Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Fachrichtung 4.7 Universität des Saarlandes

Computational Linguistics Colloquium

This seminar series is jointly organized by the Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics and the International Post-Graduate College in Language Technology and Cognitive Systems.

Winter Semester 2006-2007

Thursdays, 16:15, Building C7 4 (Zentrum für Sprachforschung und Sprachtechnologie), Conference Room, unless indicated otherwise

A more complete programme follows.

Date Speaker Title of talk
19 October Michael J. Spivey Continuous Temporal Dynamics in Perception and Cognition
26 October Jörg Tiedemann Linguistically informed IR for open-domain question answering
2 November John McDonough Minimum Mutual Information Beamforming for Simultaneous Active Speakers
9 November
16 November
23 November Begoña Villada Moirón Capturing idiosyncratic linguistic behavior for automatic Multiword Expression identification
30 November
7 December Marco Pennacchiotti Harvesting and ontologizing semantic relations
11 December Caroline Sporleder Assessing the Utility of Automatically Labelled Examples for Classifying Discourse Relations
14 December
21 December Philipp Koehn New Approaches in Statistical Machine Translation
28 December
4 January
11 January Bernd Kröger A neurophonetic model of speech production including a three dimensional articulatory speech synthesizer
18 January Aline Villavicencio Having a closer look at Multiword Expressions
23 January Frederick Jelinek Language Modeling via Random Forests
25 January
1 February Colin Bannard Lexically specific grammatical information and computational language learning
8 February John Local Phonetic detail in talk-in-interaction: on the deployment and interplay of prosodic and non-prosodic resources
13 February Feiyu Xu & Hans Uszkoreit Minimally Supervised Learning of Relation Extraction Rules using Semantic Seeds
15 February Barbara Rauch Predicting Classification Decisions with Data Point Based Meta-Learning