Title: Tackling Error Propagation through Reinforcement Learning: A Case of Greedy Dependency Parsing Conference: EACL 2017 (European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), at Valencia, 3-7 April 2017. Tackling Error Propagation through Reinforcement Learning: A Case of Greedy Dependency Parsing by Minh Le and Antske Fokkens Abstract: Error propagation is a common problem in READ MORE
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Looking at the Long Tail of Language
The distribution of symbols in natural language and their meanings are no exception to Zipf’s law: a small amount of observations are very frequent and there is a very long tail of low frequent observations. READ MORE
— Similarity & Relatedness
Similarity & Relatedness presentations by Marten Postma, Minh Le, Alessandro Lopopolo, and Emiel van Miltenburg. July 01, 2015 at VU Amsterdam Similarity and relatedness lie at the core of semantics. At CLTL, we study similarity and relatedness from different perspectives: linguistic perspective using WordNet hierarchy, mathematic perspective about evaluation, neurological perspective using brain wave recoding, READ MORE
— VU University scientists cluster National Research Agenda
Led by Piek Vossen, a group of scientists at VU University automatically divided 11,700 questions from NWO’s National Research Agenda into clusters. On the basis of language technology and mathematical equations of the most important words, slightly over 60 clusters of questions were found which at their turn were classified in a few hundred sub-clusters. READ MORE
— Mar. 13 2015: Why linguists are needed by George Lakoff — webcast available
Webcast available of presentation by George Lakoff on Friday March 13 2015 “Why linguists are needed: The severe limitations of big data analysis of linguistic corpora” arguing that “big data statistical methods by themselves were hopeless” in a multi-million dollar project on analyzing the conceptual metaphors in a vast corpus of US intelligence documents. George READ MORE
— Jul. 2015: The First Workshop on Computing News Storylines [NewsStory]
In conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2015 July 2015, Bejing, China Narratives are at the heart of information sharing. Ever since people began to share their experiences, they have connected them to form narratives. Modern day news reports still reflect this narrative structure, but they have proven difficult for automatic tools to summarise, structure, or connect to READ MORE
— Oct. 30 2014: Round table on ‘Time and Language’
Event date: Thursday, 30 October, 2014 – 18:30 to 20:00 The round table “Time and Language”, organized by Tommaso Caselli (VUA, Amsterdam) and Rachele Sprugnoli (DH-FBK), will be held in Genoa on Thursday October 30 as part of “Festival della Scienza “. Time is a pervasive element of human life that is also reflected in READ MORE
— Oct. 23 2014: Reference Machine: visit Tech Labs Network Institute
Thursday October 23rd 2014: Piek, Alessandro, Emiel, Filip and Minh met up with Marco Otte and Desmond Germans in the Tech Labs of the Network Institute to exchange first ideas about building the Reference Machine. READ MORE