Language Technology Group (LTG)
This group meets weekly within the Department of Computing, Macquarie University.
We meet on Monday mornings 11.00-12.30pm in room 221, 4 Research Park Drive.
All are welcome to join us.
Contact Diego Molla if you’d like to get more information or to join the mailing list.
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 25 | Jason Hepburn | Abstractive Summarisation for Biomedical Question Answering |
| Nov 18 | Gayathri Rajan | An Interactive Web Interface for Conceptual Models |
| Nov 11 | Ian Wood | Matching the Blanks: Distributional Similarity for Relation Learning |
| Nov 4 | Yufei Wang | Captioning Images Containing Novel Objects |
| Sep 9 | Diego Molla | Classification Betters Regression in Query-based Multi-document Summarisation Techniques for Question Answering: Macquarie University at BioASQ 7b |
| Sep 2 | Ian Wood | Unsupervised Induction of Predicate Entailments using Box Embeddings |
| Aug 19 | Steve Cassidy | Voice Presentation Attack Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks |
| Aug 12 | Abdus Salam | Answering Why-Questions using Probabilistic Logic Programming |
| Aug 5 | Sonit Singh | XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding |
| Jul 29 | Kevin Purnell | A Proposal for Improving ‘Smart Contracts’ |
| Jul 22 | Bayzid Hossain | Semantic Round-Tripping in Conceptual Modelling using Restricted Natural Language |
| Jul 15 | Yufei Wang | How to best use Syntax in Semantic Role Labelling |
| Jul 1 | Rolf Schwitter | Augmenting an Answer Set based Controlled Natural Language with Temporal Expressions |
| Jun 3 | Urvashi Khanna | BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding |
| May 27 | Diego Molla | Comparing Minimum Risk Training and REINFORCE |
| May 20 | Fred Amouzgar | Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms |
| May 13 | Steve Cassidy | Speaker Identification and Verification |
| Apr 15 | Yufei Wang | nocaps: novel object captioning at scale |
| Apr 01 | Abdus Salam | Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge |
| Mar 25 | Fred Amouzgar | Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning |
| Mar 18 | Chris Jones | Neural Extractive Document Summarisation 1 2 |
| Mar 04 | Emmanuel Chemla | Reconstruction of ancient calls - work in progress/discussion |
| Feb 11 | Weiling Chen and Mark Johnson | Neural Approaches to Conversational AI: Question Answering, Task-Oriented Dialogues and Social Chatbots |