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The Centre for Language Technology holds weekly discussion seminars with speakers drawn from amongst the group members and visiting researchers. The following lists details the titles and speakers for recent seminars. Email notices of the seminars are sent on Thursdays. Enquiries regarding these seminars can be addressed to Stephen Wan (swan at ics.mq.edu.au).

LTG seminars in 2004

  • Jan 26th: No Seminar (Australia Day)
  • Feb 2nd: Stephen Wan, "Trip Report: Visit to Columbia University" and "Summarisation of Email Discussion Threads"
  • Feb 9: Diego Molla, "MerQuery Revisited"
  • Feb 16: Vanessa Long (Table Extraction: First Steps towards Information Extraction from the World Wide Web)
  • Feb 23: Jean-Phillippe Prost (Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles)
  • March 1: Robert Dale (Structures for Supporting Your Research)
  • March 8: Jay Cai (Signal Segregation for Speech Recognition)
  • March 15: Steve Cassidy (The NIST Rich Transcription Meeting Recognition Evaluation)
  • March 22: Stephen Choularton (Handling Speech Recognition Errors in Spoken Language Dialogue Systems)
  • March 29: Lei Li (Cross-document Co-reference of Company Names)
  • April 5: Mark Dras (Automatic Paraphrase Acquisition)
  • April 12: no meeting - Easter
  • April 19: Robert Dale (What's in a Name?)
  • April 26: Anzac Day Public Holiday
  • May 3: Josef Meyer (title to be announced)
  • May 10: Jean-Philippe Prost (Gradience in Grammar)
  • May 17: SALS-SIG
  • May 24: Marc Tilbrook (Dynamic Semantics at Work)
  • May 31: Mary Gardiner (Answerfinder: TREC 2003 and 2004)
  • June 7: CLT Honours Students Presentations (Hogan Ho, Jason Barles, James Ballantine)
  • June 14: Queen's Birthday Public Holiday
  • June 21: Stephen Wan (Probabilistic Text Structure)
  • June 28: Diego Molla (Answer me exactly)
  • July 5: Steve Cassidy (Support Vector Machine Classifiers for Speaker Identification)
  • July 12: Stephen Choularton (Towards a Theory of Error Recognition and Repair)
  • July 19: Robert Dale (The Generation of Referring Expressions: A Review)
  • July 26: Rolf Schwitter (Back from OSP: An Account of a Journey)
  • Aug 2: Vanessa Long (Table Detection)
  • Aug 9: Nicolas Szilas (Text and Dialog Management in Interactive Drama: The Case of IDtension)
  • Aug 16: Bernd Bohnet (Using a Graph Grammar for NLG)
  • Aug 23: Luiz Pizzato (Learning Question Patterns for Question Analysis)
  • Aug 30: Diego Molla (Graph-based Question Answering)
  • Sept 2: Alister Knott (Syntactic structures as traces of sensorimotor event representations)
  • Sept 6: Hugo de Vries (The MediaRank Project)
  • Sept 13: Steve Cassidy (The Semantic Web)
  • Sept 20: Mark Dras (Non-Contiguous Tree Parsing)
  • Sept 27: Stephen Wan (Papers at ACL/COLING 2004 on Sentence Alignment for Paraphrase Research)
  • Oct 4: Labour Day (NSW)
  • Oct 11: Robert Dale (Talking to Machines)
  • Oct 18: Simon Zwarts (Case Based Reasoning in Dependency-based Machine Translation)
  • Oct 25: Jean-Philippe Prost (title to be announced)
  • Nov 1: Stephen Coularton (A Theory of Error Recognition and Repair) & Luiz Pizzato (World Wide Web Question Answering) & Stephen Wan (A Statistical Account of Coherence and Verisimilitude in Summarization)
  • Nov 8: Annual Postgraduate (Research) Mini-conference
  • Nov 15: James Curran (title to be announced)
  • Nov 22: Ying Guo (Support Vector Machines)
  • Nov 29: Stephen Choularton (User Responses to Speech Recognition Errors: Consistency of Behaviour Across Domains) & Bernd Bohnet (Referring Expression Generation as a Search Problem) & Rolf Schwitter (Controlled Natrual Language meets the Semantic Web)
  • Dec 6: ALTA 2004 Summer School
  • Dec 13: Menno van Zaanen (How to get from A to ABL)
  • Dec 20: Tanja Gaustad van Zaanen (Linguistic Knowledge and Word Sense Disambiguation)

Past LTG seminars