Algorithms]] [[courses:rg:Non-Projective Dependency Parsing using Spanning Tree Algorithms|comments by Lasha Abzianidze]] | ^ Apr 4 | Loganathan Ramasamy | Jason Naradowsky and Sharon Goldwater. Proceedings of IJCAI, 2009. [[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/sgwater/papers/ijcai09.pdf|Improving morphology induction by learning spelling rules.]] [[courses:rg:morphology-induction-with-spelling-rules|comments by Eda Bejček]] | ^ Mar 28 | Angelina Ivanovna |Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2010): [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P10/P10-1087.pdf|Untangling the Cross-Lingual Link Structure of Wikipedia]] [[courses:rg:Cross-Lingual Link Structure of Wikipedia|comments by Nathan Green and Lasha Abzianidze]] | ^ Mar 21 | | no RG - Lindat kick-off meeting | ^ Mar 14 | Eda Bejček | Dennis Reidsma, Jean Carletta (2008): [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/J/J08/J08-3001.pdf|Reliability Measurement without Limits]][[courses:rg:Reliability Measurment without limits|comments by Nathan Green]] | ^ Mar 7 | Martin Popel | Reliability measures (no paper to read for this meeting) | ^ Feb 28 | | startup meeting | === Autumn&Winter 2010/2011 === ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | ^ Jan 10 | | Last meeting of this semester - credits for NPFL095 | ^ Jan 3 | Radoslav Klíč | Richard Wicentowski (2004): {{:courses:rg:wicentowski_2004.pdf|Multilingual Noise-Robust Supervised Morphological Analysis using the WordFrame Model}} [[courses:rg:Multilingual Noise-Robust Supervised Morphological Analysis using the WordFrame Model|comments by Martin Kirschner]] , {{:courses:rg:logu_comments.pdf|Comments by Loganathan}}| ^ Dec 20 | Lasha Abzianidze | Philippe de Groote: [[http://research.nii.ac.jp/salt16/proceedings/degroote.new.pdf|Towards a Montagovian account of dynamics]], 2008. [[http://gllc.ge/lambda.pdf|Intro Slides]], [[http://jsm.loria.fr/jsm10/documents/lectures/degroote.pdf|Main Slides]] [[courses:rg:Towards a Montagovian account of dynamics|comments by Srdjan Prodanovic]]| ^ Dec 13 | Srdjan Prodanovic | Tom M. Mitchell, Svetlana V. Shinkareva, Andrew Carlson, Kai-Min Chang, Vicente L. Malave, Robert A. Mason, Marcel Adam Just [[http://www.sciencemag.org/content/320/5880/1191.full | Predicting Human Brain Activity Associated with the Meanings of Nouns]] [[http://www.ccbi.cmu.edu/reprints/Mitchell_Science2008_corpus-prediction.pdf | PDF]] [[http://wiki.siam.org/siag-cse/images/8/80/FMRI_Mitchell_SIAM_CSE_Mar2009.pdf |PPT]] [[http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~stan/csi5387/brain.pdf | presentation slides]] , 2008 [[courses:rg:Predicting_Human_Brain_Activity_Associated_with_the_Meanings_of_Nouns|comments by Michal Novák]]| ^ Dec 6 | Karel Vandas | Nicola Ueffing, Gholamreza Haffari and Anoop Sarkar: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P07/P07-1004.pdf | Transductive learning for statistical machine translation]], ACL 2007 [[courses:rg:Transductive_learning_for_statistical_machine_translation |comments by Bushra Jawaid]]| ^ Nov 29 | Bushra Jawaid | Steve DeNeefe, Ulf Hermjakob and Kevin Knight: [[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/mt/amta2008su.pdf | Overcoming Vocabulary Sparsity in MT using Lattices]] , AMTA 2008, [[courses:rg:overcoming_vocabulary_sparsity_in_MT_using_lattices|comments by Angelina Ivanova]] | ^ Nov 22 | Angelina Ivanova | Gosse Bouma: {{:courses:rg:bouma_lrec10.pdf|Cross-lingual Ontology Alignment using EuroWordNet and Wikipedia}}, LREC 2010, [[courses:rg:Cross-lingual_Ontology_Alignment|comments by Lasha Abzianidze]]| ^ Nov 15 | Septina Larasati | Linda Wiechetek, Francis M. Tyers, and Thomas Omma: {{:courses:rg:2010-shooting_at_flies_in_the_dark.pdf|Shooting at Flies in the Dark: Rule-Based Lexical Selection for a Minority Language Pair}}, IceTAL 2010, [[courses:rg:shooting_at_flies_in_the_dark|comments by Radoslav Klíč]] | ^ Nov 8 | Michal Novák | Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N/N10/N10-1061.pdf|Coreference Resolution in a Modular, Entity-Centered Model]], HLT 2010, [[courses:rg:coreference-resolution-haghihi-klein|comments]] | ^ Nov 1 | Martin Kirschner | Matteo Negri and Milen Kouylekov: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/S/S10/S10-1044.pdf|A WordNet-based system for multi-way classification of semantic relations]] [[courses:rg:a-wordnet-based-system|comments by Septina Larasati]] | ^ Oct 25 | Loganathan Ramasamy | Kuzman Ganchev, Jennifer Gillenwater and Ben Taskar: {{:courses:rg:2010_dep_grammar_induction_acl_ijcnlp_09.pdf|Dependency Grammar Induction via Bitext Projection Constraints}}, ACL 2009, [[courses:rg:dependency_grammar_via_bitext_projection|comments by David Mareček]] | ^ Oct 18 | Martin Popel | Kevin Duh et al.: [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W10/W10-1757.pdf|N-Best Reranking by Multitask Learning]], ACL WMT 2010, [[courses:rg:reranking-by-multitask-learning|comments by Karel Vandas]] | ^ Oct 11 | Eda Bejček | Matthew Gerber and Joyce Y. Chai: [[http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P10/P10-1160.pdf| Beyond NomBank: A Study of Implicit Arguments for Nominal Predicates]], ACL 2010, [[courses:rg:beyond-nombank|comments by Martin Popel]]| ^ Oct 4 | | startup meeting | === Spring&Summer 2010 === ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | ^ May 24 | Ondřej Bojar | Kevin Gimpel and Noah A. Smith: [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kgimpel/papers/gimpel+smith.eacl09.pdf|Cube Summing, Approximate Inference with Non-Local Features, and Dynamic Programming without Semirings. In Proceedings of EACL, Athens, Greece, March/April 2009]] [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kgimpel/talks/gimpel+smith.eacl09.slides.pdf|slides]] | ^ May 10 | Martin Popel | Ronald Rosenfeld: [[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.61.1472&rep=rep1&type=pdf|A Maximum Entropy Approach to Adaptive Statistical Language Modeling]] (cont.) [[courses::rg:maxent-lm|Martinovy poznámky]]| ^ May 3 | Elizabeth Shriberg | Automatic speaker recognition, feature selection, linear interpolation and its connotations, demography and stock market | ^ Apr 26 | Martin Popel | Ronald Rosenfeld: [[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.61.1472&rep=rep1&type=pdf|A Maximum Entropy Approach to Adaptive Statistical Language Modeling]] | ^ Apr 12 | David Mareček | Jens Nillson, Joakim Nivre, Johan Hall: [[http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/P/P06/P06-1033.pdf|Graph Transformations in Data-Driven Dependency Parsing]] | ^ Mar 29 | Martin Popel | Jeff Bilmes and Katrin Kirchhoff: [[http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/N/N03/N03-2002.pdf|Factored Language Models and Generalized Parallel Backoff]] (plus [[https://www.ee.washington.edu/techsite/papers/documents/UWEETR-2008-0004.pdf|tutorial]]) | ^ Mar 22 | Zdeněk Žabokrtský | Deniz Yuret and Mehmet Ali Yatbaz: [[http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/coli.2010.36.1.36103|The Noisy Channel Model for Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation, Computational Linguistics 2010]] | ^ Mar 15 | Ondřej Bojar | Philipp Koehn and Barry Haddow: [[ http://www.mt-archive.info/MTS-2009-Koehn-2.pdf|Interactive Assistance to Human Translators using Statistical Machine Translation Methods, MT Summit XII, 2009.]] | ^ Mar 8 | | startup meeting | === Autumn&Winter 2009/2010 === ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | **přečíst?** | ^ Dec 14 | Martin Popel | [[http://nlp.csie.ncnu.edu.tw/~shin/acl-ijcnlp2009/proceedings/CDROM/EMNLP/pdf/EMNLP042.pdf|Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng, Wee Sun Lee: Natural Language Generation with Tree Conditional Random Fields]] | | ^ Dec 7 | David Mareček | [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P09/P09-1040.pdf|Nivre, J.: Non-Projective Dependency Parsing in Expected Linear Time. ACL 2009]] | | ^ Nov 23, Nov 30 | Jana Straková | [[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.23.9849&rep=rep1&type=pdf|John Lafferty, Andrew McCallum and Fernando Pereira: Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data]],\\ [[http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/hmw26/papers/crf_intro.pdf|Hanna M. Wallach. Conditional Random Fields: An Introduction]] | | ^ Nov 9 | Zdeněk Žabokrtský | [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E/E09/E09-1018.pdf|Eugene Charniak and Micha Elsner: EM Works for Pronoun Anaphora Resolution. EACL 2009]] | | ^ Oct 26, Nov 2 | Ondřej Bojar | [[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/bayes-with-tears.pdf|Kevin Knight: Bayesian Inference with Tears. September 2009.]]\\ článek byl delší, ale čtivý a přesně takové jsou i [[courses:rg:bayes-with-tears|Ondrovy poznámky]] k němu | Ano, i s úkoly | ^ Oct 19 | Eda Bejček | [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E/E09/E09-1082.pdf|Josh Schroeder, Trevor Cohn, and Philipp Koehn: Word Lattices for Multi-Source Translation. EACL 2009]]\\ přehledné rozdělení metod; dobře, že udělali tolik experimentů, škoda některých nepodložených interpretací; potřebná znalost Mojžíše; omezili množství trénovacích dat -- chybí test, zda více dat není účinnější než více jazyků; klesá skutečně MAX s množstvím jazyků? (to je divné, neměly by se tedy vážit výsledky jednotlivých systémů (viz věta s "little benefit", 2.1)? A nebo není příčinou spíš než přidání šestého jazyka přidání špatného jazyka (Table 6)? Jak by dopadly testy po dvojicích?); v závěru 2.3 vynechávají reordering s odkazem na diversitu zdrojových jazyků -- to nemusí platit | Ano | ^ Oct 15 | Pavel Pecina | [[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1401975|Daniel David Walker, Eric K. Ringger: Model-based document clustering with a collapsed gibbs sampler]], [[courses:rg:2009-10-15-tabule|Fotky tabule]] | | ^ Oct 12 | Pavel Schlesinger | Gibbsův sampling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_sampling)| | === Spring&Summer 2009 === ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | ^ May 25 | David Mareček | [[http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/286_paper.pdf|Christian Hanig, Stefan Bordag, Uwe Quasthoff: UnsuParse: Unsupervised Parsing with unsupervised Part of Speech tagging. LREC 2009]] | ^ May 11 | Václav Novák | [[http://newdesign.aclweb.org/anthology-new/E/E09/E09-1007.pdf|Julien Ah-Pine, Guillaume Jacquet: Clique-Based Clustering for improving Named Entity Recognition systems. EACL 2009]] | ^ May 4 | Dan Zeman | [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P08/P08-1059|Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki, Achim Ruopp: Applying Morphology Generation Models to Machine Translation. ACL 2008, Columbus, Ohio]] | ^ Apr 6 | Zdeněk Žabokrtský | [[http://pauillac.inria.fr/~pdenis/papers/emnlp08.pdf|Pascal Denis and Jason Baldridge, Specialized models and ranking for coreference resolution]] | ^ Mar 30 | Pavel Schlesinger | | ^ Mar 9 | Pavel Pecina | | === Autumn&Winter 2008/2009 === ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | ^ Mon Jan 5 | Martin Popel | Thorsten Brants, Ashok C. Popat, Peng Xu, Franz J. Och, Jeffrey Dean: {{courses:rg:2007brants-large_language_models_in_mt.pdf|Large Language Models in Machine Translation}}, 2007 | ^ Mon Dec 1 | Jan Ptáček | {{courses:rg:goldwater-mcclosky-czech-english-mt-0-33.pdf|Improving Statistical MT through Morphological Analysis}} | ^ Mon Nov 24 | Pavel Češka | [[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=656CAA9B55D39BC763A26946D91E7FBD?doi=10.1.1.61.3358&rep=rep1&type=pdf|A TAG-based noisy channel model of speech repairs]] | ^ Wed Nov 19 | Ondřej Bojar | [[http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P08/P08-1023.pdf|Forest Reranking: Discriminative Parsing with Non-Local Features by Liang Huang]] (see Google Tech Talks), [[http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P08/P08-1023.pdf|Forest-Based Translation]] by Haitao Mi and Liang Huang and Qun Liu | ^ Mon Nov 10 | Zdeněk Žabokrtský | Katja Filippova and Michael Strube: [[http://www.eml-research.de/nlp/papers/filippova.emnlp08.pdf|Sentence Fusion via Dependency Graph Compression]], 2008 | ^ Mon Nov 3 | Jiří Mírovský | Alexander E. Richman and Patrick Schone: Mining Wiki Resources for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition, ACL, Columbus, 2008. | ^ Wed Oct 20 | Jan Raab | Libin Shen, Giorgio Satta, and Aravind K. Joshi: Guided Learning for Bidirectional Sequence Classification, ACL, Prague, 2007. | === Spring&Summer 2008 === ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | ^ Mar 17 | Pavel Schlesinger | Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein: //[[http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~aria42/pubs/acl07-hdp-coref.pdf|Unsupervised Coreference Resolution in a Nonparametric Bayesian Model]]//, ACL, Prague, 2007. | ^ Mar 31 | Pavel Schlesinger | //Unsupervised Coreference Resolution in a Nonparametric Bayesian Model//, 2nd part :-)| ^ Apr 28 | Pavel Straňák | Diana McCarthy, Rob Koeling, Julie Weeds and John Carroll: //{{courses:unsupervised_acquisition_of_predominant_word_senses.pdf|Unsupervised Acquisition of Predominant Word Senses}}// in Computational Linguistics 33 (4), 2007 | === Autumn&Winter 2007/2008 === ^ Nov 26 | Markéta Lopatková | Friedrich Otto: {{courses:rg:tr-ra-tutorial.ps|Restarting Automata (Notes for a Course)}}, Technical Report, Universitat kassel, 2004. | ^ Nov 19 | Dan Zeman | Anil Kumar Singh (अनिल कुमार सिंह), Jagadeesh Gorla: {{courses:rg:kumar-gorla-identification-of-languages.pdf|Identification of Languages and Encodings in a Multilingual Document}} {{courses:kumar-gorla-identification-of-languages.zip|Identification of Languages and Encodings in a Multilingual Document}}. In: Proceedings of the 3rd ACL SIGWAC Workshop on Web as Corpus, pp. 95-108. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 2007. | ^ Nov 12 | Otakar Smrž | M. Nowak, N. Komarova, P. Niyogi. [[http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~niyogi/papersps/NKNnature.pdf|Computational and Evolutionary Aspects of Language]]. Nature, Vol. 417, pp. 611-617, 2002. | ^ Nov 5 | Jan Ptáček | Philipp Koehn; Hieu Hoang: **{{courses:factored-translation-models.pdf|Factored Translation Models}}**, EMNLP & CoNLL, Prague, 2007. | ^ Oct 29 | Miroslav Spousta | David Talbot; Miles Osborne Smoothed Bloom Filter Language Models: Tera-Scale LMs on the Cheap http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D07/D07-1049.pdf | ^ Oct 17 | Zdeněk Žabokrtský | **Mary Hearne, John Tinsley, Ventsislav Zhechev, Andy Way (2007)**: Capturing Translational Divergences with a Statistical Tree-to-Tree Aligner {{seminare:hearneetal_tmi_07.pdf|HearneEtAl_TMI_07.pdf}} | === Spring&Summer 2007 === === Autumn&Winter 2006/2007 === ^ Nov 15 | | Glöckner, Ingo; Sven Hartrumpf; and Hermann Helbig (2006): Automatic knowledge acquisition by semantic analysis and assimilation of textual information {{:seminare:reading-group:gloeckner.ps|gloeckner.ps - plná verze}} | === Spring&Summer 2006 === ^ Mar 1 | Ondřej Bojar | D. Chiang: **A Hierarchical Phrase-Based Model for Statistical Machine Translation**, ACL, Ann Arbor, 2005. | ^ Mar 8 | Zdeněk Žabokrtský | S. Kahan: **The Meaning-Text Theory**. | ^ Mar 15 | Pavel Schlesinger | N. A. Smith and J. Eisner: **Contrastive Estimation: Training Log-Linear Models on Unlabeled Data**. ACL, Ann Arbor, 2005. | ^ Mar 22 | Pavel Pecina | D. Ravichandran, P. Pantel and E.Hovy: **Randomized Algorithms and NLP: Using Locality Sensitive Hash Functions for High Speed Noun Clustering**, ACL, Ann Arbor, 2005. | ^ Apr 5 | Pavel Straňák | Keh-Jiann Chen, Chi-Ching Luo, Ming-Chung Chang, Feng-Yi Chen, Chao-Jan Chen, Chu-Ren Huang: **Sinica Treebank: Design criteria, representational issues and implementation**. | ^ Apr 12 | Zdeněk Žabokrtský | P. Sgall: **Prague School Typology**. In Masayoshi Shibatani and Theodora Bynon (eds), Approaches to Language Typology. Clarendon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 1995. | ^ Apr 19 | Barbora Hladká | B. Scholkopf and A.J. Smola: **A Short Introduction to Learning Method with Kernels**. | ^ May 3 | Otakar Smrž | || ^ May 10 | Barbora Hladká | B. Scholkopf and A.J. Smola: **A Short Introduction to Learning Method with Kernels**. | === Autumn&Winter 2005/2006 === ^ Oct 19 | Kiril Ribarov | **Non-projective Dependency Parsing using Spanning Tree Algorithms**. | ^ Oct 26 | Petr Podveský | K. Crammer and Y. Singer: **Ultraconservative on-line algorithms for multiclass problems**, JMLR, 2003. | ^ Nov 2 | Jiří Havelka | L. Georgiadis: **Arborescence optimization problems solvable by Edmonds’ algorithm**. | ^ Nov 9 | Barbora Hladká | | ^ Nov 16 | Pavel Pecina | B. Moore: **Discriminative Framework for Bilingual Word Alignment**, HLT/EMNLP, Vancouver, 2005. | ^ Nov 23 | Otakar Smrž | Noah A. Smith, David A. Smith, Roy W. Tromble: **Context-Based Morphological Disambiguation with Random Fields**. || ^ Nov 30 | Václav Novák | J. Eisner and D. Karakos: **Bootstrapping Without the Boot**, HLT/EMNLP, Vancouver, 2005. | ^ Dec 7 | Pavel Schlesinger| B. Taskar, D. Klein, M. Collins, D. Koller and C. Manning: **Max-Margin Parsing**, EMNLP, Barcelona, 2004. | ^ Dec 14 | Daniel Zeman | D. Zeman, Z. Zabokrstky: **Improving Parsing Accuracy by Combining Diverse Dependecy Parsers**, IWPT, Vancouver, 2005. | ^ Jan 4 | Ondřej Bojar | Franz Och: **Tutorial**, MT Summit, 2005. | ^ Jan 11 | Jiří Semecký | M. Carpuat and D. Wu: **Word Sense Disambiguation vs. Statistical Machine Translation**. |