Clippers: A computational linguistics discussion group (Meurers, 795Y, Autumn 2004)

Clippers is our forum for informal discussion of all issues related to computational linguistics: from work in progress of visitors and people in the department, over presentation of new papers, to practical concerns such as hints on the use of CL related software tools.

Everyone with an interest in computational linguistics is most welcome!

To see what happened in previous quarters of Clippers, you can check out the pages of some previous quarters: Autumn 03, Spring 03, Winter 03, Autumn 02, Spring 02, Autumn 01

When and where:Tuesdays at 17³⁰-18⁴⁸ in 340 Central Classrooms.

Important: Please be sure to subscribe to our local computational linguistics mailing list on which all Clippers sessions and talks are announced.

The plan, as usual, is to start each session with 5-10 minutes on whatever someone wants to bring up and then to continue with the following topics:

1. Tue, 28. Sept.: Organization
2. Tue, 5. Oct.: What we did this summer (Conferences, Workshops, Internships, ...) and organizing MCLC 2005.
   • Chris Brew on Talking to Librarians
   • Crystal Nakatsu on Working for NASA
   • Eric Fosler-Lussier and Detmar Meurers on MCLC 2004 and organizing 2005
3. Tue, 12. Oct.: Ilana Bromberg on Systematicity in the Arabic Lexicon
4. Tue, 19. Oct.: Donna Byron on An overview of annotation tools and experiences using them
5. Tue, 26. Oct.:
   • Laura Stoia and Kirk Baker on Predicting of discourse structure
   • Sun-Hee Lee on Annotations for Zero Anaphor Resolution in Korean Using Penn Korean Treebank
6. Tue, 2. Nov.: No meeting (the talk by Markus Dickinson on Error correction in annotated corpora will be held next quarter)
7. Tue, 9. Nov.: Xiaofei Lu on Hybrid models for POS guessing of Chinese unknown words
8. Tue, 16. Nov.: Mike Daniels on Parsing with Linearization-Based HPSG Grammars
9. Tue, 23. Nov.:
   • Eric Fosler-Lussier on Towards a new paradigm for Automatic Speech Recognition
   • Anton Rytting on Unusual Phone Durations as a cue to Misrecognized Speech
10. Tue, 30. Nov.:
    • Donna Byron on Understanding referring expressions in situated language
    • Adriane Boyd and Whitney Gegg-Harrison on Identifying non-referring it