The UW/Microsoft Quarterly Symposium in Computational Linguistics provides a regular opportunity for computational linguists and speech and language technology researchers at the University of Washington and at Microsoft to discuss topics in the field and to connect in a friendly informal atmosphere.
Each symposium features two presentations, one from Microsoft and one from UW. In addition, symposia often include poster sessions and/or demos.
| Date | Location | Speakers | Titles | Additional presentations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/15/08 | UW | Amar Subramanya Jeff Bilmes UW EE | Training Speech Recognizers with Uncertain Word Boundaries | Posters |
| Colin Cherry Microsoft Research - NLP Group | Cohesive Phrase-based Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation |
| Date | Location | Speakers | Titles | Additional presentations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/02/07 | Microsoft | Hoifung Poon Pedro Domingos UW CSE | Joint Inference in Information Extraction | |
| Andreas Bode Anthony Aue Microsoft MT Incubation Team - NLP Group | From Research to Production - Issues & Lessons Learned | |||
| 4/20/07 | UW | Jianfeng Gao Microsoft Research | A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing | |
| Marcus Sammer UW Turing Center | Panlingual Lexical Translation | |||
| 2/16/07 | UW | Efthimis N. Efthimiadis David G. Hendry Chong-Ki Tsang UW Information School | Experiments in Query Expansion | |
| Hisami Suzuki Kristina Toutanova Microsoft Research | Generating Morphologically Rich Languages in MT | |||
| 10/20/06 | Microsoft | Fei Xia William Lewis Dan Jinguji UW Linguistics | Towards automatic enrichment and analysis of linguistic data for low-density languages | Posters |
| Mark Johnson MSR and Brown University | Features of Reranking Parsers | |||
| 4/7/06 | UW | Simon Corston-Oliver Anthony Aue Microsoft Research | Multilingual Dependency Parsing using Bayes Point Machines | |
| Michael J. Cafarella Oren Etzioni UW CSE | A Search Engine for Natural Language Applications | |||
| 2/3/06 | Microsoft | William Lewis UW Linguistics | Locating, Recognizing, and Converting Interlinear Text on the Web | Demos |
| Manuela Noske Windows Localizations Group | Unsupervised Acquisition of Ateso Morphology | |||
| 10/28/05 | UW | Kenneth W. Church Machine Learning and Applied Statistics Group MSR Ping Li Statistics Department, Stanford University | Using Sketches to Estimate Associations | |
| Mari Ostendorf+, Jeremy G. Kahn*, and Dustin Hillard+ +UW EE, *UW Linguistics | Spontaneous Speech: Challenges and Opportunities for Parsing | |||
| 4/22/05 | Microsoft | Katrin Kirchhoff UW EE |
Feature-Based Word Representations for Natural Language Processing | Posters |
| Eric Ringger NLP Group, Microsoft Research | The Role of Linguistics in Feature Engineering for Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing | |||
| 1/28/05 | Microsoft | Jeff Bilmes and Karim
Filali UW EE | Graphical
Models and Machine Translation | Demos |
| Chris Quirk MS Natural Language Processing Group | Toward Syntactically Informed Statistical Machine Translation | |||
| 10/22/05 | UW | Oren Etzioni UW CSE | Web-scale Information Extraction in KnowItAll (Preliminary Results) | Posters |
| Mike
Calcagno Microsoft Natural Language Group | Extracting and Exploiting Type Information in Search-Related Scenarios | |||
| 3/12/04 | Microsoft | Mari Ostendorf UW EE | Web-based Corpora: Modeling Language vs. Gathering Counts | Demos |
| Thierry Fontenelle Microsoft Natural Language Group | A large bilingual lexical resource for word sense disambiguation | |||
| 1/23/04 | UW | Robert
Moore Microsoft | Two Paradigms for Natural Language Processing | |
| Lesley Carmichael UW Linguistics | Prosodic Fortification in Error Resolution | |||
| 10/24/03 | UW | Andrea Jesse Microsoft Natural Language Group | Grammar Checking in Microsoft Office XP | |
| Emily M. Bender UW Linguistics | Grammar Checking in the Arboretum: Finding and Curing Trees |
Last updated: 10/18/07