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

fall 2012: 11/2/2012 at UW (see below)
winter 2013: 2/22/2013 at MS
spring 2013: 5/17/2013 at UW

The next symposium and past symposia

Date	Location	Speakers	Titles	Additional presentations
11/02/2012	UW	Lucy Vanderwende and Sumit Basu, Microsoft Research	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, Microsoft Research	Learning and Reasoning with Semantic Vectors
10/28/2011	Microsoft	Yoav Artzi	Towards Predicting Responses in Twitter
		Brian Hutchinson	Tensor Deep Stacking Networks for Phonetic Classification and Recognition
		Aniruddh Nath	Generalizing Natural Language Instructions
		Julie Medero	NLP in Patient-Directed Medical Displays
		Amittai Axelrod	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, CCLS, Columbia Univ	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, Machine Learning Group, MSR	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 Machine Translation 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, iSchool, UW	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, Linguistics, UW	Grammar Customization with the LinGO Grammar Matrix
		Mausam, CSE, UW	From Extracted Information to Knowledge: Current Research at Turing Center
		Hoifung Poon, CSE, UW	Markov Logic in Natural Language Processing
10/09/2009	Microsoft	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
04/10/2009	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
01/23/2009	Microsoft	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
11/14/2008	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 Microsoft Research	Models for Comparable Corpus Fragment Alignment
02/15/2008	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
11/02/2007	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
04/20/2007	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
02/16/2007	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
10/20/2006	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
04/07/2006	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
02/03/2006	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
10/28/2005	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
4/22/2005	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
1/28/2005	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
10/22/2004	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
3/12/2004	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
1/23/2004	UW	Robert Moore Microsoft	Two Paradigms for Natural Language Processing
		Lesley Carmichael UW Linguistics	Prosodic Fortification in Error Resolution
10/24/2003	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: 09/06/2011