Bayesian Methods for Natural Language Processing
Workshop at NIPS 2005
Organizers: Hal Daumé III and Yee Whye Teh

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Schedule (10 December 2005)

Morning Session
 
07:30 - 07:40 Opening Remarks
Hal Daumé III and Yee Whye Teh
 
07:40 - 08:10 Invited Talk:
Using Statistics in Lexical Analysis:
      Where have we been and where are we going?

Kenneth Church (Microsoft Research)
Abstract
 
08:10 - 08:30 Learning word similarity using hierarchical knowledge
David Vickrey (Stanford University)
 
08:30 - 08:50 A Bayesian network for the resolution of non-anaphoric pronoun it
Davy Weissenbacher (Universite Paris-Nord)
 
08:50 - 09:00 Break
 
09:00 - 09:30 Invited Talk:
Bayesian Topic Models

Tom Griffiths (Brown University)
Abstract
 
09:30 - 09:50 Topic modeling: beyond bag-of-words
Hanna Wallach (University of Cambridge)
 
09:50 - 10:30 Paneled Discussion
Kenneth Church, Tom Griffiths, Jeff Bilmes, Andrew McCallum and Sam Roweis
Topics TBD.
 
Afternoon Session
 
15:30 - 15:50 A Bayesian interpretation of interpolated Kneser-Ney
Yee Whye Teh (National University of Singapore)
 
15:50 - 16:10 Using edge-reinforced random walks on graphs to model text
Peter Sunehag (NICTA/ANU Canberra) [paper]
 
16:10 - 16:40 Round Table Discussion
Topics TBD.
 
16:40 - 16:50 Break
 
16:50 - 17:20 Invited Talk:
CRFs and Joint Inference in NLP

Andrew McCallum (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Abstract
 
17:20 - 17:40 Integrating trigram, PCFG and LDA for language modeling
      via directed Markov random fields

Shaojun Wang (University of Alberta)
 
17:40 - 18:25 Paneled Discussion
Kenneth Church, Tom Griffiths, Jeff Bilmes, Andrew McCallum and Sam Roweis
Topics: Interesting avenues for future research.
 
18:25 - 18:30 Closing Remarks
Hal Daumé III and Yee Whye Teh
 

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