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Centre for Language Technology

Seminars: 2012

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 Yasaman Motazedi (yasaman.motazedi at mq.edu.au).

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LTG seminars in 2012

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

  • Jan 02: No seminar 
  • Jan-09: Diego Mollá-Aliod (Language models for query-focused summarisation)
  • Jan-16: François Lareau (François Lareau) - Lan Du (Segmented Topic Model)
  • Jan-23: Suzy Howlett (Exploring Overall Improvements from Reordering-as-Preprocessing) - Anders Johannsen (Joint modelling of local coherence and content diversity in summarization)
  • Jan-30: Mark Dras (Second Language Acquisition meets Natural Language Processing) - Jason Narad (to be confirmed)
  • Feb-06: Jojo Wong ((More) Topic Modeling for Native Language Identification) - Mark Johnson (Exploiting social information in grounded language learning via grammatical reduction)
  • Feb-13: PhD Student Discussion
  • Feb-20: Bevan Jones(Constraining Meanings in Semantic Parsing with Scene Description Grammars) - Mark Johnson (The impact of language models and loss functions on repair disfl uency detection)
  • Feb-27: -Nataliya Sokolovska (Aspects of Semi-Supervised and Active Learning in Conditional Random Fields) - Matthew Honnibal (Extending CCG with Lexicalized Type-Changing)
  • Mar-05: Steve Cassidy ( Australian National Corpus Update) - Chris Rauchle (Update on Social Media in Indigenous Communities)
  • Mar-12: Diego Molla Aliod(Statistical approaches for the construction of query-focused multi-document text summaries in complex domains) - Rolf Schwitter(Answer Set Programming)
  • Mar-19: Mark Dras (Active Learning for the Irish Treebank) - Teresa Lynn (Inter-annotation agreement measures for dependency treebanks) 
  • Mar-26: No seminar
  • Apr-02: Invited Talk: Tim Menzies(Understanding Machine Learning for Empirical Software Engineering)
  • Apr-09: (No seminar) Easter Monday
  • Apr-16: PhD Student Discussion
  • Apr-23: Jason Narad (Syntax Factors for Joint Inference: Modeling Syntactic Constraints with Combinatorial Factors)
  • Apr-30: zhao zhendong (Predicting Stock Abnormal Return by Analyzing Companies' Announcements)  
  • May-07: Mark Johnson (Building natural language parsers)    
  • May-14: Suzy Howlett (Baselines, Benchmarks and a Non-Result) -  Yasaman Motazedi (Ranking English Sentences; One Step Towards Reranking Minority Languages) 
  • May-21:  Jojo Wong (to be confirmed)
  • May-28: Steve Cassidy  (to be confirmed) -  Bevan Jones(to be confirmed) 
  • Jun-04: Nataliya Sokolovska (to be confirmed) - Matthew Honnibal  (to be confirmed)
  • Jun-11: Rolf Schwitter  (to be confirmed) - Lan Du (to be confirmed) 
  • Jun-18: PhD Student Discussion 
  • Jun-25: Chris Rauchle (to be confirmed) - Mark Dras (to be confirmed) - François Lareau (to be confirmed)