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 »May 2015
RiTUAL Group Meeting: Determining if two documents are written by the same author
This week Prasha will lead the discussion on this paper: Determining if two documents are written by the same author
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Paper discussion: Learning about social learning in MOOCs: From statistical analysis to generative model. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.2159.pdf
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 »RiTUAL Group Meeting: NAACL-HLT 2015
A subset of RiTUAL lab went to NAACL-HLT so at this group's meeting we'll report back to the group about the conference.
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: Automatically Producing Plot Unit Representations for Narrative Text
Paper discussion: Automatically Producing Plot Unit Representations for Narrative Text.
Find out more »RiTUAL Group Meeting: A Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Approach To Citation Prediction
Paper discussion: A Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Approach To Citation Prediction
Find out more »RiTUAL Group Meeting: Predicting Risk from Financial Reports with Regression
Paper discussion: Predicting Risk from Financial Reports with Regression
Find out more »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 »August 2015
RiTUAL Group Meeting: Learning Whom to Trust with MACE
Paper Reading: Learning Whom to Trust with MACE
Find out more »RiTUAL Group Meeting: Age Prediction in Blogs: A Study of Style, Content, and Online Behavior in Pre- and Post-Social Media Generations
Age Prediction in Blogs: A Study of Style, Content, and Online Behavior in Pre- and Post-Social Media Generations
Find out more »RiTUAL Group Meeting: From Word Embeddings To Document Distances
Paper for this meeting: From Word Embeddings To Document Distances
Find out more »RiTUAL Group Meeting: Spoken Arabic Dialect Identification Using Phonotactic Modeling
Find the paper for next meeting Spoken Arabic Dialect Identification Using Phonotactic Modeling
Find out more »September 2015
A Context-Aware NLP Approach For Noteworthiness Detection in Cellphone Conversations
Abstract This papers presents a context-aware NLP approach to automatically detect noteworthy infor- mation in spontaneous mobile phone conversations. The proposed method uses a supervised modeling strategy which considers both features from the content of the conversation as well as contextual information from the call. We empirically analyze the predictive performance of features of different nature on a corpus of mobile phone conversations. The results of this study reveal that the context of the conversation plays a crucial role on…
Find out more »RiTUAL Group Meeting: Data-driven Measurement of Child Language Development with Simple Syntactic Templates
Paper for this meeting: Data-driven Measurement of Child Language Development with Simple Syntactic Templates
Find out more »RiTUAL Group Meeting – Emotion in Code-switching Texts: Corpus Construction and Analysis
Emotion in Code-switching Texts: Corpus Construction and Analysis
Find out more »October 2015
RiTUAL Group Meeting – Sentiment Analysis on Monolingual, Multilingual and Code-Switching Twitter Corpora
Paper for this meeting: Sentiment Analysis on Monolingual, Multilingual and Code-Switching Twitter Corpora
Find out more »Put Yourself in the Shoes of a Sentiment Analysis Tool: The Challenge of Detecting Deceptive Opinions and Irony
Speaker: Prof. Paolo Rosso, Polytechnic University of Valencia With the increasing of social media, consumers rely more than ever on online reviews to make their decisions. A recent survey found that 87% of them have reinforced their decisions to purchase a product due to positive online reviews. At the same time 80% of consumers have changed their minds on the basis of negative information they found online. Therefore, online opinions play an important role for companies and there is an…
Find out more »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 »Query Expansion for Mixed-Script Information Retrieval
Query Expansion for Mixed-Script Information Retrieval
Find out more »November 2015
Generating Natural-Language Descriptions of Videos in the Wild
CS Seminar: Prof. Raymond Mooney will be at UH to discuss his research combining image processing and natural language processing.
Find out more »RiTUAL Group Meeting: Mining and Summarizing Customer Reviews
Mining and Summarizing Customer Reviews
Find out more »December 2015
RiTUAL Group Meeting: Research Prenstation
This week Suraj will present his ongoing research on exploring and analyzing different types of features for predicting success of novels.
Find out more »OmniGraph: Rich Representation and Graph Kernel Learning
Find the paper link
Find out more »January 2016
RiTUAL Members visit MindLab to learn about Deep Learning
Members of RiTUAL Group are currently visiting MindLab. Prasha, Suraj and Nicolas are learning the ins and outs of deep learning and the different implementation frameworks available.
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
Find out more »March 2016
CS Seminar: Project Mélange: I Know When and Why You Switched from Inglés a Español
Speakers: Monojit Choudhury and Kalika Bali Multilingual communities exhibit code-switching, that is, mixing of two or more socially stable languages in a single conversation, sometimes even in a single utterance. This phenomenon has been widely studied by linguists and interaction scientists in the spoken language of such communities. However, with the prevalence of social media and other informal interactive platforms, code-switching is now also ubiquitously observed in user-generated text. As multilingual communities are more the norm from a global perspective, it…
Find out more »April 2016
RiTUAL group meeting: Using financial reports and news to predict the stock market, study of predictability and language usage
Nicolas Rey will present advances in his research,
Find out more »May 2016
RiTUAL Group Meeting: Linear Algebraic Structure of Word Senses, with Applications to Polysemy
Nicolas Rey will present the paper: Linear Algebraic Structure of Word Senses, with Applications to Polysemy
Find out more »Prasha will present our paper “Age and Gender Prediction on Health Forum Data”
The paper can be found here.
Find out more »July 2016
Group Seminar: Detecting code-switching in Moroccan Arabic Social Media
PhD candidate Younes Samih is visiting RiTUAL lab. He will give a talk on his recent work on code-switching in Moroccan Arabic. Part of this work was presented at the SocialNLP workshop at IJCAI 2016.
Find out more »August 2016
Introduction to Deep Learning
Please follow the "Day 0 Basic Setup" chapter from the lab guide to install all the requirements and clone the Github repository for the lxmls exercises. Once you clone the project, switch to student branch and please try to run and complete all the exercises for day 0 using Jupyter notebook. On completing this exercise, you will learn to use Jupyter notebook, basic Python and some important algorithms like Gradient descent/ascent algorithms which is used for optimization in machine learning algorithms.…
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