September 2016
RiTUAL Group Meeting: “Smart Reply: Automated Response Suggestion for Email”
In this paper we propose and investigate a novel end-to-end method for automatically generating short email responses, called Smart Reply. It generates semantically diverse sug- gestions that can be used as complete email responses with just one tap on mobile. The system is currently used in In- box by Gmail and is responsible for assisting with 10% of all mobile responses. It is designed to work at very high throughput and process hundreds of millions of messages daily. The system exploits state-of-the-art, large-scale deep learning.
We describe the architecture of the system as well as the challenges that we faced while building it, like response di- versity and scalability. We also introduce a new method for semantic clustering of user-generated content that requires only a modest amount of explicitly labeled data.
October 2016
Multimodal representation learning for multilabel classification
John Arevalo, visiting scholar at RiTUAL, will present his recent research in the area of combining image and text sources to perform multi-label classification.
Find out more »RiTUAL Group Meeting: “The Effect of Social Feedback in a Reddit Weight Loss Community”
We are going to discuss the following paper: "The Effect of Social Feedback in a Reddit Weight Loss Community"
Find out more »Ensemble Classifiers for Language Identification in Code-Switched Data
This Friday we'll have Sidharth Sadai present his system on Language Identification for mixed language data.
Find out more »November 2016
EMNLP 2016 Recap
Our group meeting this week will be about EMNLP. Everyone that attended the conference is reporting out to the group their impressions and experience at the conference.
Find out more »PhD proposal presentation
Nicolas will present his PhD dissertation proposal
Find out more »January 2017
RiTUAL Group Meeting : Shallow Parsing Pipeline – Hindi-English Code-Mixed Social Media Text
Paper for Discussion: Shallow Parsing Pipeline for Hindi-English Code-Mixed Social Media Text
Find out more »February 2017
RiTUAL Group Meeting: “The Sensitivity of Topic Coherence Evaluation to Topic Cardinality”
We are going to discuss the following paper: The Sensitivity of Topic Coherence Evaluation to Topic Cardinality
Find out more »RiTUAL Group Meeting: A Multi-task Approach to Predict Likability of Books
You can find the slides here.
Find out more »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 »Suraj’s Proposal Presentation
Suraj will present his dissertation proposal titled "Stylistically Aware Document Representations".
Find out more »April 2017
A Fast and Accurate Dependency Parser using Neural Networks
Nicolas will present: A Fast and Accurate Dependency Parser using Neural Networks
Find out more »May 2017
RiTUAL Group Meeting: User recommendation in healthcare social media by assessing user similarity in heterogeneous network
We will discuss the following paper: User recommendation in healthcare social media by assessing user similarity in heterogeneous network
Find out more »RiTUAL Group Meeting: Representation Learning (Word Embbeding)
Representation Learning (RL) consist in automatically learn features from the raw data input. The main goal is to obtain useful representations for machine learning algorithms. The recent success of some works related to RL (e.g., DeepLearning) has attracted the interest of NLP scientist. Some of the most relevant works in NLP have to do with learning the representations of words, also called: Word embedding. Word embedding maps the words of the vocabulary to vectors of real numbers in a low…
Find out more »July 2017
RiTUAL Group Meeting: SimBow at SemEval-2017 Task 3: Soft-Cosine Semantic Similarity between Questions for Community Question Answering
We are going to discuss the following paper on Friday: SimBow at SemEval-2017 Task 3: Soft-Cosine Semantic Similarity between Questions for Community Question Answering http://nlp.arizona.edu/SemEval-2017/pdf/SemEval051.pdf
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 »Interspeech 2017 Special Session: Speech Technologies for Code-Switching in Multilingual Communities
Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 14 March 2017 Final PDF upload: 21 March 2017 Paper notification of acceptance: 22 May 2017 Camera-ready paper due: 5 June 2017 Interspeech 2017: 20-24 August 2017 Special Session Description: Speech technologies exist for many high resource languages, and attempts are being made to reach the next billion users by building resources and systems for many more languages. In the past, the main focus of the speech community has been in building monolingual systems that…
Find out more »September 2017
Workshop on Stylistic Variation
The First Workshop in Stylistic Variation will be held on September 8th, collocated with EMNLP 2017. The program will include an invited talk by Walter Daelemans.
Find out more »RiTUAL Group Meeting: Domain-Adversarial Neural Networks
The paper for discussion is: Domain-Adversarial Neural Networks
Find out more »October 2017
Rasmus present his work
I'll present a paper I recently presented at EMNLP, 'End-to-End Information Extraction without Token-Level Supervision' https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.04913 As well as some work extending 'A simple neural network module for relational reasoning' https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01427
Find out more »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 »Group Meeting: The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes
We will discuss the following paper: 'The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes'.
Find out more »November 2017
Superforecasters Meet Supercrunchers: Fusing Machine Learning and Human Judgement
Ryan Kennedy, Associate Professor in Political Science, will visit our group to talk about his research project on Hybrid forecasting competition.
Find out more »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 »NACLO 2018
UH is again a site for the National Computational Linguistics Olympiad. The event will take place in the Philip Guthrie Hoffman Building, 3551 Cullen Blvd., Room 550, Houston, TX 77204-3010. We will follow the schedule for the central time zone. Check in will start at 8:30am and the contest will start at 9:00am sharp. Contact info: tsolorio at uh dot edu
Find out more »February 2018
Group Meeting: One Model to Learn Them All
Paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05137
Find out more »Group Meeting
In this meeting, I am going to share my experience of attending AAAI conference.
Find out more »March 2018
Group Meeting: Offensive Language Detection in Social Media
Fanny from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE) is going to present her work on Offensive language detection in social media.
Find out more »Group Meeting : Extracting Social Networks from Literary Fiction
Paper here: Extracting Social Networks from Literary Fiction
Find out more »April 2018
identification of depression from social media
dry run presentation for thesis defense by akshay
Find out more »early detection of depression
Masters thesis defense by akshay
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: Phrase-Based & Neural Unsupervised Machine Translation
Please find the paper here
Find out more »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 »Group Meeting: A Genre-Aware Attention Model to Improve the Likability Prediction of Books
Thamar Solorio will present the poster for the paper 'A Genre-Aware Attention Model to Improve the Likability Prediction of Books' that will appear at EMNLP' 2018. Paper is available here: http://cs.uh.edu/~suraj/documents/emnlp_18.pdf Poster is available here: http://cs.uh.edu/~suraj/documents/emnlp18_poster.pdf
Find out more »November 2018
Group Meeting: Speaker Naming in Movies
http://aclweb.org/anthology/N18-1200
Find out more »Group Meeting: Marginal Likelihood Training of BiLSTM-CRF for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition from Disjoint Label Sets
We are going to discuss the following paper: "Marginal Likelihood Training of BiLSTM-CRF forBiomedical Named Entity Recognition from Disjoint Label Sets" Reza
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February 2019
Group Meeting: Multi-view Models for Political Ideology Detection of News Articles
In this meeting, we are going to discuss the following paper presented at EMNLP 2018: http://aclweb.org/anthology/D18-1388
Find out more »Group Meeting: Investigating the Relationship between Literary Genres and Emotional Plot Development
This Friday we are going to discuss the following paper - 'Investigating the Relationship between Literary Genres and Emotional Plot Development'
Find out more »March 2019
Group Meeting: BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
Please find the paper here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06038.pdf
Find out more »Group Meeting: Violence Rating Prediction from Movie Scripts
Please find the paper here: https://sail.usc.edu/~mica/pubs/martinez2019violence.pdf
Find out more »April 2019
RiTUAL Group Meeting: Learning Emphasis Selection for Written Text in Visual Media
Hello Everyone, This week we will be discussing my work " Learning Emphasis Selection for Written Text in Visual Media".
Find out more »July 2019
SemEval 2020 – Task 10: Emphasis Selection For Written Text in Visual Media
Link to the shared task page: https://ritual.uh.edu/semeval2020-task10-emphasis-selection/ Codalab: https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/20815
Find out more »September 2019
Dry Runs for GHC
Organizers: Thamar Solorio and Niloofar Safi Samghabadi
Find out more »October 2019
Invited Talks by Segun Eroyehun and Jason Angel
Speaker: Segun Eroyehun Title: Applications of Deep learning to social media mining Abstract: The advent of social media has presented us with both opportunities and challenges as a society and for NLP. The user-generated content from social media platforms presents many challenges ranging from noise to limited context. In this setting, deep learning models do not perform well. I will outline some of the current issues and possible approaches to tackle them on the tasks of content moderation and pharmacovigilance.…
Find out more »November 2019
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 »Group Meeting: Multimodal NER
Shuguang Chen will present his project this 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.
Find out more »April 2020
Automatic Characterization of Stories
Ph.D. Thesis defense of Sudipta Kar.
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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 »November 2020
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 »The AAAI-21 Workshop on Content Authoring and Design (CAD21)
The AAAI-21 Workshop on Content Authoring and Design (CAD21) is coming! Please find details in the official link: https://ritual.uh.edu/aaai-21-workshop-on-content-authoring-and-design/
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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