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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 | <span style="caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the Representation of Local English Practices in Pretraining Corpora</span> | 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 M&#x101;ori | 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 | <span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Learning Like Transformers?</span> | 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 |
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| 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? ðŸ¦œ | 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 | | |
---++ <br />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 LÃƒƒÃ‚Â¼ |
| 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 |
---++ <br /> Spring Quarter 2017

Tuesdays 11:30-12:20pm, GUG 415L (and [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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 |
---++ <br />Winter Quarter 2017

Fridays 1:30-2:20pm, GUG 415L (and [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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 |
---++ <br /> Autumn Quarter 2016

Fridays 12:30-1:20pm, GUG 415L (and [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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 [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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 [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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 [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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 ( [[%ATTACHURL%/robust-presentation.pdf][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 [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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 [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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 [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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 ( [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/73840666/ACL%202014%20Recap/ACL%202014%20Recap%20Presentation.pdf][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 [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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 [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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 [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][on-line]])

| Date | Topic | Presenter |
| 10/1 | Organizational | Emily Bender |
| 10/8 | [[%ATTACHURL%/hadoop_presentation_-_JulianChan_ClaireJaja.pdf][Hadoop]] | Julian Chan & Claire Jaja |
| 10/15 | Javadoc as Bitext ( [[%PUBURL%/Main/JimWhite/Treehouse_2013-10-15.pdf][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 [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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 | [[%PUBURL%/Main/JimWhite/Parse_Selection_for_Self-Training.pdf][Parse Selection for Self-Training]] ( [[%PUBURL%/Main/JimWhite/Parse_Selection_for_Self-Training.pdf][slides]]) | Jim White |
| 5/8 | Mining Unstructured Healthcare Data ( [[http://www.slideshare.net/zang0/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 [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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 | <div id="_mcePaste">Grammars in On-line Education: Using an HPSG implementation to teach writing skills</div> | 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 [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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 [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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 [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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 [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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 [[http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicclmalab/][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
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