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---+ UW/Microsoft Quarterly Symposium in Computational Linguistics

The UW/Microsoft Quarterly Symposium in Computational Linguistics provides a regular opportunity for computational linguists and speech and language technology researchers at the University of Washington and at Microsoft to discuss topics in the field and to connect in a friendly informal atmosphere.

Each symposium features two presentations, one from Microsoft and one from UW. In addition, symposia often include poster sessions and/or demos.
---++ Participating Departments
   * [[http://depts.washington.edu/lingweb][Linguistics]]
   * [[http://depts.washington.edu/uwgerman][Germanics]]
   * [[http://www.ee.washington.edu][Electrical Engineering]]
   * [[http://www.cs.washington.edu][Computer Science and Engineering]]
---++ Upcoming symposia
   * spring 2016: 5/13/2016 at MS
   * winter 2016: 2/26/2016 at UW
   * fall 2015: 11/6/2015 at MS
---++ The next symposium and past symposia
| *Date* | *Location* | *Speakers* | *Titles* | *Additional presentations* |
| 4/27/2018 | Microsoft | Superceded by [[https://sites.google.com/view/nwnlp18/][5th Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop &mdash; 2018]] |||
| 10/27/2017 | | | | |
| 5/20/2016 | Amazon | Superceded by [[https://sites.google.com/site/nwnlp16/][4th Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop &mdash; 2016]] |||
| 2/26/2016 | UW | | | |
| 5/1/2015 | <p>UW</p> | <p>Frank Seide, Hao Fu, Jasha Droppo, Gang Li, and Dong Yu, Microsoft Research</p> | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2015_05_01_MSR.html][ 1-Bit Stochastic Gradient Descent for Fast training of DNNs for Skype Translator ]]</p> | |
| | | Congle Zhang, CSE, UW | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2015_05_01_UW.html][ Exploiting Parallel News Streams for Relation Extraction ]]</p> | |
| 1/30/2015 | <p>MSR</p> | <p>Yufan Guo, Univ. of Washington</p> | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2015_01_30_UW.html][ Reviewing the literature comes easier: Information structure analysis of scientific documents ]]</p> | |
| | | Hany Hassan Awadalla and Jon Clark, MSR | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2015_01_30_MSR.html][ Skype Translator: breaking down the barriers ]]</p> | |
| 11/14/2014 | <p>UW</p> | <p>Raymond J. Mooney, UT Austin / Microsoft Research</p> | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2014_11_14_MS.html][ Natural Language Semantics by Combining Logical and Distributional Methods using Probabilistic Logic ]]</p> | |
| | | Mike Lewis, UW CSE / Allen Institute for AI | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2014_11_14_UW.html][ Combined Distributional and Logical Semantics ]]</p> | |
| 05/16/2014 | <p>MSR</p> | <p>Yan Song and Fei Xia, UW Linguistics</p> | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2014_05_16_UW.html][ Domain adaptation via effective feature engineering across domains ]]</p> | |
| | | Hany Hassan Awadallah, MSR | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2014_05_16_MSR.html][ Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning of Translation Models from Monolingual Data ]]</p> | |
| 01/31/2014 | <p>UW</p> | <p>Emre Kiciman (MSR), Scott Counts (MSR), Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Tech), Bo Thiesson (Aalborg University), Michael Gamon (MSR)</p> | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2014_01_31_MSR.html][ Discussion Graphs: Putting Social Media Analysis into Context ]]</p> | |
| | | Cecilia Aragon and Michael Brooks, UW Human Centered Design and Engineering | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2014_01_31_UW.html][ Detection and Visualization of Emotion in Informal Text Communication ]]</p> | |
| 11/01/2013 | <p>MSR</p> | <p>Woodley Packard and Emily M. Bender, UW Linguistics</p> | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2013_11_01_UW.html][ Predicting the Scope of Negation using Minimal Recursion Semantics ]]</p> | |
| | | Margaret Mitchell, MSR | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2013_11_01_MSR.html][Generating human reference to visible objects ]]</p> | |
| 05/17/2013 | <p>UW</p> | <p>Hoifung Poon, MSR</p> | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2013_05_17_MSR.html][ Grounded Unsupervised Semantic Parsing ]]</p> | |
| | | Chloe Kiddon, UW CSE | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2013_05_17_UW.html][Knowledge Extraction and Joint Inference Using Tractable Markov Logic ]]</p> | |
| 02/22/2013 | <p>MSR</p> | <p>Hannaneh Hajishirzi, UW CSE</p> | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2013_02_22_UW.html][ Learning with Weak Supervision in Grounded Language Acquisition ]]</p> | |
| | | Munmun De Choudhury, MSR | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2013_02_22_MSR.html][Mining Online Social Behavior for Enhanced Behavioral Health ]]</p> | |
| 11/02/2012 | <p>UW</p> | <p>Lucy Vanderwende and Sumit Basu, MSR</p> | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2012_11_02_MS.html][ Making Reading More Effective: Technologies to Help Information Seekers ]]</p> | |
| | | Tom Kwiatkowski, UW CSE | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2012_11_02_UW.html][A Probabilistic Model of Language Acquisition from Utterance and Meaning ]]</p> | |
| 05/11/2012 | <p>Microsoft</p> | <p>Joint with NW-NLP 2012</p> | <p> [[http://dada.cs.washington.edu/nw-nlp-2012/][Schedule]]</p> | |
| 02/17/2012 | <p>UW</p> | <p>Cosmin Adrian Bejan, UW Biomedical Health Informatics</p> | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2012_02_17_adi.html][Using statistical feature selection to improve pneumonia identification]]</p> | |
| | | Dominic Widdows, MSR | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2012_02_17_widdows.html][Learning and Reasoning with Semantic Vectors]]</p> | |
| 10/28/2011 | <p>Microsoft</p> | <p>Yoav Artzi, UW/MSR</p> | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2011_10_28_yoav.html][Towards Predicting Responses in Twitter]]</p> | |
| | | Brian Hutchinson, UW/MSR | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2011_10_28_brian.html][Tensor Deep Stacking Networks for Phonetic Classification and Recognition]] | |
| | | Aniruddh Nath, UW/MSR | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2011_10_28_aniruddh.html][Generalizing Natural Language Instructions]] | |
| | | Julie Medero, UW/MSR | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2011_10_28_julie.html][NLP in Patient-Directed Medical Displays]] | |
| | | Amittai Axelrod, UW/MSR | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2011_10_28_amittai.html][Topic Modeling for Statistical Machine Translation]] | |
| 05/13/2011 | <p>UW</p> | <p>Gina-Anne Levow, UW Linguistics</p> | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2011_05_13_gina.html][Predicting Verbal Feedback across Cultures in Face-to-Face Conversation]]</p> | |
| | | Mona Diab, Columbia Univ CCLS | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2011_05_13_mona.html][Automatic Processing of Arabic(s)]] | |
| 02/18/2011 | <p>Microsoft</p> | <p>Luke Zettlemoyer, UW CSE</p> | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2011_02_18_luke.html][Learning to Follow Orders: Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions]]</p> | |
| | | Scott Yih, MSR Machine Learning Group | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/2011_02_18_scott.html][Learning Discriminative Projections for Text Similarity Measures]] | |
| 10/22/2010 | <p>UW</p> | <p>Tony Fader, UW CSE / MSR Machine Learning Group</p> | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/10_22_10_A.html][Long Query Understanding with Wikipedia]]</p> | |
| | | Amittai Axelrod, UW EE / MSR NLP Group | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/10_22_10_B.html][Translation model adaptation]] | |
| 05/14/2010 | Microsoft | Will Lewis, MSR MT Group | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/MS_05_14_10.html][Haitian Creole: How to Build and Ship an MT Engine from Scratch in 4 days, 17 hours, & 30 minutes]] | |
| | | Hui Lin and Jeff Bilmes, UW | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/UW_05_14_10.html][Submodular Extractive Summarization]] | |
| 01/22/2010 | UW | Ellen Lidin, MSR | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/MS_01_22_10a.html][ Machine translation and localization]] | |
| | | Chris Quirk, MSR | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/MS_01_22_10b.html][Extracting parallel sentences from Wikipedia]] | |
| | | Anand Chakravarty, MSR | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/MS_01_22_10c.html][Stress Testing an AI Based Web Service - A Case Study]] | |
| | | Eduardo Alvarez-Godinez, MSR | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/MS_01_22_10d.html][Test corpora development for machine translation evaluation]] | |
| | | Michael Gamon, MSR | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/MS_01_22_10e.html][Correcting non-native English using mostly native data]] | |
| | | Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, UW iSchool | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/UW_01_22_10f.html][Search Interaction in Context research group]] | |
| | | William Lewis (Microsoft) and Fei Xia (UW Linguistics) | <p> [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/UW_01_22_10g.html][Applying NLP Technologies to the Collection and Analysis of Language Data to Aid Linguistic Research]]</p> | |
| | | Emily M. Bender, UW Linguistics | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/UW_01_22_10h.html][Grammar Customization with the LinGO Grammar Matrix]] | |
| | | Mausam, UW CSE | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/UW_01_22_10i.html][From Extracted Information to Knowledge: Current Research at Turing Center]] | |
| | | Hoifung Poon, UW CSE | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/UW_01_22_10j.html][Markov Logic in Natural Language Processing]] | |
| 10/09/2009 | Microsoft | Stanley Kok (UW) and Chris Brockett (MSR) | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/UW_10_09_09a.html][Hitting the Right Paraphrases in Good Time]] | |
| | | Alan Ritter (UW) and Colin Cherry (MSR) | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/UW_10_09_09b.html][Toward the Twuring Test: Conversation Modeling using Twitter]] | |
| | | Hoifung Poon (UW) and Lucy Vanderwende (MSR) | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/UW_10_09_09c.html][Joint Inference for Knowledge Extraction from Biomedical Literature]] | |
| 04/10/2009 | UW | Vikram Dendi, MSR | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/MS_04_10_09.html][Standing in the User's Shoes - Enhancing the "Perceived Value" of Translation]] | |
| | | Kevin Duh, UW EE | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/UW_04_10_09.html][Semi-supervised learning for Ranking]] | |
| 01/23/2009 | Microsoft | Jeremy Kahn, UW Linguistics | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/UW_01_23_09.html][Unlexicalizing the comma: an orthographic assist to statistical machine translation]] | |
| | | Ye-Yi Wang, MSR | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/MS_01_23_09.html][Voice search of structured media data]] | |
| 11/14/2008 | UW | Meliha Yetisgen Yildiz, UW iSchool and Kiha Inc. | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/UW_11_14_08.html][Finding the Meaning of Medical Concept Correlations]] | |
| | | Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/MS_11_14_08.html][Machine translation and cross-language information retrieval]] | |
| 06/06/2008 | Microsoft | Douglas Downey, UW CSE | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/UW_06_06_08.html][Autonomous Web-scale Information Extraction]] | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/poster_06_06_08.html][Posters]] |
| | | Chris Quirk, MSR | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/MS_06_06_08.html][Models for Comparable Corpus Fragment Alignment]] | |
| 02/15/2008 | UW | Amar Subramanya and Jeff Bilmes, UW EE | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/UW_02_15_08.html][Training Speech Recognizers with Uncertain Word Boundaries]] | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/poster_02_15_08.html][Posters]] |
| | | Colin Cherry, MSR NLP Group | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/MS_02_15_08.html][Cohesive Phrase-based Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation]] | |
| 11/02/2007 | Microsoft | Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos, UW CSE | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/UW_11_02_07.html][Joint Inference in Information Extraction]] | |
| | | Andreas Bode and Anthony Aue, Microsoft MT Incubation Team - NLP Group | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/MS_11_02_07.html][From Research to Production - Issues & Lessons Learned]] | |
| 04/20/2007 | UW | Jianfeng Gao, MSR | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/MS_04_20_07.html][A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing]] | |
| | | Marcus Sammer, UW Turing Center | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/UW_04_20_07.html][Panlingual Lexical Translation]] | |
| 02/16/2007 | UW | Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, David G. Hendry, and Chong-Ki Tsang, UW iSchool | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Efthimiadis_021607.html][Experiments in Query Expansion]] | |
| | | Hisami Suzuki and Kristina Toutanova, MSR | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Suzuki_021607.html][Generating Morphologically Rich Languages in MT]] | |
| 10/20/2006 | Microsoft | Fei Xia, William Lewis, and Dan Jinguji, UW Linguistics | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Xia_102006.html][Towards automatic enrichment and analysis of linguistic data for low-density languages]] | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/102006_posters.html][Posters]] |
| | | Mark Johnson, Brown University | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Johnson_102006.html][Features of Reranking Parsers]] | |
| 04/07/2006 | UW | Simon Corston-Oliver and Anthony Aue, MSR | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Corston-Oliver_040706.html][Multilingual Dependency Parsing using Bayes Point Machines]] | |
| | | Michael J. Cafarella and Oren Etzioni, UW CSE | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Cafarella_040706.html][A Search Engine for Natural Language Applications]] | |
| 02/03/2006 | Microsoft | William Lewis, UW Linguistics | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Lewis_020306.html][Locating, Recognizing, and Converting Interlinear Text on the Web]] | Demos |
| | | Manuela Noske, Microsoft Windows Localizations Group | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Noske_020306.html][Unsupervised Acquisition of Ateso Morphology]] | |
| 10/28/2005 | UW | Kenneth W. Church (MSR) and Ping Li (Stanford University) | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Church_102805.html][Using Sketches to Estimate Associations]] | |
| | | Mari Ostendorf, Jeremy G. Kahn, and Dustin Hillard, UW EE | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Ostendorf_102805.html][Spontaneous Speech: Challenges and Opportunities for Parsing]] | |
| 04/22/2005 | Microsoft | Katrin Kirchhoff, UW EE | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Kirchhoff_42205.html][Feature-Based Word Representations for Natural Language Processing]] | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/42205_posters.html][Posters]] |
| | | Eric Ringger, Microsoft NLP Group | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Ringger_42205.html][The Role of Linguistics in Feature Engineering for Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing]] | |
| 01/28/2005 | Microsoft | Jeff Bilmes and Karim Filali, UW EE | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Bilmes_Filali_12805.html][Graphical Models and Machine Translation]] | Demos |
| | | Chris Quirk, MSR | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Quirk_12805.html][Toward Syntactically Informed Statistical Machine Translation]] | |
| 10/22/2004 | UW | Oren Etzioni, UW CSE | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Etzioni_102204.html][Web-scale Information Extraction in KnowItAll (Preliminary Results)]] | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/102204_posters.html][Posters]] |
| | | Mike Calcagno, Microsoft NLP Group | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Calcagno_102204.html][Extracting and Exploiting Type Information in Search-Related Scenarios]] | |
| 03/12/2004 | Microsoft | Mari Ostendorf, UW EE | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Ostendorf_031204.html][Web-based Corpora: Modeling Language vs. Gathering Counts]] | Demos |
| | | Thierry Fontenelle, Microsoft NLP Group | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Fontenelle_031204.html][A large bilingual lexical resource for word sense disambiguation]] | |
| 01/23/2004 | UW | Robert Moore, MSR | Two Paradigms for Natural Language Processing | |
| | | Lesley Carmichael, UW Linguistics | Prosodic Fortification in Error Resolution | |
| 10/24/2003 | UW | Andrea Jesse, Microsoft NLP Group | Grammar Checking in Microsoft Office XP | |
| | | Emily M. Bender, UW Linguistics | [[https://depts.washington.edu/uwcl/msuw/Bender_102403.html][Grammar Checking in the Arboretum: Finding and Curing Trees]] | |
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