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Reading Group
Summer 2008
	
		| date | speaker | paper | expected audience | 
	
		| Mar 17 | Pavel Schlesinger | Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein: Unsupervised Coreference Resolution in a Nonparametric Bayesian Model |  | 
	
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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 | 
 
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 gloeckner.ps - plná verze | 
	
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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. |  | 
	
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		| May 3 | Otakar Smrž |  | 
	
		| May 10 | Barbora Hladká | B. Scholkopf and A.J. Smola:  A Short Introduction to Learning Method with Kernels. |  | 
 
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. |  |