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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, Schuler, White). We're calling it Clippers, following the example of the other spirited discussion groups in the Linguistics department: Changelings, Commies, Lacqueys, 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 0259, 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

8 Jan

William Schuler

Organizational meeting

15 Jan

Ilana

Arabic Language Modeling

22 Jan

Erhard Hinrichs

29 Jan

BLN (35 Psychology)

(no meeting)

5 Feb

Jeremy?

CRFs (practice talk?)

12 Feb

Raja

TBA

19 Feb

Tim

Information Retrieval

26 Feb

5 Mar

Preethi

Discriminative Language Modeling

12 Mar

Darla

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Last modified: September 21, 2009