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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:

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 popel@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
Mailing list rg@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
Meetings Mondays 15:50, room S1
Past meetings courses:rg:past
Inspiration courses:rg:wishlist

Autumn&Winter 2013/2014

date speaker paper
Oct 7 startup meeting
Oct 14 Martin Popel Joseph P. Simmons, Leif D. Nelson, Uri Simonsohn: False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant, Psychological Science, 2011. Questions
Oct 21 Rudolf Rosa Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Christopher D. Manning: The Stanford typed dependencies representation, Coling 2008. Questions and Answers
Oct 28 no RG, Independent Czechoslovak State Day
Nov 4 Jan Mašek Slav Petrov, Dipanjan Das, Ryan McDonald: A Universal Part-of-Speech Tagset and McDonald et al.: Universal Multilingual Annotation for Dependency Parsing Questions
Nov 11 Ondřej Fiala Xuchen Yao, Benjamin Van Durme, Chris Callison-Burch, Peter Clark: A Lightweight and High Performance Monolingual Word Aligner, Proceedings of ACL, 2013. Questions
Nov 18 Shadi Saleh Bhagwani, Sumit and Satapathy, Shrutiranjan and Karnick, Harish: Semantic textual similarity using maximal weighted bipartite graph matching Questions
Nov 25 Matous Machacek Satanjeev Banerjee , Alon Lavie METEOR: An Automatic Metric for MT Evaluation with Improved Correlation with Human Judgments Questions
Dec 2 Petr Jankovský Petrovic, Mathews: Unsupervised joke generation from big data Questions
there will be a double Monday seminar in S1 before RG, I hope we will start not much later than at 16:00
Dec 9 Anna Vernerová T. Berg-Kirkpatrick, D. Burkett, D. Klein: An Empirical Investigation of Statistical Significance in NLP Questions
Dec 16 Petra Barančíková Bill Dolan, Chris Quirk, and Chris Brockett: Unsupervised Construction of Large Paraphrase Corpora: Exploiting Massively Parallel News Sources Questions
Jan 6

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