== NLPfest 2007 ==

At the second annual NLPfest held on November 9th, 2007, NLP faculty and students from the University of Utah and Brigham Young University gathered in the Computer Science Department at BYU for a day of presentations and discussion of active NLP research.


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! Speaker !! Topic !! Slides
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| Hal Daume || Frustratingly easy domain adaptation  || [http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/nlpfest/daume1.pdf slides]
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| Eric Ringger || Active Learning for Part-of-Speech Tagging: Accelerating Corpus Annotation || [http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/nlpfest/ringger.pdf slides]
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| Hal Daume || Efficient Bayesian Inference and Automation || [http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/nlpfest/daume2.pdf slides]
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| Dan Walker || Clustering Using a Collapsed Gibbs Sampler || [http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/nlpfest/walker.pdf slides]
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| Cecily Heiner || Towards a Virtual TA to Answer Common Questions for Introductory Computer Science  ||[http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/nlpfest/heiner.pdf slides]
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| Peter McClanahan || Graphical models for morphological tagging || [http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/nlpfest/mcclanahan.pdf slides]
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| Piyush Rai || Non-parametric Bayesian factor regression for gene-expression data || [http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/nlpfest/rai.pdf slides]
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| Josh Hansen || Features For The People: An Expert-Enabling User Interface For Feature Engineering || [http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/nlpfest/hansen.pdf slides]
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| Sid Patwardhan || Effective Information Extraction with Semantic Affinity Patterns and Relevant Regions || [http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/nlpfest/patwardhan.pdf slides]
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| Bill Lund || Proto-proposal for improving OCR output using NLP tools || [http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/nlpfest/lund.pdf slides]
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| Arvind Agarwal || Semi-supervised Learning for Time Varying Data || [http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/nlpfest/agarwal.pdf slides]
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| Robbie Haertel || Latent Dirichlet Allocation: A More Credible Approach || [http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/nlpfest/haertel.pdf slides]
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| Nathan Gilbert || Reconciling with the Web (and other adventures in co-reference resolution) || [http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/nlpfest/gilbert.pdf slides]
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| Aaron Davis and Nathan Davis || Fast Clustering with Bisecting EM || [http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/nlpfest/davis.pdf slides]
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| George Busby || Forward Entropy: Finding the true entropy of a sequence to be labeled || [http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/nlpfest/busby.pdf slides]
|}

== NLPfest 2006 ==

Details to be added.