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NLP meetings

Suggest a paper for discussion

• 11/08/2007 11:00am Rion Snow's talk
• 11/07/2007 5:00pm Tips and tricks for paper writing, document organization, etc.
• 11/01/2007 5:00pm Practice talk for Andras for CIKM 2007.
• 10/24/2007 5:00pm Paper discussion
  • Xiaojun Wan; Jianwu Yang; Jianguo Xiao. Towards an Iterative Reinforcement Approach for Simultaneous Document Summarization and Keyword Extraction. ACL 2007. pdf.
• 10/08/2007 1:00pm Michael's MS thesis defense
• 09/26/2007 5:30pm Presentation by Miguel of his recent work on image classification
• 09/12/2007 Practice talks for Samer and Ravi for IEEE ICSC
• 09/05/2007 Paper discussion
  • Andrea Esuli; Fabrizio Sebastiani. PageRanking WordNet Synsets: An Application to Opinion Mining. ACL 2007. pdf. Discussion led by Carmen.
  • F. Suchanek, G. Kasneci, G. Weikum. YAGO: A Core of Semantic Knowledge Unifying WordNet and Wikipedia. In WWW 2007. pdf. Discussion led by Kino.

• 08/29/2007 First NLP meeting - general discussions about work done over summer, plans for the new semester.
  • Miguel suggested Lemur or Indri, or Managing Gigabytes for IR.

Workshops

• TextGraphs-2: Graph-based Algorithms for Natural Language Processing, NAACL, April 2007.
• Semeval-2007: Affective Text, Semeval, evaluations March 2007.
• Computational Aesthetics: Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Beauty and Happiness, AAAI, July 2006.
• TextGraphs: Graph-based Algorithms for Natural Language Processing, NAACL, June 2006.
• Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond, ACL, June 2005.
• Knowledge Collection from Volunteer Contributors, AAAI 2005 Spring Symposium, March 2005.
• Senseval-3, evaluations March-April 2005, workshop July 2004.
• Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond, HLT/NAACL 2003 workshop.