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 +===== Reading Group =====  
 +Official name of this course is [[https://is.cuni.cz/studium/predmety/index.php?do=predmet&kod=NPFL095|NPFL095]] **Modern Methods in Computational Linguistics**. It is a continuation of informal Reading Group (RG) meetings. Requirements for getting credits: 
 +  * presenting one paper,
 +    * Select a term (write your name to the schedule below) before October 13.
 +    * If no paper is assigned to the term, suggest [[mailto:popel@ufal.mff.cuni.cz|me]] 2--3 papers you would like to present (with pdf links, and your preferences) before October 20. Ideally, make a group of 2--4 students presenting papers on a common topic (starting from basics to more advance papers).
 +    * Prepare your presentation and 3--5 quiz questions. At least 3 of the questions should ask for a specific answer, e.g. "write an equation for...", "given training set X=([dog,N],[cat,Y]), what is the number..." (Not "what do you think about..."). The first question should be quite easy to answer for those who have read the whole paper. The last question may be a tricky one. Send me the questions two weeks before your presentation. We may discuss the paper and refine the questions.
 +    * One week before the presentation, write the questions to a dedicated wiki page here. Send a reminder (questions and a link to the pdf of the paper) to rg@ufal.mff.cuni.cz by Monday 15:45.
  
 +  * active participation in the discussions, which is conditioned by reading the papers in advance and attending the meetings,
 +  * sending your answers to me and the presenter by Saturday 23:59 (so the presenter can go through all answers before the presentation and focus more on problematic parts).
 +  * In case of more than three missed meetings or deadlines, additional work (e.g. reports or answers to tricky questions) will be required.
  
-===== Reading Group =====+All questions, reports and presented papers must be in English. The presentations are in English by default, but if all present people agree it may be in Czech.
  
-^ Contact      | pecina at ufal.mff.cuni.cz / bojar at ... | +^ Contact      | popel@ufal.mff.cuni.cz | 
-^ Mailing list | rg at ufal.mff.cuni.cz     | +^ Mailing list | rg@ufal.mff.cuni.cz     | 
-^ List Archive | [[http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/mailman/listinfo/rg]] | +^ Meetings     | Mondays 16:00, S1 | 
-^ Meetings     | Mondays 15:00 and bi-weekly Wednesday mornings           |+^ Past meetings| [[courses:rg:past|courses:rg:past]] | 
 +^ Inspiration  | [[courses:rg:wishlist|courses:rg:wishlist]] | 
 +^ Other reading groups  | [[https://github.com/ufal/rg/wiki|Machine Learning RG]] |
  
-=== Wishlist === +=== Autumn&Winter 2015/2016 (preliminary plan) === 
- +^ date   | **speaker**               | **paper** | 
- * Mark Johnson: [[http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/D/D07/D07-1031.pdf|Why Doesn't EM Find Good HMM POS-Taggers?]] (Ondřej) +^ 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]] | 
-=== Winter 2009/2010 === +^ 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 | 
-^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | +^ 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 16 | Martin Popel |  | +^ Nov  9 | —            | no RG, dean's day | 
-^ Nov 9 | Jana Straková |  | +^ Nov 16 |              | 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]] | 
-^ Nov 2 | Zdeněk Žabokrtský |  | +^ Nov 23 |              | 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]] | 
-^ Oct 26 | Ondřej Bojar |  | +^ Nov 30 |              |  | 
-^ Oct 19 | Eda Bejček |  | +^ Dec  7 |              |  | 
-^ Oct 12 | Pavel Schlesinger | Gibbsův sampling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_sampling)| +^ Dec 14 |              |  |
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-=== 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 |  | +
- +
-=== 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. | +
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-A source of inspiration: [[http://www.statmt.org/ued/?n=Public.WeeklyMeeting Edinburgh Reading Group]] +
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-=== 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 | +
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-=== 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}} | +
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-=== Summer 2007 === +
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-=== Winter 2006/2007 === +
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-^ 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}} | +
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-=== Summer 2006 === +
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-^ 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**.  | +
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-=== 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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