November 11: Conditional Random Fields

In continuation of the ML-reading group we will discuss the theory behind and the usage of Conditional Random Fields.

If anyone knows of a NLP-article using CRF (and explaining it's usage) please put a link to the article here (or mail it to Martin).

October 28: Galley et al 2004 and 2006

We read about the syntax-based SMT system that was referred to from the paper ”Two Langauges are Better than One (for Syntactic Parsing)”, ie, the following two papers:

Galley, Hopkins, Knight, Marcu, "What’s in a translation rule?",Proc. HLT-NAACL 2004.

http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N04/N04-1035.pdf

Galley, Graehl, Knight, Marcu, DeNeefe, Wang, Thayer,

"Scalable Inference and Training of Context-Rich Syntactic Translation Models", Proc. ACL 2006.

http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P06/P06-1121.pdf

All the best,
Matthias

PS. I am unable to attend the reading group myself because of a funding meeting. :-(

October 14: Anders' work on semi-supervised dependency parsing

On October 14, Anders will present his work on semi-supervised dependency parsing.