April 2015
Research in Machine Translation for Manipuri Language
Post Doc Doren Thoudam will present recent research in developing Machine Translation systems for Manipuri.
Find out more »RiTUAL Group Meeting: Part-of-Speech Tagging using Conditional Random Fields: Exploiting Sub-Label Dependencies for Improved Accuracy
This week Suraj will lead the discussion on this paper: Part-of-Speech Tagging using Conditional Random Fields: Exploiting Sub-Label Dependencies for Improved Accuracy.
Find out more »June 2015
RiTUAL Group meeting: Success with Style
We'll be discussing this paper: Success with Style: Using Style to Predict the Success of Novels
Find out more »Group Meeting: Leveraging Small Multilingual Corpora for SMT Using Many Pivot Languages
Leveraging Small Multilingual Corpora for SMT Using Many Pivot Languages
Find out more »July 2015
RiTUAL Group Meeting: Constraint-Based Models of Lexical Borrowing
We'll be reading this paper next time: Constraint-Based Models of Lexical Borrowing
Find out more »RiTUAL Group Meeting: Crowdsourcing Translation: Professional Quality from Non-Professionals
Paper Reading: Crowd-sourcing Translation: Professional Quality from Non-Professionals
Find out more »October 2015
Syntactic and Semantic Features for Code-Switching Factored Language Models
Heike Adel, Ngoc T. Vu, K. Kirchhoff, D. Telaar, and T. Schultz. 2015. Syntactic and Semantic Features for Code-Switching Factored Language Models. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 23, no. 3, pages 431-440, March. TASLP 2015.
Find out more »February 2016
Ritual Group Meeting : Presentation of System for SemEval 2016 Task 3
UH-PRHLT: Combining Lexical and Semantic-based Features for Community Question Answering
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March 2017
Language for Winning Hearts and Minds: Verb Aspect in U.S. Presidential Campaign Speeches for Engaging Emotion
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4916170/
Find out more »MMToC: A Multimodal Method for Table of Content Creation in Educational Videos
Paper to discuss: MMToC: A Multimodal Method for Table of Content Creation in Educational Videos, by Biswas et al., 2015. 5_2015 Multinomial Model
Find out more »August 2017
Early Detection of Deception and Aggressiveness using Profile-Based Representations
Paper to discuss Aug 4th: Early Detection of Deception and Aggressiveness using Profile-Based Representations. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417417305171
Find out more »UACH-INAOE participation at eRisk2017
Paper to discuss on Aug 18th: UACH-INAOE participation at eRisk2017 Alexis will present the above paper. Alexis is going to be in the group during fall period. He is a Master student from the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (UACH), Mexico. The paper is available here: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1866/paper_136.pdf
Find out more »September 2017
RiTUAL Group Meeting: Domain-Adversarial Neural Networks
The paper for discussion is: Domain-Adversarial Neural Networks
Find out more »October 2017
RiTUAL Group Meeting: EMNLP 2017 Conference
This Friday we will talk about our experience in the EMNLP 2017 conference.
Find out more »RiTUAL Group Meeting
This friday I will talk about using machine learning to study the neural representations of language meanings. you can find the powerpoint here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxPOFMS-DrqCNmxDakpjZUxHWk0
Find out more »November 2017
RiTUAL Group Meeting: Recognizing Explicit and Implicit Hate Speech Using a Weakly Supervised Two-path Bootstrapping Approach
This Friday, we will discuss the following paper: Recognizing Explicit and Implicit Hate Speech Using a Weakly Supervised Two-path Bootstrapping Approach
Find out more »December 2017
Group Meeting: Incorporating Dialectal Variability for Socially Equitable Language Identification
We will be discussing the following paper: 'Incorporating Dialectal Variability for Socially Equitable Language Identification'.
Find out more »Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing: Applications in Schizophrenia Classification using Narrative texts, Authorship Attribution with POS-tagging networks and Sentiment Analysis for Political tweets
Abstract: "In this talk Dr. Héctor Allende-Cid, professor of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, will present 3 cases of his current work of Machine Learning applied to Natural Language Processing tasks. The first one, is based in the classification of schizophrenic patients using transcribed narrative texts. In this work, two main objectives are pursued: using interpretable classification algorithms to describe the patterns that differentiate schizophrenic and control patients, and to achieve the best classification performance measures using Machine…
Find out more »January 2018
Group Meeting: Evaluation of Type Inference with Textual Cues
We will discuss our two papers about type inference. You can find them here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18CST69eQZzGK9N2qnRXFpnQUEpvG_AlV?usp=sharing
Find out more »February 2018
Group Meeting: One Model to Learn Them All
Paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05137
Find out more »September 2018
Group Meeting: Authorless Topic Models: Biasing Models Away from Known Structure
Please find the paper here - Authorless Topic Models: Biasing Models Away from Known Structure
Find out more »October 2018
Group Meeting: Linguistically-Informed Self-Attention for Semantic Role Labeling
In this occasion, we are going to discuss one of the best paper in EMNLP 2018. Here's the link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.08199.pdf
Find out more »January 2020
Group Meeting: Findings on Aspect-based sentiment analysis
Sampreeth is going to give a talk about Aspect-based sentiment analysis on Friday.
Find out more »February 2020
Paper Madness 2020- session 2, Part1
We are going to discuss the following papers: Do We Need Word Order Information for Cross-lingual Sequence Labeling Fine-tune BERT for Extractive Summarization Aiding Intra-Text Representations with Visual Context for Multimodal Named Ent…
Find out more »Group Meeting: Satirical News Detection using Language Model Differentiation Method
Yigeng is going to give a talk about his research on satirical news detection on Friday, Feb 14.
Find out more »RiTUAL guest: Anjani is presenting to the group!
Anjani Dhrangadhariya from the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland will present her work on NLP for health-related applications.
Find out more »March 2020
Group Meeting – Online
Gustavo will give a talk about the AAAI conference and Sampreeth will present a paper as part of our paper madness sessions.
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May 2020
October 2020
Group Meeting: A survey on Aspect Category Detection
Sampreeth is going to give a talk: A survey on Aspect Category Detection on Friday, Oct 2.
Find out more »Paper Madness 2020 Fall – Session 1, Part 1
We are going to start our first Paper Madness session on Friday!
Find out more »Group Meeting: Talk and discussion about Multimodal NER
Shuguang will give a talk and discussion about his Multimodal NER project on Friday.
Find out more »Paper Madness 2020 Fall – Session 1, Part 2
We will have Paper Madness session 1 part 2 on Friday.
Find out more »December 2020
Paper Madness 2020 Fall – Session 2, Part 1
We will have Paper Madness session 2 part 1 on Friday afternoon.
Find out more »Group Meeting: Age-restricted Content Rating Based on Movie Script
Yigeng is going to give a talk on his research: Age-restricted Content Rating Based on Movie Script on Friday, Dec 18.
Find out more »January 2021
Paper Madness 2021 Spring – Session 1
We will have Paper Madness session 1 on Friday. Yigeng will give a paper presentation about Knowledge Distillation. After that, we will have an open discussion about research problems. The papers to be discussed are listed below: Lifelong Language Knowledge Distillation Making Monolingual Sentence Embeddings Multilingual using Knowledge Distillation
Find out more »February 2021
Paper Madness 2021 Spring – Session 2
We will have Paper Madness session 2 on Friday. Shuguang will give a paper presentation about Data Augmentation. After that, we will have an open discussion about research problems. The paper to be discussed is listed below: Data Augmentation using Pre-trained Transformer Models
Find out more »Paper Madness 2021 Spring – Session 3
We will have Paper Madness session 3 on Friday. Mahsa will give a paper presentation about Text Classification with Reinforcement Learning. After that, we will have an open discussion about research problems. The paper to be discussed is listed below: Description Based Text Classification with Reinforcement Learning
Find out more »Paper Madness 2021 Spring – Session 4 (postponed to Feb 26th)
We postpone Paper Madness session 4 to Friday, Feb 25th. Sampreeth will give a paper presentation about Adaptive Compression of Word Embeddings. After that, we will have an open discussion about research problems. The paper to be discussed is listed below: Adaptive Compression of Word Embeddings
Find out more »March 2021
Paper Madness 2021 Spring – Session 5
We will have our Paper Madness session 5 on Friday, March 12th. Yigeng will present papers about recent progress in multimodal systems by OpenAI. Please find the reference paper in the following links: Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision After the paper presentation, we will have an open discussion on research problems.
Find out more »Paper Madness 2021 Spring – Session 6
We will have our Paper Madness session 6 on Friday, March 26th. Shuguang will present a paper about Open-domain Question Answering. Please find the reference paper in the following link: REALM: Retrieval-Augmented Language Model Pre-Training After the paper presentation, we will have an open discussion on research problems.
Find out more »April 2021
Paper Madness 2021 Spring – Session 7
We will have our Paper Madness session 7 on Friday, April 2nd. Yigeng will present a paper about Examining Citations of Natural Language Processing Literature. Please find the reference paper in the following link: Examining Citations of Natural Language Processing Literature The purpose of choosing this paper is to learn about how our field is growing in recent years and initiate discussions about research trends. After the paper presentation, we will have an open discussion on research problems.
Find out more »Paper Madness 2021 Spring – Session 8
We will have our Paper Madness session 8 on Friday, April 9th. Sampreeth will present a paper on CANINE: Pre-training an Efficient Tokenization-Free Encoder for Language Representation. Please find the reference paper in the following link: CANINE: Pre-training an Efficient Tokenization-Free Encoder for Language Representation After the paper presentation, we will have an open discussion on research problems.
Find out more »Group Meeting April 16th
We will have our group meeting on Friday, April 16th. Giai will give us a presentation about his project on Machine Translation: English to French with Transformers. After the presentation, we will have an open discussion on research problems.
Find out more »Group Meeting April 23rd
We will have our group meeting on Friday, April 23rd. Dwija will give us a presentation about her thesis project about Normalization and Back-transliteration for Code-Switched Hindi-English text. After the presentation, we will have an open discussion on research problems.
Find out more »Group Meeting April 30th
We will have our group meeting on Friday, April 30th. Reza will have a dry-run on his dissertation presentation. After the presentation, we will have an open discussion on research problems.
Find out more »May 2021
Reza’s Dissertation Defense
This week we will have Reza's dissertation defense on Friday 10:00 am - 12:00 pm. Please find details in the following link: NLP-enabled Design Assistance For Visual Communication We wish Reza the best of luck!
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