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

Date	Location	Speakers	Titles
10/09/09	MS	Stanley Kok and Chris Brockett UW CSE and MSR-NLP	Hitting the Right Paraphrases in Good Time
		Alan Ritter and Colin Cherry UW CSE and MSR-NLP	Toward the Twuring Test: Conversation Modeling using Twitter
		Hoifung Poon and Lucy Vanderwende UW CSE and MSR-NLP	Joint Inference for Knowledge Extraction from Biomedical Literature

Past symposia

Date	Location	Speakers	Titles	Additional presentations
04/10/09	UW	Vikram Dendi MS Research	Standing in the User's Shoes - Enhancing the "Perceived Value" of Translation
		Kevin Duh UW EE	Semi-supervised learning for Ranking
01/23/09	MS	Jeremy Kahn UW Linguistics	Unlexicalizing the comma: an orthographic assist to statistical machine translation
		Ye-Yi Wang Microsoft Research	Voice search of structured media data
11/14/08	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
06/06/08	Microsoft	Douglas Downey UW CSE	Autonomous Web-scale Information Extraction	Posters
		Chris Quirk Microsoft Research	Models for Comparable Corpus Fragment Alignment
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
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