| Date: | December 14, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Satyaki Mahalanabis |
| Topic: | |
| Paper: | Luc Devroye and Gabor Lugosi Combinatorial Methods in Density Estimation Springer |
| Date: | December 7, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Dan Gildea |
| Topic: | |
| Paper: | Terry Koo, Amir Globerson, Xavier Carreras and Michael Collins Structured Prediction Models via the Matrix-Tree Theorem EMNLP2007 |
| Date: | November 30, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Daniel Stefankovic |
| Topic: | "Skeleton Estimates" and "The Minimum Distance Estimate: Examples" |
| Paper: | Luc Devroye and Gabor Lugosi Combinatorial Methods in Density Estimation Springer |
| Date: | November 16, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Matt Post |
| Topic: | |
| Paper: | Dan Klein and Christopher D. Manning Corpus-Based Induction of Syntactic Structure: Models of Dependency and Constituency ACL 2004 |
| Date: | November 9, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Satyaki Mahalanabis |
| Topic: | "Choosing a Density Estimate", "Skeleton Estimates" and "The Minimum Distance Estimate: Examples" |
| Paper: | Luc Devroye and Gabor Lugosi Combinatorial Methods in Density Estimation Springer |
| Date: | November 2, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Saurabh Deshpande |
| Topic: | |
| Paper: | David Talbot and Miles Osborne Randomised Language Modelling for Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2007 |
| Date: | October 26, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Ding Liu |
| Topic: | |
| Paper: | John DeNero and Dan Klein Tailoring Word Alignments to Syntactic Machine Translation ACL 2007 |
| Date: | October 19, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Satyaki Mahalanabis |
| Topic: | Total Variation |
| Paper: | Luc Devroye and Gabor Lugosi Combinatorial Methods in Density Estimation Springer |
| Date: | October 12, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Shaojun Zhao |
| Topic: | |
| Paper: | Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein Unsupervised Coreference Resolution in a Nonparametric Bayesian Model ACL 2007 |
| Date: | October 5, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Daniel Stefankovic |
| Topic: | Combinatorial Tools |
| Paper: | Luc Devroye and Gabor Lugosi Combinatorial Methods in Density Estimation Springer |
| Date: | September 28, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Hao Zhang |
| Topic: | |
| Paper: | Mark Johnson Why Doesnt EM Find Good HMM POS-Taggers? EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 |
| Date: | September 21, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Satyaki Mahalanabis |
| Topic: | Uniform Deviation Inequalities |
| Paper: | Luc Devroye and Gabor Lugosi Combinatorial Methods in Density Estimation Springer |
| Date: | September 14, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Dan Gildea |
| Topic: | |
| Paper: | David Blei and Michael Jordan Variational Inference for Dirichlet Process Mixtures Bayesian Analysis |
| Date: | September 7, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Daniel Stefankovic |
| Topic: | Concentration Inequalities |
| Paper: | Luc Devroye and Gabor Lugosi Combinatorial Methods in Density Estimation Springer |