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courses:rg [2012/10/05 17:41]
popel rules improved, no reserve |
courses:rg [2013/12/03 18:36]
lauschmannova |
| 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: | 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, | * presenting one paper, |
| * Select a term (write your name to the schedule below) before Oct 8. | * Select a term (write your name to the schedule below) before October 14. |
| * Suggest [[mailto:popel@ufal.mff.cuni.cz|me]] 2--3 papers you would like to present (with pdf links, and your preferences) before Oct 15. | * 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 21. 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 three quiz questions. | * 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 ahead of the presentation, remind it to rg@ufal.mff.cuni.cz ([[http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/mailman/listinfo/rg|subscribe]] first), you may add details and the quiz 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 15:50. |
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| * writing a report about another presented paper (within one week deadline), | * active participation in the discussions, which is conditioned by reading the papers in advance and attending the meetings, |
| * 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 reports are required. | * In case of more than three missed meetings or deadlines, additional work (e.g. reports or answers to tricky questions) will be required. |
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| All 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. | 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. |
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| ^ Contact | popel@ufal.mff.cuni.cz | | ^ Contact | popel@ufal.mff.cuni.cz | |
| ^ Mailing list | rg@ufal.mff.cuni.cz | | ^ Mailing list | rg@ufal.mff.cuni.cz | |
| ^ List Archive | [[http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/mailman/listinfo/rg]] | | ^ List Archive | [[http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/mailman/listinfo/rg]] | |
| ^ Meetings | Mondays 16:15, room S1 | | ^ Meetings | Mondays 15:50, room S1 | |
| ^ Past meetings| [[courses:rg:past|courses:rg:past]] | | ^ Past meetings| [[courses:rg:past|courses:rg:past]] | |
| ^ Inspiration | [[courses:rg:wishlist|courses:rg:wishlist]] | | ^ Inspiration | [[courses:rg:wishlist|courses:rg:wishlist]] | |
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| === Autumn&Winter 2012/2013 === | === Autumn&Winter 2013/2014 === |
| ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | | ^ date | **speaker** | **paper** | |
| ^ Oct 1 | | startup meeting| | ^ Oct 7 | | 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 | | ^ 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 15 | Ales Tamchyna | | | ^ 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 22 | Jindra Helcl | | | ^ Oct 28 | — | no RG, Independent Czechoslovak State Day | |
| ^ Oct 29 | Matěj Korvas | | | ^ 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 5 | Lukas Zilka | | | ^ 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 12 | Karel Bílek | | | ^ 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 19 | Matous Machacek| | | ^ Nov 25 | Matous Machacek | Satanjeev Banerjee , Alon Lavie [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W05-0909|METEOR: An Automatic Metric for MT Evaluation with |
| ^ Nov 26 | Ondrej Dusek | | | Improved Correlation with Human Judgments]] [[courses:rg:2013:meteor|Questions]]| |
| ^ Dec 3 | Honza Václ | | | ^ 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]] \\ <html><font color="red">there will be a double Monday seminar in S1 before RG, I hope we will start not much later than at 16:00</font></html> | |
| ^ Dec 10 | | | | ^ 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 17 | | | | ^ 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 ]] | |
| ^ Jan 7 | | last RG | | ^ Jan 6 | | | |
