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The Raspberry Pi Foundation hosts regular online seminars focusing on current computing education research topics. Featuring presentations from researchers from around the world, the seminars provide the opportunity to hear about some of the latest work in the field of computing education research, make connections with fellow researchers, and take part in discussions. https://www.raspberrypi.org/computing-education-research-online-seminars/ If you have a question about this list, please contact: Alastair Beresford; Sue Sentance; Matthew Patterson. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 6 upcoming talks and 450 talks in the archive. The Past, Present and Future of TokenizationBenjamin Minixhofer (Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge). Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09. Friday 29 November 2024, 12:00-13:00 Scansion-based Lyric GenerationYiwen Chen (University of Cambridge). Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09. Friday 22 November 2024, 12:00-13:00 Linguistics in the Age of Large Language Models.Janet B. Pierrehumbert, University of Oxford. SS03 and Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09. Friday 15 November 2024, 12:00-13:00 10 Slides on Human FeedbackMax Bartolo (Cohere). Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09. Friday 08 November 2024, 12:00-13:00 Adaptive Tokenization and Memory in Foundation ModelsEdoardo Maria Ponti (University of Edinburgh). Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09. Friday 01 November 2024, 12:00-13:00 Language Modelling with PhonemesZebulon Youra Goriely (University of Cambridge). Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09. Friday 25 October 2024, 12:00-13:00 Truth conditions at scale, and beyondGuy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge). Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09. Friday 18 October 2024, 12:00-13:00 NLIP 2024 Social: Meet New PhD StudentsSuchir Salhan (University of Cambridge), Matthieu Moulec (University of Cambridge), Paul Siewart (University of Cambridge). SS03 and on Zoom, link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09. Friday 11 October 2024, 12:00-13:00 The tradeoff governing efficient language model architecturesSabri Eyuboglu, Stanford University. Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09. Friday 14 June 2024, 16:00-17:00 Evaluating Large Language Models as Model Systems for LanguageCarina Kauf, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences. https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88532356932?pwd=IVo8GI7wBssnObu7in3aNXBjwufHnJ.1. Friday 07 June 2024, 14:00-15:00 Open-Endedness and General IntelligenceTim Rocktäschel, University College London . Friday 24 May 2024, 12:00-13:00 The intersection of Interpretability and FairnessGiuseppe Attanasio, Milan NLP. https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon . Friday 17 May 2024, 12:00-13:00 Automated Fact-Checking of Climate Change Claims with Large Language ModelsDominik Stammbach, ETH Zurich. Friday 10 May 2024, 13:00-14:00 Title to be confirmedSpeaker to be confirmed. SS03, William Gates Building. . Friday 26 April 2024, 12:00-13:00 Generative AI in programming education: Bridging the gap from school to what lies aheadDr Brett A. Becker (University College Dublin). https://form.raspberrypi.org/f/research-seminar-sign-up. Tuesday 16 April 2024, 17:00-18:30 Misinformation: Will it get better or worse and what can we do about it?Mevan Babakar, Google . https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09. Friday 15 March 2024, 12:00-13:00 The impact of AI tools on the student experience in programming courses: A preliminary study with an intersectional analysis approach Yash Tadimalla and Prof. Mary Lou Maher (University of North Carolina at Charlotte). https://form.raspberrypi.org/f/research-seminar-sign-up. Tuesday 12 March 2024, 17:00-18:30 Understanding Comparative Questions and Retrieving Argumentative AnswersAlexander Bondarenko, University of Leipzig . Friday 08 March 2024, 12:00-13:00 LLMs: Everything’s Different and Nothing Has ChangedEmma Strubell, CMU. Friday 01 March 2024, 12:00-13:00 Integrating Combinatorial Solvers and Neural ModelsPasquale Minervi, University of Edinburgh. https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09. Friday 23 February 2024, 12:00-13:00 Scaling Multilingual Generation for Low-Resource LanguagesPriyanka Agrawal, Google Deepmind. Friday 16 February 2024, 12:00-13:00 LLM-powered code generators in K–12 self-paced computing educationMajeed Kazemi (University of Toronto). https://form.raspberrypi.org/f/research-seminar-sign-up. Tuesday 13 February 2024, 17:00-18:30 Employing Psycholinguistics to Understand Decoding in Probabilistic Language GeneratorsClara Meister, ETH Zurich. https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09. Friday 09 February 2024, 12:00-13:00 This talk is cancelled - Modeling Cognitive Complexity in NLPLisa Beinborn, VU Amsterdam. https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.. Friday 02 February 2024, 12:00-13:00 Revisiting the Optimality of Word LengthsTiago Pimentel. https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09. Friday 26 January 2024, 12:00-13:00 Faster Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Confidence-based PruningJulius Cheng (University of Cambridge). Friday 19 January 2024, 12:00-13:00 AI Education in Finland: technology for the 'AI generation'Matti Tedre, University of Eastern Finland. Monday 15 January 2024, 11:00-12:30 Using generative AI to create personalised Parson's Problems and explanationsDr Barbara Ericson and Xinying Hou (University of Michigan). https://form.raspberrypi.org/f/research-seminar-sign-up. Tuesday 09 January 2024, 17:00-18:30 Grounded cognition and computer science conceptual understanding in young childrenAnaclara Gerosa (University of Glasgow). https://form.raspberrypi.org/f/research-seminar-sign-up. Tuesday 12 December 2023, 17:00-18:30 Fairness Evaluation in Generative NLPSeraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere). Friday 01 December 2023, 12:00-13:00 Efficiency by ConstructionFermin Moscoso del Prado Martin (University of Cambridge). Friday 24 November 2023, 12:00-13:00 Numerical Reasoning in Natural Language ProcessingNafise Moosavi (University of Sheffield). Friday 10 November 2023, 12:00-13:00 Computational thinking in primary schooling: Thinking beyond computer scienceDr Aman Yadav (Michigan State University). https://form.raspberrypi.org/f/research-seminar-sign-up. Tuesday 07 November 2023, 17:00-18:30 Avoiding AI's "Moore's Law": Why we are building a ladder to the moonSara Hooker (Cohere For AI). https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09. Friday 03 November 2023, 15:00-16:00 Natural Language Processing for Text-to-Speech SynthesisGleb Mazovetskiy (Google). Friday 27 October 2023, 12:00-13:00 Collaborative Pretraining on Evolving Pretraining and Small Manageable TasksLeshem Choshen (IBM AI research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem). https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09#success. Friday 20 October 2023, 12:00-13:00 Engaging primary (K-5) computing teachers in culturally relevant pedagogy through professional developmentKatharine Childs (Raspberry Pi Foundation). https://form.raspberrypi.org/f/research-seminar-sign-up. Tuesday 10 October 2023, 17:00-18:30 Does Syntax Still Matter in the World of LLMs?Miloš Stanojević (DeepMind). Computer Laboratory, room SS03. Friday 06 October 2023, 12:00-13:00 Giving appropriate feedback to primary school childrenLuisa Greifenstein (University of Passau). https://form.raspberrypi.org/f/research-seminar-sign-up. Tuesday 12 September 2023, 17:00-18:30 Investigating Reasons for Disagreement in Natural Language InferenceMarie-Catherine de Marneffe (FNRS – UCLouvain – The Ohio State University). Friday 09 June 2023, 12:00-13:00 Young children’s ScratchJr project scores and processes across a 12-week coding curriculumApittha Unahalekhaka (Tufts University). https://form.raspberrypi.org/f/research-seminar-sign-up. Tuesday 06 June 2023, 17:00-18:30 Fighting Misinformation in Science Communication with NLPDustin Wright (University of Copenhagen). Friday 02 June 2023, 12:00-13:00 Interpretable Multi-hop Question AnsweringZhenyun Deng (University of Cambridge). Friday 26 May 2023, 12:00-13:00 Challenges of Low-Resource Natural Language Processing: A Focus on Sentiment Analysis and Hate Speech Detection in AmharicSeid Muhie Yimam (HCDS, University of Hamburg). Friday 19 May 2023, 12:00-13:00 Reality Check: NLP in the era of Large Language ModelsVered Shwartz (University of British Columbia). Friday 12 May 2023, 16:00-17:00 Teaching primary learners how to be data citizensKate Farrell (University of Edinburgh). https://form.raspberrypi.org/f/research-seminar-sign-up. Tuesday 09 May 2023, 17:00-18:30 Improving Model Robustness for Natural Language InferenceJoe Stacey (Imperial College London). Friday 28 April 2023, 12:00-13:00 Navigating the AI Hype: Building Natural Language Processing for Low Resource LanguagesAsmelash Teka Hadgu (Lesan; DAIR). Friday 10 March 2023, 12:00-13:00 Teaching primary learners how to be data citizensDr Bobby Whyte (Raspberry Pi Foundation). https://form.raspberrypi.org/f/research-seminar-sign-up. Tuesday 07 March 2023, 17:00-18:30 An Affordance Account of Value Embedding in Technology: Why Good Intentions are Not EnoughFabio Tollon (Bielefeld University). Friday 03 March 2023, 12:00-13:00 Modular and Compositional Transfer LearningJonas Pfeiffer (Google Research). Friday 24 February 2023, 12:00-13:00 Narrative Summarization from Multiple ViewsPinelopi Papalampidi (DeepMind). Friday 17 February 2023, 12:00-13:00 Moving from equity to justice in computing instruction for youthDr Jean Salac (University of Washington). https://form.raspberrypi.org/f/research-seminar-sign-up. Tuesday 07 February 2023, 17:00-18:30 Processing Multiword Expressions for Grammatical Error CorrectionShiva Taslimipoor (University of Cambridge). Computer Laboratory, Room FW09. Friday 03 February 2023, 12:00-13:00 GenBench -- State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLPDieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS). Friday 27 January 2023, 12:00-13:00 Exploring and Controlling Social Values in Large Language Models through Role-PlayingPaul Röttger (Oxford University). Friday 20 January 2023, 12:00-13:00 Variables: Coordinating research with elementary classroom realitiesDr Katie Rich (American Institutes for Research) and Carla Strickland (UChicago STEM Education). https://form.raspberrypi.org/f/research-seminar-sign-up. Tuesday 10 January 2023, 17:00-18:30 Rethinking the role of tokenization in the NLP pipelineKris Cao (DeepMind). Friday 02 December 2022, 12:00-13:00 Towards Trustworthy Natural Language ProcessingJasmijn Bastings (Google Brain). Friday 18 November 2022, 12:00-13:00 Women@CL TalketsBianca Schor, Minja Axelsson, Anna Hudig. Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, GN06. Friday 11 November 2022, 13:00-14:00 Decoding is deciding under uncertainty — the case of NMTBryan Eikema (University of Amsterdam). Friday 11 November 2022, 12:00-13:00 NLP for Science: Advances and ChallengesTom Hope (Allen Institute for AI, Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Monday 07 November 2022, 11:00-12:00 Efficient Structured Prediction on Long TextsMrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich). Friday 28 October 2022, 12:00-13:00 A study of recent techniques to estimate the difficulty of exam questions from textLuca Benedetto (University of Cambridge). FW09. Friday 21 October 2022, 12:00-13:00 The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD)Martyn Petyko and Daniela Schneevogt (Aston University). Friday 07 October 2022, 12:00-13:00 Claim-Dissector: An Interpretable Fact-Checking System with Joint Re-ranking and Veracity PredictionMartin Fajčík ( Brno University of Technology ). Tuesday 12 July 2022, 14:00-15:00 Pitfalls with ablation in neural network architecturesChristina Lioma (University of Copenhagen). Friday 17 June 2022, 12:00-13:00 (Modeling) Morality? On Machine Learning and PhrenologyZeerak Talat (Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University). Monday 13 June 2022, 12:00-13:00 An aperitivo of efforts against harming online contents: propaganda, hate speech, spamAlberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna). Friday 10 June 2022, 12:00-13:00 Measuring Causal Effects of Data Statistics on Language Model PredictionsYanai Elazar (Bar-Ilan University). Wednesday 01 June 2022, 17:00-18:00 Language (In)Equality in Parsing and Machine Translation: Data Size is Only One Term in the EquationArianna Bisazza (University of Groningen). Thursday 19 May 2022, 13:00-14:00 Neuro-Symbolic Deep Natural Language UnderstandingLili Mou (University of Alberta). Tuesday 17 May 2022, 12:00-13:00 Diagnosing AI Explanation Methods with Folk Concepts of BehaviorAlon Jacovi (Bar-Ilan University). Friday 06 May 2022, 12:00-13:00 Interactive and decomposed approaches for NLP: the case of multi-text summarizationIdo Dagan (Bar-Ilan University). Friday 29 April 2022, 12:00-13:00 Multilingual Autoregressive Entity LinkingNicola De Cao (University of Amsterdam, Huggingface). Friday 18 March 2022, 12:00-13:00 Hugging Face: a hub for the whole ML community to collaborateNate Raw and Ömer Faruk Özdemir (HuggingFace). Friday 11 March 2022, 12:00-14:00 Using NLP and graph theory to capture speech abnormalities in psychosisCaroline Nettekoven (University of Cambridge). Friday 04 March 2022, 12:00-13:00 Learning from Past: Bringing Planning Back to Neural GeneratorsShashi Narayan (Google Research). Friday 25 February 2022, 12:00-13:00 [POSTPONED] Parametric vs Nonparametric Knowledge, and what we can learn from Knowledge BasesSebastian Riedel (Facebook AI Research and UCL). Friday 18 February 2022, 12:00-13:00 When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks Principle that shapes the lexiconGemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Friday 04 February 2022, 12:00-13:00 Towards Out-of-distribution generalization in NLPProf. He He (New York Univeristy). Friday 28 January 2022, 13:00-14:00 Expectations vs. Reality: Lessons learned from Working on Toxic Content Detection in NLPNedjma Ousidhoum (University of Cambridge). Friday 21 January 2022, 12:00-13:00 Teaching Artificial Intelligence in K-12Please sign up @ https://www.raspberrypi.org/computing-education-research-online-seminars/ Dave Touretzky (Carnegie Mellon University, AI4K12 Initiative) and Fred Martin (University of Massachusetts Lowell, AI4K12 Initiative). Tuesday 11 January 2022, 17:00-18:30 What is it about AI that makes it useful for teachers and learners?Please sign up @ https://www.raspberrypi.org/computing-education-research-online-seminars/ Rose Luckin (University College London). Tuesday 07 December 2021, 17:00-18:30 Sparse Latent Structure with Overlapping ConstraintsVlad Niculae (University of Amsterdam). Friday 26 November 2021, 12:00-13:00 Analyzing and Summarizing Movies using Turning PointsFrank Keller (University of Edinburgh). Friday 19 November 2021, 12:00-13:00 How language understanding unfolds in minds and machinesRoger Levy (MIT). Friday 12 November 2021, 12:00-13:00 Integrating Human Cognition with Natural Language ProcessingYevgeni Berzak (Technion). Friday 05 November 2021, 12:00-13:00 ML education for K-12: emerging trajectoriesPlease sign up @ https://www.raspberrypi.org/computing-education-research-online-seminars/ Matti Tedre and Henriikka Vartiainen (University of Eastern Finland). Tuesday 02 November 2021, 17:00-18:30 Toward Broad and Deep Language Understanding for Intelligent SystemsMarjorie McShane (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute). Friday 22 October 2021, 12:00-13:00 Exploring Feedback Comment Generation for Language LearnersRyo Nagata (Konan University). Friday 15 October 2021, 12:00-13:00 Exploring the data-driven world: Teaching AI and ML from a data-centric perspectivePlease sign up @ https://www.raspberrypi.org/computing-education-research-online-seminars/ Carsten Schulte, Yannik Fleischer and Lukas Höper (Paderborn University). Tuesday 05 October 2021, 17:00-18:30 AI Ethics and Engagement with Children and Young PeoplePlease sign up @ https://www.raspberrypi.org/computing-education-research-online-seminars/ Mhairi Aitken (The Alan Turing Institute). Tuesday 07 September 2021, 17:00-18:30 NMT Analysis: The Trade-Off Between Source and Target, and (a Bit of) the Training ProcessElena Voita (University of Edinburgh). Friday 18 June 2021, 12:00-13:00 Challenges in evaluating natural language generation systemsNote unusual time Mohit Iyyer (University of Massachusetts Amherst). Friday 11 June 2021, 13:00-14:00 Beyond Facts: The Problem of Framing in Assessing What is TrueNote unusual time Philip Resnik (University of Maryland). Friday 04 June 2021, 14:00-15:00 Interpretability in NLP: Moving Beyond VisionNote unusual time Shuoyang Ding (Johns Hopkins University). Friday 28 May 2021, 13:00-14:00 Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLPJohannes Bjerva (Aalborg University). Friday 21 May 2021, 12:00-13:00 Incorporating Structure into NLP Models with Graph Neural NetworksMichael Schlichtkrull (University of Cambridge). Friday 14 May 2021, 12:00-13:00 Adaptation and Control in Enterprise Language TechnologyRyan McDonald (ASAPP). Friday 07 May 2021, 12:00-13:30 Cross domain similarities and intra-person changesMaria Liakata (University of Warwick). Friday 30 April 2021, 12:00-13:00 Representation Learning for Text Retrieval: Learning and Pretraining Strategies for Dense RetrievalUnusual date and time Chenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research). Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:00 [RESCHEDULED] Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLPRESCHEDULED TBD Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University). Friday 05 March 2021, 12:00-13:00 Papers with Code and the automatic extraction of results from papersRobert Stojnic (Facebook / Papers with Code). Friday 26 February 2021, 12:00-13:00 The Science of Knowledge Equity - Research at WikimediaMiriam Redi, Diego Saez (Wikimedia Foundation). Friday 19 February 2021, 12:00-13:00 Detecting the "Fake News" Before It Was Even Written, Media Literacy, and Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19 InfodemicPreslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), HBKU). Friday 12 February 2021, 12:00-13:00 A Graph-Based Framework for Structured Prediction Tasks in SanskritNote unusual time Amrith Krishna (University of Cambridge). Friday 05 February 2021, 13:00-14:00 Learning with Graphs in Natural Language Generation and Relation ExtractionZhijiang Guo (University of Cambridge). Friday 29 January 2021, 12:00-13:00 Revisiting and re-evaluating rumour stance classificationCarolina Scarton (University of Sheffield). Friday 22 January 2021, 12:00-13:00 Compositional Neural Meaning Representation ParsingWeiwei Sun (University of Cambridge). Friday 04 December 2020, 12:00-13:00 Improving Speech Translation with Linguistically-Informed RepresentationsElizabeth Salesky (Johns Hopkins University). Zoom. Friday 27 November 2020, 12:00-13:00 Predicting Text Readability and Reading Comprehension from Reading InteractionsSian Gooding (University of Cambridge). Friday 13 November 2020, 12:00-13:00 How far have we come in giving our NLU systems common sense?Note time change Nasrin Mostafazadeh (Verneek). Friday 06 November 2020, 15:00-16:00 Five Sources of Biases and Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about ThemDirk Hovy (Bocconi University). Friday 23 October 2020, 12:00-13:00 What are the Goals of Distributional Semantics?Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge). Friday 16 October 2020, 12:00-13:00 Towards explainable fact checkingIsabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen). https://meet.google.com/xkv-cako-arr. Friday 19 June 2020, 12:00-13:00 Achieving Verified Robustness to Adversarial NLP InputsNote later start Johannes Welbl (UCL). https://meet.google.com/tgv-vods-pdk. Friday 12 June 2020, 12:30-13:30 Methodological advances in creating time sensitive sensors from language and heterogeneous user generated contentRescheduled Maria Liakata (Queen Mary University of London, University of Warwick, Alan Turing Institute). https://meet.google.com/awc-wvbh-azc. Friday 29 May 2020, 12:00-13:00 Reducing gender bias in neural machine translation as a domain adaptation problemOnline Seminar Danielle Saunders (University of Cambridge). https://meet.google.com/hhk-hmiz-mpt. Friday 01 May 2020, 12:00-13:00 Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution InputsEric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge). Friday 06 March 2020, 12:00-13:00 Learning Tensors and Random Matrix TheoryMehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL). Friday 28 February 2020, 12:00-13:00 Shaping Recommendations in a Marketplace via User & Content UnderstandingRishabh Mehrotra (Spotify). Friday 21 February 2020, 12:00-13:00 Beat the AI: Investigating Adversarial Human Annotations for Reading ComprehensionMax Bartolo (UCL). Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00 Zero-shot Language Learning through Bayesian Neural ModelsEdoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge). Friday 07 February 2020, 12:00-13:00 Can we optimise fashion ecommerce using NLG?Note: earlier time of 11am Rory Waite (Emotif.ai). Friday 17 January 2020, 11:00-12:00 Unsupervised cross-lingual representation learningRoom Change: LT1 Sebastian Ruder (DeepMind). Friday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:00 CANCELLED Probabilistic models of graphs for meaning representationsExtra talk: note unusual day and time Adam Lopez (University of Edinburgh). Tuesday 19 November 2019, 10:00-11:00 Ethical considerations for responsible designRoom Change: LT1 Shauna Concannon (University of Cambridge). Friday 15 November 2019, 12:00-13:00 A Mutual Information Maximization Perspective of Language Representation LearningLingpeng Kong (DeepMind). Friday 01 November 2019, 12:00-13:00 Automatic Analysis of Affect and Personality Analysis in Multiperson SettingsHatice Gunes (University of Cambridge). Friday 25 October 2019, 12:00-13:00 Multimodal natural language processing: when text is not enoughLucia Specia (Imperial College London). Friday 18 October 2019, 12:00-13:00 ‘Profit factory’ and ‘bathroom break’: How to analyse compounds and how to predict their emergenceLonneke van der Plas (University of Malta). Wednesday 18 September 2019, 12:00-13:00 Natural Language Generation in the WildDaniel Beck, University of Melbourne. Friday 05 July 2019, 12:00-13:00 Duolingo: Improving Language Learning and Assessment with A.I.Burr Settles, Duolingo. Wednesday 19 June 2019, 15:00-16:00 An Operation Sequence Model for Explainable Neural Machine TranslationFelix Stahlberg, CUED, University of Cambridge. Friday 14 June 2019, 12:00-13:00 Continuous feature structures: Can we learn structured representations with neural networks?Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge. Friday 07 June 2019, 12:00-13:00 Towards secure and efficient DNNsAaron Zhao, University of Cambridge. Friday 31 May 2019, 12:00-13:00 Mitigating Gender Bias in Morphologically Rich LanguagesRyan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge. Friday 24 May 2019, 12:00-13:00 AI Extenders: The Ethical and Societal Implications of Humans Cognitively Extended by AIKarina Vold & José Hernández-Orallo, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. Friday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:00 Languages* in Formal Reasoning: Accessibility vs. FormalityZohreh Shams, AI Group, University of Cambridge. Friday 03 May 2019, 12:00-13:00 Word Sense Disambiguation and Other Systems in JapaneseKanako Komiya, Ibaraki University, Japan. Friday 26 April 2019, 12:00-13:00 K.A.T.E.: Scaling personalised tech education for professionalsRaoul-Gabriel Urma, Kevin Lemagnen, Sahan Bulathwela, Cambridge Spark. Friday 08 March 2019, 12:00-13:00 Learning multi-domain dialoguesPaweł Budzianowski, CUED, University of Cambridge. Friday 01 March 2019, 12:00-13:00 Large-scale analyses of language variation and change in social mediaDong Nguyen, University of Edinburgh & Alan Turing Institute. Friday 22 February 2019, 12:00-13:00 Understanding Source Code using Natural Language and Graph Neural NetworksMiltos Allamanis, Microsoft Research. Friday 15 February 2019, 12:00-13:00 Learning to navigate without a map (but with instructions)Piotr Mirowski, DeepMind. Friday 08 February 2019, 12:00-13:00 Topic-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Extreme SummarizationShashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh / Google. Friday 01 February 2019, 12:00-13:00 **CANCELLED** Probabilistic Typology: Deep Generative Models of Vowel InventoriesRyan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge. Friday 25 January 2019, 12:00-13:00 What makes psychotherapy work? Using deep learning to quantify the relationship between therapy content and outcomesRonan Cummins & Michael Ewbank, Ieso Digital Health. Friday 18 January 2019, 12:00-13:00 Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Base Question AnsweringRoom changed Daniil Sorokin, Technische Universität Darmstadt. Friday 30 November 2018, 12:00-13:00 The Ethics of Artificially Intelligent Communications TechnologyRoom changed Marcus Tomalin, CUED, University of Cambridge. Friday 16 November 2018, 12:00-13:00 Knowledge Representation and Extraction at ScaleChristos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon. Friday 09 November 2018, 12:00-13:00 Deep learning for automatically assessing the pronunciation of non-native English speakersKostas Kyriakopoulos, CUED, University of Cambridge. Friday 26 October 2018, 12:00-13:00 Learning, Representing, and Understanding LanguageAida Nematzadeh, DeepMind. Friday 19 October 2018, 12:00-13:00 Some lessons learned in Multimodal Representations and TransferPranava Madhyastha, Imperial College London. Friday 12 October 2018, 12:00-13:00 Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checkingAndreas Vlachos, NLIP, University of Cambridge. Friday 05 October 2018, 12:00-13:00 Functional Distributional Semantics: Learning Linguistically Informed Representations from a Precisely Annotated CorpusGuy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge. Friday 08 June 2018, 12:00-13:00 Learning hierarchical structure: strong learning of PCFGsAlexander Clark, King's College London. Friday 01 June 2018, 12:00-13:00 NAACL practice talksSimon Baker (LTL) & Marek Rei (NLIP), University of Cambridge. Friday 25 May 2018, 12:00-13:00 The potential of synthetic data for more informative evaluation in Visual Question AnsweringAlexander Kuhnle, NLIP, University of Cambridge. Friday 18 May 2018, 12:00-13:00 Emergent Communication through NegotiationKris Cao, NLIP, University of Cambridge. Friday 11 May 2018, 12:00-13:00 Predictive Uncertainty in Deep LearningAndrey Malinin, CUED, University of Cambridge. Friday 04 May 2018, 12:00-13:00 Multilingual NLP via Cross-Lingual Word EmbeddingsIvan Vulic, LTL, University of Cambridge. Friday 27 April 2018, 12:00-13:00 Virtual bargaining as a micro-foundation for communicationNote unusual time Professor Nick Chater, University of Warwick. Friday 09 March 2018, 16:30-17:30 Jointly Learning Syntax and SemanticsJean Maillard, NLIP, University of Cambridge. Friday 02 March 2018, 12:00-13:00 Constructing datasets for multi-hop reading comprehension across documentsJohannes Welbl, University College London. Friday 23 February 2018, 12:00-13:00 Deep reinforcement learning for dialogue policy optimisationDr Milica Gasic, Dept. Engineering, University of Cambridge. Friday 16 February 2018, 12:00-13:00 Pruning and grafting syntactic trees for cross-lingual transfer tasksEdoardo Ponti, TAL, University of Cambridge. Friday 09 February 2018, 12:00-13:00 Imitation learning for structured prediction and automated fact checkingDr Andreas Vlachos, University of Sheffield. Friday 24 November 2017, 12:00-13:00 Labelling Topics Using Neural NetworksNikolaos Aletras, Amazon Research Cambridge. Friday 10 November 2017, 12:00-13:00 Grounded language learning in simulated worldsFelix Hill, DeepMind. Friday 27 October 2017, 12:00-13:00 Towards More Robust and Interpretable Models for Structured Prediction and Language GenerationAdhiguna Kuncoro, DeepMind. Friday 20 October 2017, 12:00-13:00 Neural Models for Information RetrievalBhaskar Mitra, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Friday 13 October 2017, 12:00-13:00 Text-to-text Generation Beyond Machine TranslationShashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh. Friday 06 October 2017, 12:00-13:00 Finite-State Transducers as a Theory of Dependency Structured Natural LanguageAnssi Yli-Jyrä, University of Helsinki. Friday 22 September 2017, 12:00-13:00 Deep NLP in language tutoringFrancis Bond, Associate Professor at the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Friday 16 June 2017, 15:00-16:00 Predicting Rich Linguistic Structure with Neural NetworksJan Buys, University of Oxford. Tuesday 13 June 2017, 14:00-15:00 Functional Distributional SemanticsGuy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge). Friday 09 June 2017, 12:00-13:00 NLP, the perfect social (media) science?Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen. Wednesday 07 June 2017, 12:00-13:00 Text Simplification: Where are we now, and where are we headed?Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, University of Sheffield. Friday 26 May 2017, 12:00-13:00 Neural Architectures for Sequence LabellingMarek Rei, University of Cambridge. Friday 19 May 2017, 12:00-13:00 Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking using Semantically Specialised Vector SpacesNikola Mrskic, University of Cambridge. Friday 12 May 2017, 12:00-13:00 Neural Variational Inference for NLPYishu Miao, University of Oxford. Friday 10 March 2017, 12:00-13:00 Research Students Lecture Series Interaction design with aspects of cognitive psychologyMariana Marasoiu (University of Cambridge). Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SW01. Tuesday 07 March 2017, 13:00-14:00 Learning Hierarchical Word and Sentence RepresentationsDani Yogatama, DeepMind. Friday 03 March 2017, 12:00-13:00 Research Students Lecture Series Verified Programming in AgdaIan Orton (University of Cambridge). Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SW01. Tuesday 28 February 2017, 13:00-14:00 Research Students Lecture Series A trip down long short-term memory lanePetar Veličković (University of Cambridge). Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SW01. Tuesday 21 February 2017, 13:00-14:00 Imitation learning for language generation from unaligned dataGerasimos Lampouras, University of Sheffield. Friday 10 February 2017, 12:00-13:00 Learning Commonsense Event Schemas from Unlabeled TextNate Chambers, US Naval Academy. Friday 20 January 2017, 12:00-13:00 On-line Active Reward Learning for Policy Optimisation in Spoken Dialogue SystemsPei-Hao Su (University of Cambridge). Friday 25 November 2016, 12:00-13:00 Learning to Detect Stance and Represent EmojisIsabelle Augenstein, University College London. Friday 18 November 2016, 12:00-13:00 Recommending relevant citations using CoreSC and Argumentative ZoningDaniel Duma, University of Edinburgh. Friday 11 November 2016, 12:00-13:00 Open Source and NLPA special one day workshop. Ann Copestake (Cambridge), Aurelie Herbelot (Trento), Diana Maynard (Sheffield), Behrang QasemiZadeh (Düsseldorf), Nandaja Varma, Esther Seyffarth (Düsseldorf), Hrishikesh K.B. (Swathanthra Malayalam Computing). Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory. Thursday 10 November 2016, 09:00-17:00 Text Readability Assessment for Second Language LearnersMenglin Xia (University of Cambridge). Friday 01 July 2016, 12:00-13:00 Strong Structural Priors for Neural Network ArchitecturesTim Rocktäschel ( UCL). Friday 10 June 2016, 12:00-13:00 Incremental CCG parsing and its applicationsBharat Ram Ambati, University of Edinburgh/Apple. Friday 27 May 2016, 12:00-13:00 Conversation Trees: A Grammar Model for Topic Structure in Online ForumsAnnie Louis, University of Essex. Friday 20 May 2016, 12:00-13:00 Generating Natural-Language Video Descriptions using LSTM Recurrent Neural NetworksRaymond Mooney, University of Texas. Wednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 Maternal Health in Uganda: Listen Intelligently to Local Voices combining Language and TechnologyClaudia Abreu Lopes, Africa's Voices. Friday 29 April 2016, 12:00-13:00 From passive to interactive (multimodal) language learningAngeliki Lazaridou, University of Trento. Friday 15 April 2016, 12:00-13:00 Where Can I Buy a Boulder? Searching for Offline Retail LocationsSandro Bauer (University of Cambridge). Friday 08 April 2016, 12:00-13:00 Texts Come from People - How Demographic Factors Influence NLP ModelsDirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen. Friday 18 March 2016, 14:00-15:00 Tracing concepts through timeGabriel Recchia (University of Cambridge). Friday 11 March 2016, 12:00-13:00 General-Purpose Representation Learning from Words to Sentences***PLEASE NOTE CHANGED (DIFFERENT) TIME*** Felix Hill (University of Cambridge). Friday 04 March 2016, 11:00-12:00 Understanding generative learning in the individual brainZoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge). Friday 26 February 2016, 12:00-13:00 Data Science at The GuardianFelix Sanchez-Garcia, The Guardian. Wednesday 24 February 2016, 15:00-16:00 What Happens Next? Event Prediction Using a Compositional Neural Network ModelMark Granroth-Wilding, Computer Laboratory. Friday 19 February 2016, 12:00-13:00 Modern Deep Learning through Bayesian EyesYarin Gal, University of Cambridge. Friday 12 February 2016, 12:00-13:00 Multilingual Image Description with Neural Sequence ModelsEva Hasler, University of Cambridge. Friday 05 February 2016, 12:00-13:00 Sentence Entailment in Categorical Compositional Distributional SemanticsEsma Balkır. Friday 29 January 2016, 12:00-13:00 Efficient Constrained Inference and Structured Neural Networks for Semantic Role LabelingOscar Täckström, Google. Friday 04 December 2015, 12:00-13:00 Lacking Integrity: HPSG as a Morphosyntactic TheoryGuy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge). Friday 27 November 2015, 12:00-13:00 Research Students Lecture Series Introduction to Bayesian inferenceThomas Brouwer (University of Cambridge). Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SW01. Tuesday 17 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 Motivation and learning in citizen science: The role of automatically generated feedback.Advaith Siddharthan, University of Aberdeen. Friday 13 November 2015, 12:00-13:00 Research Students Lecture Series Introduction to Social Choice TheoryGuy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge). Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SW01. Tuesday 10 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 Research Students Lecture Series Applied Probabilistic Algorithms for Big Data AnalysisAdvait Sarkar (University of Cambridge). Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SW01. Tuesday 03 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 Research Students Lecture Series Using public-key cryptography in practiceDaniel Thomas (University of Cambridge). Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SW01. Tuesday 27 October 2015, 13:00-14:00 Research Students Lecture Series Programming in HaskellMichael B. Gale (University of Cambridge). Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SW01. Tuesday 20 October 2015, 13:00-14:00 Research Students Lecture Series Reaching reliable agreement in an unreliable worldHeidi Howard (University of Cambridge). Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SW01. Tuesday 13 October 2015, 13:00-14:00 Unweaving The Lexical Rainbow: Grounding Linguistic Creativity in Perceptual SemanticsWe only have LT2 for the hour, so please don't enter before 1pm and don't be late for the talk, as it will start promptly at 1:05 and we'll have to leave before 2pm. Tony Veale, University College Dublin. Thursday 08 October 2015, 13:00-14:00 Game of Tropes: Exploring the Placebo Effect in Computational CreativityTony Veale, University College Dublin. Wednesday 07 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Joint A* Syntactic and Semantic Parsing for CCGMike Lewis, University of Washington. Friday 25 September 2015, 12:00-13:00 Semantically Conditioned LSTM-based Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue SystemsShawn T-H. Wen, University of Cambridge. Friday 11 September 2015, 12:30-13:00 Learning Structural Kernels for Natural Language ProcessingDaniel Beck, University of Sheffield. Friday 11 September 2015, 12:00-12:30 Cross-lingual transfer of a semantic parser via parallel dataKilian Evang, University of Gronigen. Friday 07 August 2015, 12:00-13:00 Improving & Better Understanding Word Vector RepresentationsManaal Faruqui, Carnegie Mellon University. Friday 19 June 2015, 12:00-13:00 Crowdsourcing the annotation of rumours in social mediaMaria Liakata, University of Warwick. Friday 12 June 2015, 12:00-13:00 Natural Language Generation from Semantic Web OntologiesGerasimos Lampouras, UCL. Friday 05 June 2015, 12:00-13:00 Deep consequences: Why syntax (as we know it) isn't a thing, and other (shocking?) conclusions from modelling language with neural nets.Felix Hill, Computer Laboratory. Friday 29 May 2015, 12:00-13:00 Open System Categorical Quantum Semantics in Natural Language ProcessingDimitri Kartsaklis, Queen Mary University of London. Friday 22 May 2015, 12:00-13:00 Model Theory and the Semantics of Natural LanguagesStanley Peters, Stanford University. Friday 15 May 2015, 12:00-13:00 Injecting Logical Background Knowledge into Embeddings for Relation ExtractionTim Rocktäschel, UCL. Friday 08 May 2015, 12:00-13:00 Disfluency detection in spoken learner EnglishAndrew Caines, DTAL, University of Cambridge. Friday 01 May 2015, 12:30-13:00 Modelling implicit language learning with distributional semanticsDimitris Alikaniotis, DTAL, University of Cambridge. Friday 01 May 2015, 12:00-12:30 Statistical modelling of metaphorEkatarina Shutova, University of Cambridge. Friday 24 April 2015, 12:00-13:00 The Geometry of Machine TranslationRory Waite, University of Cambridge. Friday 17 April 2015, 12:00-13:00 Hierarchical Statistical Semantic Realization for Minimal Recursion SemanticsMatic Horvat, University of Cambridge. Thursday 09 April 2015, 12:40-13:10 Leveraging a Semantically Annotated Corpus to Disambiguate Prepositional Phrase AttachmentGuy Emerson, University of Cambridge. Thursday 09 April 2015, 12:00-12:30 Learning Latent Syntactic Representations with Joint ModelsJason Naradowsky, UCL. Friday 13 March 2015, 12:00-13:00 Are you losing Structures in Distributional Vectors? Smoothed Distributed Tree Kernels and the Convolution ConjectureFabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome "Tor Vergata". Friday 06 March 2015, 12:00-13:00 Argument Mining from Text for Teaching and Assessing WritingDiane Litman, University of Pittsburgh. Friday 20 February 2015, 12:00-13:00 Interpreting Document Collections Using Topic ModelsNikos Aletras, UCL. Friday 13 February 2015, 12:00-13:00 A Probabilistic Framework for Modeling Cross-Lingual Semantic Similarity (out of and in Context) Based on Latent Cross-Lingual ConceptsIvan Vulic, KU Leuven. Friday 06 February 2015, 12:00-13:00 Towards quantum algorithms for natural language processingWill Zeng, University of Oxford. Friday 30 January 2015, 12:00-13:00 Frontiers in Named Entity Recognition and LinkingLeon Derczynski and Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield. Friday 23 January 2015, 12:00-13:00 Relating Native Language Typology to Foreign Language UsageYevgeni Berzak. Wednesday 21 January 2015, 11:30-12:30 A New Corpus and Imitation Learning Framework for Context-Dependent Semantic ParsingAndreas Vlachos, UCL. Friday 16 January 2015, 12:00-13:00 An embodied model of clause syntaxAlistair Knott, Dept of Computer Science, University of Otago, New Zealand. Monday 08 December 2014, 14:00-15:00 Mining the Social Web: A series of statistical NLP case studiesVasileios Lampos. Friday 05 December 2014, 12:00-13:00 Composed, Distributed Reflections on Semantics and Statistical Machine TranslationTim Baldwin, The University of Melbourne. Friday 28 November 2014, 12:00-13:00 A Polya Urn Document Language Model for Information RetrievalRonan Cummins, University of Cambridge. Friday 21 November 2014, 12:00-13:00 Exploratory Search and Trend DetectionGerhard Heyer, Universität Leipzig. Friday 14 November 2014, 12:00-13:00 The Theory and Practice of Compositional Distributed SemanticsStephen Clark. Friday 07 November 2014, 12:00-13:00 The case for a Computational NeurolinguisticsBrian Murphy, Queen's University Belfast. LT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding. Tuesday 04 November 2014, 13:00-14:00 First Step toward Neural Machine TranslationKyunghyun Cho, University of Montreal. Thursday 23 October 2014, 12:00-13:00 Creative Coding in EducationSam Aaron (University of Cambridge). Friday 17 October 2014, 12:00-13:00 Language and Demographics on Twitter: Inferring Latent User Attributes from Streaming CommunicationsSvitlana Volkova, Johns Hopkins University. Friday 12 September 2014, 12:00-13:00 Detecting Learner Errors in the Choice of Content Words Using Compositional Distributional SemanticsEkaterina Kochmar, University of Cambridge. Friday 15 August 2014, 12:30-13:00 Unsupervised learning of rhetorical structure with un-topic modelsDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge. Friday 15 August 2014, 12:00-12:30 Distributional semantics and beyond: Composition, generation and alignmentGeorgiana Dinu, University of Trento. Friday 01 August 2014, 12:00-13:00 Context-dependent Semantic Parsing for Time ExpressionsJesse Dodge, CMU. Friday 18 July 2014, 12:00-13:00 Helping 10% of the people to read and write betterLuz Rello, University Pompeu Fabra. Friday 13 June 2014, 14:00-15:00 Multilingual Models for Distributed SemanticsKarl Moritz Hermann, Oxford University. Friday 06 June 2014, 12:00-13:00 Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing with a Dependency ModelWenduan Xu, University of Cambridge. Thursday 05 June 2014, 13:00-13:30 Grammatical error correction using hybrid systems and type filteringMariano Felice, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge. Thursday 05 June 2014, 12:00-12:30 Advanced Graph-based and Transition-based Dependency Parsing Approaches and Recent Trends towards Joint Syntactic and Morphologic DisambiguationBernd Bohnet, University of Birmingham. Friday 23 May 2014, 12:00-13:00 Identifying Deixis to Communicative Artifacts in TextShomir Wilson, University of Edinburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Friday 09 May 2014, 12:00-13:00 Adjective modification in compositional distributional semanticsEva Maria Vecchi, Computer Lab, Cambridge. Friday 11 April 2014, 12:00-13:00 Using Semantics to help learn Phonetic CategoriesStella Frank, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Friday 04 April 2014, 12:00-13:00 Design decisions in web corpus construction and their impact on distributional semantic modelsFelix Bildhauer, Freie Universität Berlin. Friday 28 March 2014, 12:00-13:00 Exploiting Large Corpora for ParsingDominick Ng, University of Sydney. Friday 21 March 2014, 13:00-14:00 Exploiting Query Logs to Build Adaptive Domain Models for Search and NavigationUdo Kruschwitz. Friday 14 March 2014, 12:00-13:00 The semantics of poetry: a distributional readingThis talk is also a part of the Language Sciences Interdisciplinary Programme. Aurelie Herbelot. Friday 07 March 2014, 12:00-13:00 Constructing topical hierarchies for Expertise MiningGeorgeta Bordea, DERI, NUI Galway. Friday 28 February 2014, 12:00-13:00 A Quest Towards Understanding the Challenges of Spoken Content RetrievalGareth Jones, Dublin City University. Friday 21 February 2014, 12:00-13:00 Categorical compositional distributional semantics: state-of-the-art!Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London. Friday 31 January 2014, 12:00-13:00 Spectral Learning and Decoding for Natural Language ParsingShay Cohen, University of Edinburgh. Friday 24 January 2014, 12:00-13:00 GPstruct: Bayesian non-parametric structured prediction modelNovi Quadrianto, Machine Learning, University of Cambridge. Friday 17 January 2014, 12:00-13:00 Parsing Jazz: Harmonic Analysis of Music Using Combinatory Categorial GrammarMark Granroth-Wilding, Computer Laboratory. Friday 06 December 2013, 12:00-13:00 A Standard Document Score for Information RetrievalRonan Cummins, University of Greenwich. Friday 29 November 2013, 12:00-13:00 Three Stories on Aggregated SearchMaarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam. SW 01, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding. Wednesday 20 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 Learning to Generate Natural Source CodeDaniel Tarlow, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Friday 15 November 2013, 12:00-13:00 Data Management, Integration and Retrieval in Life Sciences Using Semantic Web TechnologySarinder Kaur Kashmir-Singh, University of Malaya. Friday 08 November 2013, 12:00-13:00 BrainNet: Using Brain (and Corpus) Data to Investigate Conceptual KnowledgeMassimo Poesio, University of Essex. Friday 01 November 2013, 12:00-13:00 Chinese CCGbank: Deep derivations and dependencies for Chinese CCG parsingDaniel Tse, The University of Sydney. Friday 16 August 2013, 12:00-13:00 Where did it all go wrong? New Tools for Automatic Error Analysis in NLPJonathan Kummerfeld. Friday 02 August 2013, 12:00-13:00 Recursive Deep Learning for Modeling Semantic CompositionalityRichard Socher - Stanford University. Wednesday 31 July 2013, 14:00-15:00 Spicy adjectives and nominal donkeys: Capturing semantic deviance using compositionality in distributional spacesEva Maria Vecchi, University of Trento. FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding. Friday 26 July 2013, 12:00-13:00 Using Grammars in On-line Education: Automatic error correction to improve writing skillsDan Flickinger, CSLI, Stanford University. Monday 17 June 2013, 12:00-13:00 Representing Abstract and Concrete Concepts - Why and When Features should FeatureFelix Hill, University of Cambridge. Wednesday 05 June 2013, 12:30-13:00 Developing and testing a self-assessment and tutoring systemHelen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge. Wednesday 05 June 2013, 12:00-12:30 Individual variation and the roles of L1 and proficiency in the L2 development of English grammatical morphemesAkira Murakami, University of Cambridge. Friday 24 May 2013, 12:00-13:00 Improved Information Structure Analysis of Scientific Documents Through Discourse and Lexical ConstraintsYufan Guo, University of Cambridge. Friday 17 May 2013, 12:00-13:00 Zipf's law and the grammar of languages: A (potential) cross-linguistic measure of syntheticityChristian Bentz, University of Cambridge. Friday 10 May 2013, 12:00-13:00 How to Give a Technical Presentation in Computer ScienceStephen Clark, University of Cambridge. Friday 22 March 2013, 12:00-13:00 Unsupervised Domain Tuning to Improve Word Sense DisambiguationJudita Preiss, University of Sheffield. Friday 15 March 2013, 12:00-13:00 Two Approaches to Grammar Induction: From Plain Text to Semantic SupervisionOmri Abend, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem . Wednesday 06 March 2013, 12:00-13:00 Natural Language Generation as Planning under Uncertainty for Statistical Interactive SystemsVerena Rieser, Heriot Watt University. Friday 01 March 2013, 12:00-13:00 Distributional Semantics and KernelsTamara Polajnar, University of Cambridge. Friday 22 February 2013, 12:00-13:00 Linguistic Indicators for Estimating the Quality of Machine TranslationsMariano Felice, University of Cambridge. Friday 15 February 2013, 12:00-13:00 What you get is not only what you see! A distributional analysis of semantic features from congenital blind subjectsAlessandro Lenci, University of Pisa. Thursday 10 January 2013, 12:00-13:00 Machine translation from the user's perspective: what is it good for?Lucia Specia, University of Sheffield. Friday 30 November 2012, 12:00-13:00 Predict, Price and Cut: Column and Row Generation for Structured PredictionSebastian Riedel, University College London. Friday 16 November 2012, 12:00-13:00 Compositionality modelling and non-compositionality detection with distributional semanticsDiana McCarthy, University of Cambridge. Friday 09 November 2012, 12:00-13:00 A fast and simple algorithm for training neural probabilistic language modelsAndriy Mnih, University College London. Friday 26 October 2012, 12:00-13:00 Handling obsolete information in classification: is there a one-size-fits-all strategy?Christoforos Anagnostopoulos, Imperial College London. Friday 19 October 2012, 12:00-13:00 A New Twist on Methodologies for ESL Grammatical Error DetectionJoel Tetreault, Educational Testing Service. Friday 12 October 2012, 12:00-13:00 Data Mining and Information Extraction for CiteSeerX and FriendsDr. C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University. Friday 29 June 2012, 12:00-13:00 Fuse Project and Citation AnalysisDain Kaplan - University of Cambridge. Friday 22 June 2012, 12:30-13:00 Learning Syntactic Verb Frames Using Graphical ModelsTom Lippincott, University of Cambridge. Friday 22 June 2012, 12:00-12:30 Following Wisdom in Machine LearningNovi Quadrianto, University of Cambridge. Friday 15 June 2012, 12:00-13:00 Semi-supervised learning for automatic conceptual property extractionColin Kelly, University of Cambridge. Friday 01 June 2012, 12:30-13:00 Modelling selectional preferences in a lexical hierarchyDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge. Friday 01 June 2012, 12:00-12:30 Modeling coherence in ESOL learner textsHelen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge. Friday 25 May 2012, 12:30-13:00 Context-Enhanced Citation Sentiment DetectionAwais Athar, University of Cambridge. Friday 25 May 2012, 12:00-12:30 Repair and adherence in patient-clinician dialoguesMatthew Purver -- Queen Mary, University of London. Friday 18 May 2012, 12:00-13:00 Automating Second Language Acquisition Research: Integrating Information Visualisation and Machine LearningHelen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 17 April 2012, 12:00-13:00 Helping computers talk from experienceBlaise Thomson, University of Cambridge. Friday 23 March 2012, 11:00-12:00 Entity-based Models for Discourse StructureMicha Elsner, University of Edinburgh. Friday 16 March 2012, 14:00-15:00 Beyond MaltParser -- Recent Advances in Transition-Based Dependency ParsingJoakim Nivre, Uppsala University. Wednesday 29 February 2012, 12:00-13:00 Automatically Creating Reading Lists with Topical PageRankJames Jardine, University of Cambridge. Friday 24 February 2012, 12:00-13:00 Bayesian Smoothing for Language ModelsYee Whye Teh, University College London. Friday 27 January 2012, 12:00-13:00 Probabilistic models of similarity and plausibility in contextDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge. Friday 02 December 2011, 12:00-13:00 What is meaning? - Formalising the Distributional HypothesisDaoud Clarke, University of Hertfordshire. Friday 25 November 2011, 12:00-13:00 Stream-based Statistical Machine TranslationAbby Levenberg, University of Oxford. Friday 18 November 2011, 12:00-13:00 Unsupervised Word Alignment and Part of Speech Induction with Undirected ModelsChris Dyer, Carnegie Mellon University. Friday 28 October 2011, 12:00-13:00 Biomedical Natural Language Figure ProcessingHong Yu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Tuesday 18 October 2011, 12:00-13:00 Search-based Structured Prediction applied to Biomedical Event ExtractionAndreas Vlachos, University of Cambridge. Friday 14 October 2011, 12:00-13:00 Better Together: Large Monolingual, Bilingual and Multimodal Corpora in NLPShane Bergsma - Johns Hopkins University. Monday 10 October 2011, 12:00-13:00 Learning hard chart constraints for efficient context-free parsingBrian Roark - Oregon Health and Science University. Thursday 06 October 2011, 12:00-13:00 Graph-Based Methods for Large-Scale Multilingual Knowledge IntegrationGerard de Melo, Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Friday 22 July 2011, 12:00-13:00 A Weakly-supervised Approach to Argumentative Zoning of Scientific DocumentsYufan Guo, University of Cambridge. Monday 18 July 2011, 12:00-13:00 A New Dataset and Method for Automatically Grading ESOL TextsHelen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge. Friday 10 June 2011, 12:00-12:30 Unsupervised Entailment Detection between Dependency Graph FragmentsMarek Rei, University of Cambridge. Sunday 05 June 2011, 12:30-13:00 Language in 3D: semantic tensor spaceTim Van de Croys - University of Cambridge. Friday 03 June 2011, 12:00-13:00 Minimum Bayes-Risk Lattice Rescoring Methods for Statistical Machine TranslationGraeme Blackwood, University of Cambridge. Friday 20 May 2011, 12:00-13:00 To what extent does the acquisition of conceptual categories depend on language?Napoleon Katsos, University of Cambridge. Friday 13 May 2011, 12:00-13:00 Accurate CCG Parsing with Approximate Language Intersection and Task-specific OptimizationMichael Auli. Friday 06 May 2011, 12:00-13:00 Relational-Realizational Syntax: An Architecture for Describing and Parsing Rich Morphosyntactic DescriptionsReut Tsarfaty - Uppsala University. Friday 11 March 2011, 12:00-13:00 Surprisingly Efficient Parsing for a Wide-Coverage Lexicalised-Grammar ParserStephen Clark and Yue Zhang - University of Cambridge. Friday 04 March 2011, 12:00-13:00 Categorical Compositionality for Distributional Semantics, Without TearsEdward Grefenstette, University of Oxford. Friday 25 February 2011, 12:00-13:00 Automatic speech act identification in business emailsRachele de Felice - University of Nottingham. Friday 18 February 2011, 12:00-13:00 Towards a Stochastic Model of Linguistic CompetenceShalom Lappin - King's College, London. Friday 26 November 2010, 12:00-13:00 Two robust semi-supervised learning algorithms for natural language processingAnders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen. Friday 19 November 2010, 12:00-13:00 Semantics Lunch (Computer Laboratory) A Language for MathematicsMohan Ganesalingam (University of Cambridge). Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Monday 15 November 2010, 12:45-14:00 Event Extraction from Biomedical Texts by Trimming Dependency GraphsEkaterina Buyko - JULIE Lab, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Friday 12 November 2010, 12:00-13:00 ACS project presentationsVarious NLP researchers, University of Cambridge. Thursday 04 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 BioCaster 2.0: Online text analysis for early alerting of disease outbreaksNigel Collier - National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo. Wednesday 27 October 2010, 12:00-13:00 Patent Search: a challenging problem for IR and NLJohn Tait - The Information Retrieval Facility, Vienna. Friday 22 October 2010, 12:00-13:00 Open Problems for Literary Text Generation in the WASP SystemPablo Gervas - Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Friday 15 October 2010, 12:00-13:00 A Fast Decoder for Joint Word Segmentation and POS-Tagging using a Single Discriminative ModelYue Zhang and Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge. Friday 01 October 2010, 12:30-13:00 Practical Linguistic Steganography using Contextual Synonym Substitution and Vertex Colour CodingChing-Yun Chang and Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge. Friday 01 October 2010, 12:00-12:30 Semantics, Text, and Biomedical Knowledge Discovery: Challenges and OpportunitiesKarin Verspoor - University of Colorado Denver. Monday 06 September 2010, 12:00-12:30 Evaluation of Dependency Parsers on Unbounded DependenciesLaura Rimell - University of Cambridge. Wednesday 28 July 2010, 12:00-12:30 Models of Metaphor in NLPEkaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge. Thursday 08 July 2010, 12:00-12:30 Latent Variable Models of Selectional PreferenceDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge. Monday 28 June 2010, 12:30-13:00 Natural mathematical language for the computerArnold Neumaier, University of Vienna. Friday 25 June 2010, 12:00-13:00 Combining Manual Rules and Supervised Learning for Hedge Cue and Scope DetectionMarek Rei, University of Cambridge. Friday 25 June 2010, 12:00-12:30 Log-linear models with hidden features for label and link predictionCharles Elkan, University of California, San Diego. Monday 21 June 2010, 12:00-13:00 Automatic Metaphor Interpretation as a Paraphrasing TaskEkaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge. Thursday 27 May 2010, 12:30-13:30 Linguistic Steganography using Automatically Generated ParaphrasesChing-Yun (Frannie) Chang, University of Cambridge. Thursday 27 May 2010, 12:00-12:30 Enhancing NLP with Knowledge: Ontology-Based Information Retrieval for Handwritten TextMarcus Eichenberger-Liwicki, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. Monday 17 May 2010, 12:00-13:00 Latent TAG Derivations for Semantic Role LabelingAnoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University. Friday 12 March 2010, 12:00-13:00 Metaphor in language, thought, and communicationGerard Steen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Friday 05 March 2010, 12:00-13:00 Subjectivity Recognition on Word SensesKatja Markert - University of Leeds. Friday 19 February 2010, 12:00-13:00 Making the World's Scientific Information (More) Organized, Accessible, and UsableTed Briscoe - University of Cambridge. Friday 12 February 2010, 12:00-13:00 Learnable representations for natural languageAlexander Clark - Royal Holloway University of London. Friday 05 February 2010, 12:00-13:00 The Web as an Implicit Training Set: Application to Noun Compounds' Syntax and SemanticsPreslav Nakov - National University of Singapore. Friday 29 January 2010, 12:00-13:00 A Bottom-up Approach to Sentence Ordering for Multi-document SummarizationDanushka Bollegala - University of Tokyo. Friday 22 January 2010, 12:00-13:00 Learning to Follow Orders: Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to ActionsLuke Zettlemoyer, University of Edinburgh. Friday 04 December 2009, 12:00-13:00 Inducing Synchronous Grammars for Machine TranslationPhil Blunsom, University of Oxford. Friday 27 November 2009, 12:00-13:00 Making Computer Science more Social: Speed Dating and the History of ScienceDan Jurafsky, Stanford University. Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory. Thursday 26 November 2009, 17:00-18:00 Semiring Parsing without ParsingAdam Lopez, University of Edinburgh. Friday 20 November 2009, 12:00-13:00 Fine-grained sentiment analysis in text and multi-party conversationTheresa Wilson, University of Edinburgh. Friday 13 November 2009, 12:00-13:00 Bayesian non-parametric models for parsing and translationTrevor Cohn, University of Sheffield. Friday 23 October 2009, 12:00-13:00 Ontology Learning for PortugueseHugo Gonçalo Oliveira, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Friday 16 October 2009, 12:00-13:00 Clitic Pregroups: in search for a uniform pattern of clitic movement in natural languagesMehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Oxford University Computing Laboratory. Thursday 13 August 2009, 12:00-13:00 Unbounded Dependency Recovery for Parser EvaluationLaura Rimell, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Friday 10 July 2009, 12:45-13:30 A Proposal on Evaluation Measures for RTERichard Bergmair, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Friday 10 July 2009, 12:00-12:45 Portuguese Text Simplification for Digital Inclusion and AccessibilityCaroline Gasperin. Wednesday 24 June 2009, 12:00-13:00 Extending a Surface Realizer to Generate Coherent DiscourseEva Banik, Open University. Friday 05 June 2009, 12:00-13:00 Mildly non-projective dependency parsing: algorithms and applicationsCarlos Gómez - University of Corunna. Friday 29 May 2009, 12:00-13:00 Cycling to Enrich and Enhance Dictionary GlossesRoberto Navigli, University of Rome "La Sapienza". Thursday 28 May 2009, 12:00-13:00 Towards automated understanding of scientific papersMaria Liakata. Thursday 21 May 2009, 12:00-13:00 BioNLP 2009 event detection taskAndreas Vlachos, Cambridge University. Friday 08 May 2009, 12:00-13:00 Disambiguation of Biomedical TextMark Stevenson - Sheffield University. Friday 06 March 2009, 12:00-13:00 A Tale of Two Parsers: investigating and combining graph-based and transition-based dependency parsing using beam-searchYue Zhang, University of Oxford. Friday 27 February 2009, 12:00-13:00 Dialogue Act Prediction Using Stochastic Context-Free Grammar InductionJeroen Geertzen, University of Cambridge. Friday 20 February 2009, 12:00-13:00 ASKNet: Creating and Evaluating Large Scale Integrated Semantic NetworksBrian Harrington, University of Oxford. Friday 06 February 2009, 12:00-13:00 Almost-unsupervised multilingual sentiment analysisJohn Carroll - University of Sussex. Friday 30 January 2009, 12:00-13:00 Learning to Adapt in Dialogue Systems: Data-driven Models for Personality Recognition and GenerationFrancois Mairesse, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Friday 21 November 2008, 12:15-13:00 Adapting a WSJ-trained Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to New DomainsLaura Rimell, Oxford University. Friday 14 November 2008, 12:00-13:00 Infinite Hidden Markov Models and Applications in NLPJurgen van Gael, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Friday 31 October 2008, 12:15-13:00 Statistical anaphora resolution in biomedical textsCaroline Gasperin, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Friday 24 October 2008, 12:00-13:00 Nobody Writes Letters Anymore: Helping people make sense of historically significant email collectionsDouglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA. Small Lecture Theatre, Computer Laboratory. Friday 04 July 2008, 12:00-13:00 Fuzzy Logic: Fading Hype or Technology of the Future?Dr. Ulrich Bodenhofer, Johannes Kepler University, Austria. Friday 20 June 2008, 12:00-13:00 Multiword Expressions: Evaluation of Extraction Methods and their Impact on Grammar EngineeringValia Kordoni (LT-Lab DFKI GmbH and Dept. of Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, Germany). Friday 06 June 2008, 12:00-13:00 A maximum entropy approach to preposition and determiner selectionRachele De Felice, University of Oxford. Friday 16 May 2008, 12:00-13:00 Error-Aware Probabilistic ParsingJennifer Foster, Dublin City University. Friday 09 May 2008, 12:00-13:00 Computer-generated Cryptic Crossword Clues: exploring creative NLGDavid Hardcastle, The Open University. Friday 07 March 2008, 12:00-13:00 Applications of Discourse Structure for Spoken Dialogue SystemsDiane Litmann, University of Edinburgh. Friday 29 February 2008, 12:00-13:00 Monte Carlo Semantics: Robust Inference and Logical Pattern Processing Based onRichard Bergmair, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Friday 15 February 2008, 12:00-13:00 Learning to Classify Noun-Noun Semantic RelationsDiarmuid O'Seaghdha, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Friday 01 February 2008, 12:00-13:00 Annotating Genericity: How Do Humans Decide?- A Case Study in Ontology ExtractionAurelie Herbelot, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Friday 25 January 2008, 12:00-13:00 A Rebel Alliance in Babel's Aftermath: Combining rules and probabilities in machine translationDan Flickinger, CSLI Stanford University and Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Friday 23 November 2007, 12:00-13:00 Kernels for graph comparisonKarsten Borgwardt, University of Cambridge. Friday 16 November 2007, 12:00-13:00 Analysing biomedical text with the Stanford dependency grammarAndrew Clegg, Birkbeck, University of London. Friday 19 October 2007, 12:00-13:00 Random Walks on the Click GraphMartin Szummer, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Friday 12 October 2007, 12:00-13:00 The ILIAD Project: Language Technology Meets Linux TroubleshootingTimothy Baldwin - University of Melbourne.. Monday 02 July 2007, 11:00-12:00 Annotating and Learning Compound Noun SemanticsDiarmuid O'Seaghdha - University of Cambridge. Wednesday 20 June 2007, 14:00-15:00 Annotation of Chemical Named EntitiesPeter Corbett - University of Cambridge. Monday 18 June 2007, 11:30-12:30 Semantic enrichment of journal articles using chemical named entity recognitionColin Batchelor - Royal Society of Chemistry. Monday 18 June 2007, 11:30-12:30 Semi-supervised Training of a Statistical Parser from Unlabeled Partially-bracketed DataJohn Carroll - Department of Informatics, University of Sussex. Friday 15 June 2007, 15:00-16:00 Term Mining in BiomedicineSophia Ananiadou - University of Manchester. Friday 04 May 2007, 12:00-13:00 Generating appropriate referring expressions in news summariesAdvaith Siddharthan, University of Cambridge. Friday 01 December 2006, 12:00-13:00 Generation of Referring Expressions: Evaluating some standard algorithmsIelka van der Sluis, University of Aberdeen. Friday 24 November 2006, 12:00-13:00 Evaluating Centering for Information Ordering using CorporaNikiforos Karamanis, University of Cambridge. Friday 17 November 2006, 12:00-13:00 Fuzzy Language Models and Closed Domain Question Answering using Fuzzy SemanticsRichard Bergmair, University of Cambridge. Friday 10 November 2006, 12:00-13:00 The Weakest Link: Detecting and Correcting Errors in Learner EnglishPete Whitelock, Sharp Laboratories. Friday 03 November 2006, 12:00-13:00 Acquiring Ontological Relationships from Wikipedia Using RMRSShort talk (20 minutes) to be presented at International Semantic Web Conference workshop Aurelie Herbelot, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 24 October 2006, 13:00-14:00 Putting Linguistics into Speech Recognition: The Regulus Grammar CompilerManny Rayner, Powerset.com/Geneva University. Friday 20 October 2006, 12:00-13:00 Multiple Instance Learning for Natural Language TasksMark Craven, University of Cambridge (visiting). Friday 13 October 2006, 12:00-13:00 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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