Recordings
As of 2018-2019, the recordings can be found here:
http://chimpanzee.ling.washington.edu/clms/home/treehouse-meetings/
Please contact the Treehouse lab director for the password.
Autumn Quarter 2020
Fridays, 10:00-10:50am, online only. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders & Zoom link.
10/16 |
Writing in Grad School |
Emily M. Bender |
10/23 |
Linguistically-Informed Transformations (LIT): A Method for Automatically Generating Contrast Sets |
Zeyu Liu |
10/30 |
No Treehouse: Attend WeCNLP instead |
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11/6 |
Reducing Ambiguity in Automatically Generated Grammars |
Liz Conrad |
11/13 |
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Preeti Mohan |
11/20 |
Ethics in NLP |
Emily M. Bender |
12/4 |
IRB and Human Subjects |
Galen Basse |
12/11 |
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Kevin Henner |
For WI 2021: Henner et al (Seasalt.ai); Riham Mansour; Michael Tjalve.
Spring Quarter 2020
Tuesdays, 11:00-11:50am, online only. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders & Zoom link.
4/7 |
The Language of Law: An Analysis of Gender and Turn-Taking in U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments |
Haley Lepp |
4/14 |
Functional Distributional Semantics |
Guy Emerson |
4/21 |
Learning to Live with BERT |
Emma Strubell |
4/28 |
Eviction Notices - Address Extraction |
Ajinkya Sheth and Ott Toomet |
5/5 |
Language Technology and Society: Where to Start? |
Emily M. Bender |
5/12 |
On the Spontaneous Emergence of Discrete and Compositional Signals |
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld |
5/19 |
Towards Best Practices in Error Analysis for NLP |
Angelina McMillan -Major |
5/26 |
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6/2 |
Statistical Hypothesis Testing for NLP System Performance Comparison |
Haotian Zhu |
For future quarters: Jesse Dodge (after 4/24), Ethics in NLP (regular AU quarter presentation), Writing in grad school (regular WI quarter presentation), IRB/Human subjects, Dan Liebing (Google), Alexis Hiniker (iSchool), Coding best practices (Amandalynne), K Sumithra, Luke, software engineering for NLP, Sonja Knoll, Philippe Di Cristo (Amazon), something on chatbots, William Lane (Textio), Marina Shah. Matt
MacMahon (Google), Morgan Dutton (Amazon), Steven Bierer (Neurolaunch)Winter Quarter 2020, Preeti Mohan (AU 2020), Hadoop
Mondays, 11:30-12:20pm ,GUG 414-L and online.
1/13 |
Writing in Grad School |
Emily M. Bender |
1/27 |
Controlling for Confounding Variables: Accounting for Dataset Bias in Classifying Patient-Provider Interactions |
Kristen Howell |
2/3 |
What do I know? Pushing the boundaries of existing world knowledge |
Vered Shwartz |
2/10 |
Test-Driven Modeling of Syntax: An Analysis of Constituent Questions for the Grammar Matrix |
Olga Zamaraeva |
2/24 |
LORELEI |
Gina-Anne Levow |
3/9 |
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Jungyeul Park |
For future quarters: Emma Strubell (Facebook AI in 19-20), Jesse Dodge (after 4/24), Ethics in NLP (regular AU quarter presentation), Writing in grad school (regular WI quarter presentation), IRB/Human subjects, Dan Liebing (Google), Alexis Hiniker (iSchool), Coding best practices (Amandalynne), K Sumithra, Luke, software engineering for NLP, Sonja Knoll, Philippe Di Cristo (Amazon), something on chatbots, William Lane (Textio), Marina Shah. Gina on LORELEI. Matt
MacMahon (Google; Winter 2020).
Spring 2020: Morgan Dutton (Amazon), Steven Bierer (Neurolaunch)
Autumn Quarter 2019
Thursdays, 12-12:50pm ,GUG 414-L and online.
10/3 |
ACL 2019 recap |
Bender(and others) |
10/10 |
AGGREGATION Project |
Bender |
10/17 |
Meaning Representation in Spoken Dialog Systems |
Yi Zhang |
10/24 |
Show Your Work: Improved Reporting of Experimental Results |
Suchin Gururangan |
10/31 |
[No Treehouse meeting] |
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11/7 |
MS MARCO: A Collection of Large Scale NLP datasets focused on Web Search |
Daniel Campos |
11/14 |
The STREAMLInED project: Shared Tasks for Endangered Languages |
Gina-Anne Levow |
11/21 |
[No Treehouse meeting] |
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12/5 |
Neural Text Normalization for Spoken Dialog Systems |
Courtney Mansfield |
12/12 |
Working as a Linguist in AI Enablement |
Cala Zubair |
For future quarters: Emma Strubell (Facebook AI in 19-20), Vared Schwarz (AI2 starting 2019), Ethics in NLP (regular AU quarter presentation), Writing in grad school (regular WI quarter presentation), IRB/Human subjects, Dan Liebing (Google), Alexis Hiniker (iSchool), Coding best practices (Amandalynne), K Sumithra, Luke, software engineering for NLP, Sonja Knoll, Philippe Di Cristo (Amazon), something on chatbots, William Lane (Textio), Marina Shah. Gina on LORELEI. Matt
MacMahon (Google; Winter 2020).
Spring Quarter 2019
Tuesdays, 11:30-12:20pm ,GUG 414-L and online.
4/9 |
Praat Basics |
Sara Ng |
4/16 |
An Engineer Goes to Washington - Tech Policy and Advocacy |
Katherine Pratt |
4/23 |
Leveraging CLMS Experiences for Job Interviews |
Emily M. Bender |
4/30 |
Natural Language Processing for Mental Health |
Tim Althoff |
5/7 |
Making Fetch Happen: Computational Models of Language Change in Social and Linguistic Context |
Jacob Eisenstein |
5/14 |
Inspecting Word Embeddings with Definition Modeling |
Douglas Downey |
5/21 |
Natural Language Processing at Scale: Modeling for Customer Care @ T-Mobile |
Heather Nolis, Phoebe Parsons, & James Ellison |
5/28 |
Writing in Grad School |
Emily M. Bender |
6/4 |
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Winter Quarter 2019
Wednesdays, 2-3pm ,GUG 414-L and online.
1/9 |
Thoughts on Responsible Evaluation and Interpretation of Machine Learning Models |
Bernease Herman |
1/16 |
AGGREGATION: Inferring Grammars from Interlinear Glossed Text |
Kristen Howell |
1/23 |
Semantic matching methods for social science applications |
Lucy Lin |
1/30 |
Grammar engineering in Linguistics and NLP: How representing linguistic knowledge can help linguistic analysis and language technology |
Olga Zamaraeva |
2/6 |
Quantifying children's language environments and outcomes between 6 and 24 months of age |
Naja Ferjan Ramirez |
2/13 |
Explainable Topic Models at Textio |
Laurie Dermer |
2/20 |
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2/27 |
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3/6 |
Hey Alexa, Let’s Talk Academia to Voice Tech |
Joan Palmiter Bajorek |
3/13 |
Cross-Cultural Differences in Data Privacy Perspectives Using Inter-Language Social Media Data |
Cecilia Aragon |
Autumn Quarter 2018
GUG 414-L and online.
9/28 |
Best Coding Practices |
Amandalynne Paullada |
10/5 |
NAACL 2018 recap |
Ryan Georgi & Gina-Anne Levow |
10/12 |
Translation and Localization |
Joshua Mathias |
10/19 |
NLP for Music Information Retrieval |
Shuo Zhang |
10/26 |
Using CPUs and Virtual Environments |
Ryan Georgi, Gina-Anne Levow, Brandon Graves |
11/2 |
Parallel Sentence Detection in Comparable Corpora with Bilingual Word Embeddings for Low-resource Languages |
John Cadigan |
11/9 |
Interpretation |
Travis Nguyen |
11/16 |
Ethics in NLP |
Ryan Georgi |
11/30 |
Understanding the linguistic characteristics of advanced level writing in Chinese as a second language |
Chan Lü |
12/7 |
Scripture Recommendation Using Document Structure |
Joshua Mathias |
Spring Quarter 2018
GUG 414-L and online.
4/12 |
Lexical Differences in the Expression of Stance of Different Strengths |
Leanne Rolston |
4/26 |
Practical speech recognition in a WFST framework |
Matthew Calderwood |
5/10 |
Dialog Systems in Healthcare |
Will Kearns |
5/17 |
LREC 2018 |
Fei Xia |
5/24 |
Social Structure Limits Language Complexity |
Matthew Lou-Magnuson |
5/31 |
View from NLP as taught in CSE |
Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant |
Winter Quarter 2018
Thursdays, 2-3pm, GUG 414-L and online.
1/11 |
Annotation Artifacts in Natural Language Inference Data |
Suchin Gururangan |
1/18 |
Extrapolation Models for Text Generation |
Rik Koncel-Kedziorski |
1/25 |
Developing Libraries for Clausal Modifiers and Clausal Complements in the Grammar Matrix |
Olga Zamaraeva & Kristen Howell |
2/1 |
Coding Best Practices |
Amandalynne Paullada |
2/8 |
Predicting Glosses in Interlinear Glossed Text |
Angelina McMillan -Major |
2/15 |
Developing an Adnominal Possession Library in the Grammar Matrix |
Elizabeth Nielsen |
2/22 |
COLING 2018 PC Process |
Emily M. Bender |
3/1 |
Coding in a Group: Tips and Tools for Groupwork in Tech |
Ryan Georgi |
Autumn Quarter 2017
Tuesdays, 10:30-11:20, GUG 414-L and online.
10/3 |
Robust Language-independent Product Title Generation for E-commerce |
Ernie Chang |
10/10 |
Interspeech & ACL recap |
Gina Levow, Fei Xia, Emily M. Bender |
10/17 |
Ethics in NLP |
Emily M. Bender |
10/24 |
An Evidentiality Library for the LinGO Grammar Matrix |
Mike Haeger |
10/31 |
Papr NLP Usages, Architecture and Challenges |
Shawkat Kabbara |
11/7 |
Algorithmic Bias in Artificial Intelligence: The Seen and Unseen Factors Influencing Machine Perception of Images and Language |
Meg Mitchell |
11/14 |
Language-related work at Amazon: An informal discussion |
Anya Dormer |
11/21 |
The role of linguistic structure in neural network language generation |
Jan Buys |
11/28 |
Convolutional Sequence to Sequence Learning |
Denis Yarats |
12/5 |
Semantic Similarity Modeling at Pinterest |
Valerie Hajdik |
Spring Quarter 2017
Tuesdays 11:30-12:20pm, GUG 415L (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
4/4 |
Ethics in NLP Seminar Recap |
Bender |
4/11 |
Functional Distributional Semantics |
Emerson |
4/18 |
Transition-based Dependency Parsing for Tweets |
Zhu |
4/25 |
Unsupervised grammar induction with linguistically expressive grammars |
Hockenmaier |
5/2 |
Automatic Tagging of Grammatical Phenomena Using Non-Manual Anatomical Descriptions in American Sign Language Gloss |
Nguyen |
5/9 |
Coordination and Agreement in the Grammar Matrix |
Dermer |
5/16 |
Evaluating the Impact of Gender Bias in Word Embeddings |
Peterson |
5/30 |
NLP for Microblog Summarization |
Wong |
Winter Quarter 2017
Fridays 1:30-2:20pm, GUG 415L (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
1/13 |
Practice job talk: Computational Sociolinguistics |
Tatman |
1/20 |
[No meeting] |
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1/27 |
Coling 2016 recap |
Bender |
2/3 |
Computational support for finding word classes: A case study of Abui |
Zamaraeva |
2/10 |
How does your computer order a pizza?: Using linguistics to teach machines |
Zubair |
2/17 |
Stance strength using ATAROS |
Rolston |
2/24 |
Locale Variation in Translation |
Riggin |
3/3 |
Reproducibility |
Bender |
3/10 |
How to Use Your Computational Linguistics Background to Build Things That Real People Will Like (Including Possibly Your Own Company) |
Snyder |
Autumn Quarter 2016
Fridays 12:30-1:20pm, GUG 415L (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
10/7 |
Organizational + informal summer conference recap |
CL faculty |
10/14 |
A Theme-Rewriting Approach for Generating Algebra Word Problems |
Rik Koncel-Kedziorski |
10/21 |
Who Said That? Human Perceptual Accent Adaptation as a Model for Automation |
Rachel Tatman |
10/28 |
Voicebox: An intelligent voice to your connected world |
Ledyard |
11/4 |
A How to Give a Talk Talk |
Levow |
11/18 |
Detecting Syntax Errors in Learners' Chinese |
Fan |
12/2 |
Corpus linguistic NLG with Tensorflow |
Kahn |
Spring Quarter 2016
Tuesdays 11:30-12:20pm, GUG 415L (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
4/5 |
Clustering affixes -- continued. Integrating clustering results into morphological rules of precision grammars of Chintang |
Olga Zamaraeva |
4/12 |
Comprehension at Jack -- How to understand in order to hold a conversation |
Heidi Young, Shekar Iyer |
4/19 |
[no meeting] |
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4/26 |
JSALT recap |
Thor Wicke-Monteverde, Leanne Rolston |
5/3 |
Spark for Computational Linguistics |
John Cadigan |
5/10 |
Writing in Grad School |
Emily M. Bender |
5/17 |
Sequence-to-sequence models for cognate identification |
Leanne Rolston |
5/24 |
Human-Machine Logic: Deep Semantic Textual Entailment via Syntax Interpretation Plus Logical Entailment |
Benjamin Grosof |
5/31 |
Computer Assisted Language Learning: Non-native Mandarin tone mispronunciation detection |
Norah Hogoboom |
6/7 |
Evolving Plexity |
Matthew Lou-Magnuson |
Winter Quarter 2016
Fridays 10:30-11:20pm, GUG 415L (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
1/15 |
Phonological Pun-derstanding |
Rik Koncel-Kedziorski |
1/22 |
Predicting the ranks of Reddit comments |
Xiaosu Xue |
1/29 |
S.K.Y.S.E.T. Synthetic Knowledge Yield Social Entities Translation |
Fultz, Filip |
2/5 |
Measuring the Degree of Convergence between the Informal and Formal Acceptability Judgments in Korean |
Sanghoun Song |
2/12 |
No meeting |
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2/19 |
Automatically Discovering Distributional Similarity in Text: New Ideas and New Questions |
Sean Chester |
2/26 |
[ no meeting ] |
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3/4 |
Natural Language Processing in Cancer Research: At Fred Hutch / UW Cancer Consortium and the National Cancer Institute |
Paul Fearn, Emily Silgard |
Autumn Quarter 2015
Tuesdays 10:30-11:20pm, GUG 415L (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
10/13 |
Organization |
Emily Bender |
10/20 |
DELPH-IN/HPSG recap |
Emily Bender |
10/27 |
Fred Hutch internship report |
Florian Braun |
11/3 |
Mining Job Search Engines: Identifying Health Care Job Trends |
Bianca Frogner |
11/10 |
Applying Statistical Modeling to Automated Stress Recognition |
Matthew Calderwood |
11/17 |
Solving Narrative-style Math Word Problems |
Rik Koncel-Kedziorski |
11/24 |
Robust Parsing for HPSG ( robust-presentation.pdf) |
Woodley Packard |
12/1 |
Clustering affixes: Applying machine learning to richly annotated data |
Olga Zamaraeva |
12/8 |
Research @ NTU |
Michael Goodman |
Spring Quarter 2015
Wednesdays 10:30-11:20pm, GUG 415L (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
4/8 |
Organization; UWCL logo |
Bender |
4/15 |
[No meeting] |
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4/22 |
NLP for Clinical Applications |
Mitchell |
4/29 |
Automatic Narrative Understanding: How and Why |
Kedziorski |
5/6 |
IWCS Recap |
Bender |
5/13 |
Classifying Intonation Contours |
Calderwood |
5/20 |
Academic Writing |
Bender |
5/27 |
[No meeting] |
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6/3 |
Event Discovery, Content Models, and Relevance |
Haghighi |
Winter Quarter 2015
Thursdays 10:30-11:20pm, GUG 415L (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
1/15 |
Thesis Brainstorm |
Emily Bender (moderator) |
1/22 |
From Language to the Mind: Learning to Read Deception, Connotation and Literary Success |
Yejin Choi |
1/29 |
Natural Language Processing at the Fred Hutch / UW Cancer Consortium |
Emily Silgard, Paul Fearn, and Kat Egan |
2/5 |
[No meeting] |
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2/12 |
Language Models |
Wendy Bannister |
2/19 |
Understanding Time Expressions and Event Factuality |
Kenton Lee |
2/25 |
Understanding conversations globally: bootstrapping natural language processing from crowdsourced workers to expert analysts |
Robert Munro |
3/5 |
Distributional Paraphrasing with Distributional and Hybrid Semantic Distance Measures |
Yuval Marton |
3/12 |
[No meeting] |
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Autumn Quarter 2014
Fridays 10:30-11:20pm, GUG 415L (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
10/3 |
Introduction & Organization |
Emily Bender |
10/10 |
SpeechAce : Real-time phoneme level feedback on your pronunciation |
Abhishek Gupta & Ian Cheung |
10/17 |
Leveraging high resource languages to improve dependency parsing for low resource languages |
Claire Jaja |
10/24 |
AGGREGATION Project Overview |
Emily Bender (with Fei Xia) |
10/31 |
Extracting Clinical Events and Temporal Information from Clinic Notes |
Andrea Kahn |
11/7 |
Open and Exploratory Extraction of Relations (and Common Sense) from Large Text Corpora |
Alan Akbik |
11/14 |
TBA |
Simon Skaria |
11/21 |
ACL and Semantic Parsing Workshop recap (slides) |
Jim White |
11/28 |
No meeting (Thanksgiving holiday) |
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12/5 |
ATAROS Project Presentation |
Gina Levow |
For future quarters: Simon Skaria, Emily Silgard (late Jan, early Feb)
Spring Quarter 2014
Thursdays 12-12:50pm, GUG 415L (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
4/10 |
Feedback in Face-to-Face Conversations: A study of three cultures |
Gina-Anne Levow |
4/17 |
Sentence Segmentation for Grounded Language Learning |
Rik Kedziorski |
4/24 |
[no meeting] Please attend 3rd Northwest Regional Workshop on Natural Language Processing |
Various (at Microsoft Research) |
5/1 |
A finite-state morphological analyzer for Lakota |
Chris Curtis |
5/8 |
Thesis brainstorming |
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5/15 |
Entity Detection and Event Extraction for Phenotype Classification of Clinical Records |
Prescott Klassen |
5/22 |
Enriching ODIN |
Fei Xia |
5/29 |
Adjectives in the LinGO Grammar Matrix |
T.J. Trimble |
6/5 |
Semantic Parsing: README-EVAL prep for ACL 2014 (http://sp14.ws/) |
Jim White |
Winter Quarter 2014
Tuesdays 10:30-11:20, GUG 415L (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
1/14 |
The Case for Language Learning Games |
Erik Andersen (UW CSE) |
1/21 |
Packaging and distributing reusable software components with Java and Apache Maven |
Prescott Klassen |
1/28 (9:30) |
Natural Language Processing at the FHCRC/UW Cancer Consortium |
Emily Silgard & Paul Fearn (FHCRC) |
2/4 |
Quantitative analyses of text : Adventures with tweets, blog posts and scholarly journal articles |
Ben Marwick (UW Anthropology) |
2/11 |
Simple Links - A New Approach to Representing Utterance Tree Structures |
Bob New |
2/18 |
[no meeting] |
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2/25 |
[no meeting; please attend Kevin Knight talk instead] |
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3/4 (9:30) |
Designing Visual Analysis Methods |
Jason Chuang (UW CSE) |
3/11 |
R for Computational Linguistics |
Nick Waltner |
Please keep previous schedules below this point
Possible speakers/topics:
Generator optimization (Rarrick/Slayden)
Chris Curtis Lakota FST
Feature engineering (WI: Ryan Aldrich)
Meg Mitchell (MSR)
Best practices for creating distributable software (general, per language)
Jeff Bilmes
Paul Fearn (WI 2013 or later)
other SSLI lab member(s)
Autumn Quarter 2013
Tuesdays 11:30-12:20, GUG 415L (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
10/1 |
Organizational |
Emily Bender |
10/8 |
Hadoop |
Julian Chan & Claire Jaja |
10/15 |
Javadoc as Bitext (slides) |
Jim White |
10/18 |
Ubertagging |
Rebecca Dridan (UiO ) |
10/22 |
SystemT : an Algebraic Approach to Declarative Information Extraction |
Yunyao Li (IBM Almaden) |
10/29 |
Computing Meaning: What's Semantics Got to Do with It? |
Emily Bender |
11/5 |
TBA |
David Goss-Grubbs (nuiku.com) |
11/12 |
EMNLP recap |
Jared Kramer & Wen Wei Yim |
11/19 |
ACL recap |
Fei Xia & Gina Levow |
11/26 |
Reproducibility |
Michael Goodman |
12/3 |
Building a morphophonological analyzer for Lushootseed |
Joshua Crowgey |
Spring Quarter 2013
Wednesdays 10:30-11:20, DEN 205 (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
4/10 |
Towards Detecting Linguistic Phenomena in Precision Grammars |
Ned Letcher |
4/17 |
Towards Semantic Phenomena Classification |
Emily Bender |
4/24 |
Recap of WI 575 Domain Adaptation |
Fei Xia |
5/1 |
Parse Selection for Self-Training ( slides) |
Jim White |
5/8 |
Mining Unstructured Healthcare Data (slides) |
Deep Dhillon |
5/15 |
Analysis and implementation in a LinGO Grammar Matrix based grammar |
Varya Gracheva |
5/22 |
[No meeting this week] |
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5/29 |
Using features to model pronunciation variation in ASR |
Leanne Rolston |
6/5 |
ERG Driven Textual Entailment Recognition |
Josh Cason |
Winter Quarter 2013
Tuesdays 11:30-12:20, FSH 107 (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
1/15 |
COLING Recap |
Klassen, Kaufmann |
1/22 |
Writing in Grad School |
Emily Bender |
1/29 |
Bebo corpus |
Song, Gracheva |
2/5 |
(No Treehouse; GP meeting instead) |
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2/12 |
Sentiment Analysis |
Kedziorski, Kramer |
2/19 |
Deep v. Shallow Approaches to MT |
Mike Goodman |
2/26 |
Grammars in On-line Education: Using an HPSG implementation to teach writing skills |
Dan Flickinger |
3/5 |
A Practical Biomedical NLP Application |
Emily Silgard |
3/12 |
Tactical Generation |
Woodley Packard |
Autumn Quarter 2012
Fridays 10:30-11:20, location THO 202 (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
10/12 |
Faculty Research Presentations |
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10/19 |
Acoustic analysis of synthesized and human voices |
Adam Ledyard |
10/26 |
*SEM shared task: Resolving the Scope of Negation |
Jim White |
11/2 |
Thesis presentation |
Megan Schneider |
11/9 |
Elastic Map Reduce, Elastic Machine Learning from Amazon Web Service |
Thibaut Labarre |
11/16 |
Thesis presentation |
Zina Pozen |
11/23 |
Thanksgiving: No Treehouse meeting |
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11/30 |
Finding Meaning in Translation |
Francis Bond |
12/7 |
Crowdsourcing |
Daniela da Silva |
Spring Quarter 2012
Fridays 10:30-11:20, location SAV 169 (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
3/30 |
(no room available) |
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4/6 |
(no room available) |
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4/13 |
Thai-English MT |
Glenn Slayden |
4/20 |
An Introduction to Hadoop and Mahout |
Zina Pozen & Megan Galloway |
4/27 |
Coordinate Enunciation: Examining Scheme Change against the Backdrop of Text Corpora 1876-Present |
Joe Tennis |
5/4 |
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Kristin Tolle (Microsoft) |
5/11 |
NWNLP (@MSR): no treehouse meeting |
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5/18 |
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5/25 |
Building a Chinese Language NLP Pipeline with Apache UIMA |
Prescott Klassen |
6/1 |
Learning Game Rules from Rulebooks |
Chad Mills |
Winter Quarter 2012
Fridays 12:30-1:30, Savery 155 (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
1/13 |
LSA recap |
Emily Bender |
1/20 |
[UW closed due to snow] |
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1/27 |
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Ruth Frowein |
2/3 |
The Linguistic Interpretation of Computer Programs (and Related Text) |
JimWhite |
2/10 |
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Amittai Axelrod |
2/17 |
[No Treehouse meeting] |
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2/24 |
Medical Extraction Pipeline on Disparate Domains |
Todd Lingren |
3/2 |
Extracting Critical Recommendations from Radiology Reports |
Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz |
3/9 |
MRS-based anaphora resolution |
Woodley Packard |
Autumn Quarter 2011
Fridays 11-12, PCAR 190 (and
on-line)
Spring Quarter 2011
Fridays 12:30-1:20, LOW 216 (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
4/1 |
No meeting |
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4/8 |
Recognizing Spoken Corrections in Human-Computer Dialogue |
Gina Levow |
4/15 |
Using semantic information to improve protein interaction detection |
Nick Flacco |
4/22 |
No meeting (due to a conflict with the NLT webinar that Fei and Gina need to attend) |
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4/29 |
Some topics on BioNLP |
Fei Xia |
5/6 |
Email Formality in the Workplace: A Case Study on the Enron Corpus |
Kelly Peterson and Matt |
5/13 |
Cross-language acoustic modeling |
Michael Tjalve, Microsoft |
5/20 |
Automatic Semantic Annotation without a Corpus: Transferring Knowledge to Resource-Poor Languages |
Jason Shaw |
5/27 |
Robust Minimal Recursion Semantics and Query-Focused Text Summarization |
Prescott Klassen |
6/3 |
Reordering Model Induction for a Parserless Word-aligned Bitext |
Chase Hermsen |
AdobeConnect recordings of Treehouse meetings are available
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Winter Quarter 2011
Fridays 11:00-noon, LOW 202 (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
1/7 |
No meeting |
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1/14 |
Brainstorm session of CLMA thesis topics |
Abdullah Alotayq, Stella Podgornik, Jason Shaw, Prescott Klassen |
1/21 |
Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Systems: Crowdsourcing and Learning |
Gina Levow |
1/28 |
Automatic diacritic recovery in transcripts of Yemeni Arabic |
Andy Freeman |
2/4 |
Building a Parallel Hindi-English Treebank & Detecting Structural Divergence |
Ryan Georgi |
2/11 |
Hindi Treebank Conversion: Initial Results |
Michael Tepper |
2/18 |
Research WIP: Bootlex |
Michael Goodman |
2/25 |
Subject-dropping vs. Topic-dropping |
Sanghoun Song |
3/4 |
'agree' grammar engineering environment (AgreeSystem) |
GlennSlayden |
3/11 |
Researching Temporality |
Laurie Poulson |
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Autumn Quarter 2010
Fridays 12:30-1:20, Savery 155 (and
on-line)
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Please keep previous schedules below this point
Spring Quarter 2010
Wednesdays 10:30-11:20, Savery 132 (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
4/7 |
Locutus: A Natural Language Interface to Databases |
David Goss-Grubbs |
4/14 |
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4/21 |
Lextract: Automatic Dictionary Scraping to Enrich the PanLex Database |
Tim Baldwin |
4/28 |
Survey of unsupervised methods for Chinese part of speech tagging with Hidden Markov Models |
Alex Cheng |
5/5 |
PHOIBLE |
Steve Moran |
5/12 |
Automatic diacritic recovery in transcripts of Yemeni Arabic |
Andrew Freeman |
5/19 |
Unsupervised Tone System Acquisition for Language Documentation in the Field |
Joshua Hou |
5/26 |
Event Detection in Unstructured Text |
Eric Bell |
6/2 |
Web People Search |
Margalit Zabludowski |
Winter Quarter 2010
Fridays 11:30-12:30, Savery 131 (and
on-line)
Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
1/8 |
NLP for Clinical Informatics and Translational Research Informatics |
Imre Solti |
1/15 |
Deep Lexical Acquisition |
Tim Baldwin |
1/22 |
Unsupervised Semantic Parsing |
Hoifung Poon |
1/29 |
Using the World Atlas of Language Structures for Typological Clustering |
Ryan Georgi |
2/5 |
<a target="_blank" href="http://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1" title="Framenet">FrameNet</a> |
John Keesling |
2/12 |
Resolving Null Instantiations |
Liam McGrath |
2/19 |
Hindi DS to PS Conversion |
Michael Tepper |
2/26 |
None |
None |
3/5 |
Are dependency grammars useful to computational linguists? |
Caleb Barr, Jeff Kahn |
3/12 |
Argument Optionality in the Grammar Matrix |
Safiyyah Saleem |
Autumn Quarter 2009
Wednesdays 12:30-1:20 THO 325 (and
on-line)
Spring Quarter 2009
Tuesdays 2-3pm, CSE 203
Except 4/21, which will be in MOR 230
Winter Quarter 2009
Fridays, 11-12, CSE 303
Autumn Quarter 2008
Thursdays, 10-11, CSE 303
Spring Quarter 2008
Tuesdays, 2:30-3:20, CSE 128
Winter Quarter 2008
Wednesdays, 11-12, CSE 303
Autumn Quarter 2007 Schedule
Tuesdays, 3:30-4:30, CSE 203 (for 11/13, CSE 303)
Spring Quarter 2007 Schedule
Mondays, 11:00-12:00, CSE 303
Winter Quarter 2007 Schedule
Fridays, 11:30-12:30, CSE 303
Autumn Quarter 2006 Schedule
Wednesdays, 11:30-12:20, CSE 303 (for now)
Spring Quarter 2006 Schedule
Fridays, 11:30-12:20, THO 235
Winter Quarter 2006 Schedule
Wednesdays, 11:30-12:20, CSE 503
Autumn Quarter 2005 Schedule
Wednesdays, 2:30-3:20, EE1 025
If you have any questions about the schedule, contact
Joshua Johanson.
Spring Quarter 2005 Schedule
Wednesdays, 12:30-1:30 (generally)
Future Topics
See also
TopicsDiscussed (from previous schedules).
Winter Quarter 2005 Schedule
Fridays, 10:30-11:30 (generally)
- panlex-talk.pdf: Slides from Jonathan Pool's talk on 2008/04/22
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