| Speaker | Date | Title |
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| Anna Jordanous | December 15th, 2009 at 2pm (NB this is a Tuesday) | Defining Creativity: Finding Keywords for Creativity Using Corpus Linguistics Techniques |
| Bilal Khaliq | November 19th, 2009 | Particle Language Modelling for Arabic Speech Recognition |
| Taras Zagibalov | October 29th, 2009 **at 3.00pm** | Multilingual Opinion Holder and Target Extraction using Knowledge-Poor Techniques |
| Chris Thornton | October 15th, 2009 | Music-making with Hierarchical Markov Models |
| Tim Baldwin | July 15th, 2009 | To Search, Perchance to Find: Enhanced Information Access over Troubleshooting-oriented Web User Forum Data |
| Eva Banik | July 2nd, 2009 | Extending a Surface Realizer to Generate Coherent Discourse |
| Musa Alkhalifa | June 11th, 2009 | Building a WordNet for Arabic: Methodology and Challenges |
| David Weir | May 21st, 2009 | Optimal Reduction of Rule Length in Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems |
| Diana McCarthy | May 14th, 2009 | Alternative Annotations of Word Usage |
| Sivaji Bandyopadhyay | May 7th, 2009 | Question Generation using VerbNet |
| Rob Koeling | April 23rd, 2009 | Finding Paraphrases for Dialogue Utterances Using a Multilingual Parallel Movie Subtitle Corpus |
| Rob Gaizauskas | April 21st, 2009 | Mining Information from Clinical Records: Information Extraction in the CLEF Project |
| Stephen Clark | March 19th, 2009 | Parser Adaptation and Evaluation |
| Eric Kow | March 12th, 2009 | System Building Cost vs. Output Quality in Data-To-Text Generation |
| Benat Zapirain | December 11th, 2008 | An introduction to Semantic Role Labeling |
| Taras Zagibalov | December 9th, 2008 | Almost-Unsupervised Cross-Language Opinion Analysis at NTCIR-7 |
| Theresa Wilson | November 6th, 2008 | Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis in Text and Multi-Party Conversation |
| Joakim Nivre | October 2nd, 2008 | Sorting Out Dependency Parsing |
| Sanaz Jabbari | September 18th, 2008 | A Probabilistic Model of Word Usage Applied to the Lexical Substitution Task |
| Mona Diab | August 26th, 2008 | Arabic Semantic Role Labeling Using Kernel Methods |
| Taras Zagibalov | July 31st, 2008 | Automatic Seed Word Selection for Unsupervised Sentiment Classification of Chinese Text |
| David Hardcastle | June 5th, 2008 | Inferring Semantic Collocates From Corpora |
| Carlos Gomez | May 22nd, 2008 | A Deductive Approach to Dependency Parsing |
| Montse Cuadros | May 1st, 2008 | KnowNet: Building a Large Net of Knowledge from the Web |
| Adam Kilgarriff | April 24th, 2008 | Semi-automatic Dictionary Drafting, Good Dictionary Examples, Evaluating Word Sketches: Some Recent Developments in the Sketch Engine |
| David Milward | February 7th, 2008 | Finding Facts and Relationships from Life Science Literature |
| Khalil Simaan | January 17th, 2008 | Unsupervised Bidirectional Estimation for Noisy-Channel Models |
| Eric Kow | January 10th, 2008 | Surface Realisation: Ambiguity and Determinism |
| Christian Pietsch | December 13th, 2007 (postponed) | Recognising Textual Entailment and Paraphrases |
| Taras Zagibalov | November 29th, 2007 | Unsupervised Classification of Sentiment and Objectivity in Chinese Text |
| Massimiliano Ciaramita | November 22nd, 2007 | Domain Adaptation in Named Entity Recognition |
| Carlos Gomez | October 11th, 2007 | Prototyping Parsers by Compiling Parsing Schemata |
| Chris Biemann | September 5th, 2007 | Unsupervised and Knowledge-Free Natural Language Processing in the Structural Discovery Paradigm |
| Jonathon Read | June 21st, 2007 | Annotating Expressions of Appraisal in English |
| Ryu Iida | June 14th, 2007 | Combining Linguistic Knowledge and Machine Learning for Anaphora Resolution |
| Anja Belz | June 12th, 2007 | ENLG 07 Practise Talks |
| Ben Medlock | May 31st, 2007 | Weakly Supervised Learning for Hedge Classification in Scientific Literature |
| Diana McCarthy | May 21st, 2007 | Evaluating Automatic Approaches for Word Meaning Discovery and Disambigation using Lexical Substitution |
| Rada Mihalcea | May 17th, 2007 | Measures of Text Semantic Similarity |
| Mark Rogers | April 26th, 2007 | Technology for Blog and Web Monitoring Services |
| Diana McCarthy | April 17th, 2006 | Using Selectional Preferences to Detect Non-Compositionality of Verb-Object Combinations |
| Rob Koeling | February 15th, 2007 | Text Categorization for Improved Priors of Word Meaning |
| Francis Chantree | February 1st, 2007 | Nocuous Ambiguities in Requirements Specifications |
| Craig McMillan | January 11th, 2007 | Language Processing and Social Network Analysis in SONAR, an Enterprise Information Management Application |
| Xinglong Wang | December 7th, 2006 | Rule-based Protein Term Identification with Help from Automatic Species Tagging |
| Roberto Navigli | November 30th, 2006 | Dealing with the Complexities of Sense Granularity: Fine-grained Validation and Sense Clustering |
| Serge Sharoff | November 10th, 2006 | "Irrefragable Answers" to Translation Problems: Researching and Teaching Translation using Comparable Corpora |
| Alex Clark | November 2nd, 2006 | Languages as Hyperplanes: Grammatical Inference with String Kernels |
| Diana McCarthy | October 26th, 2006 | Automatic Methods for Detecting the Compositionality of Multiwords |
| Chris Mellish | September 21st, 2006 | Natural Language Directed Inference in the Presentation of Ontologies |
| Jonathon Read and David Hope | June 22nd, 2006 | An Appraisal Of Appraisal Theory |
| Daoud Clarke | June 8th, 2006 | Meanings Live in a Vector Lattice; Words are Positive Operators |
| Sabine Schulte im Walde | May 18th, 2006 | Can Human Verb Associations Help Identify Salient Features for Semantic Verb Classes? |
| Sabine Buchholz | May 12th, 2006 | The CoNLL-X Shared Task on Multi-lingual Dependency Parsing |
| Klara Chvatalova | April 27th, 2006 | Syntactic-Semantic Analysis of Selected Prepositional Groups |
| Roberto Navigli | March 9th, 2006 | Structural Semantic Interconnections: a Knowledge-Based Approach to WSD |
| Mirella Lapata | January 19th, 2006 | Constructing Semantic Space Models from Parsed Corpora |
| Adam Kilgarriff | December 15th, 2005 | Computational Corpus-driven Linguistics: a Research Programme |
| Gerold Schneider | November 10th, 2005 | Low-complexity, Deep-linguistic Parsing |
| Muntsa Padro | October 13th, 2005 | Applying Causal-State Splitting Reconstruction Algorithm to Natural Language Processing Tasks |
| Rob Koeling | September 30th, 2005 | Domain-Specific Sense Distributions and Predominant Sense Acquisition |
| Rebecca Watson | September 29th, 2005 | Efficient Extraction of Grammatical Relations |
| Yuji Matsumoto | July 19th, 2005 | Machine Learning-based Language Analyzers and Corpus Management Tools |
| David Martinez | July 8th, 2005 | All-words WSD: Knowledge Acquisition Bottleneck and Effect of Domain |
| Jonathon Read | May 26th, 2005 | The Co-occurrence Retrieval Framework applied to Text Classification |
| - | June 20th, 2006 | ACL Conference/Workshop Practice Talks |
| Diana McCarthy | June 23rd, 2005 | Relating WordNet Senses for Word Sense Disambiguation |
| Ido Dagan | April 14th, 2005 | Unsupervised Learning of Textual Entailment Relations |
| David Weir | March 17th, 2005 | Staying in Control of your Pervasive Computing Environment |
| Alex Clark | February 17th, 2005 | Learning Some Deterministic Context Free Languages: Theory and Practice |
| Stephan Oepen | November 30th, 2004 | Grammar-Based Generation for High-Quality MT |
| Henry Li | November 25th, 2004 | Text Planning for Intelligent Gaming Agents |
| James Henderson | November 18th, 2004 | Neural Network Probability Estimation for Broad Coverage Parsing |
| Jonathon Read | November 11th, 2004 | Recognising Affect in Text using Pointwise Mutual Information |
| Nick Jakobi | November 4th, 2004 | Corpora Software -- 'What do you need to know?' |
| James Curran | August 12th, 2004 | From Distributional to Semantic Similarity |
| James McCracken | June 10th, 2004 | Rebuilding the Oxford Dictionary of English as a Semantic Network |
| Bill Teahan | June 3rd, 2004 | Text Mining using Compression-based Language Models |
| James Dowdall | May 20th, 2004 | Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Terminology but Were Afraid to Ask! |
| Paola Merlo | May 6th, 2004 | Issues in Multilingual Automatic Verb Classification |
| Toshihiro Wakita | March 19th, 2004 | Research in Speech and Language Processing at Toyota |
| Kentaro Inui | February 26th, 2004 | Paraphrases: Generation for Text Simplification and Recognition for Question Answering |
| Takaki Makino | February 19th, 2004 | In Addition To Syntax: Theoretical Exploration of Neural Mechanism for Language |
| Olivier Jouve, Tom Khabaza and Rick Adderley | February 12th, 2004 | Text Mining in Predictive Analytics: the Technology and its Applications |
| Xinglong Wang | January 29th, 2004 | Automatic Acquisition of English Topic Signatures Based on a Second Language |
| Eva Esteve Ferrer | January 15th, 2004 | Automatic Classification of Spanish Verbs based on Subcategorization Information |
| John Campbell | November 27th, 2003 | Acquisition of Ontologies in Multi-Agent Computing |
| Julie Weeds | November 20th, 2003 | A General Framework for Distributional Similarity |
| Rob Koeling | November 13th, 2003 | Named Entity Recognition |
| Francis Real | November 6th, 2003 | Acquisition of Semantic Patterns Using the Relax Algorithm for Disambiguation |
| Naoki Yoshinaga | October 23rd, 2003 | Parsing Comparison Between LTAG and HPSG Using Strongly Equivalent Grammars |
| Stephen Clark | October 16th, 2003 | Parsing the WSJ using CCG and Log-linear Models |
| Mary McGee-Wood | September 25th, 2003 | 'Mixed Initiative' in Cancer Care Dialogues |
| David Milward | June 5th, 2003 | Ontology-based Dialogue Systems |
| Mark McLauchlan | May 29th, 2003 | Building a Parsing Model Using Semi-supervised Data |
| Lynne Murphy | May 22nd, 2003 | Synonymy, Lexical Representation and Psycholinguistic Reality |
| Alex Clark | May 15th, 2003 | Pre-processing Very Noisy Text |
| Ewan Klein | March 20th, 2003 | Conversations with a Mobile Robot |
| Rob Gaizauskas | March 13th, 2003 | Question Answering: Where Do We Go from Here? |
| Katya Markert | February 20th, 2003 | MASCARA: A Machine Learning Approach to Metonymy Understanding |
| Denis Johnston | January 30th, 2003 | Speech and NLP: Back to the Future |
| Nicola Yuill | January 23rd, 2003 | Riddles and Reading: Using Language Ambiguity in Riddles to Investigate Children's Problems in Text Comprehension |
| Gerald Gazdar | December 12th, 2002 | XSDL for NLP (walking in the footprints of Dr.T.) |
| Adam Kilgarriff | December 5th, 2002 | Web as Corpus: Introduction and Survey |
| Maria Lapata | December 5th, 2002 | Using the Web to Overcome Data Sparseness |
| Phil Edmonds | November 21st, 2002 | Synonymy, Similarity, and Relatedness |
| Julie Weeds | November 14th, 2002 | A Comparison of Lin's Similarity Measure and Lee's Alpha-Skew Divergence Measure |
| Aline Villavicencio | November 6th, 2002 | Verb-particle Constructions in a Computational Grammar of English |
| Yuval Krymolowski | June 13th, 2002 | Using Training Samples for Error Analysis |
| Julie Weeds | June 6th, 2002 | Smoothing Using Nearest Neighbours |
| Michael Zock | May 24th, 2002 | Electronic Dictionaries for Men, Machines or for Both? |
| John Carroll | May 9th, 2002 | Proposed Work in the MEANING and DEEP THOUGHT Projects |
| Stephan Oepen | May 1st, 2002 | LinGO Redwoods: A Rich and Dynamic Treebank for HPSG |
| Stephen Clark | March 14th, 2002 | Wide-coverage Statistical Parsing using Combinatory Categorial Grammar |
| Rudi Lutz | March 7th, 2002 | Learning Hidden Markov Models Using Penalised EM |
| Gertjan van Noord | February 21st, 2002 | Disambiguation and Efficiency in Wide-coverage Computational Analysis of Dutch |
| Raphael Salkie | February 7th, 2002 | Working with a Translation Corpus |
| Walter Daelemans | January 17th, 2002 | Limitations of Current Methodology in Machine Learning of Natural Language |
| Caroline Lyon | December 6th, 2001 | A Statistical Method of Fingerprinting Text |
| Bill Keller | November 22nd, 2001 | Web of Words |
| Judita Preiss | November 20th, 2001 | A Detailed Comparison of WSD Systems: An Analysis of the System Answers for the SENSEVAL-2 English All Words Task |
| Adam Kilgarriff | November 15th, 2001 | Lexicographers for Word Sense Disambiguation and Vice Versa |
| Mark McLauchlan | November 8th, 2001 | More Maximum Entropy Models for Prepositional Phrase Attachment |
| John Carroll | October 10th, 2001 | High Precision Extraction of Grammatical Relations |
| John Carroll | September 18th, 2001 | Statistical Natural Language Processing in COGS |
| Geoffrey K. Pullum and Barbara C. Scholz | July 19th, 2001 | Separating Model-theoretic Syntax from Generative Syntax |
| Gerald Gazdar | June 28th, 2001 | Applicability of Indexed Grammars to Natural Languages: The Missing Section on Kayardild |
| Steve Whittaker | June 7th, 2001 | ContactMap: Using Social Networks to Support Communication Management |
| Geoffrey Sampson | May 31st, 2001 | Structural Data on the Acquisition of Writing Skills |
| Ann Copestake | May 24th, 2001 | Multi-word Expressions |
| Stephen Clark | May 10th, 2001 | Class-Based Probability Estimation using a Semantic Hierarchy |
| Darren Pearce | April 26th, 2001 | Social Butterflies, Dark Horses and Busy Bees: Collocation Extraction using Lexical Substitution Tests |
| Tony McEnery | March 15th, 2001 | EMILLE: Building a corpus of South Asian languages |
| Miles Osborne | March 1st, 2001 | Just how good is maximum entropy? An empirical investigation using ensembles of MEMD models for attribute-value grammars |
| John Carroll | January 15th, 2001 | Simplifying Texts for Aphasic Readers |
| Mats Rooth | January 4th, 2001 | Governor Markup in Parse Forests |
| Ted Briscoe | December 8th, 2000 | An Evolutionary Approach to (Logistic-like) Language Change |
| Zoe Lock | December 7th, 2000 | Induction and Evaluation of Semantic Networks Using Inductive Logic Programming |
| Alexander Clark | December 1st, 2000 | Pair Hidden Markov Models and Morphology Acquisition |
| Harald Baayen | November 16th, 2000 | Applied Word Frequency Statistics: Morphological Mixtures, Year Distributions, and Emerging Vogue-affixes |
| Julie Weeds | November 2nd, 2000 | Semi-Automatic Extraction of a Semantic Hierarchy from a Machine Readable Dictionary for Use in Word Sense Disambiguation Tasks |
| Roger Evans and Gerald Gazdar | October 26th, 2000 | DATR II -- New Wine in an Old Bottle |
| Anne de Roeck | October 12th, 2000 | Morphologically Sensitive Clustering for Identifying Arabic Roots |
| Adam Kilgarriff | July 6th, 2000 | English senseval: Results from senseval-1, Design Decisions for senseval-2 |
| Abdelhadi Soudi | June 8th, 2000 | Arabic Morphology Generation Using a Concatenative Strategy |
| Rob Malouf | June 2nd, 2000 | The Order of Prenominal Adjectives in Natural Language Generation |
| Diana McCarthy | April 13th, 2000 | Using Semantic Preferences to Identify Verbal Participation in Role Switching Alternations |
| David Tugwell | March 16th, 2000 | Against Syntactic Structure |
| Alexander Clark | March 9th, 2000 | Syntactic Categories: Induction by Distributional Clustering |
| Antoinette Renouf | March 2nd, 2000 | Detecting Meaning and Change in the Language |
| Rens Bod | January 27th, 2000 | |
| Stephen Clark | December 9th, 1999 | A Class-based Probabilistic Approach to Structural Disambiguation |
| Rudi Lutz | November 4th, 1999 | An Evolutionary Approach to Learning Stochastic Context-Free Grammars, and a Comparison with the Inside/Outside Algorithm |
| Suresh Manandhar | October 7th, 1999 | Morphology Learning using ILP |
| Stephan Oepen | July 15th, 1999 | Towards Systematic Competence and Performance Profiling |
| Christy Doran | June 14th, 1999 | Evolution of the XTAG English Grammar |
| John Carroll | June 3rd, 1999 | Parsing with an Extended Domain of Locality |
| Geoff Sampson | May 27th, 1999 | Extending Grammar Annotation Standards to Spontaneous Speech |
| Stephen Clark | May 20th, 1999 | An Iterative Approach to Estimating Frequencies over a Semantic Hierarchy |
| Patrice Lopez | May 13th, 1999 | Connection Driven Parsing for LTAG: Interest and Application |
| Richard Power | December 10th, 1998 | Knowledge Editing for Natural Language Generation |
| Jamie Henderson | November 19th, 1998 | Learning Syntactic Parsing with Simple Synchrony Networks |
| Geoff Sampson | November 17th, 1998 | Demographic Correlates of Complexity in British Speech |
| Jim Blevins | November 5th, 1998 | Constituent Sharing in Nonconstituent Coordination |
| Gerald Gazdar | October 22nd, 1998 | The Fractal Lexicon |
| Geoffrey Nunberg | October 7th, 1998 | Does Cyberspace have Boundaries? |
| Dafydd Gibbon | September 21st, 1998 | Prosodic Inheritance and Phonetic Interpretation: Lexical Tone |
| Anja Belz | May 21st, 1998 | Learning Phonotactic Constraints with a Genetic Algorithm |
| Thorsten Gerdsmeier | April 30th, 1998 | Semantics for DATR |
| Mary McGee-Wood | March 6th, 1998 | Redundancy Rules in Categorial Grammar: Theory and Practice |
| Guido Minnen | February 12th, 1998 | A Computational Treatment of HPSG Lexical Rules as Systematic Covariation in Lexical Entries |
| David Elworthy | February 5th, 1998 | CRE's Analyser: A Parser for Dependency Grammars |
| John Carroll | January 29th, 1998 | PSET - Practical Simplification of English Newspaper Text for Aphasic Readers |
| Mark Stevenson | January 15th, 1998 | Multiple Knowledge Sources for Sense Tagging |
| Roger Evans and David Weir | December 12th, 1997 | Automaton-based Parsing for Lexicalised Tree Adjoining Grammars - More Developments |
| Shimon Edelman | December 11th, 1997 | Similarity-based Word Sense Disambiguation |
| Henry Thompson | October 30th, 1997 | DTDs, Schemata and Object-Oriented Document Grammar: Bringing SGML into the 20th century |
| John Carroll and David Weir | October 17th, 1997 | Encoding Frequency Information in Lexicalized Grammars |
| Anja Belz | October 9th, 1997 | Learning Phonological and Morphological Regularities with Neural Network Techniques |
| Guido Minnen | August 18th, 1997 | Goal-directed Bottom-up HPSG Parsing using Magic |
| K. Vijay-Shanker | July 15th, 1997 | Using Domination Statements in TAG Parsing |
| Gabriel Illouz | June 19th, 1997 | Lexical Analysis of a Chronological Corpus |
| Robert Gaizauskas | June 6th, 1997 | Acquiring Grammars from the Penn Treebank |
| Ruth Kempson and Wilfred Meyer Viol | May 22nd, 1997 | Parsing as Tree Construction in LDS |
| John Coleman | May 15th, 1997 | Stochastic Phonological Parsing and Acceptibility |
| Nicolas Nicolov | March 13th, 1997 | Approximate Chart Generation from Non-Hierarchical Representations |
| Geoffrey Sampson | March 6th, 1997 | Yngve's Depth Hypothesis Revisited: An Informal Seminar |
| Gerald Gazdar | February 27th, 1997 | Intermediate DATR: A Tutorial Seminar |
| Diana McCarthy | February 20th, 1997 | Acquiring Selectional Preferences from Corpora using the WordNet Thesaurus |
| Ruslan Mitkov | February 13th, 1997 | Attacking Anaphora on all Fronts |
| Martine Smets | December 12th, 1996 | A Morphological Account of French Clitics |
| Sue Atkins | November 14th, 1996 | Bilingual Dictionaries: Past, Present and Future |
| Bonnie Webber | November 12th, 1996 | Planning and Plan Recognition in Support of Multiple Trauma Management |
| Ann Copestake | November 5th, 1996 | Applying Natural Language Processing Techniques to Speech Prostheses |
| Christof Rumpf | October 10th, 1996 | Aspectual Composition and Nonmonotonicity |
