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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:
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.
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 |
