| Date: | May 25, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Dan Gildea |
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| Paper: | Aria Haghighi and John DeNero and Dan Klein Approximate Factoring for A* Search NAACL-HLT 2007 |
| Date: | May 18, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Matt Post |
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| Paper: | Slav Petrov and Dan Klein Improved Inference for Unlexicalized Parsing NAACL-HLT 2007 |
| Date: | May 11, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Sam Zhao |
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| Paper: | Mark Johnson and Thomas Griffiths and Sharon Goldwater Bayesian Inference for PCFGs via Markov chain Monte Carlo NAACL-HLT 2007 |
| Date: | April 6, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Saurabh Deshpande |
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| Paper: | Ulf Brefeld and Tobias Scheffer Semi-Supervised Learning for Structured Output Variables ICML 2006 |
| Date: | March 9, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Matt Post |
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| Paper: | M. Galley, J. Graehl, K. Knight, D. Marcu, S. DeNeefe, W. Wang, and I. Thayer Scalable Inference and Training of Context-Rich Syntactic Models ACL-COLING, 2006 |
| Date: | February 23, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Hao Zhang |
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| Paper: | Stuart Geman and Mark Johnson Dynamic programming for parsing and estimation of stochastic unification-based grammars ACL 2002 |
| Date: | February 16, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Ding Liu |
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| Paper: | Michael Collins Discriminative Reranking for Natural Language Parsing ICML 2000 |
| Paper: | Michael Collins and Terry Koo Discriminative Reranking for Natural Language Parsing Computational Linguistics, 2005 |
| Date: | February 9, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Saurabh Deshpande |
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| Paper: | V. Sindhwani, S. S. Keerthi Large Scale Semi-supervised Linear SVMs SIGIR 2006 |
| Date: | February 2, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Phil Michalak |
| Topic: | Revisiting Pitman-Yor Processes for LM |
| Paper: | Y.W. Teh A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model based on Pitman-Yor Processes COLING/ACL 2006 |
| Date: | January 26, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Hao Zhang |
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| Paper: | Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson Coarse-to-fine n-best parsing and MaxEnt discriminative reranking ACL 2005 |