ClingDing Spring 2023 Schedule

Time: Every Wednesday 3-4 (Bloomington Time)

Place: Ballantine Hall 145 or Virtually via Zoom

zoom link: https://iu.zoom.us/j/4503783862

The topics are tentative, but we try to update this page as soon as we can.
  • 01/18 - Organizational meeting
  • 01/25 - Daniel Swanson: Hebrew Coreference, Matt & Daniel: Failure of Machine Learning
  • 02/01 - Nils: Tutorial on Supercomputers
  • 02/08 - Coffee Hour
  • 02/15 - Matt Fort: Latex Tutorial
  • 02/22 - Coffee Hour
  • 03/01 - Python Workshop
  • 03/08 - Luddy Open AI poster session
  • 03/15 - Spring Break!
  • 03/22 - Jacob Striebel: Hiatus, Rob Pugh: English Spanish Code Switching, Meesum Alam: Saraiki Morphology
  • 03/29 - Aaryana: Gender Representation in Aeneid, Matt Buzzell: Vowel Harmony Encoding in RNN
  • 04/05 - Alex O'Neil: Sentence Complexity, Nils Hjortnaes: Historical Text Normalization
  • 04/12 - Santi and Ken Steimel
  • 04/19 - He Zhou: Parsing Xibe, Meesum Alex and Daniel: Saraiki Parser
  • 04/26 - Esra Onal: ASR for Laz, Snigdha Khanna: Speech and Hearing
  • 05/03 - Finals

  • ClingDing Fall 2022 Schedule


  • 08/24 - Organizational meeting
  • 09/01 - Daniel: Acturally Stress IS Finite-State
        Jacob: Goal-based, Trusted Document Retrieval
  • 09/08 - Coffee Hour @ Luzetta and Del Newkirk Café
  • 09/15 - Lily (with Andrew Davis): Predicting natural classes of Arabic phonemes: phonological features vs. character embeddings
  • 09/22 - Dr.Irina Nikishina (Post-doctoral researcher at University of Hamburg): Learning Linguistic Tree Structures with Text and Graph Methods
  • 09/29 - Robert: Universal Dependencies for Western Sierra Puebla Nahuatl
  • 10/06 - Midterm Coffee @ Soma Coffee House (1400 E 3rd St, Bloomington, IN 47401)
  • 10/13 - Meesum: Universal Dependencies for Saraiki
        Alex: Adaptive sentence complexity rank estimation from partial pairwise comparisons
  • 10/20 - Dr. Betül Özateş: Deep-learning based dependency parsing for Turkish
  • 10/27 - Esra: Human language processing meets deep neural networks: Incrementality to recurrence and attention mechanism
         Matthew: Orthography normalization with recurrent neural network transducers recording
  • 11/03 - Dr. Kai Zhen (Applied Scientist at Alexa Speech team Amazon): Sub 8-bit quantization for on-device ASR
  • 11/10 - Nastya: The Potential of Neural Speech Synthesis as Data Augmentation for Speech Enhancement
        Nils: Challenges in Generating Pronunciation Feedback through Speech Recognition
  • 11/17 - Dr. Khaled Elghamry, Chris Kuzma: Internships
  • 11/24 - Thanksgiving
  • 12/01 - Lizzy: Tracking Community-Specific Language across Online Platforms
  • 12/08 & 12/15 - Finals

  • Clingding Spring 2022 Schedule


  • 01/18 - Organizational Meeting
  • 01/25 - Daniel Swanson: A Universal Dependencies Treebank of Ancient Hebrew
  • 02/01 - Eric Chen, Bert Gao (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology):Probing Knowledge for Logical Inference in Pre-trained Language Models
  • 02/08 - TBD
  • 02/15 - TBD
  • 02/22 - Dr. Svetlana Stoyanchev (Research Scientist at Cambridge Research Lab, Toshiba Europe Limited): Action State Update Approach to Interpretation in Dialogue
  • 03/01 - Dr. Jörg Tiedemann (Professor at University of Helsinki): Democratizing Machine Translation
  • 03/08 - Dr. Rebecca Knowles (Research Associate at National Research Council Canada): Low-resource Machine Translation: Making a little (data) go a long way
  • 03/22 - Esra Onal: A Corpus Analysis on Depictives in Turkish
  • 03/29 - Coffee Hour
  • 04/05 - Dr. Emily Tucker Prud'hommeaux (Associate Professor at Boston College)
  • 04/12 - Becca Morris
  • 04/19 - Dr. Cecilia Alm (Associate Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology)
  • 04/26 - Dr. Beáta Megyesi (Professor at Uppsala University)

  • Clingding Fall 2021 Schedule


  • 09/08 - Coffee Hour
  • 09/15 - Dr. Michael McGuire: Computational Sentiment Analysis of an 18th Century Corpus of Moravian English Memoirs
  • 09/22 - Dr. Levi King: Semantic Analysis of Image-based Learner Sentences
  • 09/29 - Dr. Zeeshan Sayyed Ali: Multi-task Learning for Morpho-Syntactic Analysis and Parsing
  • 10/06 - Dr. Hai Hu: Symbolic and Neural Approaches to Natural Language Inference
  • 10/13 - Coffee Hour
  • 10/20 - Tutorial by Nils: Supercomputer at IU
  • 10/27 - Dr. Daniel Dakota: A Look at BERT Models and Cross-Genre Parsing
  • 11/03 - Dr. Miryam de Lhoneux (posdoc at Uppsala University): Low-resource NLP: Lessons from Dependency Parsing
  • 11/10 - Zuoyu Tian: BAHP: Benchmark of Assessing Word Embeddings in Historical Portuguese
  • 11/17 - Dr. Dong Nguyen (assistant professor at Utrecht University): When Representation Learning Meets Language Variation
  • 12/01 - Coffee Hour
  • 12/08 - Nils: Generating Pronunciation Feedback from Speech Recognition

  • Clingding Spring 2021 Schedule


  • 02/02 - Coffee Hour / Clingding Lineup Announcement
  • 02/09 - Dr. Kevin Scannell from Saint Louis University: Neural Models for Predicting Celtic Mutations
  • 02/16 - Nils: The Relevance of the Source Language in Transfer Learning for ASR / Dr. Jeffrey Lamontagne from Indiana University: A Little Bird Told Me - Hidden Phonology on Twitter
  • 02/23 - Coffee Hour
  • 03/02 - Esra: Building a Morphological Analyser for Laz / Hai: Understanding Transfer Learning of Multi-lingual Pre-trained Language Models through Chinese Natural Language Inference
  • 03/09 - Dr. Adina Williams from Facebook: Using Human Perspectives to Understand Natural Language Inference Models
  • 03/16 - Dr. Patrick Haffner from Interactions LLC: AI Asking Humans for Help - How to Optimize the Process with Better Uncertainty Modeling
  • 03/23 - Dr. Miikka Silfverberg from University of British Columbia: Neural Models for Semi-automated Glossing of Gitksan Stories
  • 03/30 - Paul: Computer Simulations in Pragmatics Instruction - Investigating the Effects of Feedback on Learner Refusals and Requests
  • 04/06 - Zeeshan: Annotations Matter - Leveraging Multitask Learning to Parse UD and SUD / Zuoyu: A Computational Study of Language Change in Chinese Biji
  • 04/13 - Dr. Prashant Shiralkar from Amazon: Relation Extraction from the Semi-Structured Web
  • 04/20 - Dr. Jan Chorowski from Univeristy of Wroclaw: Segmental Self-Supervised Learning on Sequences
  • 04/27 - Nils: An Introduction to Supercomputing at IU


  • Clingding Fall 2020 Schedule


  • 08/31 - Organizational Meeting
  • 09/07 - Coffee Hour / CL Taboo Game Development Session
  • 09/14 - He: Universal Dependency Treebank for Xibe
  • 09/21 - Alex Warstadt from New York University: Learning Grammar from Raw Data: Case Studies with Acceptability Judgments and Neural Networks
  • 09/28 - Hai: OCNLI: Original Chinese Natural Language Inference
  • 10/05 - Dr. Malihe Alihkani from University of Pittsburgh: Learning to Connect Images and Text for Natural Communication
  • 10/12 - Zeeshan: Joint Segmentation and Orthography Standardization for Arabic / Zuoyu: Diachronic Text Evaluation for Classical Chinese Biji Texts
  • 10/19 - Nastya: Bandit Approach to Curriculum Generation for Automatic Speech Recognition
  • 10/26 - Yasmeen: Native Language Identification using Reddit data / Yue: Multimodal Emotion Recognition with Audio and Text
  • 11/02 - Dr. Joakim Nivre from Uppsala University: A Tale of Two Parsers – The Final Chapter?
  • 11/09 - Ken: Morphology Matters: A Comparison of Language Modeling at Different Levels of Segmentation / Michael: Computational Sentiment Analysis of an 18th Century Corpus of Moravian English Memoirs
  • 11/16 - Haining: Mode Effects' Challenge to Authorship Attribution
  • 11/23 - Thanksgiving
  • 11/30 - Dr. Brian Riordan from Educational Testing Service: NLP for Scoring Content in Education
  • 12/07 - Coffee Hour

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