Language Learning through Interaction and GroundingRecordings

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.

Spring Quarter 2026

Fridays, 12:30-1:20pm, hybrid. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders, room location & Zoom link.

4/10	On the Representation of Local English Practices in Pretraining Corpora	Jessica Chu Mei Wang
4/17	Mapping CLMS experiences to resumes	Emily M. Bender
4/24	A career post-CLMS	Alexander Schetnikov
5/1	[No Treehouse, GP meeting instead]
5/8	The political dimensions of machine translation	Amandalynne Paullada
5/15	Creating Your Personal Website	Amandalynne Paullada, Jen Wilson
5/22	Diacritic Restoration for Cook Islands Māori	Gwen Tait
5/29		Iskar Deng
6/5	Whistleblowing	Emily M. Bender

Topics: Whistleblowing, science communication, CLMS experiences to resumes

Winter Quarter 2026

Fridays, 12:30-1:20pm, hybrid. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders, room location & Zoom link.

1/16	Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC): A Language Systems Overview	Yuichi Tamano
1/23	[No treehouse/GP meeting instead]
1/30	Ambient AI Scribe Technology at UW Medicine: Due Diligence and Case Study	Duncan Reid
2/6	Investigating Generalization of Unlike Coordination in Language Models via Filtered-Corpus Training	Jiamu Luo
2/13	LT4CPR: From Crisis Tweets to Structured Situation Reports	Haotian Zhu
2/20	Learning Like Transformers?	Jeongyeob Hong
2/27	Language Learning through Interaction and Grounding	Joyce Chai
3/6	AI Safety Policy and Evaluation: A Hands-On Workshop	Aubrie Amstutz

Autumn Quarter 2025

Fridays, 12:30-1:20pm, hybrid. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders, room location & Zoom link.

10/3	Writing in Grad School	Emily M. Bender
10/10	No treehouse--GP meeting instead
10/17	No treehouse--GP meeting instead
10/24	Navigating the job market	Priyam Basu
10/31	Using Grammatical Features to Improve Morphotactic Inference (Grammar Matrix Thesis)	Isaac Schifferer
11/7	Dharamsala report-back	Emily M. Bender
11/14	Reviewing process; handling reviews	Emily M. Bender
11/21		Michael Tjalve
12/5	On the History of 'Data' in Big Data ~ 1960- 2017	Amira Moeding

Spring Quarter 2025

Fridays, 12:30-1:20pm, hybrid. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders, room location & Zoom link.

4/11	Coding best practices	Jonathan Jiang
4/18	A discussion of "The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking"	Anthony Hevia
4/25	Mapping CLMS experiences to resumes	Emily M. Bender
5/2	[No treehouse]
5/9	LLMs, internet research, and informed consent	Emily M. Bender
5/16		Jade Phoreman
5/23	RL methods for NLP/PPO tutorial	Rev Rameshkumar
5/30		Emily Ludke
6/6

Winter Quarter 2025

Fridays, 12:30-1:20pm, hybrid. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders, room location & Zoom link.

1/17	Research topic brainstorm	Emily M. Bender
1/24	Lang.Guru: language learning for language nerds	Zina Pozen
1/31	Navigating Industry Jobs	Courtney Mansfield
2/7	Solving AI with Our Brain	John Ball
2/14	A Discussion of "Transformers Struggle to Learn to Search"	Rev Rameshkumar
2/21	Probing Covert Racism in Language Models Through the Lens of Dialect Prejudice	Valentin Hofmann
2/28	Publishing in Computational Linguistics	Emily M. Bender
3/7	DataBack: Designing respectful data systems to support digital sovereignty	Jeff Doctor & Jo Hund
3/14	The Next Generation of Kiswahili Language Technology	Kathleen Siminyu

Winter: Pozen, coding best practices, TJ

Autumn Quarter 2024

Fridays, 12:30-1:20pm, hybrid. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders, room location & Zoom link.

10/4	Writing in Grad School	Emily M. Bender
10/11	Koel Labs - Computational Linguistics for Machine Aided Pronunciation Learning	Aruna Srivastava & Alex Metzenger
10/18	From Grad School to Industry - a CLMS story	Sriharsh Bhyravajjula
10/25	Stochastic Parrots - AMA	Emily M. Bender
11/1	[No Treehouse]
11/8	Life after CLMS: Language Engineer at AWS	Elizabeth Okada
11/15	Towards Integrated Scientific Discovery Systems	Peter Clark
11/22	Whistleblowing	Emily M. Bender
11/29	[No Treehouse]
12/6		Nora Lindemann

Winter: Pozen, coding best practices, TJ

Spring Quarter 2024

Fridays, 12:30-1:20pm, hybrid. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders, room location & Zoom link.

3/29	CLMS and the Industry	Tanaya Babitwale
4/5	No treehouse
4/12	The Interplay of Dataset Characteristics in Automated Grammar Generation: A Study with the AGGREGATION System	Tom Liu
4/19	Stochastic Parrots: The view from 2024	Emily M. Bender
4/26	Lang.Guru: language learning for language nerds enthusiasts	Zina Pozen
5/3	How to find resilience in your career as a computational linguist	Sameer Arshad
5/10	Reviewing in CL/NLP	Emily M. Bender
5/17	[No Treehouse]
5/24		Chenxi Li & Tashi Tsering
5/31

Ideas for Autumn: alumni presentations (Alexander Shchetnikov, Nick Monaco, Sriharsh Bhyravajjula)

Winter Quarter 2024

Fridays, 12:30-1:20pm, hybrid. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders, room location & Zoom link.

1/12	Research topic brainstorm	Emily M. Bender
1/19	Paper discussion	Jonathan Jiang
1/26	Mapping CLMS experiences to resumes	Emily M. Bender
2/2	No Treehouse
2/9	Light Verb Constructions in the Matrix (in-progress MS thesis)	Tara Wueger
2/16	No Treehouse
2/23	Action Nominals in the Grammar Matrix	Keren Ruditsky
3/1	Whistleblowing	Emily M. Bender
3/8	Assessing the ability of language models to generalize: Insights from Filtered Corpus Training (FICT)	Abhinav Patil

Ideas for Winter: Lily Clifford

Autumn Quarter 2023

Fridays, 12:30-1:20pm, hybrid. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders, room location & Zoom link.

10/13	Writing in Grad School	Emily M. Bender
10/20	Public Scholarship	Emily M. Bender
10/27	Summer conference recap	CL faculty
11/3	What kinds of questions do users ask "generative AI" chatbots?	Elizabeth Okada
11/10	[holiday, no treehouse]
11/17	[Treehouse cancelled]
11/24	[holiday, no treehouse]
12/1	Inferring Race and Ethnicity from Clinical Notes: Auditing Learned Associations for Bias and Moving Beyond Identity-Based Categories	Oliver Bear Don't Walk IV
12/8		Amandalynne Paullada

Spring Quarter 2023

Fridays, 12:30-1:20pm, online only. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders & Zoom link.

4/7	Fast Wordpiece Tokenizer	Xinying Song
4/14	Planning with large language models	Alexander Koller
4/21	Regulation and LLMs	Emily M. Bender
4/28	Perception Evaluation Framework	Benjamin Ciaglo
5/5	Watch party & discussion: Language Models and Language Acquisition	Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
5/12	[no treehouse]
5/19	What is Computer Vision Used for?	William Agnew
5/26	[no treehouse]
6/2	ChatGPT AMA	Emily M. Bender, Liz Conrad

Ideas for Autumn: Amandalynne Paullada, Oliver BDW

Winter Quarter 2023

Fridays, 12:30-1:20pm, online only. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders & Zoom link.

1/13	Research question brainstorm	Emily M. Bender
1/20	Mapping CLMS experiences to resumes	Emily M. Bender
1/27	[No meeting]
2/3	[No meeting]
2/10	Best Practices for Collaborative Coding	Downey
2/17	On Understanding and Explaining Large Language Models — what’s missing?	Sarah Wiegreffe
2/24	Whistle-blowing	Emily M. Bender
3/3	[No meeting]
3/10	How NLP can help improve antibiotic prescribing	Brian Hur

Autumn Quarter 2022

Fridays, 12:30-1:20pm, online only. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders & Zoom link.

10/7	Writing in Grad School	Emily M. Bender
10/14	Introduction to Differential Privacy	Agatha Downey
10/21	Two Approaches to Grounded Language Evaluation	Alane Suhr
10/28	A Hitchhiker's Guide to Getting a Job in Tech	Courtney Mansfield
11/4	How to Build Language Processing Applications that Work — and Expose Those that Don’t	Emily M. Bender
11/11	[No meeting: Veteran's Day holiday]
11/18	Intelligent Skimming Support for Scientific Papers	Luca Soldaini
11/25	[No meeting: Thanksgiving holiday]
12/2	Harms mediated by language models: what automation can address, and what it can't	Leon Derczynski
12/9	The Extent and Effects of Anthropomorphizing Word Usage about AI	Nanna Inie

Ideas for Autumn: AI2 postdocs (Luca, Alane, Maria); tutorial on using Hyak; how to spot & debunk AI hype; ethics & NLP

Ideas for Winter: Sarah Wiegreffe

Spring Quarter 2022

Fridays, 12:30-1:20pm, online only. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders & Zoom link.

4/8	Research Question Brainstorm #2	Emily M. Bender
4/15	Whistleblowing	Emily M. Bender
4/22	Making Sense of the News: Building Classifiers to Analyze News Articles	Laura Nixon & Adrienne Lynett
4/29	On Industry Interviews
5/6	Not with a Bang But a Tweet: Democracy, Culture Wars, and the Memeification of T.S. Eliot	Melanie Walsh
5/13	Controlled Analyses of Social Biases in Wikipedia Bios	Yulia Tsvetkov
5/20	Gender Bias in Word Embeddings: A Comprehensive Analysis of Frequency, Syntax, and Semantics	Aylin Caliskan
5/27
6/3

Topics for Spring: Do RQ brainstorm exercise again, but with longer per question (10min) and ask people to pre-populate the padlet ahead of time (How to avoid vandalism)

Ideas for Autumn: AI2 postdocs (Luca, Alane, Maria); tutorial on using Hyak; differential privacy (Agatha); how to spot & debunk AI hype

Winter Quarter 2022

Fridays, 12:00-12:50pm, online only. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders & Zoom link.

1/14	Thesis topic brainstorm	Emily M. Bender
1/21	Back to the Future for Dialogue Systems	Phil Cohen
1/28	Hate speech detection in an Indian context	Anjali Bhavan
2/4	Regular Expression Identification and Clustering	Brendan Farrell
2/11	A data-centric view on robustness	Ludwig Schimdt
2/18	Mapping CLMS experiences to resumes	Emily M. Bender
2/25	Discussion of open science best practices	Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
3/4	Applied Machine Learning & NLP for Personalization at Zillow Group	Eric Ringger
3/11	On a Highway to Hell: On the Consequences of Futuring Machine Learning and NLP	Zeerak Talat

To ask for Spring: Yulia, Melanie, Aylin

Topics for Spring: Do RQ brainstorm exercise again, but with longer per question (10min) and ask people to pre-populate the padlet ahead of time (How to avoid vandalism)

Autumn Quarter 2021

Fridays, 11:00-11:50am, online only. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders & Zoom link.

10/8	Writing in Grad School	Emily M. Bender
10/15	Neural Narratives	Tivon C. Rice
10/22	Best Practices for Collaborative Coding	Agatha Downey, Shane Steinert-Thelkeld
10/29	NO MEETING - WeCNLP
11/5	Meaning Making with Artificial Interlocutors and Risks of Language Technology	Emily M. Bender
11/12	Conversational Semantic Role Labeling	Kun Xu
11/19	Conference recaps: ACL 2021, Interspeech 2021, SIGDIAL 2021	Fei Xia and Gina-Anne Levow
12/3	Concept Subspaces in Multilingual Models	Hila Gonen
12/10	NLP research for conversational commerce at LivePerson	Kristen Howell

For Winter/Spring 2022: Melanie Walsh, Phil Cohen, Yulia, Aylin, Ludwig, Zeerak

Spring Quarter 2021

Fridays, 11:00-11:50am, online only. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders & Zoom link.

4/9	*nix Data Wrangling	Gina-Anne Levow
4/23	Modelling morphological complexity, and applications in language maintenance and learning	William Lane
4/30	From Cold Brew to Turkish: Tuning the Granularity Dial for NLP across Tasks, Languages, & Scales	Ajda Gokcen
5/7	CLMS & (CL) PhD student chat	Emily Ahn
5/14	ACL-IJCNLP 2021 Behind the scenes: Organinzing the Technical Program for a Large Conference	Fei Xia
5/21		Yuanhe Tian
5/28
6/4		Emily Ahn

For AU: Agatha+Shane on git & collaboration, ethics & NLP

Winter Quarter 2021

Fridays, 11:00-11:50am, online only. Subscribe to cl-announce mailing list for reminders & Zoom link.

1/15	Seasalt.ai: Current Work in Conversational AI Solutions for e-Commerce	Kim Dodds
1/22	I-Learning for a Purpose (self-directed language learning)	Ruta Couet, Janis Jensen, and Jacque VanHouten
1/29	NLP in the Humanitarian Sector	Michael Tjalve
2/5	Data and its (dis)contents: A survey of dataset development and use in machine learning research	Amandalynne Paullada
2/12	On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜	Emily M. Bender and Angelina McMillan -Major
2/19	Discussion: What is data science and how does it relate to linguistics and NLP?	Olga Zamaraeva
2/26	Data Ethics for Humanitarian Language Technology	Andrew Bredenkamp
3/5	Discussion: Mapping CLMS experience to resumes	Emily M. Bender
3/13	Coding Best Practices	Amandalynne Paullada

For Spring 2021: Riham Mansour (Katamai)

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
11/6	Reducing Ambiguity in Automatically Generated Grammars	Liz Conrad
11/13	An Analysis of Gender Bias in K-12 Assigned Literature Through Comparison of Non-Contextual Word Embedding Models	Preeti Mohan
11/20	Ethics in NLP	Emily M. Bender
12/4	IRB and Human Subjects	Galen Basse
12/11	Enriching Scientific Document Embeddings with Citation Intent	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
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		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]
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]
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

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
2/27
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]
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]
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
2/19	Automatically Discovering Distributional Similarity in Text: New Ideas and New Questions	Sean Chester
2/26	[ no meeting ]
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]
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]
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]
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]

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)
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
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]
2/25	[no meeting; please attend Kevin Knight talk instead]
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]
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)
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
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
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)
4/6	(no room available)
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		Kristin Tolle (Microsoft)
5/11	NWNLP (@MSR): no treehouse meeting
5/18
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]
1/27		Ruth Frowein
2/3	The Linguistic Interpretation of Computer Programs (and Related Text)	JimWhite
2/10		Amittai Axelrod
2/17	[No Treehouse meeting]
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)

Date	Topic	Presenter
10/7	Organizational meeting	EmilyBender, UW
10/14	A Primer on Classifiers	JeffryScott (UW and Memory Lane) and Chris Wilkes (Memory Lane)
10/21	Thesis topic brainstorm	EmilyBender, GinaLevow
10/28	No meeting
11/4	ACL 2011 recap	JimWhite, MattHohensee, SpencerRarrick, RyanGeorgi
11/11	(Veteran's day: No meeting)
11/18	TAC Recap	PrescottKlassen
11/25	(Thanksgiving: No meeting)
12/2	Typological Properties	MichaelGoodman
12/9	Thesis presentation	MattHohensee

Spring Quarter 2011

Fridays 12:30-1:20, LOW 216 (and on-line)

Date	Topic	Presenter
4/1	No meeting
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)
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 [[https://catalysttools.washington.edu/workspace/ebender/8133/39174][h