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Opening Remarks Hal Daumé III and Yee Whye Teh
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| 07:40 - 08:10 | |
Invited Talk: Using Statistics in Lexical Analysis: Where have we been and where are we going? Kenneth Church (Microsoft Research)
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Abstract
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| 08:10 - 08:30 | |
Learning word similarity using hierarchical knowledge David Vickrey (Stanford University)
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| 08:30 - 08:50 | |
A Bayesian network for the resolution of non-anaphoric pronoun it Davy Weissenbacher (Universite Paris-Nord)
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| 08:50 - 09:00 | |
Break
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | |
Invited Talk: Bayesian Topic Models Tom Griffiths (Brown University)
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Abstract
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| 09:30 - 09:50 | |
Topic modeling: beyond bag-of-words Hanna Wallach (University of Cambridge)
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| 09:50 - 10:30 | |
Paneled Discussion Kenneth Church, Tom Griffiths, Jeff Bilmes, Andrew McCallum and Sam Roweis
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Topics TBD.
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Afternoon Session |
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| 15:30 - 15:50 | |
A Bayesian interpretation of interpolated Kneser-Ney Yee Whye Teh (National University of Singapore)
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| 15:50 - 16:10 | |
Using edge-reinforced random walks on graphs to model text Peter Sunehag (NICTA/ANU Canberra)
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| 16:10 - 16:40 | |
Round Table Discussion
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Topics TBD.
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| 16:40 - 16:50 | |
Break
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| 16:50 - 17:20 | |
Invited Talk: CRFs and Joint Inference in NLP Andrew McCallum (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
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Abstract
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| 17:20 - 17:40 | |
Integrating trigram, PCFG and LDA for language modeling via directed Markov random fields Shaojun Wang (University of Alberta)
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| 17:40 - 18:25 | |
Paneled Discussion Kenneth Church, Tom Griffiths, Jeff Bilmes, Andrew McCallum and Sam Roweis
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Topics: Interesting avenues for future research.
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| 18:25 - 18:30 | |
Closing Remarks Hal Daumé III and Yee Whye Teh
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