NLP Group Meeting Schedule -- Spring 2012

NLP Group Meeting Schedule, Spring 2012

Meetings are on Thursday from 3:30pm-4:30pm in the Flux Conference Room.
(unless otherwised noted)


Date   Topic   Presenter(s)  
2/16 Dealing with Discourse Issues in Event Extraction
Ruihong Huang
2/23 No meeting.
No one
3/1 Discussion Themes of Forum Threads
Lalindra De Silva
3/8 Automatic Expansion of Feature-Level Opinion Lexicons
Ashequl Qadir
3/15 Spring Break!
No one
3/22 Language and Vision: Together Forever?

I'll discuss some recent work that attempts to tie language processing and computer vision. I'll highlight some of the challenges, discuss some successes (and more failures) and discuss what I think the interesting problems are moving forward.
This will include ideas and results that evolved from joint work with Yiannis Aloimonos, Alex Berg, Tamara Berg, Jesse Dodge, Aleks Ecins, Cornelia Fermuller, Amit Goyal, Xufeng Han, Alyssa Mensch, Margaret Mitchell, Karl Stratos, Ching Lik Teo, Kota Yamaguchi and Yezhou Yang.

Hal Daume III
3/29 Employing the Centering Theory in Pronoun Resolution from the Semantic Perspective
Prafulla Surve
4/2 Large Scale Data Sketches for NLP

Special MONDAY talk from 2:30-3:30 in the Flux Conference Room
Amit Goyal
4/12 You had me at hello: How phrasing affects memorability Take the memorability test yourself!
Nathan Gilbert
4/19 Exploiting Extracted Knowledge for Semi-Supervised Relation Detection in Clinical Notes
Youngjun Kim
4/26 -
TBD
5/3 -
TBD


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