UW/Microsoft Quarterly Symposium in Computational Linguistics

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.

Participating Departments

Upcoming symposia

spring 2016: 5/13/2016 at MS
winter 2016: 2/26/2016 at UW
fall 2015: 11/6/2015 at MS

The next symposium and past symposia

Date	Location	Speakers	Titles	Additional presentations
5/1/2015	UW	Frank Seide, Hao Fu, Jasha Droppo, Gang Li, and Dong Yu, Microsoft Research	1-Bit Stochastic Gradient Descent for Fast training of DNNs for Skype Translator
		Congle Zhang, CSE, UW	Exploiting Parallel News Streams for Relation Extraction
1/30/2015	MSR	Yufan Guo, Univ. of Washington	Reviewing the literature comes easier: Information structure analysis of scientific documents
		Hany Hassan Awadalla and Jon Clark, MSR	Skype Translator: breaking down the barriers
11/14/2014	UW	Raymond J. Mooney, UT Austin / Microsoft Research	Natural Language Semantics by Combining Logical and Distributional Methods using Probabilistic Logic
		Mike Lewis, UW CSE / Allen Institute for AI	Combined Distributional and Logical Semantics
05/16/2014	MSR	Yan Song and Fei Xia, UW Linguistics	Domain adaptation via effective feature engineering across domains
		Hany Hassan Awadallah, MSR	Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning of Translation Models from Monolingual Data
01/31/2014	UW	Emre Kiciman (MSR), Scott Counts (MSR), Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Tech), Bo Thiesson (Aalborg University), Michael Gamon (MSR)	Discussion Graphs: Putting Social Media Analysis into Context
		Cecilia Aragon and Michael Brooks, UW Human Centered Design and Engineering	Detection and Visualization of Emotion in Informal Text Communication
11/01/2013	MSR	Woodley Packard and Emily M. Bender, UW Linguistics	Predicting the Scope of Negation using Minimal Recursion Semantics
		Margaret Mitchell, MSR	Generating human reference to visible objects
05/17/2013	UW	Hoifung Poon, MSR	Grounded Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
		Chloe Kiddon, UW CSE	Knowledge Extraction and Joint Inference Using Tractable Markov Logic
02/22/2013	MSR	Hannaneh Hajishirzi, UW CSE	Learning with Weak Supervision in Grounded Language Acquisition
		Munmun De Choudhury, MSR	Mining Online Social Behavior for Enhanced Behavioral Health
11/02/2012	UW	Lucy Vanderwende and Sumit Basu, MSR	Making Reading More Effective: Technologies to Help Information Seekers
		Tom Kwiatkowski, UW CSE	A Probabilistic Model of Language Acquisition from Utterance and Meaning
05/11/2012	Microsoft	Joint with NW-NLP 2012	Schedule
02/17/2012	UW	Cosmin Adrian Bejan, UW Biomedical Health Informatics	Using statistical feature selection to improve pneumonia identification
		Dominic Widdows, MSR	Learning and Reasoning with Semantic Vectors
10/28/2011	Microsoft	Yoav Artzi, UW/MSR	Towards Predicting Responses in Twitter
		Brian Hutchinson, UW/MSR	Tensor Deep Stacking Networks for Phonetic Classification and Recognition
		Aniruddh Nath, UW/MSR	Generalizing Natural Language Instructions
		Julie Medero, UW/MSR	NLP in Patient-Directed Medical Displays
		Amittai Axelrod, UW/MSR	Topic Modeling for Statistical Machine Translation
05/13/2011	UW	Gina-Anne Levow, UW Linguistics	Predicting Verbal Feedback across Cultures in Face-to-Face Conversation
		Mona Diab, Columbia Univ CCLS	Automatic Processing of Arabic(s)
02/18/2011	Microsoft	Luke Zettlemoyer, UW CSE	Learning to Follow Orders: Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions
		Scott Yih, MSR Machine Learning Group	Learning Discriminative Projections for Text Similarity Measures
10/22/2010	UW	Tony Fader, UW CSE / MSR Machine Learning Group	Long Query Understanding with Wikipedia
		Amittai Axelrod, UW EE / MSR NLP Group	Translation model adaptation
05/14/2010	Microsoft	Will Lewis, MSR MT Group	Haitian Creole: How to Build and Ship an MT Engine from Scratch in 4 days, 17 hours, & 30 minutes
		Hui Lin and Jeff Bilmes, UW	Submodular Extractive Summarization
01/22/2010	UW	Ellen Lidin, MSR	Machine translation and localization
		Chris Quirk, MSR	Extracting parallel sentences from Wikipedia
		Anand Chakravarty, MSR	Stress Testing an AI Based Web Service - A Case Study
		Eduardo Alvarez-Godinez, MSR	Test corpora development for machine translation evaluation
		Michael Gamon, MSR	Correcting non-native English using mostly native data
		Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, UW iSchool	Search Interaction in Context research group
		William Lewis (Microsoft) and Fei Xia (UW Linguistics)	Applying NLP Technologies to the Collection and Analysis of Language Data to Aid Linguistic Research
		Emily M. Bender, UW Linguistics	Grammar Customization with the LinGO Grammar Matrix
		Mausam, UW CSE	From Extracted Information to Knowledge: Current Research at Turing Center
		Hoifung Poon, UW CSE	Markov Logic in Natural Language Processing
10/09/2009	Microsoft	Stanley Kok (UW) and Chris Brockett (MSR)	Hitting the Right Paraphrases in Good Time
		Alan Ritter (UW) and Colin Cherry (MSR)	Toward the Twuring Test: Conversation Modeling using Twitter
		Hoifung Poon (UW) and Lucy Vanderwende (MSR)	Joint Inference for Knowledge Extraction from Biomedical Literature
04/10/2009	UW	Vikram Dendi, MSR	Standing in the User's Shoes - Enhancing the "Perceived Value" of Translation
		Kevin Duh, UW EE	Semi-supervised learning for Ranking
01/23/2009	Microsoft	Jeremy Kahn, UW Linguistics	Unlexicalizing the comma: an orthographic assist to statistical machine translation
		Ye-Yi Wang, MSR	Voice search of structured media data
11/14/2008	UW	Meliha Yetisgen Yildiz, UW iSchool and Kiha Inc.	Finding the Meaning of Medical Concept Correlations
		Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal	Machine translation and cross-language information retrieval
06/06/2008	Microsoft	Douglas Downey, UW CSE	Autonomous Web-scale Information Extraction	Posters
		Chris Quirk, MSR	Models for Comparable Corpus Fragment Alignment
02/15/2008	UW	Amar Subramanya and Jeff Bilmes, UW EE	Training Speech Recognizers with Uncertain Word Boundaries	Posters
		Colin Cherry, MSR NLP Group	Cohesive Phrase-based Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
11/02/2007	Microsoft	Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos, UW CSE	Joint Inference in Information Extraction
		Andreas Bode and Anthony Aue, Microsoft MT Incubation Team - NLP Group	From Research to Production - Issues & Lessons Learned
04/20/2007	UW	Jianfeng Gao, MSR	A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing
		Marcus Sammer, UW Turing Center	Panlingual Lexical Translation
02/16/2007	UW	Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, David G. Hendry, and Chong-Ki Tsang, UW iSchool	Experiments in Query Expansion
		Hisami Suzuki and Kristina Toutanova, MSR	Generating Morphologically Rich Languages in MT
10/20/2006	Microsoft	Fei Xia, William Lewis, and Dan Jinguji, UW Linguistics	Towards automatic enrichment and analysis of linguistic data for low-density languages	Posters
		Mark Johnson, Brown University	Features of Reranking Parsers
04/07/2006	UW	Simon Corston-Oliver and Anthony Aue, MSR	Multilingual Dependency Parsing using Bayes Point Machines
		Michael J. Cafarella and Oren Etzioni, UW CSE	A Search Engine for Natural Language Applications
02/03/2006	Microsoft	William Lewis, UW Linguistics	Locating, Recognizing, and Converting Interlinear Text on the Web	Demos
		Manuela Noske, Microsoft Windows Localizations Group	Unsupervised Acquisition of Ateso Morphology
10/28/2005	UW	Kenneth W. Church (MSR) and Ping Li (Stanford University)	Using Sketches to Estimate Associations
		Mari Ostendorf, Jeremy G. Kahn, and Dustin Hillard, UW EE	Spontaneous Speech: Challenges and Opportunities for Parsing
04/22/2005	Microsoft	Katrin Kirchhoff, UW EE	Feature-Based Word Representations for Natural Language Processing	Posters
		Eric Ringger, Microsoft NLP Group	The Role of Linguistics in Feature Engineering for Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing
01/28/2005	Microsoft	Jeff Bilmes and Karim Filali, UW EE	Graphical Models and Machine Translation	Demos
		Chris Quirk, MSR	Toward Syntactically Informed Statistical Machine Translation
10/22/2004	UW	Oren Etzioni, UW CSE	Web-scale Information Extraction in KnowItAll (Preliminary Results)	Posters
		Mike Calcagno, Microsoft NLP Group	Extracting and Exploiting Type Information in Search-Related Scenarios
03/12/2004	Microsoft	Mari Ostendorf, UW EE	Web-based Corpora: Modeling Language vs. Gathering Counts	Demos
		Thierry Fontenelle, Microsoft NLP Group	A large bilingual lexical resource for word sense disambiguation
01/23/2004	UW	Robert Moore, MSR	Two Paradigms for Natural Language Processing
		Lesley Carmichael, UW Linguistics	Prosodic Fortification in Error Resolution
10/24/2003	UW	Andrea Jesse, Microsoft NLP Group	Grammar Checking in Microsoft Office XP
		Emily M. Bender, UW Linguistics	Grammar Checking in the Arboretum: Finding and Curing Trees

Last updated: 09/17/2014