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Centre for Language Technology

Seminars: 2009

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 Jojo Wong (szewong at science.mq.edu.au).

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LTG seminars in 2009

Seminars usually take place on Mondays at 11am in Building E6A, Room 202.

  • Jan 05: PhD Student Discussion
  • Jan 12: Mary Gardiner - "Python 3.0, what it means for you" and "Prediction of word choice using sentiment features"
  • Jan 19: Stephen Wan - "Citation Sensitive In-Browser Summarisation"
  • Jan 26: Australia Day
  • Feb 02: PhD Student Discussion
  • Feb 09: Luiz Pizzato - "Using Linguistically Motivated Features in Document Retrieval for Question Answering"
  • Feb 16: Mary Gardiner - "Python 3.0, what it means for you" and "Prediction of word choice using sentiment features"
  • Feb 23: Hans Hjelm (Ontology Learning from Texts)
  • Mar 02: PhD Student Discussion
  • Mar 09: Robert Dale and Jette Viethen (Attribute-Centric Referring Expression Generation)
  • Mar 16: Suzy Howlett (Training parsers using redundancy of information)
  • Mar 23: Pawel Mazur (A Taxonomoy of Temporal Expressions)
  • Mar 30: Steve Cassidy (What should we do with our data? )
  • Apr 09: Rigardt Pretorius (NLP tools for disjunctively written African languages. A tokeniser for Setswana)
  • Apr 13: Easter Monday
  • Apr 20: Diego Molla (to be confirmed)
  • Apr 27: Matthew Honnibal (Fully Lexicalised Statistical CCG Parsing)
  • May 04: PhD Student Discussion
  • May 11: Mark Dras (Korean, Tamil and Arrente) and Robert Dale (Referring Expression Generation: What does the Data Tell Us)
  • May 18: Andrew Lampert (Segmenting and Classifying Email Message Text) and Rolf Schwitter (Anaphora Resolution Involving Interactive Knowledge Acquisition)
  • May 25: Jojo Wong (Native Language Detection based on Common Errors) and Simon Zwarts (Spoken Language Understanding)
  • Jun 01: Jette Viethen (Alignment of Reference in Dialogue) and Ilya Anisimoff (Incremental Language Production and Disfluent Speech)
  • Jun 08: Queen's Birthday
  • Jun 15: Shomir Wilson (Distinguishing Use and Mention in Natural Language)
  • Jun 22: Mary Gardiner (A discriminative approach to choosing the right word)
  • Jun 29: PhD Student Discussion
  • Jul 06: Suzy Howlett (Analysis of Information Packaging for Better Machine Translation) and Steve Cassidy (An Interface to Annotations Stored as RDF)
  • Jul 13: Vanessa Long (An RDF-Based Blackboard Architecture for Improving Table Analysis) and Ben Hachey (Multi-Document Summarisation Using Generic Relation Extraction)
  • Jul 20: Ben Hachey and Jean-Yves Delort (Financial Text Mining at the Capital Markets CRC), and Matthew Honnibal (Evaluating a Statistical CCG Parser on Wikipedia)
  • Jul 27: Marie-Claire Jenkins (Natural Language Understanding and Generation in a Service Oriented Conversational System)
  • Aug 03: Bank Holiday
  • Aug 07: Shomir Wilson (Distinguishing Use and Mention in Natural Language: An Update)
  • Aug 10: Diego Molla (Experiments with Using the Web for Answer Ranking)
  • Aug 17: Mark Dras (Choosing the Better Alternative) and Andrew Lampert (to be confirmed)
  • Aug 24: Susanna Nilsson (User centered evaluation and development of Augmented Reality Systems)
  • Aug 31: Rolf Schwitter (Bridging Definite Descriptions) and Jojo Wong (Native Language Identification)
  • Sep 07: Simon Zwarts (Making Categorial Grammar Incremental) and Jette Viethen ("Histories" of Referring Expressions in the iMap Corpus)
  • Sep 14: Ilya Anisimoff (Map Task Corpus and Tools) and Mary Gardiner (Further Revelations in Choosing the Right Word)
  • Sep 21: Richard Power (Planning Numerical Approximations) and Sandra Williams (Hedging and Rounding Expressions)
  • Sep 28: ALTA deadline (no seminar)
  • Oct 05: Labour Day
  • Oct 12: PhD Student Discussion
  • Oct 19: Suzy Howlett (Information Packaging and Prominence in Machine Translation) and Matthew Honnibal (Grammar Engineering with a Statistical Parser)
  • Oct 26: Vanessa Long (A Multi-Level Evaluation Method for Table Layout Analysis)
  • Nov 02: Ben Hachey (Matching Company Names across Finance Databases) and Jean-Yves Delort (The Impact of Market Manipulation in Internet Stock Message Boards)
  • Nov 09: Robert Dale (Computers and Writing) and Mark Dras (Natural Language Generation for Aboriginal Languages)
  • Nov 16: Pawel Mazur (Processing Temporal Expressions - An update about my thesis) and Steve Cassidy (Does it scale? Benchmarking the DADA Annotation Store)
  • Nov 23: Ilya Anisimoff (Hesitation Modelling in a Cognitively Plausible Incremental Natural Language Generation System), Rolf Schwitter (An Update on PENG Light) and Jojo Wong (Contrastive Analysis and Native Language Identification)
  • Nov 30: HCSNet SummerFest and ALTA (no seminar)
  • Dec 07: PhD Student Discussion
  • Dec 14: Andrew Lampert (Detecting Emails Containing Requests for Action) and Simon Zwarts (Referring Expressions: Second-speaker Initial References)
  • Dec 21: Pawel Mazur (Temporal Focus Tracking) and Suzy Howlett (Introduction to Information Packaging)
  • Dec 28: Boxing Day