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2013

21 May 2013 — Lab lunch
13 May 2013 — Lab meeting time
08 May 2013 — Emergence of Gricean Maxims from Multi-Agent Decision Theory
24 Apr 2013 — Marginalized Denoising Autoencoders for Domain Adaptation
10 Apr 2013 — Similarity Estimation Techniques from Rounding Algorithms
03 Apr 2013 — Evaluating question generation output
27 Mar 2013 — Hope and Fear in SMT
20 Mar 2013 — Computational Aesthetics: The Evaluation of Creativity in Text
11 Mar 2013 — Computational Modeling of Sociopragmatic Language Use in Arabic and English Social Media
06 Mar 2013 — Using MapReduce for a MT experiment
06 Feb 2013 — Haitian-Creole
30 Jan 2013 — FST, OpenFst and OpenGrm
23 Jan 2013 — MapReduce, Amazon and local cluster
17 Jan 2013 — Ravikiran Vadlapudi passed Masters thesis defence
16 Jan 2013 — Amazon demo and ACL abstracts
14 Jan 2013 — Masters thesis defence: Ravikiran Vadlapudi
10 Jan 2013 — language use in Lincoln
09 Jan 2013 — Generating Natural Language Questions from Documents

2012

07 Nov 2012 — AMTA debrief and JoshiFest
31 Oct 2012 — Ensemble Triangulation
17 Oct 2012 — Compact Rule Extraction for Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation
10 Oct 2012 — Language Modeling discussion
03 Oct 2012 — Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning Tutorial
26 Sep 2012 — Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning
21 Sep 2012 — Majid Razmara thesis proposal
21 Sep 2012 — Baskaran Sankaran thesis Proposal
19 Sep 2012 — Two thesis proposal practice talks
04 Sep 2012 — Lab meeting: Wednesday September 5 11:00am
27 Aug 2012 — Lab lunch
24 Aug 2012 — Max Whitney passed Masters thesis defence
24 Aug 2012 — FAS Excellence Award for Max Whitney
17 Aug 2012 — Masters thesis defence: Max Whitney
17 Aug 2012 — Marzieh Razavi passed Masters thesis defence
17 Aug 2012 — Maryam Siahbani passed PhD depth examination
16 Aug 2012 — Masters thesis defence: Marzieh Razavi
16 Aug 2012 — PhD depth examination: Maryam Siahbani
15 Aug 2012 — Ann Clifton and Majid Razmara re: JHU workshop 2012
08 Aug 2012 — Masters thesis defense practice talk by Marzieh Razavi
01 Aug 2012 — Depth exam practice talk by Maryam Siabhani
24 Jul 2012 — Design talk versus science talk by Ted Kirkpatrick
09 Jul 2012 — SFU Natlang Lab at ACL 2012
02 Jul 2012 — Talk at KAIST July 12, 2012
19 Jun 2012 — Towards multi-modal extraction and summarization of conversations by Raymond Ng
16 Jun 2012 — Probase: A Probabilistic Semantic Network for Text Understanding by Haixun Wang
11 Jun 2012 — Syntax-to-Morphology Mapping in Factored SMT: Talk by Kemal Oflazer
11 Jun 2012 — Lab meeting: Wednesday June 13 11:00am
29 May 2012 — Lab meeting: Wednesday May 5 11:00am
28 May 2012 — WATA 2012
28 May 2012 — The Natural Language Laboratory at the SFU 2012 Open House
25 May 2012 — New website
22 May 2012 — Lab meeting: 5/23 11:00am
15 May 2012 — Northwest NLP 2012
15 May 2012 — Ann Clifton’s PhD depth examination
15 May 2012 — Young-chan Kim’s MSc thesis defence
15 May 2012 — Lab meeting: 5/16 11:00am
15 May 2012 — First lab meetings of Summer 2012
17 Apr 2012 — Lab meeting: 4/18 3:30pm
10 Apr 2012 — Lab meeting: 4/11 3:30pm
03 Apr 2012 — Lab meeting: 4/4 3:30pm
27 Mar 2012 — Lab meeting: 3/28 3:30pm
24 Mar 2012 — 2012 Publications (so far)
19 Mar 2012 — Talk: 3/21 3:30pm
12 Mar 2012 — Lab meeting: 3/14 3:30pm
05 Mar 2012 — Lab meeting: 3/7 3:30pm
27 Feb 2012 — Talk: 2/29 3:30pm
07 Feb 2012 — Lab meeting: 2/8 3:30pm
30 Jan 2012 — Lab meeting: 2/1 3:30pm
23 Jan 2012 — Lab meeting: 1/25 3:30pm
23 Jan 2012 — First lab meetings of Spring 2012

2011

27 Nov 2011 — Lab meeting: 11/28 3:30pm
20 Nov 2011 — Lab meeting: 11/21 3:30pm
13 Nov 2011 — Lab meeting: 11/14 3:30pm
06 Nov 2011 — Lab meeting: 11/7 3:30pm
16 Oct 2011 — Lab meeting: 10/17 3:30pm
02 Oct 2011 — Lab meeting: 10/3 3:30pm
01 Oct 2011 — New couch
26 Sep 2011 — Lab meeting: 9/26 3:30pm
17 Sep 2011 — Lab meeting: 9/19 3:30pm
09 Sep 2011 — Lab meeting: 9/12 3:30pm
14 Aug 2011 — Lab meeting: 8/16 10:00am
31 Jul 2011 — Lab meeting: 8/2 10:00am
25 Jul 2011 — Lab meeting: 7/26 10:00am
19 Jul 2011 — WMT11 Practice talk
18 Jul 2011 — Lab meeting: 7/19 10:00am
11 Jul 2011 — ACL papers
10 Jul 2011 — Lab meeting: 7/12 10:00am
16 May 2011 — Lab meeting: 5/17 10:00am
13 Apr 2011 — Lab meeting: Thu 4/14 2:30pm
04 Apr 2011 — Lab meeting: Thu 4/7 2:30pm
23 Mar 2011 — Computational linguistics talk: Alexandre Bouchard-Cote
21 Mar 2011 — PhD Depth Examination: Majid Razmara
21 Mar 2011 — Lab meeting: Thu 3/24 2:30pm
27 Feb 2011 — Lab meeting: Thu 3/3 2:30pm
19 Feb 2011 — List of accepted long papers at ACL 2011
08 Feb 2011 — Lab meeting: Thu 2/10 2:30pm
31 Jan 2011 — Lab meeting: Thu 2/3 2:30pm
24 Jan 2011 — Lab meeting: Thu 1/27 2:30pm
18 Jan 2011 — Lab meeting: Thu 1/20 2:30pm
12 Jan 2011 — Lab meeting: Thu 1/13 2:30pm

2010

05 Dec 2010 — Depth Seminar: Baskaran Sankaran
20 Oct 2010 — Masters thesis defense: Ann Clifton
08 Jul 2010 — Mobile browsing of natlang website
25 May 2010 — SMT Reading Group: Summer 2010 Schedule
28 Apr 2010 — Best Oral Presentation award for Yudong Liu. Pacific NW-NLP Workshop, 23 April 2010
26 Feb 2010 — Ph.D. Thesis Defense- Maxim Roy
26 Feb 2010 — Ph.D. Thesis Seminar- Maxim Roy
26 Jan 2010 — Google Research Award
20 Jan 2010 — Yudong Liu defends her Ph.D. thesis

2009

20 Nov 2009 — Ph.D. Thesis Seminar- Yudong Liu
20 Nov 2009 — M. Sc. Thesis Defence and Seminar- Ajeet Grewal
20 Nov 2009 — Ajeet’s M.Sc. Defence Practice Talk
20 Nov 2009 — M.Sc. Thesis Defence and Seminar – Milan Tofiloski
20 Nov 2009 — Milan’s M.SC. THESIS Practice Talk
06 Sep 2009 — Reza defends his Ph.D. Thesis
30 Jul 2009 — Lab meeting: GEAF 2009 (ACL workshop) practice talk
27 Jul 2009 — Lab meeting: ACL 2009 Practice Talk, Tue 7/28 1pm
15 Jul 2009 — Natlang lab meeting: Thu 7/16/2009 11:30am
08 Jul 2009 — Lab meeting: NAACL HLT 2009 de-brief session #2
21 Jun 2009 — Lab meeting: NAACL HLT 2009 De-brief Session #1
16 Jun 2009 — News article on Mitacs Globalink Internship Program
08 Jun 2009 — Talk: The Long and Winding Road of Deep Lexical Acquisition
05 Jun 2009 — A Semi-supervised Approach to Bengali-English Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
01 Jun 2009 — Best Paper Award in Canadian AI 2009
31 May 2009 — June 11th, 2009: Linguistics colloquium talk on Summarization
22 May 2009 — New publication: Active Learning for Multilingual Statistical Machine Translation
09 Apr 2009 — New publication: Hierarchical Dirichlet Trees for Information Retrieval
09 Apr 2009 — Reza’s tutorial accepted at MT Summit 2009
31 Mar 2009 — New publication: Active Learning for Statistical Phrase-based Machine Translation
25 Mar 2009 — How to conduct experiments with Moses
11 Mar 2009 — New publication: Training Global Linear Models for Chinese Word Segmentation
24 Feb 2009 — Natlang Lab Meeting: Feb 25, 2009
22 Feb 2009 — Language Technology Roadmap for Canada
22 Feb 2009 — Set-Top Television Translator To Provide Spanish Captioning
22 Feb 2009 — IBM Faculty Award 2008-2009
17 Feb 2009 — Welcome to the SFU Natural Language Laboratory

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