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Feb 12 (Tue):
10:30-10:50 Opening Remarks and Project Introduction
   Tsujii, Jun'ichi
10:50-12:10 Session I: New Models for NLP
   Haghighi, Aria, University of California at Berkeley, USA Slides
"Latent Variable Models in NLP"
   Okanohara, Daisuke, University of Tokyo, Slides
"Dualized L1-regularized Log-Linear Models and Its Application in NLP"
12:10-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-16:00 Session II: Information Extraction
   Sagae, Kenji, University of Tokyo, Japan
"Predicate-argument analysis with DAG parsing"
   McDonald, Ryan, Google, USA, Slides
"Leveraging User Annotations in Sentiment Summarization"
   Liu, Tie-Yan, Microsoft Research Asia, China, Slides
"Learning to Rank: From Pairwise Approach to Listwise Approach"
16:00-16:20 Break
16:20-17:40 Session III: Structured Output Learning for NLP
   Tsuboi, Yuta, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan, Slides
"Conditional Random Fields Incorporating Incomplete Annotations"
   Suzuki, Jun, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan, Slides
"Semi-supervised Structured Output Learning"
Feb 13 (Wed):
10:00-12:00 Session IV: Synctactic Parsing
   Matsuzaki, Takuya, University of Tokyo, Japan, Slides
"Comparative parsing evaluation across different grammar frameworks"
   Miyao, Yusuke, University of Tokyo, Japan, Slides
"Towards Framework-Independent Evaluation of Syntactic Parsing"
   Smith, Noah, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Slides
"Two Topics in Statistical NLP: the Jeopardy Model and an M-Estimator"
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-16:00 Session V: Bayesian Models
   Kurihara, Kenichi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, Slides
"Collapsed Variational Inference for Hierarchical Dirichlet Process"
   Sato, Issei, University of Tokyo, Japan, Slides
"Nonparametric Bayesian Approach for The Distributional Hypothesis"
   Mochihashi, Daichi, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan, Slides
"Present and Future of a Text Modeling"
16:00-16:20 Closing Remarks

Each invited speaker will have 30 minutes for her/his talk, which is followed by 10 minutes Q/A.

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