Schedules of past seminars

Overview

Here you can find the schedules for past research seminars, starting in 2004. (In some past semesters, we either had no research seminar, or did not put the schedule online.)

Year	Winter	Summer
2014		current
2013	WS 2013/14	(sabbatical)
2012	WS 2012/13	SS 2012
2011	WS 2011/12	n/a
2010	WS 2010/11	SS 2010
2009	WS 2009/10	n/a
2008	n/a
2007	n/a	SS 2007
2006	WS 2006/07	SS 2006
2005	WS 2005/06	SS 2005
2004	n/a	SS 2004

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Winter 2013/14

Date	Speaker	Topic / Presented Paper	Talk Type
21.10.2013	Simon Ostermann	Die Anwendbarkeit von Active Learning auf Sprachlerner-Korpora (In German!)	B.Sc. Thesis defense
28.10.2013	Annie Louis	Structured and Unstructured Cache Models for SMT Domain Adaptation	Guest talk
04.11.2013	Annemarie Friedrich	A Corpus of Violations of Linguistic Quality in Multi-Document Summarization and its Uses	Work submitted to LREC / brainstorming
11.11.2013	Vera Demberg, Stefan Thater, Manfred Pinkal	Overview on our projects in the new SFB	Great Expectations
18.11.2013	(no seminar)
25.11.2013	(no seminar)
02.12.2013	Susanne Fertmann	Extraction of Selling Events from Historical Documents	B.Sc. defense
09.12.2013	(no seminar)
16.12.2013	(no seminar)
Happy Holidays!
06.01.2014	(no seminar)
13.01.2014
20.01.2014
27.01.2014	(no seminar)
03.02.2014

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Winter 2012/2013

Date	Speaker	Topic / Presented Paper	Talk Type
05.11.2012	(everybody)	Preliminary Discussion	1st meeting!
12.11.2012	Annemarie Friedrich	A Comparison of Knowledge-based Algorithms for Graded Word Sense Assignment	Work accepted for COLING '12
19.11.2012	Massimo Poesio	BrainNet: learning conceptual representations from corpora and neural data	Guest Colloquium
26.11.2012	Alexandre Klementiev	Inducing Crosslingual Distributed Representations of Words	Dry run for COLING '12
03.12.2012	Fatemeh Asr	Measuring the Strength of Linguistic Cues for Discourse Relations	Dry run for COLING '12
10.12.2012	cancelled!
17.12.2012	Michaela Regneri	Grounding Action Descriptions in Videos	Work for TACL
Happy Holidays!
07.01.2013		(no seminar)
14.01.2013	Andrea Horbach	Automated Short Answer Scoring for Language Learning	Work in Progress
21.01.2013	Mikhail Kozhevnikov	Cross-lingual adaptation of semantic role labeling models	Work in Progress
28.01.2013	Vera Demberg & Asad Sayeed	Developing a semantic representation for predictive TAG parsing	Work in Progress
04.02.2013	Silas Weinbach	Vorhersage in Kollokationen (will be given in German!)	B.Sc. Kolloquium
18.02.2013	Lea Frermann	A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Unsupervised Induction of Script Knowledge	M.Sc. Kolloquium

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Summer 2012

Date	Speaker	Topic / Presented Paper	Talk Type
07.05.2012	Diana McCarthy	Exploring Word Meaning in Context with Graded Annotations	Guest Talk
21.05.2012	Michaela Regneri	Semantic Grounding of Actions in Videos	Work in Progress
28.05.2012	Pentecost
04.06.2012	Stefan Thater	A comparison of models of word meaning in context	Work published at NAACL 2012
18.06.2012	Fabian Suchanek	The Ontologies Group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics	Guest Talk
02.07.2012	Annemarie Friedrich et al.	Wordsense Disambiguation in the CODIS project	Work in Progress
23.07.2012	Carolyn Ladda	Automatic Acquisition of Scenario-Specific Corpora	B.Sc. Thesis Defense

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Winter 2011/2012

Date	Speaker	Topic / Presented Paper
24.10.2011		preliminary discussion
31.11.2011		no seminar
07.11.2011		no seminar
14.11.2011	Michaela Regneri	Future Script Research (and an experimental Research Seminar format)
21.11.2011		no seminar
28.11.2011	Annemarie Friedrich	M.Sc. Thesis + Watson project (details tba)
05.12.2011	Marcus Rohrbach	Scripts and Video Processing (details tba)
12.12.2011	Michaela Regneri Manfred Pinkal	The MS Video Description Corpus and other Topics on Vision and Text (details tba)
19.12.2011	Caroline Sporleder Alexis Palmer	tbc
26.12.2011		Christmas break
02.01.2012		Christmas break
09.01.2012		open
16.01.2012		no seminar (conference deadlines)
23.01.2012	Ivan Titov Alexandre Klementiev	tba.
30.01.2012		open
06.02.2012	Jelke Bloem	Preprocessing of Script data (details tba.)

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Winter 2010/2011

Date	Speaker	Topic / Presented Paper
26.10.2010		preliminary discussion
01.11.2010		holiday
08.11.2010	Georgiana Dinu	Dinu and Lapata: Measuring Distributional Similarity in Context
15.11.2010		cancelled
22.11.2010	Marcus Rohrbach	What Helps Where - And Why? Semantic Relatedness for Knowledge Transfer in Image Classification
29.11.2010		cancelled
06.12.2010		cancelled
13.12.2010	Mark Buckley	Modelling solution step discussions in tutorial dialogue
20.12.2010		Christmas break
27.12.2010		Christmas break
03.01.2011		cancelled
10.01.2011		cancelled
17.01.2011
24.01.2011	Stefan Thater	Word Meaning in Context
31.01.2011	Magdalena Wolska	The Allegro Project
07.02.2011	Hagen Fürstenau	Semi-supervised Semantic Role Labeling via Graph Alignment

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Summer 2010

Date	Speaker	Topic / Presented Paper
19.04.2010	all Hagen Fürstenau	preliminary discussion Lang and Lapata: Unsupervised Induction of Semantic Roles
26.04.2010  15:30	Josef Ruppenhofer	Ruppenhofer, Sunde, Pinkal: Generating FrameNets of various granularities: The FrameNet Transformer
03.05.2010  C72, 2.11	Alexis Palmer	Chambers, Wang, Jurafsky: Classifying Temporal Relations Between Events Chambers and Jurafsky: Jointly Combining Implicit Constraints Improves Temporal Ordering
10.05.2010		cancelled
17.05.2010	Michaela Regneri	Espinosa and Liebermann: EventNet: Inferring Temporal Relations Between Commonsense Events Nahnsen: Domain-independent shallow sentence ordering
24.05.2010		pentecost
31.05.2010	Caroline Sporleder Manfred Pinkal	Zhang et al: TOB: Timely Ontologies for Business Relations Nakashole, Theobald, Weikum: Find your Advisor: Robust Knowledge Gathering from the Web
07.06.2010		cancelled
14.06.2010  17:15	Linlin Li	Li, Roth, Sporleder: Topic Models for Word Sense Disambiguation and Token-based Idiom Detection
21.06.2010	Hagen Fürstenau	de Melo and Weikum: Towards a Universal Wordnet by Learning from Combined Evidence de Melo and Weikum: Untangling the Cross-Lingual Link Structure of Wikipedia
28.06.2010  14:15	Matthew Stone	Learning semantics and pragmatics from dialogue history
05.07.2010		cancelled
12.07.2010		ACL
19.07.2010		cancelled

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Winter 2009/2010

Date	Speaker	Topic
19.10.2009  17:15	Caroline Sporleder	Detecting Idiomatic Meaning in Context
26.10.2009	Daniel Bauer	Statistical Natural Language Generation as Planning
02.11.2009	Caroline Sporleder	Nathanael Chambers and Dan Jurafsky: Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Schemas and their Participants Nathanael Chambers and Dan Jurafsky: Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Event Chains
09.11.2009	Josef Ruppenhofer	Andrew S. Gordon: Browsing Image Collections with Representations of Common-Sense Activities Mehdi Manshadi, Reid Swanson, and Andrew S. Gordon: Learning a Probabilistic Model of Event Sequences From Internet Weblog Stories.
16.11.2009	Michaela Regneri	Mining Script Representations out of Web-Collected Data
23.11.2009	Cécile Grivaz	Brandon Beamer and Roxana Girju: Using a Bigram Event Model to Predict Causal Potential
30.11.2009 B3.2, HS 0.03	Sabine Schulte im Walde	Computational Approaches to Semantic Relatedness (Antrittsvorlesung)
07.12.2009	Mark Buckley	How to evaluate models for dialogues on complex tasks
14.12.2009		cancelled
04.01.2010		cancelled
11.01.2010	Georgiana Dinu	Topic Models for Paraphrasing in Context
18.01.2010	Alexis Palmer	Matsubayashi et al.: A Comparative Study on Generalization of Semantic Roles in FrameNet He and Gildea: Integrating Cluster Information for Cross-Frame Semantic Role Labeling
25.01.2010		cancelled
01.02.2010	Gerald Schoch	A study of syntactic and semantic criteria for making frame distinctions

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Summer 2007

Date	Speaker	Topic
23.04.2007	Alex Fleisch	Ein frame-semantischer Ansatz zur Analyse von Komparativen und Äquativen mit "als" und "wie".
30.04.2007	Brückentag
07.05.2007	Manfred Pinkal, Magdalena Wolska, Mark Buckley	Dialog (Introduction)
14.05.2007	Stefan Thater, Sebastian Pado	Dry runs for PhD defenses
21.05.2007		cancelled
25.05.2007  14:00	Olga Ourioupina	Dry run for PhD defense
	Manfred Pinkal, Magdalena Wolska, Mark Buckley	Dialog (Paradise)
04.06.2007  14:00	Verena Rieser	Learning dialogue strategies for interactive database search
11.06.2007  14:00	Michaela Regneri	Master's thesis proposal
18.06.2007		cancelled
25.06.2007		cancelled
02.07.2007		organisational issues
09.07.2007		cancelled
16.07.2007	Manfred Pinkal	Exzellenzcluster

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Winter 2006/07

Date	Speaker	Presented papers/Topic
030.10.2006	Stefan Thater	Zaenen, Karttunen, Crouch: Local Textual Inference: can it be defined or circumscribed? Manning: Local Textual Inference: It's hard to circumscribe, but you know it when you see it - and NLP needs it Crouch, Karttunen, Zaenen: Circumscribing is not excluding: A response to Manning
006.11.2006	Aljoscha Burchardt	Bar-Haim, Dagan, Dolan, Ferro, Giampiccolo, Magnini, Szpektor: The Second PASCAL Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge
013.11.2006	canceled
020.11.2006	canceled
030.11.2006 016:30	Michaela Regneri	Regneri: B.Sc. thesis Chklovski, Pantel: VerbOcean: Mining the Web for Fine-Grained Semantic Verb Relations
004.12.2006	canceled
011.12.2006 016:00	Konstantina Garoufi	Master's thesis
018.12.2006	Manfred Pinkal	Nairn, Condoravdi, Karttunen: Computing relative polarity for textual inference
	Aljoscha Burchardt	Tatu, Iles, Slavick, Novischi, Moldovani: COGEX at the Second Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge Bos, Markert: When logical inference helps determining textual entailment (and when it doesn't)
008.01.2007	canceled
015.01.2007	Stephan Walter	CORTE project
022.01.2007		discussion about the annotation experiment
029.01.2007	Magdalena Wolska	Kouylekov, Magnini: Building a Large-Scale Repository of Textual Entailment Rules
005.02.2007	Nils Reiter
012.02.2007

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Summer 2006

Date	Speaker	Title of talk
08.5.	Aljoscha, Anette	The RTE Experience 2006
031.5.	Olga Uryupina
07.6.	Rosy Stegmann	Acquiring Individual Interest Profiles by Means of Adaptive Natural Language Dialog
014.6.		(- MP)
021.6. 14-16	Judith Eckle-Kohler	Linguistic knowledge for automatic lexicon acquisition from German text corpora
028.6.
05.7.	Nadine Perera	Cross-linguale Induktion von Grammatiken für die Dialogmodellierung
012.7.
019.7.

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Winter 2005/06

Date	Speaker	Title of talk
07.11.	Nate	The TALK In-Car MP3 Player Dialogue System
014.11.		(- MP)
021.11.		(Powerpoint ate the slides)
028.11.	Sebastian & Katrin	Paraphrases and Framenet
05.12.	Sabine	A statistical grammar for inducing lexical semantic phenomena
012.12.		(- MP)
019.12.	Ciprian	A general linearization model (GLM)
09.1.	Alexander	The CRISP proposal: constraint-based generation
016.1.
023.1.	Stefan	Best of CHORUS 2005
030.1.	Oana	A more practical view of Information Structure
06.2.	Katrin	Outlier detection (?)
013.2.	Andrea, Manfred	tba
020.2.

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Summer 2005

Date	Speaker	Title of talk
018.4.	Mark Hopkins (UCLA)	What's in a translation rule?
025.4.	Alexander, Aljoscha, Anette	The RTE Experience
02.5.	Peter Baumgartner, Fabian Suchanek	RTE from an inference perspective
09.5.	Katrin, Sabine	Comparison of verb classifications
016.5.		(Pfingsten)
023.5.		(- MP)
030.5.	Stephan	CORTE
06.6.	Sabine	Identifying Ontological and Functional Properties of Human Verb Associations
013.6.	Verena	Implications for Generating Clarification Requests in Task-oriented Dialogues
020.6.	Sebastian, Katrin	To Cause Or Not To Cause: Cross-Lingual Semantic Matching for Paraphrase Modelling
027.6.		(MP ?)
04.7.	free	free
011.7.		IGK meeting

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Summer 2004

Date	Speaker	Title of talk
03.5.	(entfällt: SFB-Treffen)
010.5.	(entfällt: niemand will reden)
017.5.	everyone	"voll der" (see below)
024.5.	(entfällt)
031.5.	(entfällt: Pfingstmontag)
07.6.	DIALOG, CHORUS	Dry run for SFB colloquium
014.6.	(entfällt)
021.6.	Christian, Stephan	Ontologies etc. in the legal domain
028.6.	CHORUS	Syntax/semantics interaction in XDG
05.7.	Gerd, Christian	Preds and evaluation
012.7.	Ivana, Ciprian	News from TALK
019.7.	Ivana, Magda	News from DIALOG

"voll der" talks on 17 May:

• Katrin/Kristina: Einleitung
• Anette: Syntax (?)
• Markus: Semantikkonstruktion
• Alexander: Semantik
• Manfred: Vergleich mit Komparativ usw. (?)
• Gerd/Andrea: "voll der" im Bravo-Korpus
• Ivana: Äquivalente in slawischen Sprachen