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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 Rolf Schwitter (schwitt at ics.mq.edu.au).

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LTG seminars in 2005

Seminars usually take place on Mondays at 11am in Building E6A, room 357

  • Jan 17: Elena Akhmatova (Text-based Natural Language Question Answering)
  • Jan 24: Robert Dale (Structures for Supporting Your Research)
  • Jan 31: Diego Molla (The Centre for Language Technology and DUC 2005)
  • Feb 07: Harold Somers (Using language technology to help patients with limited English)
  • Feb 14: Hugo de Vries (The Deutsche Welle/WDR Audio Mining Project)
  • Feb 21: Marc Tilbrook and Rolf Schwitter (PENG: Some Theory and some Practice)
  • Feb 28: Steve Cassidy (What's He Building in there ...)
  • Mar 07: Walther v.Hahn (Merging Lexicons - the MANAGELEX Project)
  • Mar 14: Cristina Vertan (Retrieving multilingual Information from the Semantic Web)
  • Mar 21: Mark Dras (A Mildly Context-Sensitive Tree Automaton)
  • Mar 28: EASTER MONDAY
  • Apr 04: Jean-Philippe Prost ((Working) draft specifications for a constructional approach to gradience)
  • Apr 11: Vanessa Long (Table Line Identification from the Machine Learning Perspectives)
  • Apr 18: Simon Zwarts (Evaluation Techniques for Machine Translation)
  • Apr 25: ANZAC DAY
  • May 02: Brett Powley (NLP Approaches to Bibliographic Data Processing)
  • May 09: Stephen Wan (Statistical Sentence Generation with Dependencies, and a Check for Verisimilitude: Two Extensions to the Viterbi algorithm)
  • May 16: Stephen Choularton (Investigating the acoustic sources of speech recognition errors)
  • May 23: Luiz Pizzato (Information Retrieval for Question Answering )
  • May 30: Menno van Zaanen (Implementing Answer Finder)
  • Jun 06: Elena Akhmatova (Recognizing Textual Entailment: after the challenge)
  • Jun 13: QUEEN's BIRTHDAY
  • Jun 20: Vanessa Long (A Model for Detecting and Merging Vertically Spanned Table Cells in Plain Text Documents)
  • Jun 27: Diego Molla (Learning of Graph Patterns for Question Answering)
  • Jul 04: Britta Bidermann (Can the Tip of the Tongue state (ToT) disentangle processes in spoken word retrieval?
  • Jul 11: Robert Dale (Towards a Computational Theory of Reference)
  • Jul 18: Rolf Schwitter (Mathematical Discourse)
  • Jul 25 Mark Dras (Two Research Plans -- Language and Animated Agents; and Generation of Warlpiri)
  • Aug 01 Hugo de Vries (A home-grown Named Entity Recogniser and cohabitating species)
  • Aug 08 Steve Cassidy (Report from MLMI Edinburgh and some thoughts on RDF and Linguistics)
  • Aug 15 Harold Somers (What web-page designers should know about free on-line MT)
  • Aug 22 Brett Powley (Citation Context -- Issues in extracting citations and their context from research papers)
  • Aug 29 Elena Akhmatova (Using WordNet)
  • Sep 05 Menno van Zaanen and Harold Somers (DEMOCRAT: Deciding between Multiple Outputs Created by Automatic Translation)
  • Sep 12 Luiz Pizzato (Sentence Classification and Relevance Feedback for QA)
  • Sep 19 Pawel Mazur (Disambiguating Conjunctions in Named Entities)
  • Sep 26 Nicolas Szilas and Tarashankar Rudra (Interpreting the user input in games and interactive drama)
  • Oct 03 LABOUR DAY
  • Oct 10 David Powers (Biologically-Motivated Machine Learning of Natural Language and Ontology - A Computational Cognitive Model)
  • Oct 17 Mostafa Asaduzzaman (What I have done in the past and what I would like to do now)
  • Oct 24 Jim Yaghi (Systematic Verb Generation for Arabic)
  • Oct 31 Jean-Philippe Prost (Fuzzy Parsing for Modelling Syntactic Gradience)
  • Nov 07 Vanessa Long (A Multi-level Table Evaluation Method for Plain Text Documents)
  • Nov 14 Simon Zwarts (Transfer based machine translation brought to flavour with some statistical techniques)
  • Nov 21 Stephen Wan (A Trip Report followed by Preliminary Investigations on a Sentence Similarity Metric)
  • Nov 28 Stephen Choularton (Early Stage Detection of Speech Recognition Errors)
  • Dec 05 Robert Dale (Human Communication from the Perspective of Natural Language Processing)

Past LTG seminars

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