News
2023
| Dec 26 | This year, our labs papers are accepted | in ICLR2023,ACL2023(Findings),EACL2023,CoNLL2023, etc |
| Dec 21 | Talk by Sampo Pyysalo (University of Turku) | Title: FinGPT: Large Generative Models for a Small Language |
| Dec 7 | Talk by Eduardo Sánchez (University College London) Title: The case for LLM-based Machine Translation. | |
| Apr 17 | Talk by Tim Baldwin (The University of Melbourne) | Title: Fair Cop: Measuring and Improving Fairness in NLP |
2022
| Sep 22 | Talk by Li Irene (Zihui), the University of Tokyo | Title: Graph-based methods for NLP tasks |
| Sep 15 | Talk by Yuchen Jiang (ETH Zurich) | Title: An Automatic Evaluation Metric for Document-level Machine Translation |
| Mar 23 | Ryo Ueda and Taiga Ishii received the Excellence Award from NLP2022 | 創発言語でもHarrisの分節原理は成り立つのか？, 上田亮, 石井太河, 宮尾祐介 (東大). 言語処理学会第28回年次大会 (NLP2022) |
| Mar 23 | Taiga Ishii and Ryo Ueda received the Special Committee Award from NLP2022 | LSTMの無変化性バイアスの実験的分析, 石井太河, 上田亮, 宮尾祐介 (東大). 言語処理学会第28回年次大会 (NLP2022) |
| Mar 23 | Takuto Asakura received the Special Committee Award from NLP2022 | MioGattoによる数式グラウンディングデータセットの構築, 朝倉卓人, 宮尾祐介 (東大), 相澤彰子 (NII). 言語処理学会第28回年次大会 (NLP2022) |
| Jan 17 | Talk by Hiroya Takamura (AI Research Center, AIST) | Title: Recent Advances in Natural Language Generation |
2021
| Nov 4 | Online Welcome Party for New Comers | New Comers: Rachel Sidney Devianti (M1), Hiromu Matsushima (M1), Hiromasa Sakurai (B4), Taichi Yamamoto (B4), Katô Taisei (B4), and Romain Harang (Research Student) |
| Jun 3 | Online Welcome Party for New Comers | New Comers: Stephen Fitz (D1), Pratik Sutar (M1), and Yifan Cao (M1) |
| May 27 | Talk by Kento Watanabe (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST) | Title: Lyrics Information Processing: Analysis, Generation, and Applications |
| Mar 4 | Talk by Hitomi Yanaka (RIKEN AIP, Natural language understanding team) | Title: Exploring the Generalization Ability of Neural Models through Monotonicity |
2020
| May 28 | Talk by Maria Telegina (Tokyo College, University of Tokyo) | Title: Towards an Understanding of Time and Space in Japanese Language |
| Apr 2 | Online Welcome Party for New Comers | |
| Jan 30 | Talk by Sampo Pyysalo (University of Turku) | Title: Universal Dependency Parsing of Biomedical English |
| Jan 16 | Talk by Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge) | Title: LION tools for knowledge discovery on cancer |
2019
| Dec 23 | Talk by Naoya Inoue (Tohoku University) | Title: NLU Systems Learn to Understand or Find Shortcuts? |
| Dec 19 | End of Year Party | |
| Dec 19 | Talk by Pontus Stenetorp (University College London) | Title: Asking better questions |
| Sep 27 | Talk by Iryna Gurevych (Technische Universität Darmstadt) | Title: Let’s Debate: Claim Validation by Humans and Machines |
| Jul 25 | Talk by Alvin Grissom II (Ursinus College) | Title: Thinking about How NLP is Used to Serve Power: Current and Future Trends |
| Jul 18 | Talk by Danushka Bollegala (Amazon) | Title: Deep Learning and Other Innovations at Amazon |
| May 16 | Talk by Yotaro Watanabe (PKSHA Technology) | Title: Social implementation of NLP technologies at PKSHA Technology |
| Apr 18 | Talk by Guests from Google Japan | Title: NLP at Google Tokyo - from The Spot of NLP |
| Apr 11 | Welcome Party for New Comers | |
| Mar 18 | Farewell Party for Fei Cheng |
2018
| Jul 26 | Farewell Party for Internship Students | |
| Jun 14 | Talk by Norman Meuschke (University of Konstanz, Germany) | Title: Analyzing Nontextual Content Features to Detect Academic Plagiarism |
| Mar 30 | Welcome Party for New Commers | |
| Mar 29 | Hanami at Kita-no-Maru Park |
2017
| Mar 24 | Talk by Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) | Title: Anaphora resolution: to what extent does it help NLP applications? |
| Jun 08 | Talk by Gustav Eje HENTER (NII) | Title: Wagging speech by the tail: The case for robust data generation |
2016
| Jul 28 | Talk by Melissa Djuimo (Yseop) | Title: Object Oriented Framework for Explainable Expert Systems |
| Jun 16 | Talk by Alvin Grissom II (University of Colorado Boulder) | Title: Verb Prediction and Other Strategies for SOV-SVO Simultaneous Machine Translation |
2015
| Oct 22 | Talk by Xu Sun (Peking University) | Title: Recent Advance in Structured Prediction and Structured NLP |
| Apr 30 | Talk by Hiroyuki Shindo (NAIST) | Title: Concept Dependency for Syntactic and Semantic Annotations of Natural Language Texts |
| Apr 28 | Talk by Kevin Duh (NAIST) | Title: Incorporating Compositional and Relational Semantics into Word Representation Learning |
| Apr 16 | Talk by Sebastian Riedel (University College London) | Title: Embedding Probabilistic Logic for Machine Reading |
| Mar 5 | Talk by Jan Šnajder (University of Zagreb) | Title: DErivBase: Derivational Morphology meets Distributional Semantics |
2014
| Oct 9 | Talk by Hang Li (Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies) | Title: Semantic Matching: The Next Big Thing for Natural Language Processing? |
| Aug 7 | Talk by Kim Jin-Dong (DBCLS) | Title: PubAnnotation and LODQA |
| Jul 24 | Talk by Jason Naradowsky (UMass Amherst) | Title: Low Resource NLP via Marginalization of Hidden Syntactic Structure |
| Jul 10 | Talk by Sebastian Riedel (University College London) | Title: Injecting Logic into Low-Dimensional Embeddings |
| Jan 22 | Talk by Slav Petrov (Google) | Title: Large-Scale Language Learning |
| Jan 16 | Talk by Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne) | Title: What are Distributional/Compositional Semantic Models, and What do They Really Learn? |
2013
| Nov 21 | Talk by Makoto Miwa (University of Manchester) | Title: Relation Extraction via Structured Prediction with Global Features |
| Apr 18 | Talk by Kim Jin-Dong (DBCLS) | Title: LODQA – a natural language query processing system for SPARQL generation |
| Apr 15 | Talk by Chikara Hashimoto (NICT) | Title: Minimally Supervised Method for Multilingual Paraphrase Extraction from Definition Sentences on the Web |
| Jan 8 | Talk by Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne) | Title: Social Media: Friend or Foe of Natural Language Processing? |
2012
| Dec 21 | Talk by Nigel Collier (NII) | Title: Mining phenotype candidates from the scientific literature with diverse resources |
| Nov 20 | Talk by Richard Socher (Stanford University) | Title: Recursive Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision |
| Aug 2 | Talk by Simone Teufel (University of Cambridge) | Title: NLP for citation network processing |
| Apr 18 | Talk by De Saeger Stijn (NICT) | Title: Knowledge acquisition research behind NICT’s spoken question answering system Ikkyu |