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Clippers

This is a weekly forum open to anyone with an interest in computational linguistics. We plan a varied schedule of work in progress presentations and general discussion. We're aiming to keep things accessible to anyone with a basic understanding of linguistics. Computational linguists or potential computational linguists should attend on a regular basis and may sign up for 1 hour of credit (possibly 2 if presenting). Others (including undergraduates) are welcome to drop in on an ad hoc basis.

The instigators are the CLLT faculty (Brew, Dennis, Fosler-Lussier, Petrov, White). We're calling it Clippers, following the example of the other spirited discussion groups in the Linguistics department: Changelings, Phonies, Pragmatics, the Psycholinguistics Lab Meeting, So Mean and Synners. If you want you can think of the name as a quasi-acronym for Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (or not).

To check out previous quarters' schedules, follow this link.

Important: Please be sure to subscribe to our local computational linguistics mailing list on which all Clippers sessions and talks are announced.

This quarter we will meet in Hagerty Hall 0071, 1:30-2:48. The plan, as usual, is to start each session with 10-15 minutes of open discussion — usually consisting of news, announcements and the Paul Davis Moment — and then to continue with the following topics:

Schedule

Date

Discussion Leader

Topic

3 April

(No Meeting)

SALT XIX Conference

10 April

Rajakrishnan Rajkumar

Evaluating Intonation using Eye Tracking

17 April

Judita Preiss, Jon Dehdari, Josh King, Dennis Mehay

WSD Report -- Refining the Most Frequent Sense Baseline

24 April

Timothy Weale

Lemur and TREC Evaluations

1 May

(No Meeting)

CogFest

8 May

Jon Dehdari

Semi-supervised Learning of POS Tags

15 May

Dominic Espinosa

Using Expected Utility to Optimize Text Selection for Speech Synthesis

22 May

Annatala Wolf

Novelty Detection

29 May

Crystal Nakatsu

Generation with Discourse CCG

5 June

(No Meeting)

NAACL

10 June

John Pate

Incorporating Syntactic and Prosodic Context into PCFGs


Last modified: June 10, 2009