Centre for Language Technology
Seminars: 2008
The Centre for Language Technology holds weekly discussion seminars with speakers drawn from amongst the group members and visiting researchers. The following lists details the titles and speakers for recent seminars. Email notices of the seminars are sent on Thursdays. Enquiries regarding these seminars can be addressed to Marc Tilbrook (marct at ics.mq.edu.au).
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LTG seminars in 2008
Seminars usually take place on Mondays at 11am in Building E6A, Room 202.
- Jan 14: Robert Dale (OpenProof: At Last, a Reason to Generate from Logical Forms)
- Jan 21: Stephen Wan (Choosing Content for Novel Sentence Generation), Mary Gardiner (Lexical resources annotated with sentiment data)
- Jan 28: Australia Day Holiday
- Feb 04: PhD Student Discussion
- Feb 11: Diego Molla (Information Support for the Efficient Use of Textual Information in Medical Environments)
- Feb 18: James Curran (Parsing the web: exploiting redundancy to understand language)
- Feb 25: Elena Akhmatova (Hypernymy entailment type)
- Mar 03: PhD Student Discussion
- Mar 10: Tuomo Kakkonen (Evaluation of Syntactic Parsers: a Framework and Set of Linguistic Resources)
- Mar 17: Mark Dras (Football (and maybe Phishing))
- Mar 24: Easter Monday
- Mar 31: Rainer Wasinger (Thinking ahead in the development of a museum exhibit), Simon Zwarts (Top Selections between Machine Translation Outputs)
- Apr 07: PhD Student Discussion
- Apr 14: Robert Dale (Writing Discussion)
- Apr 21: Steve Cassidy (DADA-HCS Project Status Report), Andrew Lampert (Towards defining Requests and Commitments in Email)
- Apr 28: Pawel Mazur (Interpretation of Weekday Names)
- May 05: PhD Student Discussion
- May 12: Stephen Wan (Seed and Grow: Augmenting Statistically Generated Summary Sentences using Schematic Word Patterns)
- May 19: Mary Gardiner (Sentiment-bearing words: annotation issues and prediction)
- May 26: Mira Spassova (Fluid Beam - Projected Displays in Various Applications)
- Jun 02: No Meeting
- Jun 09: Queen's Birthday Holiday
- Jun 11: Dan Flickinger (Allies in Babel's Aftermath: Combining deep grammars with statistics in machine translation)
- Jun 16: PG Mini Conference
- Jun 23: Alexandre Rafalovitch (UN General Assembly resolution corpus - challenges and discoveries)
- Jun 30: Robert Dale, Meredith Taylor, Michael Olney (The ACL Anthology as a Research Platform)
- Jul 07: PhD Student Discussion
- Jul 14: Rolf Schwitter ("Up in the sky, look! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!": Situation Awareness by Inference and Logic and other Sabbatical Stories)
- Jul 21: Pawel Mazur (Tracking entities across time in collections of documents)
- Jul 28: Ilya Anisimoff (Issues in Naturalistic Speech Synthesis)
- Aug 04: Luiz Pizzato (Indexing on Semantic Roles for Question Answering, and The Tupi Framework)
- Aug 11: PhD Student Discussion
- Aug 18: Steve Cassidy (DADA: Ingesting and Querying Annotations)
- Aug 25: Andrew Lampert (The Nature of Requests and Commitments in Email)
- Sep 01: PhD Student Discussion
- Sep 08: Rolf Schwitter (Creating and Querying
Linguistically Motivated Ontologies)
Robert Dale (Architecture and Representations in the Thinking Head) - Sep 15: Mary Ellen Foster (Evaluating Embodied Conversational Agents)
- Sep 22: Jette Viethen (Spatial Relations in Referring Expressions)
- Sep 29: Rainer Wasinger (Towards a Conversational Agent for Museum Exhibits)
- Oct 06: Labour Day
- Oct 13: PhD Student Discussion
- Oct 20: Diego Molla (AnswerFinder: Final report and lessons learnt) Mark Dras (Some plans for Projects)
- Oct 27: Markus Guhe (Incrementality in language production)
- Nov 03: Simon Zwarts (Statistical Machine Translation: Morphological Matching...)
- Nov 10: Markus Guhe (Adapting referring expressions to properties of the task environment)
- Nov 17: Ben Hachey (Towards Generic Relation Extraction)
- Nov 24: Matthew Honnibal (Web Person Search and Cross-Document Coreference Resolution)
- Dec 01: Rolf Schwitter (Writing Support for Controlled Natural Languages)
- Dec 08: PhD Student Discussion
- Dec 15: Jette Viethen (More on Spatial Relations in Referring Expressions)