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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 Marc Tilbrook (marct at ics.mq.edu.au).

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LTG seminars in 2007

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

  • Jan 15: Martin Volk (Cross-Language Information Retrieval, Parallel Treebanks and Machine Translation)
  • Jan 22: Jean-Philippe Prost (Constraint Chart Parsing)
  • Jan 29: Robert Dale (Strategies for Doing Research)
  • Feb 05: Maria Milosavljevic (What I did in Edinburgh)
  • Feb 12: Steve Cassidy (Web 2.0 vs. NLP: opportunity or threat)
  • Feb 19: FAST Search and Indexing Demo
  • Feb 26: Scott Nowson (A Tale of Two Talks - Classifying Personality in Weblogs and Summarising Company News)
  • Mar 05: Stephen Wan (Memoirs of a PhD... and stuff...)
  • Mar 12: Rolf Schwitter ( . . . - - - . . .)
  • Mar 19: Lonneke van der Plas (Automatic Lexical Acquisition for Question Answering)
  • Mar 26: Alexandre Rafalovitch (UN documents: Computational Linguistics approach)
  • Apr 02: Joerg Tiedemann (A Genetic Algorithm for Optimizing IR for Question Answering)
  • Apr 09: Easter Monday
  • Apr 16: Mary Gardiner (Filling in the gaps one gap at a time)
  • Apr 23: Brett Powley (Extracting citations from academic papers: finding them is only half the job)
  • Apr 30: Mark Dras (Ngaju karna wangkami: Some Plans for Warlpiri Language Technology)
  • May 07: PhD Student Discussion
  • May 14: Rolf Schwitter (Web-Annotations for Humans and Machines) and Menno van Zaanen (Complex search and some other problems)
  • May 21: Elena Akhmatova (Entailment: Divide and Conquer)
  • May 28: Jette Viethen (Capturing Acceptable Variation in Distinguishing Descriptions - and where am I going from here?)
  • Jun 04: PhD Strudent Discussion
  • Jun 11: Queen's Birthday
  • Jun 18: PG Mini-conference
  • Jun 25: Frederic Ehrler (Biological Named Entity Recognition)
  • Jul 02: Markus Weimer (Enhancing Web Forums Through Automatic Quality Assessment)
  • Jul 09: No Meeting
  • Jul 16: No Meeting
  • Jul 23: No Meeting
  • Jul 30: Diego Molla (Entity Recognition for Question Answering)
  • Aug 06: Csaba Veres (The Semantics of Folksonomies: The Meaning in Social Tagging)
  • Aug 13: Toby Hawker (Processing the Web1T Corpus)
  • Aug 20: PhD Student Discussion
  • Aug 27: Robert Dale (The Generation of Referring Expressions: Where We've Been, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going)
  • Sep 03: Rainer Wasinger (Multimodal Interaction with Mobile Devices: Fusing a Broad Spectrum of Modality Combinations)
  • Sep 10: PACLING Practice presentations
  • Sep 17: Robert Dale (Dialogue Behavior Management in Conversational Recommender Systems A PhD thesis by Pontus Wärnestål)
  • Sep 24: Maxim Khalilov (N-gram Based Statistical Machine Translation)
  • Oct 01: Labour Day
  • Oct 08: PhD Student Discussion
  • Oct 15: Simon Zwarts (Selection in MT: Pure Statistical or Syntax Flavoured?)
  • Oct 22: Maria Milosavljevic (LIPIE - a Lightweight Platform for Information Extraction)
  • Oct 29: Steve Cassidy (Putting your Corpora on the (Semantic) Web)
  • Nov 05: PhD Student Discussion
  • Nov 12: Discussion about Grants
  • Nov 19: Andrew Lampert (Inbox 2.0: Enhancing the Email Experience)
  • Nov 26: Rafael Calvo (Introducing WEG)
  • Dec 03: ALTA Practice Presentations

Past LTG seminars

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