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Past RG sessions

(For the current semester see the main RG page)

Spring&Summer 2013

date	speaker	paper
Feb 18		startup meeting
Feb 25	Martin Popel	Mark Johnson: A brief introduction to kernel classifiers, 2009. You can also read a chapter from cimpl.info
Mar 4	Ondřej Dušek	Michael Collins, Nigel Duffy: Convolution kernels for natural language, NIPS 2001. Questions and Answers
Mar 11	Ondřej Košarko	Aron Culotta, Jeffrey Sorensen: Dependency Tree Kernels for Relation Extraction, ACL 2004. Questions
Mar 18	Jindřich Helcl	Michael Collins: Discriminative Training Methods for Hidden Markov Models: Theory and Experiments with Perceptron Algorithms, EMNLP 2002. Questions
Mar 25	Sara van de Moosdijk	Andrew McCallum, Dayne Freitag, Fernando Pereira: Maximum Entropy Markov Models for Information Extraction and Segmentation, Conference on Machine Learning 2000, slides Questions & Answers
Apr 1	—	no RG, Easter (and April Fool's Day)
Apr 8	Vincent Kríž	John Lafferty, Andrew McCallum, Fernando Pereira: Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data, 2001 Questions
Apr 15	Ondřej Fiala	Ashish Venugopal, Jakob Uszkoreit, David Talbot, Franz J. Och, Juri Ganitkevitch: 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. Questions
Apr 22	Matěj Korvas	Yansong Feng, Mirella Lapata: Topic Models for Image Annotation and Text Illustration Questions
Apr 29	Petr Mácha	Rohrbach, Regneri et al.: Script Data for Attribute-based Recognition of Composite Activities Questions
May 6	Jan Mašek	Kojima, Tamura: Natural Language Description of Human Activities from Video Images Based on Concept Hierarchy of Actions Questions
May 13	Matouš Macháček	Nicolas Stroppa, Karolina Owczarzak, Andy Way: A Cluster-Based Representation for Multi-System MT Evaluation, 2007.
May 20	Ondřej Fiala	A. Pak, P. Paroubek: 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: Statistical Post-Editing for a Statistical MT System, MT Summit 2011, report by Jindra Helcl
Oct 15	Ales Tamchyna	Ferhan Ture, Douglas W. Oard and Philip Resnik: Encouraging Consistent Translation Choices , NAACL 2012, report by Ondřej Dušek, report by Bushra Jawaid
Oct 22	Jindra Helcl	Zhongqiang Huang, Martin Cmejrek, Bowen Zhou: Soft Syntactic Constraints for Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Using Latent Syntactic Distributions, EMNLP 2010: 138-147, report by Petr Jankovský
Oct 29	Matěj Korvas	Percy Liang, Ben Taskar, Dan Klein: Alignment by Agreement, HLT-NAACL '06, report by Aleš Tamchyna
Nov 5	Petr Jankovský	Chi-kiu Lo and Dekai Wu: MEANT: An inexpensive, high-accuracy, semi-automatic metric for evaluating translation utility via semantic frames (ACL 2011), report by Rudolf Rosa
Nov 12	Matous Machacek	Philipp Koehn: Statistical significance tests for machine translation evaluation, EMNLP 2004, report by Aleš Tamchyna report by Lukáš Žilka
Nov 19	Karel Bílek	Stefan Riezler and John T. Maxwell III: On Some Pitfalls in Automatic Evaluation and Significance Testing for MT, MTSE 2005, report by Matěj Korvas
Nov 26	Ondřej Dušek	François Mairesse, Milica Gašić, Filip Jurčíček, Simon Keizer, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu and Steve Young: Phrase-based Statistical Language Generation using Graphical Models and Active Learning, ACL 2010, report by Honza Václ
Dec 3	Honza Václ	Mohit Bansal, Dan Klein: Coreference Semantics from Web Features, ACL 2012
Dec 10	Lukas Zilka	Ryan McDonald, Keith Hall, Gideon Mann: Distributed Training Strategies for the Structured Perceptron, NAACL 2010, report by Matous Machacek
Dec 17	Josef Čech	M. Lopatková, T.Holan : Segmentation Charts for Czech – Relations among Segments in Complex Sentences, LATA 2009, 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: The Copiale Cipher, BUCC 2011
Mar 5	Ales Tamchyna	Arne Mauser, Saša Hasan and Hermann Ney: Extending Statistical Machine Translation with Discriminative and Trigger-Based Lexicon Models. EMNLP 2009.
Mar 12	Joachim Daiber	Adam Pauls and Dan Klein: Faster and Smaller N-Gram Language Models, ACL 2011. 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: SMT Helps Bitext Dependency Parsing, EMNLP 2011
Mar 26	Long DT	Jakob Uszkoreit, Thorsten Brants: Distributed Word Clustering for Large Scale Class-Based Language Modeling in Machine Translation, ACL 2008. report by J. Daiber
Apr 2	Petra Galuščáková	Rion Snow, Daniel Jurafsky and Andrew Y. Ng: Semantic Taxonomy Induction from Heterogenous Evidence, ACL 2006 report by Ales Tamchyna
Apr 16	Bushra Jawaid	Joern Wuebker, Arne Mauser and Hermann Ney: Training Phrase Translation Models with Leaving-One-Out, ACL 2010. report by R. rosa
Apr 23	Amir Kamran	Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki, and Achim Ruopp: Applying Morphology Generation Models to Machine Translation, ACL 2008. report by M. Popel
May 7	Martin Popel	Hal Daumé III, John Langford and Daniel Marcu: Searn in Practice, 2006. See http://searn.hal3.name for the SimpleSearn.tgz implementation. report by Petra Galuščáková
May 14	Martin Majlis	The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
May 21		POSTER SESSION

Autumn&Winter 2011/2012

date	speaker	paper
Oct 3		startup meeting
Oct 10		discussion about Joakim Nivre's talk If you haven't heard about transition-based parsing (MALT parser) read e.g. one of Nivre's presentations
Oct 17	Martin Popel	Stephen Tratz, Eduard Hovy: A Fast, Accurate, Non-Projective, Semantically-Enriched Parser, EMNLP 2011, report by Michal Novák
Oct 24	Martin Majliš	Valentin Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Daniel Jurafsky: From Baby Steps to Leapfrog: How “Less is More” in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing, HLT/NAACL 2010, MM notes, report Oldřich Krůza
Oct 31	Michal Novák	Dipanjan Das, Slav Petrov: Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging with Bilingual Graph-Based Projections, ACL 2011, report by Marie Konárová
Nov 7	Oldřich Krůza	Oldřich Krůza and Vladislav Kuboň: Automatic Extraction of Clause Relationships from a Treebank, CICLing 2009, report by Petr Jankovský
Nov 14	Marie Konárová	Majid Yazdani and Andrei Popescu-Belis: Using a Wikipedia-based Semantic Relatedness Measure for Document Clustering, TextGraphs Workshop 2011, report by Martin Majliš
Nov 21	Petr Jankovský	Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward, and Wei-Jing Zhu: BLEU: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation, ACL 2002, report by Petra Galuščáková
Nov 28	Jindřich Libovický	Philipp Koehn, Jean Senellart: Convergence of Translation Memory and Statistical Machine Translation, AMTA 2010
Dec 5	Tomáš Kraut	Sujith Ravi and Kevin Knight: Deciphering Foreign Language, ACL 2011, report by Ke Tran
Dec 12	Petra Galuščáková	Maja Popović, Aljoscha Burchardt: From Human to Automatic Error Classification for Machine Translation Output, EAMT 2011, 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: Modeling Syntactic Context Improves Morphological Segmentation, CONLL 2011

Spring&Summer 2011

date	speaker	paper
May 23	Nathan Green	McClosky, Charniak, and Johnson: Automatic Domain Adaptation for Parsing. NAACL 2010 comments by Katerina Topilova comments by Loganathan
May 16	Zdeněk Žabokrtský	Federico Sangati, Willem Zuidema: Unsupervised methods for head assignments. EACL 2009 comments by Eda Bejček and Lasha Abzianidze
May 9	Ximena Gutiérrez	Jason R. Smith Chris Quirk and Kristina Toutanova: Extracting Parallel Sentences from Comparable Corpora using Document Level Alignment comments by Angelina Ivanova
May 2	Lasha Abzianidze	Bill MacCartney, Christopher D. Manning (2007): Natural Logic for Textual Inference comments by Ximena Gutiérrez
Apr 25		no RG - Easter
Apr 18	Nathan Green	Slav Petrov, Pi-Chuan Chang, Michael Ringgaard, Hiyan Alshawi (2010): Uptraining for Accurate Deterministic Question Parsing
Apr 11	Kateřina Topilová	McDonald et al. (2005): 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. Improving morphology induction by learning spelling rules. comments by Eda Bejček
Mar 28	Angelina Ivanovna	Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2010): Untangling the 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): Reliability Measurement 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): Multilingual Noise-Robust Supervised Morphological Analysis using the WordFrame Model comments by Martin Kirschner , Comments by Loganathan
Dec 20	Lasha Abzianidze	Philippe de Groote: Towards a Montagovian account of dynamics, 2008. Intro Slides, Main Slides 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 Predicting Human Brain Activity Associated with the Meanings of Nouns PDF PPT presentation slides , 2008 comments by Michal Novák
Dec 6	Karel Vandas	Nicola Ueffing, Gholamreza Haffari and Anoop Sarkar: Transductive learning for statistical machine translation, ACL 2007 comments by Bushra Jawaid
Nov 29	Bushra Jawaid	Steve DeNeefe, Ulf Hermjakob and Kevin Knight: Overcoming Vocabulary Sparsity in MT using Lattices , AMTA 2008, comments by Angelina Ivanova
Nov 22	Angelina Ivanova	Gosse Bouma: Cross-lingual Ontology Alignment using EuroWordNet and Wikipedia, LREC 2010, comments by Lasha Abzianidze
Nov 15	Septina Larasati	Linda Wiechetek, Francis M. Tyers, and Thomas Omma: Shooting at Flies in the Dark: Rule-Based Lexical Selection for a Minority Language Pair, IceTAL 2010, comments by Radoslav Klíč
Nov 8	Michal Novák	Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein: Coreference Resolution in a Modular, Entity-Centered Model, HLT 2010, comments
Nov 1	Martin Kirschner	Matteo Negri and Milen Kouylekov: A WordNet-based system for multi-way classification of semantic relations comments by Septina Larasati
Oct 25	Loganathan Ramasamy	Kuzman Ganchev, Jennifer Gillenwater and Ben Taskar: Dependency Grammar Induction via Bitext Projection Constraints, ACL 2009, comments by David Mareček
Oct 18	Martin Popel	Kevin Duh et al.: N-Best Reranking by Multitask Learning, ACL WMT 2010, comments by Karel Vandas
Oct 11	Eda Bejček	Matthew Gerber and Joyce Y. Chai: Beyond NomBank: A Study of Implicit Arguments for Nominal Predicates, ACL 2010, comments by Martin Popel
Oct 4		startup meeting

Spring&Summer 2010

date	speaker	paper
May 24	Ondřej Bojar	Kevin Gimpel and Noah A. Smith: Cube Summing, Approximate Inference with Non-Local Features, and Dynamic Programming without Semirings. In Proceedings of EACL, Athens, Greece, March/April 2009 slides
May 10	Martin Popel	Ronald Rosenfeld: A Maximum Entropy Approach to Adaptive Statistical Language Modeling (cont.) 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: A Maximum Entropy Approach to Adaptive Statistical Language Modeling
Apr 12	David Mareček	Jens Nillson, Joakim Nivre, Johan Hall: Graph Transformations in Data-Driven Dependency Parsing
Mar 29	Martin Popel	Jeff Bilmes and Katrin Kirchhoff: Factored Language Models and Generalized Parallel Backoff (plus tutorial)
Mar 22	Zdeněk Žabokrtský	Deniz Yuret and Mehmet Ali Yatbaz: The Noisy Channel Model for Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation, Computational Linguistics 2010
Mar 15	Ondřej Bojar	Philipp Koehn and Barry Haddow: 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	Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng, Wee Sun Lee: Natural Language Generation with Tree Conditional Random Fields
Dec 7	David Mareček	Nivre, J.: Non-Projective Dependency Parsing in Expected Linear Time. ACL 2009
Nov 23, Nov 30	Jana Straková	John Lafferty, Andrew McCallum and Fernando Pereira: Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data, Hanna M. Wallach. Conditional Random Fields: An Introduction
Nov 9	Zdeněk Žabokrtský	Eugene Charniak and Micha Elsner: EM Works for Pronoun Anaphora Resolution. EACL 2009
Oct 26, Nov 2	Ondřej Bojar	Kevin Knight: Bayesian Inference with Tears. September 2009. článek byl delší, ale čtivý a přesně takové jsou i Ondrovy poznámky k němu	Ano, i s úkoly
Oct 19	Eda Bejček	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	Daniel David Walker, Eric K. Ringger: Model-based document clustering with a collapsed gibbs sampler, 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	Christian Hanig, Stefan Bordag, Uwe Quasthoff: UnsuParse: Unsupervised Parsing with unsupervised Part of Speech tagging. LREC 2009
May 11	Václav Novák	Julien Ah-Pine, Guillaume Jacquet: Clique-Based Clustering for improving Named Entity Recognition systems. EACL 2009
May 4	Dan Zeman	Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki, Achim Ruopp: Applying Morphology Generation Models to Machine Translation. ACL 2008, Columbus, Ohio
Apr 6	Zdeněk Žabokrtský	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: Large Language Models in Machine Translation, 2007
Mon Dec 1	Jan Ptáček	Improving Statistical MT through Morphological Analysis
Mon Nov 24	Pavel Češka	A TAG-based noisy channel model of speech repairs
Wed Nov 19	Ondřej Bojar	Forest Reranking: Discriminative Parsing with Non-Local Features by Liang Huang (see Google Tech Talks), Forest-Based Translation by Haitao Mi and Liang Huang and Qun Liu
Mon Nov 10	Zdeněk Žabokrtský	Katja Filippova and Michael Strube: 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: 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: Unsupervised Acquisition of Predominant Word Senses in Computational Linguistics 33 (4), 2007

Autumn&Winter 2007/2008

Nov 26	Markéta Lopatková	Friedrich Otto: Restarting Automata (Notes for a Course), Technical Report, Universitat kassel, 2004.
Nov 19	Dan Zeman	Anil Kumar Singh (अनिल कुमार सिंह), Jagadeesh Gorla: Identification of Languages and Encodings in a Multilingual Document 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. Computational and Evolutionary Aspects of Language. Nature, Vol. 417, pp. 611-617, 2002.
Nov 5	Jan Ptáček	Philipp Koehn; Hieu Hoang: 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 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 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.

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