Programme

Here is a provisional programme to be finalised nearer the day:

09:45 Welcome; Recent activities of the LAC group
10:00 Fawaz Alarfaj Enhancing Entity-Finding Using Adaptive-Windows
10:20 Azhar Alhindi Profile-Based Document Summarisation
10:40 Naoto Nishio Predicting the Quality of a Translation from the Attibutes of a Translator using ML
11:00 [Coffee]
11:10 Maha Althobaiti A Semi-supervised Learning Approach to Arabic NER.
11:30 Ans Alghamdi Active Learning for Archaeological Named Entities
11:50 Roseline Antai TBC
12:10 Deirdre Lungley Sentiment Analysis of Patient Feedback
12:30 [Lunch]
14:00 Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge) INVITED TALK: Imitation learning for structured prediction in NLP
15:00 Cliff O'Reilly Modelling Mental Spaces
15:20 [Coffee]
15:40 Florence Myles Using oral learner corpora for second language acquisition research
16:00 Doug Arnold TBC
16:20 Sonja Eisenbeiss, Naledi Kgolo, Sarah Schmid and Janina Fickel Experimental Linguistics in the Field: A Morphological Processing Study on Setswana Noun Derivations and a New Resource Repository
16:40 [Tea]

We plan to have a quick drink on campus afterwards and more drinks later in Wivenhoe.

Abstracts/Slides

Welcome and Recent Activities of the LAC group: This talk will give an introduction to the group and an overview of what the group has been up to since the last LAC day.
Andreas Vlachos - Imitation learning for structured prediction in NLP: Imitation learning is a learning paradigm originally developed to learn robotic controllers from demonstrations by humans, e.g. autonomous helicopters from pilot's demonstrations. Recently, algorithms for structured prediction in NLP were proposed under this paradigm and have been applied successfully to a number of tasks such as information extraction and summarization. In this talk I will describe in detail two imitation learning algorithms, SEARN (Daume III et al., 2009) and DAGGER (Ross et al., 2011) and describe their application to biomedical event extraction and knowledge base population.

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