Talks, Detlef Prescher

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't." (Shakespeare)

2006

• The 18th BeNeLux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Namur, Belgium:
  What Are Treebank Grammars? (6 October, 2006) [pdf]

2005

• The 16th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, Amsterdam:
  Inducing Head-Driven PCFGs with Semantic Heads. (16 December, 2005)
  
  
• Whither DOP? Workshop, University of Amsterdam:
  Treebank Grammars and Other Infinite Parameter Models (9 December, 2005) [pdf]
  
  
• The 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, Vancouver, Canada:
  Head-Driven PCFGs with Latent-Head Statistics. (9-10 October, 2005) [pdf]
  
  
• 16th European Conference on Machine Learning, Porto, Portugal:
  Inducing Head-Driven PCFGs with Latent Heads: Refining a Tree-bank Grammar for Parsing. (3-7 October, 2005)
  
  
• Computational Linguistics Seminar, University of Amsterdam:
  Head-Driven PCFGs with Latent-Head Statistics. (28 September, 2005)

2004

• Linguistics Post-Graduate College, University of Stuttgart:
  Treebank Grammars - An Overview and Some Experiments on Parsing German. (24 June, 2004. Invited)
  See also:
  Grammatical Functions and Parsing the German Negra Treebank. (Presentation by Karin Müller in December 2003) [pdf]
  Experiments in German Treebank Parsing (Presentation by Karin Müller in September 2003) [pdf]
  
  
• The Logic Tea, University of Amsterdam:
  Probabilistic Grammars. (17 June, 2004)

2003

• The 14th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, Antwerp, Belgium:
  Parameter Estimation and the Structure of the DOP Model. (December 2003) [pdf]
  
  
• Human-Computer Studies Lab, University of Amsterdam:
  Statistical Natural Language Processing. (28 November, 2003) [pdf]

2002

• Workshop: Beyond PARSEVAL, Las Palmas, Spain:
  Evaluation of the Gramotron Parser for German. (June 2002) [postscript]
  
  
• Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam:
  EM-Based Clustering. (1 March, 2002. Invited) [postscript]
  
  
• PhD Defense, University of Stuttgart:
  Treebank Training, Inside-Outside Estimation, and the EM Algorithm. (January 2002) [postscript]

2001

• The 7th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, Beijing, China:
  Inside-Outside Estimation Meets Dynamic EM. (October 2001) [postscript]
  
  
• Euro Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria:
  Novel Properties and Performance of EM-Based Multivariate Clustering. (September 2001) [postscript]

2000

• Language Technology Lab, DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken:
  Inducing a Semantically Annotated Lexicon via EM-Based Clustering. (29 November, 2000. Invited) [postscript]
  
  
• The 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Saarbrücken, Germany:
  Using a Probabilistic Class-Bases Lexicon for Lexical Ambiguity Resolution. (August 2000) [postscript]
  
  
• Workshop: Collocations - Linguistic Description and Acquisition from Text, Marburg, Germany:
  Probabilistic Clustering for Identification of Verb-Noun- Collocations. (March 2000) [postscript]

1999

• Verbmobil Project, University of Stuttgart:
  Inducing a Semantically Annotated Lexicon via EM-Based Clustering. (Fall 1999)
  
  
• Verbmobil Project, University of Stuttgart:
  Inside-Outside Estimation of a Lexicalized PCFG for German. (Fall 1999)

1998

• Sparkle Technical Meeting, Pisa, Italy:
  Semantic Type and Selection. (June 1998)

1997

• Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart:
  Statistische Disambiguierung für den Verbmobil-Transfer. (December 1997)