Spring 2014

Date

Event

Speaker

Abstract/Details

01/13/2014Texas Tech overviewWill Styler, Claire Bonial3:00-5:00 PM, ECOT 831.
3:00-3:30 Will Styler - Clinical
3:30-4:00 Claire Bonial - VerbNet
01/22/2014Acquiring Strongly-related Events using Predicate-argument Co-occurring Statistics and Case FramesTomohide ShibataKyoto University
01/29/2014Plan for James Pustejovsky and Annie Zaenen visit, Feb 3-7, SemLink+ site visit and DEFT site visit  
01/31/2014ICS talk: CAN ROBOTS INVENT THEIR OWN LANGUAGE?Luc Steels12:00-2:00 PM, MUEN D428
02/05/2014James Pustejovsky visit Feb 6, 7 SemLink+ site visit (Don Jones and Martin Hyatt)
02/07/2014ICS TalkAnnie Zaenen12:00-1:30 PM, MUEN D428
02/11/2014DARPA DEFT site visitBoyan Onyshkevych 
02/17/2014Linguistics PresentationMans Hulden4:00 PM, Hellems 241. (Linguistics faculty applicant)
02/18/2014Opening up the Optimization Black-Box for Large-Scale Machine LearningMark Schmidt3:30-4:30 PM, ECCR 265. (Simon Fraser University)
02/20/2014Life Lessons and Datacenter Performance AnalysisAmer Diwan3:30-4:30 PM, ECCR 265. (Google)
02/26/2014 Jinying Chen 
03/05/2014Afternoon VerbNet discussion  
03/12/2014A Step-wise Method for Inducing Semantic Frames and Verb Classes, followed by lunchDaisuke Kawahara 
03/17/2014 & 03/18/2014AMR WorkshopKevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, LDC folks 
04/09/2014Review of TAC, DTRA proposal, planning  
04/23/2014Event extraction, TAC pilot discussion, relevant papersJinying Chen & Tim O'Gorman 
04/30/2014NE paper, Ritter, continue event extraction papersKevin Stowe 
05/07/2014LREC Dry runs