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Seminars: 2010

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 (sze.wong at mq.edu.au).

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LTG seminars in 2010

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

  • Jan 04: No seminar
  • Jan 11: Matthew Honnibal (Exploiting Morphology in English Statistical Parsing)
  • Jan 18: Ben Hachey (Explainable Text Mining) and Ilya Anisimoff (Disfluency in the Map Task Corpus)
  • Jan 25: No seminar
  • Feb 01: Mark Johnson (Parsing speech corpora)
  • Feb 08: Mark Johnson (Bayesian models of language acquisition or Where do the rules come from?)
  • Feb 15: PhD Student Discussion
  • Feb 22: Robert Dale (Automating Proofreading) and Mark Dras (An Update of Project Plans)
  • Mar 01: Diego Mollá-Aliod (NLP Challenges for Evidence Based Medicine)
  • Mar 08: Douglas W. Oard from University of Maryland (Combining Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition with Spoken Term Detection for Robust Speech Retrieval)
  • Mar 15: Steve Cassidy (An Overview of the Big Australian Speech Corpus and the Australian National Corpus Projects) and Rolf Schwitter (Controlled Natural Languages for Knowledge Representation: A Survey)
  • Mar 22: Jette Viethen (Parsimonious Generation of Subsequent Reference) and Jojo Wong (Examining the Usefulness of Tagger for Syntactic Error Detection)
  • Mar 29: Simon Zwarts (Morphology-Aware SMT Meets Asian Languages) and Suzy Howlett (Choosing Syntax: First Steps)
  • Apr 05: Easter Monday (No seminar)
  • Apr 12: Pawel Mazur (WikiWars - A Temporally Annotated Corpus of Wikipedia Articles about Wars) and Andrew Lampert  (Exact Annotation of Requests and Commitments in Enterprise Email)
  • Apr 19: PhD Student Discussion
  • Apr 26: Anzac Day (No seminar)
  • May 03: Vanessa Long (The Applicability of Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) in Table Recognition from Document Images: A Preliminary Investigation) and Jean-Yves Delort (Automatic Moderation of Online Discussion Sites)
  • May 10: Mark Johnson (Building Natural Language Parsers)
  • May 17: Ben Hachey (Entity Linking: Survey and Directions) and Mark Dras (Trip Report)
  • May 24: Diego Mollá-Aliod (Evidence-Based Summarisation of Clinical Text - An Update) and Rolf Schwitter (PENG Light meets the Event Calculus)
  • May 31: ITEC810 Presentations:  Peng Li (Finding the Structure of Medical Abstracts), Hsiang Sheng Huang (Classification of Medical Research Abstracts), Liang Zhou (Analysis of Clinical Summaries), and Robert Ward (Conceptual Authoring of Queries - A Prototype)
  • Jun 07: Steve Cassidy (ANDS, ARCS and Intersect - Funding for eResearch) and Chris Rauchle (OurMob - Social Media for Indigenous Communities)
  • Jun 14: Queen's Birthday (No seminar)
  • Jun 21: PhD Student Discussion
  • Jun 28: Simon Zwarts (Detecting Speech Repairs Incrementally Using a Noisy Channel Approach) and Jojo Wong ('Intertwining' Parser and Syntactic Lexicon for Grammatical Error Detection)
  • July 05: Stephen Choularton (Completing a Ph.D.: My Experiences and Tips) and Suzy Howlett (Dual-Path Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation)
  • July 12: Andrew Lampert (to be confirmed) and Pawel Mazur (WikiWars (An Update and Comparison to ACE Corpora) and Usefulness of Triggers and Syntactic Chunks for Recognition of Temporal Expressions)
  • July 19: Ilya Anisimoff (NLG for Google Wave) and Abeed Sarker (Text Summarization for the Medical Domain)  
  • July 26: Mark Johnson (Using Linguistically-inspired Constraints to Guide Grammar Induction)
  • Aug 02: Suzy Howlett (Quantum Computation (and Computational Linguistics)) and Ben Hachey (Leveraging Document-Level Vectors and Wikipedia Graph Structure for Entity Linking)
  • Aug 09: Matthew Honnibal and Jette Viethen (postponed)
  • Aug 16: Jette Viethen (Using Decision Trees to Model Referring Expression Generation - One Attribute at a Time) and Rolf Schwitter (Controlled Natural Languages for Knowledge Representation: a Meta Talk)
  • Aug 23: PhD Student Discussion
  • Aug 30: Chris Rauchle (The Connected Mob: How can information technology facilitate and empower communication within indigenous communities in Australia?) and Diego Mollá-Aliod (Reporting and Appraising Evidence-based Information in Medical Research Papers)
  • Sep 06: Matthew Honnibal (Matt's grand plan for Natural Language Understanding (with CCG)) and François Lareau (PUG and Marquis: What I've been doing in the last few years)
  • Sep 13: Jojo Wong (Parser Features for Sentence Grammaticality Classification) and Simon Zwarts (PSMT and Preprocessing, Learning Morphology)
  • Sep 20: Suzy Howlett (Dual-Path Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation (part 2)) and Andrew Lampert (CRALD: Relationship Analysis in Large Datasets)
  • Sep 27: No seminar (Machine Learning Summer School at Canberra)
  • Oct 04: No seminar (Labour Day)
  • Oct 11: Francesco-Alessio Ursini (The Interpretation of Definite Plural Noun Phrases) and Mary Gardiner (Valence Shifting)
  • Oct 18: Abeed Sarker (Automatic Identification of Publication Types of Medical Articles) and Ilya Anisimoff (Disfluent Speech in a Cognitively Plausible Incremental NLG System)
  • Oct 25: Mark Johnson (Synergies in Learning Words and Their Meanings) and Nina Dethlefs (Situated Reference Generation using Constrained Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning)
  • Nov 1: PhD Student Discussion
  • Nov 8: Jean-Yves Delort (Producing Interpretable Predictions in Single-Class Learning)
  • Nov 15: Ben Hachey (Comparison of Searchers and Disambiguators for Entity Linking) and Jette Viethen (A New (Australian) Map Task)
  • Nov 22: Rodolfo Delmonte from University Ca' Foscari (Coreference Resolution and Bridging Definite Descriptions)
  • Nov 29: Hercules Dalianis from Stockholm University (How can we use clinical corpora to assist the clinician, her managers, and clinical research?)
  • Dec 06: Diego Mollá-Aliod (A Corpus for Evidence Based Medicine Summarisation) and Suzy Howlett (Dual-Path Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation (ALTA2010))
  • Dec 13: Chris Rauchle (Strategies for Annotation of Video and Other Social Media Assets on the Internet) and Steve Cassidy (An Update on the Australian National Corpus and The Big ASC Projects)
  • Dec 20: Christmas celebration
  • Dec 27: Boxing Day (no seminar)