ClingDing Spring 2025 Schedule

Time: Every Wednesday 1:00-2:00 (Bloomington Time)

Place: Ballantine 227 or via Zoom

January 22 — Organisational meeting
January 27 — Daniel (Hebrew Treebank); Rob (Ihquin tlahtouah in Tetelahtzincohcah)
February 5 — Sadia and Melissa (Hate speech); slot2
February 12 — CVs and Internship/Full-time applications
February 19 — Thai Le (Computer Science, IUB)
February 26 — Ben (Git Tutorial)
March 5 — James(Partial Parsing); slot 2
March 12 — Coffee Hour
March 19 — Spring Break
March 26 — Elias; Mohammad (Natural Language Inference
April 2 — Bin Wu (Riken Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Japan): Unsupervised Phoneme Discovery
April 9 — CV review
April 16 — Andrew; Jacob
April 23 — Charlotte (Speech Project); Meesum (Common voice for Pakistani Languages)
April 30 — Coffee hour

ClingDing Fall 2024 Schedule

Time: Every Tuesday 11:55-12:55 (Bloomington Time)

Place: Ballantine 217 or via Zoom

27th August — Organisational meeting
3rd September — Integrating FLEx and Apertium (Daniel); Historical German (Nils)
10th September — Slot 1; Slot 2
17th September — Supercomputer tutorial (Daniel)
24th September — Internship applications (Noor Abo Mokh (Amazon), Yue Chen (Microsoft), Daniel Dakota (Leidos), Ken Steimel (Cisco))
1st October — Git tutorial (Nils)
8th October — Invited talk: Challenges in computational processing of South Asian languages (Tafsir Ahmed)
15th October — Reinforcement learning (Haining); (Muhammad)
22nd October — Coffee hour
29th October — Saraiki CoRSAL (Meesum); Nahuatl something something (Rob)
5th November — Authorship attribution (Jacob); (Sadia)
12th November — ??? (Zack) ; Partial Parsing (Jim)
19th November — Thanksgiving
26th November — RAG for ADE (Andrew); ??? (Alex)
3rd December — ??? (Rin); ??? (Melissa)
10th December — Coffee hour

ClingDing Spring 2024 Schedule

Time: Every Wednesday 16:00—17:00 (Bloomington Time)

Place: Biology Building A105 or Virtually via Zoom

Zoom Link: https://iu.zoom.us/j/9863591345

01/17 — Organisational meeting
01/24 — Tutorial on interacting with job candidates
01/31 — Carla Soekefeld: Evaluating word embeddings for historical German
02/07 — Nils Hjortnaes: Supercomputing tutorial
02/14 — Coffee hour
02/21 — Daniel Swanson: Parselmouth tutorial
02/28 — Sandra Kuebler: Latex tutorial
03/06 — Coffee hour
~~03/13~~ — Spring break
03/20 — Muhammad: Arabic Financial Named Entity Recogniser; Nils Hjortnaes: Unsupervised normalisation of historical German
03/27 — Resume Session with Yue Chen and Daniel Dakota
04/03 — Lily Kawaoto: Job Search from the Inside
04/10 — Alex O'Neil: Readability
04/17 — Coffee Hour at Crumble on Swain
04/24 — Robert Pugh: TBD; Daniel Swanson: TBD

Tutorial: Resumes+Internships+Jobs
TBD: Sadia, Zuoyu, James, Esra, Holly, Jacob, Andrew, Santi, Meesum, Zack

ClingDing Fall 2023 Schedule

08/31 - Organizational Meeting
09/07 - Daniel Swanson: A Parallel Greek-Hebrew Treebank (feat. Matt Fort)
09/14 - Supercomputer Tutorial
09/21 - Jacob Striebel: Domain Adaptation for Dependency Parsing
09/28 - Internship Stuff (Short Presentations + Application tips)
10/05 - Coffee Hour
10/12 - Nils Hjortnaes: Results of the Pronunciation Feedback, Alex O'Neil: Leveraging linguistic data for Apertium data creation
10/19 - Coffee Hour
10/26 - Coffee Hour
11/02 - Zack Leech: Tok Pisin Pipeline
11/09 - Robert Pugh: NLP for Nahuatl
11/16 - Andrew Davis: Detecting Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) in Social Media Text
11/23 - Thanksgiving
11/30 - Meesum Alam: Universal Dependencies for Saraiki
12/07 - Coffee Hour

ClingDing Spring 2023 Schedule

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 - 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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