CUNY-NLP: Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Seminar at CUNY
This computational linguistics and natural language processing seminar is hosted by the NLP faculty members at the City University of New York. The aim is to invite talented researchers to give talks about state-of-the-art research in the field and stimulate collaboration opportunities. If you want to meet with any speaker individually after the talk, please send an e-mail to the host.
The location of the seminar is usually The Graduate Center of CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY. During Spring 2013, the event will usually be held in room Room 6496, from 2:15pm to 3:30pm. You may need to show identification at the main desk of the Graduate Center and explain that you are attending a guest speaker event in room 6496 hosted by the Computer Science program.
The calendar for Spring 2013 is being filled. Additional dates may be added.
Spring 2013 Schedule
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Title, Abstract, Bio |
Host |
|
Jan |
11am- |
Dan Roth |
Constrained Conditional Models: Integer Linear Programming |
Heng Ji |
|
Feb |
3pm- |
Ryan McDonald |
Advances in Cross-Lingual Syntactic Transfer |
Liang Huang |
|
March |
215pm- |
Hao Zhang |
Efficient Higher-Order Dependency Parsing with Cube Pruning |
Liang Huang |
|
April |
215pm- |
Masato Hagiwara |
Word Segmentation and Transliteration in Chinese and Japanese |
Heng Ji |
|
April |
415pm- |
Imed Zitouni |
Information Extraction Crossing Language, Robustness and Domain Barriers |
Heng Ji |
|
April |
215pm- |
David McClosky |
Co-dependent Information Extraction |
Heng Ji |
|
May |
215pm- |
Alexander Rush |
Optimal Beam Search for Machine Translation |
Liang Huang |
|
May |
11am- |
Zornitsa Kozareva |
Knowledge Extraction and Taxonomization from the Web |
Liang Huang |
|
TBA |
TBA |
Jim Hendler |
Broad Data: Technology challenges on the emerging web of data |
Heng Ji |
Fall 2012 Schedule
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Title, Abstract, Bio |
Host |
|
Sept |
215pm- |
Liang Huang |
Structured Perceptron with Inexact Search |
-- |
|
Sept |
215pm- |
Thomas Francois |
Computational readability: need for a domain-oriented approach? |
Matt Huenerfauth |
|
Oct |
430pm- |
Daniel Bauer |
Context-Free Graph Grammars for Semantic Analysis, Generation and Machine Translation |
Liang Huang |
|
Oct |
215pm- |
Yoav Goldberg |
Advances in Deterministic Dependency Parsing |
Liang Huang |
|
Nov |
215pm- |
Qun Liu |
Context-Aware Rule-Selection for Statistical Machine Translation |
Liang Huang |
|
Nov |
215pm- |
Jason Weston |
Neural Networks and Supervised Embedding Models for NLP and Retrieval |
Heng Ji |
|
Nov |
215pm- |
Joakim Nivre |
Beyond MaltParser - Advances in Transition-Based Dependency Parsing |
Liang Huang |
|
Dec |
215pm- |
Yulia Tyshchuk |
Title to be announced |
Heng Ji |
Spring 2012 Schedule
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Title, Abstract, Bio |
Host |
|
Feb |
215pm- |
Kevin Knight |
Location: Room C197, Graduate Center. |
Heng Ji |
|
Feb |
215pm- |
Naushad UzZaman |
Interpreting the Temporal Aspects of Language |
Heng Ji |
|
Mar |
215pm- |
Sarah Hoffman |
Information Extraction from Financial Documents |
Heng Ji |
|
Mar |
215pm- |
Ani Nenkova |
Improving features and models for automatic emotion prediction in acted speech |
Andrew Rosenberg |
|
May |
215pm- |
Chris Brew |
Short Answer Scoring at ETS |
Andrew Rosenberg |
Fall 2011 Schedule
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Title, Abstract, Bio |
Host |
|
Sept |
215pm- |
Heng Ji |
Leveraging Redundancy for Cross-Source Information Extraction |
- |
|
Sept |
215pm- |
Ang Sun |
Cross-Domain Bootstrapping for Named Entity Recognition |
Heng Ji |
|
Sept |
3pm- |
Qi Li |
Syntactic Approach vs. Semantic Approach to Temporal Slot Filling |
Heng Ji |
|
Oct |
215pm- |
Alexis Heloir |
Sign Language Avatars: Animation and Comprehensibility |
Matt Huenerfauth |
|
Nov |
215pm- |
Srinivas Bangalore |
Thinking outside the box for NLP |
Andrew Rosenberg |
|
Nov |
2pm- |
Lev-Arie Ratinov |
NOTE: Room C203 of Graduate Center |
Heng Ji |
|
Nov |
215pm- |
Smaranda Muresan |
Learning for Deep Language Understanding |
Heng Ji |
|
Nov |
215pm- |
Kathy McKeown |
Natural Language Applications Across Genres: From News to Novels |
Andrew Rosenberg |
|
Dec |
215pm- |
Yejin Choi |
In Search of Styles in Language: Identifying Deceptive Product Reviews, Wikipedia Vandalism, and the Gender of Authors via Statistical Stylometric Analysis |
Matt Huenerfauth |
|
Dec |
215pm- |
Faisal Farooq |
Location: Room 9204, Graduate Center. |
Heng Ji |
Spring 2011 Schedule
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Title, Abstract, Bio |
Host |
|
Feb |
2pm- |
Zofia Stankiewicz |
Research at Rakuten Institute of Technology, New York (RIT-NY) |
Heng Ji |
|
Feb |
215pm- |
Matthew Stone |
|
Matt Huenerfauth |
|
March |
215pm- |
Mitch Marcus |
|
Matt Huenerfauth |
|
March |
215pm- |
Adam Meyers |
|
Heng Ji |
|
April |
215pm- |
Prashant Parikh |
|
Heng Ji |
|
April |
215pm- |
Andrew Rosenberg |
|
- |
|
May |
1pm- |
Min-Hsuan Tsai |
|
Heng Ji |
|
May |
2pm- |
Guojun Qi |
|
Heng Ji |
|
June |
2pm- |
Asad Sayeed |
|
Heng Ji |
Fall 2010 Schedule
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Title, Abstract, Bio |
Host |
|
Oct |
2pm- |
Suzanne Tamang |
Adding Smarter Systems instead of Human Annotators: A Combined Approach to Slot Filling |
Heng Ji |
|
Oct |
230pm- |
Adam Lee |
Enhancing Multi-lingual Information Extraction via Cross-Media Inference and Fusion |
Heng Ji |
|
Oct |
2pm- |
Martin Jansche |
Automatic Transliteration of Proper Names: Practice and Experience |
Andrew Rosenberg |
|
Oct |
2pm- |
Joel Tetreault |
The Ins and Outs of ESL Preposition Error Detection |
Matt Huenerfauth |
|
Nov |
2pm- |
Dan Bikel |
Language Technology Research at Google |
Heng Ji |
|
Dec |
2pm- |
Fadi Biadsy |
Accent and Dialect Recognition |
Andrew Rosenberg |
Summer 2010 Schedule
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Title, Abstract, Slides |
Location |
|
Aug |
Noon- |
Javier Artiles |
Web People Search |
Queens College, Science Building, Room A135 |
Spring 2010 Schedule
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Title, Abstract, Slides |
Host |
|
Feb |
1245pm- |
Zheng Chen |
Can One Language Bootstrap the Other: A Case Study on Event Extraction |
Matt Huenerfauth |
|
March |
1245pm- |
Lijun Feng |
Automatic Readability Assessment |
Matt Huenerfauth |
|
March |
1245pm- |
Paul Tepper |
Modeling Iconic Gesture Generation in Humans and Virtual Humans |
Matt Huenerfauth |
|
March |
1245pm- |
Nitin Madnani |
The Circle of Meaning: From Translation to Paraphrasing and Back |
Heng Ji |
|
April |
1245pm- |
Sameer Maskey |
Power Mean Based Algorithm for Combining Alignments in Speech-to-Speech Translation |
Andrew Rosenberg |
|
April |
1245pm- |
Satoshi Sekine |
On-Demand Information Extraction and Knowledge Discovery |
Heng Ji |
May 7 |
1245pm- |
Matt Snover |
Selective Translation-Model Adaptation: Learning Translation Rules from Monolingual Text |
Heng Ji |
Fall 2009 Schedule
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Title, Abstract, Slides |
Host |
|
Sept |
2pm- |
Shubin Zhao |
Heng Ji |
|
Oct |
12:45pm- |
Amit Bagga |
Introduction to Cross-Document Coreference |
Heng Ji |
Oct |
2pm- |
Sam Brody |
Unsupervised Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation |
Matt Huenerfauth |
Oct |
12:45pm- |
Andrew Rosenberg |
Expectation Maximization Tutorial |
|
Oct |
2pm- |
Fei Huang |
Confidence Measure for Word Alignment |
Heng Ji |
Oct |
2pm- |
Ralph Grishman |
Extracting Events and Active Learning of Event Detection Patterns |
Heng Ji |
Nov |
2pm- |
Jose Iria |
Machine Learning Approaches to Text and Multimedia Mining |
Heng Ji |
Nov |
2pm- |
Raul Fernandez |
Expressive Text-to-Speech Synthesis: State-of-the-art and Challenges |
Andrew Rosenberg |
Dec |
2pm- |
Matt Huenerfauth (CUNY) |
A Motion-Capture Corpus of American Sign Language for Generation Research |
Andrew Rosenberg |