Previous talks of the Computational Linguistics Colloquium
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Winter Term 2011/2012
| Time | Lecturer | Title |
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| October 27, 2011 | Chris Biemann TU Darmstadt |
I. Lexical Substitution using Crowdsourcing II. Graph Measures for the Quality of Language Models [ Abstract ] |
| November 10, 2011 | Johannes Fürnkranz TU Darmstadt |
Preference Learning by Pairwise Decompositions [ Abstract ] |
| November 17, 2011 | Galina Tremper Heidelberg University |
Semantic Relations between Verbs |
| December 01, 2011 | Darla Shockley | A Machine Translation Approach to Abstractive Summarization |
| December 15, 2011 | Katja Markert Humboldt-Scholar at H-ITS |
Information Status and Anaphora beyond Coreference |
| January 12, 2012 | Stefan Evert TU Darmstadt |
Web N-Grams as a Resource for Corpus Linguistics [ Abstract | Slides | Handout ] |
| January 26, 2012 | Sebastian Martschat H-ITS |
Models for Coreference Resolution |
| February 2, 2012 | Michael Roth Heidelberg University |
Improving Discourse Coherence using Parallel Text Fragments |
| February 15, 2012 | Iryna Gurevych and Judith Eckle-Kohler TU Darmstadt |
UBY – A Large-Scale Unified Lexical-Semantic Resource Based on LMF
[ Abstract ] |
Summer Term 2011
| Time | Lecturer | Title |
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| May 12, 2011 | Kathrin Spreyer
Heidelberg University |
Does it have to be trees?
[ Abstract ] |
| May 26, 2011 | Anna Kazantsevai with Stan Szpakowicz
University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Text Segmentation Using Affinity Propagation
[ Abstract ] |
| June 16, 2011 | Gerhard Kremer
Heidelberg University |
A Crow's Beak is not Yellow - Investigations on Cognitively Salient Concept Properties
[ Abstract ] |
| July 19, 2011 | Benjamin Börschinger (with Bevan K. Jones and Mark Johnson)
Macquarie University |
Reducing Grounded Learning Tasks To Grammatical Inference
[ Abstract ] |
| Matthias Hartung (with Anette Frank)
Heidelberg University |
Exploring Supervised LDA Models for Assigning Attributes to Adjective-Noun Phrases
[ Abstract ] |
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| Matthias Hartung (with Anette Frank)
Heidelberg University |
Assessing Interpretable, Attribute-related Meaning Representations for Adjective-Noun Phrases in a Similarity Prediction Task
[ Abstract ] |
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| July 20, 2011 | Prof. Mark Johnson
Macquarie University |
Adaptor Grammars: A framework for Bayesian non-parametric grammatical inference
[ Abstract ] |
Winter Term 2010/2011
| Time | Lecturer | Title |
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| October 20, 2010 | Adam Kilgarriff
Lexical Computing Ltd. |
Corpora for the coming decade
[ Abstract | Slides ] |
| December 9, 2010 | Aoife Cahill
University of Stuttgart |
Information Status in Generation Ranking
[ Abstract] | Slides ] |
| January 13, 2011 | Martin Volk
University of Zurich |
The Automatic Translation of TV Subtitles. A Machine Translation Success Story.
[ Abstract] |
| January 20, 2011 | Frank Keller
University of Edinburgh |
Incremental, Predictive Parsing with Psycholinguistically Motivated
Tree-Adjoining Grammar
[ Abstract] | Slides] |
| February 3, 2011 | Preslav Nakov
National University of Singapore |
The Web as an Implicit Training Set: Application to Noun Compound Syntax and Semantics
[ Abstract] | Slides ] |
Summer Term 2010
| Time | Lecturer | Title |
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| May 27, 2010 | Stefan Riezler
Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University |
Learning Dense Models of Query Similarity from User Click Logs
[ Abstract | Slides ] |
| June 10, 2010 | Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Carina Silberer
Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University |
Cross-Lingual Word Sense Disambiguation Using Multilingual Co-occurrence Graphs
[ Abstract | Slides ] |
| June 24, 2010 | Sebastian Rudolph
Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
The Matrix Has You – A Unified Compositional Model of Language
[ Abstract ] |
| July 14, 2010 |
Dr. Wendell Piez
Mulberry Technologies, Inc. |
Experiments in overlap: lessons from implementing the LMNL model in XML
[ Abstract ] |
| July 19, 2010 |
Prof. Junzhong Gu
East China Normal University, Shanghai |
Context Aware Computing and Middleware
[ Abstract ] |
| July 20, 2010 |
Saif Mohammad
National Research Council, Canada |
Emotions Evoked by Common Words and Phrases: Using Mechanical Turk
to Create an Emotional Lexicon
[ Abstract ] |
Winter Term 2009/2010
| Time | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 3, 2009 |
Joel Tetreault
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey |
The Ups and Downs of Preposition Error Detection (Slides) |
| September 24, 2009 | Katja Filippova EML Research, Heidelberg |
Dependency graph-based sentence fusion and compression
(Abstract) |
| October 22, 2009 | Noah Bubenhofer & Klaus Rothenhäusler
Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg |
Sprache oberflächlich: Datengeleitete Analyse komplexer Muster in
Textkorpora für sozialwissenschaftliche Anwendungsbereiche
(Abstract) (Slides) |
| October 29, 2009 | Asif Ekbal
Department of Computer Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India and Seminar für Computerlinguistik, Universität Heidelberg |
Named Entity Recognition, Classification and Transliteration in Bengali
(Abstract) (Slides NERC) (Slides Transliteration) |
| November 19, 2009 | Mirella Lapata
School of Computing, University of Edinburgh, Scotland |
Vector-based models of semantic composition
(Abstract) (Slides) |
| November 26, 2009 | Yannick Versley
Universität Tübingen |
Multilingual Coreference Resolution with BART
(Abstract) (Slides) |
| February 4, 2010 | Anoop Sarkar
School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada |
Latent TAG Derivations for Semantic Role Labeling
(Abstract) |
| February 10, 2010 | Prof. Dr. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India |
Classification of Verbs - Towards Developing a Bengali Verb Subcategorization Lexicon
(Abstract) (Slides) |
| February 11, 2010 | Sabine Bergler
Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
BioEvent extraction and hedge classification
(Abstract) (Slides) |
Summer Term 2009
| Time | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
| April 2, 2009 | Henriette Slogsnat
(geb. Engelken) EML Research, Heidelberg |
Semantic processing of biochemical compound names
(Abstract) |
| April 30, 2009 | Simone Paolo Ponzetto Heidelberg University |
Large-Scale Taxonomy Mapping for Restructuring and Integrating Wikipedia
(Abstract) (Slides) |
| May 28, 2009 | Catherine Legg Waikato University, New Zealand |
All You Can Eat Ontoloqy-Buildung: Feeding Wikipedia to Cyc
(Abstract) |
| June 18, 2009 | Robert Dale Macquarie University, Sydney |
Referring Expression Generation: What Can We Learn From Human Data?
(Abstract) (Slides) |
| July 2, 2009 | Pascal Denis INRIA Rocquencourt, University Paris 7 |
Specialized Rankers and Global Models for Coreference Resolution
(Abstract) (Slides) |
| July 8, 2009 | Abdelhadi Soudi University of Rabat, Marokko |
Issues in the Generation of Arabic (Abstract) |
| July 9, 2009 | Alina Tokarczyk Heidelberg University |
Cross-Lingual Projection of LFG F-Structures: Resource Induction for Polish |
Winter Term 2008/2009
| Time | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
| October 9, 2008 | David Milne University of Waikato |
Knowledge-based Information Retrieval with Wikipedia (Abstract) (Slides) |
| Oct 16, 2008 | Martin Forst
Palo Alto Research Center |
Grammatical Machine Translation II
(Abstract) |
| Nov 6, 2008 | Rainer Osswald | The FUH Approach to Deep Semantic Analysis and its Lexical Resources
(Abstract) |
| Nov 13, 2008 | Johan Bos Università di Roma "La Sapienza" |
Computational Semantics and Knowledge Engineering
(Abstract) (Slides) |
| Nov 20, 2008 | Caecilia Zirn | Distinguishing between Instances and Classes in the Wikipedia Taxonomy
(Abstract) (Slides) |
| Nov 24, 2008 | Ian Witten University of Waikato |
Introducing the Greenstone Digital Library Software
(Abstract) |
| Stan Matwin University of Ottawa |
Experience with a Deployed Text Mining System (Abstract) |
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| Nov 27, 2008 | Johannes Knopp, Carina Silberer, Wolodja Wentland | HeiNER - the Heidelberg Named Entity Resource (Abstract) |
Summer Term 2008
| Time | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
| April 10, 2008 | Mary Dalrymple, University of Oxford | Nominal coordination and numeral modifiers (Abstract) (Slides) |
| May 8, 2008 | Paola Merlo, Université de Genève |
Lexical and Structural Constraints in Semantic Role Labelling (Abstract) (Slides) |
| June 12, 2008 | Wiebke Wagner, Universität Heidelberg, Alumna |
Semantische Agenten im Information Retrieval Eine Studie über Semantic Web-Technologien (Abstract) |
Winter Term 2007/2008
| Time | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 2007 | Paul Buitelaar DFKI Saarbrücken |
Ontologielernen aus Texten - Hintergründe, Stand der Forschung und Herausforderungen (Abstract) |
| Dec 20, 2007 | Josef van Genabith Dublin City University |
Parsing and Generation with Treebank-Based Wide-Coverage Probabilistic
LFG Grammars (Abstract) (Slides) |
| Jan 17, 2008 | Alex Fraser IMS, University of Stuttgart |
Improved Word Alignments for Statistical Machine Translation (Abstract) (Slides) |
| Jan 24, 2008 | Jette Klein-Berning doctronic GmbH, Bonn und Alumna, Univ. Heidelberg |
Wege aus der vernetzten Sprachverwirrung - ein Ansatz mit Latent
Semantic Indexing GLDV Award für die beste studentische Abschlussarbeit des Jahres 2007 (Abstract) |
