LIL Reading Group

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This is the wiki page for topics to be discussed in the LIL group meetings. While one person will be officially leading the group in each session, the group will be structured in the form of a discussion.

When: Thursday, 4pm

Where: CSE 303

We also have a mailing list lil-group (https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/lil-group).

Contact: yoav@cs

Schedule: Summer 12

Date Paper Authors Venue Leader Info
6/15/12 Weakly Supervised Training of Semantic Parsers Jayant Krishnamurthy and Tom M. Mitchell EMNLP 2012 Luke
7/5/12 Structured Perceptron with Inexact Search L. Huang, S. Fayong and Y. Guo NAACL 2012 Yoav
7/12/12 Distributional semantics in technicolor Bruni, Boleda and Baroni ACL 2012 Tony
7/19/12 Ensemble of Exemplar-SVMs for Object Detection and Beyond Tomasz Malisiewicz, Abhinav Gupta, Alexei A. Efros ICCV 2011 Nicholas
7/26/12 Midge: Generating Image Descriptions From Computer Vision Detections Margaret Mitchell, Jesse Dodge, Amit Goyal, Kota Yamaguchi, Karl Sratos, Xufeng Han, Alysssa Mensch, Alexander C. Berg, Tamara L. Berg, Hal Daumé III EACL 2012 Jesse
8/2/12 String Re-writing Kernel Fan Bu, Hang Li, Xiaoyan Zhu ACL 2012 Tom
8/9/12 Intel retreat (no reading group)
8/16/12 Raphael's final exam practice talk
8/23/12 Unsupervised Concept-to-text Generation with Hypergraphs I. Konstas and M. Lapata NAACL 2012 Yoav
8/30/12
9/6/12
9/13/12

Potential Papers (in no particular order):


  • Character-based Kernels for Novelistic Plot Structure. Micha Elsner. Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2012). http://www.cs.brown.edu/~melsner/novels.pdf
  • tability and Accuracy in Incremental Speech Recognition. Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter Heeman and Jason D. Williams. 2011. S Proc SIGDIAL, Portland, Oregon, USA. Best Student Paper Award. http://aclweb.org/anthology/W/W11/W11-2014.pdf

Previous Quarters

Schedule: Spring 12

Date Paper Authors Link Leader Info
3/30/12 A Bayesian Approach to Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction Ivan Titov, Alexandre Klementiev http://people.mmci.uni-saarland.de/~aklement/publications/eacl12srl.pdf Tom Kwiatkowski
4/6/12 Multi-Source Transfer of Delexicalized Dependency Parsers McDonald, Petrov and Hall http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D11/D11-1006.pdf Yoav Artzi
4/13/12 Learning Determinantal Point Processes A. Kulesza and B. Taskar http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~taskar/pubs/ldpps_uai11.pdf Luke
4/20/12 Learning Accurate, Compact, and Interpretable Tree Annotation Slav Petrov, Leon Barrett, Romain Thibaux and Dan Klein http://www.petrovi.de/data/acl06.pdf Mark Yatskar
4/27/12 Spectral Learning for Non-Deterministic Dependency Parsing Franco M. Luque, Ariadna Quattoni, Borja Balle, Xavier Carreras http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~bballe/papers/eacl12.pdf Raphael Hoffmann
5/4/12 Dual Decomposition with Many Overlapping Components Andre F. T. Martins, Noah A. Smith, Pedro M. Q. Aguiar, Mario A. T. Figueiredo http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D11/D11-1022.pdf Yoav Artzi
5/11/12 NW-NLP Conference
5/18/12 You had me at hello: How phrasing affects memorability Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil Justin Cheng Jon Kleinberg Lillian Lee http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~cristian/memorability_files/memorability.pdf Mark Yatskar
5/25/12 (no reading group; go to Yoav's Generals Talk!)
6/1/12 Parsing Time: Learning to Interpret Time Expressions Gabor Angeli, Chris Manning, Dan Jurafsky http://stanford.edu/~angeli/papers/2012-naacl-temporal.pdf Alan Ritter