Fall 2010

Date

Event

Speaker

Abstract/Details

08/25/2010Kick-off meeting  
09/01/2010Group Reading: Beyond NomBank: A Study of Implicit Arguments for Nominal PredicatesMatthew Gerber and Joyce ChaiWinner of best paper at ACL 2010.
09/08/2010Paper 1: Coreference Resolution in a Modular, Entity-Centered Model

Paper 2: Simple Coreference Resolution with Rich Syntactic and Semantic Features
Aria Haghighi and Dan KleinPaper 1: Winner best long paper at NAACL 2010.

Paper 2: Suggested background reading for the other Haghighi/Klein paper.
09/15/2010Group discussion: significance testsJinho (presentation)Topics covered: One sample t-test, Paired two sample t-test, Wilcoxon signed-rank test, Fisher's exact test, Pearson's chi-square test, McNemar's test.
09/29/2010Group discussion: Bootstrap Hypothesis Testing  
10/13/2010Special Guest: Answers our questions about statisticsGary McClelland 
11/03/2010AMTA Conference in Denver  
11/10/2010DefensePraful 
11/11/2010ProposalLee 
11/15/2010ProposalJinhoMonday 10:00 AM at CINC.
11/29/2010ProposalChih HowMonday 10:00 AM at ECCS122, the conference room next to CSEL.
12/06/2010DefensePhilip OgrenMonday, 10:00 AM.
12/08/2010PrelimJing