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Reading Group
Official name of this course is 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 Oct 8.
- Suggest me 2–3 papers you would like to present (with pdf links, and your preferences) before Oct 15.
- Prepare your presentation and three quiz questions.
- One week ahead of the presentation, remind it to rg@ufal.mff.cuni.cz (subscribe first), you may add details and the quiz questions.
- 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.
- In case of more than three missed meetings or deadlines, additional reports are required.
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.
| Contact | popel@ufal.mff.cuni.cz |
|---|---|
| Mailing list | rg@ufal.mff.cuni.cz |
| List Archive | http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/mailman/listinfo/rg |
| Meetings | Mondays 16:15, room S1 |
| Past meetings | courses:rg:past |
| Inspiration | courses:rg:wishlist |
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 |
| 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 |
| Oct 29 | Matěj Korvas | |
| Nov 5 | Petr Jankovský | |
| Nov 12 | Karel Bílek | |
| Nov 19 | Matous Machacek | |
| 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 |
| Dec 3 | Honza Václ | |
| Dec 10 | Lukas Zilka | |
| Dec 17 | Josef Čech | |
| Jan 7 | last RG |