NL Grounding Reading Group
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This is the wiki page for topics to be discussed in the NL grounding reading group.
When: Wednesdays, 3:30pm
Where: CSE 203
We also have a mailing list (https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/grounding).
Contact: cynthia@cs
Contents
Schedule: Autumn 2012
Date | Paper | Authors | Venue | Leader | Info |
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Oct 3 | Learning to Connect Language and Perception | Raymond J. Mooney | AAAI 2008 | Cynthia | |
Oct 10 | |||||
Oct 17 | |||||
Oct 24 | |||||
Oct 31 | UW/MSR Machine Learning Workshop (no reading group) | ||||
Nov 7 | |||||
Nov 14 | |||||
Nov 21 | |||||
Nov 28 | |||||
Dec 5 | |||||
Dec 12 |
Potential Papers
(in no particular order)
- EMNLP 2012
- Q. Do and W. Lu and D. Roth, Joint Inference for Event Timeline Construction. EMNLP (2012) http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/papers/DoLuRo12.pdf
- An Empirical Investigation of Statistical Significance in NLP, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, David Burkett, and Dan Klein, Proceedings of EMNLP 2012. http://nlp.cs.berkeley.edu/pubs/BergKirkpatrick-Burkett-Klein_2012_Significance_paper.pdf
- Parser Showdown at the Wall Street Corral: An Empirical Investigation of Error Types in Parser Output, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, David Hall, James R. Curran, and Dan Klein, Proceedings of EMNLP 2012. http://nlp.cs.berkeley.edu/pubs/Kummerfeld-Hall-Curran-Klein_2012_Analysis_paper.pdf
- Learning Constraints for Consistent Timeline Extraction. David McClosky and Christopher D. Manning. http://nlp.stanford.edu/~mcclosky/papers/dmcc-emnlp-2012.pdf
- Spectral Dependency Parsing with Latent Variables. Paramveer Dhillon, Jordan Rodu, Michael Collins, Dean Foster and Lyle Ungar. http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D12/D12-1019.pdf
- Employing Compositional Semantics and Discourse Consistency in Chinese Event Extraction. Peifeng Li, Guodong Zhou and Qiaoming Zhu. http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D12/D12-1092.pdf
- A coherence model based on syntactic patterns. Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova. http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D12/D12-1106.pdf (best paper)
- Semantic Compositionality through Recursive Matrix-Vector Spaces. Richard Socher, Brody Huval, Christopher D. Manning and Andrew Y. Ng. http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D12/D12-1110.pdf
- First order vs. higher order modification in distributional semantics. Gemma Boleda, Eva Maria Vecchi, Miquel Cornudella and Louise McNally. http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D12/D12-1112.pdf
- ACL 2012
- Coreference Semantics from Web Features, Mohit Bansal and Dan Klein, Proceedings of ACL 2012. http://nlp.cs.berkeley.edu/pubs/Bansal-Klein_2012_CorefSemantics_paper.pdf
- Learning to “Read Between the Lines” using Bayesian Logic Programs. Sindhu Raghavan, Raymond J. Mooney and Hyeonseo Ku. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ml/papers/raghavan.acl12.pdf
- Spectral Learning of Latent-Variable PCFGs. Shay B. Cohen; Karl Stratos; Michael Collins; Dean P. Foster; Lyle Ungar. http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P12/P12-1024.pdf
- A Discriminative Hierarchical Model for Fast Coreference at Large Scale. Michael Wick; Sameer Singh; Andrew McCallum. http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P12/P12-1040.pdf
- Semantic Parsing with Bayesian Tree Transducers. Bevan Jones; Mark Johnson; Sharon Goldwater. http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P12/P12-1051.pdf
- Selective Sharing for Multilingual Dependency Parsing. Tahira Naseem; Regina Barzilay; Amir Globerson. http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P12/P12-1066.pdf
- Improving Word Representations via Global Context and Multiple Word Prototypes. Eric Huang; Richard Socher; Christopher Manning; Andrew Ng. http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P12/P12-1092.pdf
- Unsupervised Relation Discovery with Sense Disambiguation. Limin Yao; Sebastian Riedel; Andrew McCallum. http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P12/P12-1075.pdf
- Highlights from ICML 2012 (mostly ML/Structured Prediction, not NLP per se)
- Output Space Search for Structured Prediction. 'Janardhan Rao Doppa, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli'. http://icml.cc/2012/papers/587.pdf
- Modeling Latent Variable Uncertainty for Loss-based Learning. 'M. Pawan Kumar, Ben Packer, Daphne Koller'. http://icml.cc/2012/papers/274.pdf
- Efficient Decomposed Learning for Structured Prediction. 'Rajhans Samdani, Dan Roth'. http://icml.cc/2012/papers/122.pdf
- Unachievable Region in Precision-Recall Space and Its Effect on Empirical Evaluation. 'Kendrick Boyd, Jesse Davis, David Page, Vitor Santos Costa'. http://icml.cc/2012/papers/349.pdf
- Exemplar-SVMs for Visual Ob ject Detection, Label Transfer and Image Retrieval. 'Tomasz Malisiewicz, Abhinav Shrivastava, Abhinav Gupta, Alexei Efros'. http://icml.cc/2012/papers/946.pdf (invited application)
- Learning the Central Events and Participants in Unlabeled Text. 'Nathanael Chambers, Dan Jurafsky' http://icml.cc/2012/papers/946.pdf (invited application)
- ICML Inferning Workshop
- A Framework for Tuning Posterior Entropy in Unsupervised Learning. 'Rajhans Samdani, Ming-Wei Chang and Dan Roth' http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpbmZlcm5pbmcxMnxneDozYjhmNmZhNmI4YzA2ZTk5
- Cost-sensitive Dynamic Feature Selection. He He, Hal Daume III and Jason Eisner. http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpbmZlcm5pbmcxMnxneDo0ZmQwYjQ3ZGZhZmE1YzAx
- Similarity of Semantic Relations. Peter D. Turney. http://cogprints.org/5098/1/NRC-48775.pdf
- Unsupervised Discovery of Generic Relationships Using Pattern Clusters and its Evaluation by Automatically Generated SAT Analogy Questions. Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport. http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~arir/sat.pdf
- E. Shutova. 2010. Automatic Metaphor Interpretation as a Paraphrasing Task. In Proceedings of NAACL 2010, Los Angeles, USA.. http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N10/N10-1147.pdf OR MAYBE Models of metaphor in NLP. ACL 2010 http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P10/P10-1071.pdf
- Highlights from NAACL 2012:
- Minimum-Risk Training of Approximate CRF Based NLP Systems. V. Stoyanoc and J. Eisner. NAACL 2012. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N/N12/N12-1013.pdf
- Cross-lingual Word Clusters for Direct Transfer of Linguistic Structure. O. Täckström, R. McDonald and J. Uszkoroit. NAACL 2012. IBM best paper award. http://soda.swedish-ict.se/5251/1/paper.pdf
- Vine Pruning for Efficient Multi-Pass Dependency Parsing. A. Rush and S. Petrov. NAACL 2012. Best paper award. http://people.csail.mit.edu/srush/vine-paper.pdf
- Unsupervised Concept-to-text Generation with Hypergraphs. I. Konstas and M. Lapata. NAACL 2012. http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N12/N12-1093.pdf
- Unified Expectation Maximization. R. Samdani, M. W. Chang and D. Roth. NAACL 2012. http://www.cs.illinois.edu/homes/rsamdan2/papers/UEM.pdf
- Lexicalized Well-founded Grammar:
- Grammar Approximation by Representative Sublanguage: A New Model for Language Learning. Smaranda Muresan and Owen Rambow, ACL 2007 http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/P/P07/P07-1105.pdf
- Learning for Deep Language Understanding. Smaranda Muresan, IJCAI 2011, https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/IJCAI/IJCAI11/paper/viewFile/3316/3750
- Learning Sentence-internal Temporal Relations. Mirella Lapata and Alex Lascarides. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 27, 85-117. 2006. http://www.jair.org/media/2015/live-2015-2866-jair.pdf
- A Fast, Effective, Non-Projective, Semantically-Enriched Parser. Tratz, S. and E.H. Hovy. 2011. Proceedings of the EMNLP conference. Edinburgh, Scotland. http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/hovy/papers/11EMNLP-sem-parsing.pdf
- Joint Learning of Words and Meaning Representations for Open-Text Semantic Parsing. Antoine Bordes, Xavier Glorot, Jason Weston, Yoshua Bengio.. AISTATS '12. http://www.thespermwhale.com/jaseweston/papers/otsm_aistats11.pdf
- Replicated Softmax: an Undirected Topic Model. Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Geoffrey Hinton. http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips22/NIPS2009_0817.pdf
- 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
- Perrault, C. R. and J. F. Allen (1980). "A Plan-based Analysis of Indirect Speech Acts." Computational Linguistics 6(3): 167-182. http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/J/J80/J80-3003.pdf
- Climbing the Tower of Babel: Unsupervised Multilingual Learning. Benjamin Snyder and Regina Barzilay. ICML 2010. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bsnyder/papers/bsnyder_icml2010.pdf
- Learning Accurate, Compact, and Interpretable Tree Annotation. Slav Petrov, Leon Barrett, Romain Thibaux and Dan Klein, COLING/ACL 2006. http://www.petrovi.de/data/acl06.pdf
Previous Quarters
Spring 2012
Date | Paper | Authors | Link | Leader | Info | |
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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 |
Summer 2012
Date | Paper | Authors | Venue | Leader | Info |
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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 | Joint Entity and Event Coreference Resolution across Documents | Heeyoung Lee, Marta Recasens, Angel Chang, Mihai Surdeanu, Dan Jurafsky. | EMNLP 2012 | Luke | |
9/6/12 | Inverting Grice’s Maxims to Learn Rules from Natural Language Extractions | Mohammad Shahed Sorower, Thomas G. Dietterich, Janardhan Rao Doppa, Walker Orr, Prasad Tadepalli, and Xiaoli Fern | NIPS 2011 | Alan | |
9/13/12 | Improved Parsing and POS Tagging Using Inter-Sentence Consistency Constraints | Alexander M. Rush, Roi Reichert, Michael Collins, and Amir Globerson | EMNLP 2012 | Xiao |