Convolutional Nets

Resources that give great intuition:

Relates to NLP
To understand convolution
Tutorial

Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning

UMBC is hosting the Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning.

Register online.

The schedule is now posted.

Snapshot of the schedule:

09:00-09:45 Registration, set up

09:45-10:00 Opening

10:00-11:20 Oral presentations I

Lushan Han, Abhay Kashyap, Tim Finin, James Mayfield and Jonathan Weese (UMBC & JHU). Semantic Textual Similarity Systems

Keith Levin, Aren Jansen and Ben Van Durme (JHU). Toward Faster Audio Search Using Context-Dependent Hashing

Shawn Squire, Monica Babes-Vroman, Marie Desjardins, Ruoyuan Gao, Michael Littman, James MacGlashan and Smaranda Muresan (UMBC & Brown). Learning to Interpret Natural Language Instructions

Viet-An Nguyen, Jordan Boyd-Graber and Philip Resnik (UMCP). Lexical and Hierarchical Topic Regression

11:20-12:10 Poster session I

Posters

12:10-12:40 Lunch

12:40-1:40 Panel

"How to be a successful PhD student and and transition to a great job"
Marie desJardins (UMBC)
Mark Dredze (JHU)
Claudia Pearce (DoD)
Ian Soboroff (NIST)
Hanna Wallach (UMass)


1:50-3:10 Oral presentations II

Qingqing Cai and Alexander Yates (Temple). Large-scale Semantic Parsing via Schema Matching and Lexicon Extension

William Yang Wang and William W. Cohen (CMU). Efficient First-Order Probabilistic Logic Programming for Natural Language Inference

Xuchen Yao, Benjamin Van Durme, Chris Callison-Burch, Peter Clark (JHU & UPenn & AI2). Semi-Markov Phrase-based Monolingual Alignment

Wei Xu, Alan Ritter and Ralph Grishman (NYU). Gathering and Generating Paraphrases from Twitter with Application to Normalization

3:10-4:00 Poster session II

Posters

4:00-5:00 Breakout sessions

NLP in low resource settings, Ann Irvine (JHU)

Dynamic Programming: Theory and Practice, Alexander Rush (Columbia/MIT)

NELL: Never Ending Language Learning, Partha Pratim Talukdar (CMU)

5:00 Closing

5:15 - 7:00 Wine down

Wine and beer at Flat Tuesdays, UMBC Commons

NLP Resources

I am spending time this semester learning NLP since my work overlaps with NLP. I found a free ebook for learning NLP in Python. Another link for this book is here.
At the UMBC NLP course web site there are also slides available.
In particular, I have been working with OpenNLP which so far has been very useful. However, I am at the point of doing in-doc coref and having a lot of problems. There is not really any documentation on the in-doc coref api calls but I did find someone who dug into the code a bit and found a way to do it. However, so far, when executing my implementation, it runs forever. I hope to have an update soon.

UMBC ebiquity group

Our group is performing interesting research by blending semantic computing with security, mobile devices, medical informatics and big data problems. Some of this research overlaps quite a bit with natural language processing. Read our publications to see the latest research coming from our lab.

MASC 2013 Call For Papers Still Open

The 2013 Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning is still open.

Building Templates for Basic Entity Types

http://schema.org/Person http://schema.org/Organization http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/ene/version7_1_0Beng.html