Dan Roth - Tutorials

ACL-2021 A tutorial on Event-Centric Natural Language Processing, August 2021
(given by Muhao Chen, Hongming Zhang, Qiang Ning, Manling Li, Heng Ji, Kathleen McKeown, and Dan Roth )

AAAI-2021 A tutorial on Event-Centric Natural Language Understanding, February 2021
(given by Muhao Chen, Hongming Zhang, Qiang Ning, Manling Li, Heng Ji, and Dan Roth )

ACL-2020 A tutorial on Commonsense Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Natural Language Processing (pptx), July 2020
(given by Yejin Choi, Vered Shwartz, Maarten Sap, Antoine Bosselut, and Dan Roth )

AAAI-2020 A tutorial on Recent Advances in Transferable Representation Learning, February 2020
(given by Muhao Chen, Kai-Wei Chang, and Dan Roth )

ACL-2018 A tutorial on Multi-lingual Entity Discovery and Linking (abstract , pptx (long)), July 2018
(given by Dan Roth, Avirup Sil, Heng Ji, and Silviu-Petru Cucerzan, July 2018.)

EACL-2017 A tutorial on Integer Linear Programming Formulations in Natural Language Processing, April 2017
(given by Dan Roth Vivek Srikumar. April 2017.)

AAAI 2016 A tutorial on Learning and Inference in Structured Prediction Models, February 2016
(given by Dan Roth, Kai-Wei Chang, Gourab Kundu and Vivek Srikumar.)

ACL2014 A tutorial on Wikification and Entity Linking (pdf , pptx (long)) June 2014
(given by Dan Roth, Heng Ji, Taylor Cassidy and Ming-Wei Chang. June 2014.)

University of Heidelberg A tutorial on Predicting Structures in NLP: Constrained Conditional Models and Integer Linear Programming (pptx package) October 2013
Related Material:
** Key recent paper: M. Chang, L. Ratinov and D. Roth, Structured Learning with Constrained Conditional Models Machine Learning Journal 2012.
** Key papers to cite: D. Roth and W. Yih, Global Inference for Entity and Relation Identification via a Linear Programming Formulation. Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning (2007)
D. Roth and W. Yih, A Linear Programming Formulation for Global Inference in Natural Language Tasks. CoNLL 2004
M. Chang and L. Ratinov and N. Rizzolo and D. Roth, Learning and Inference with Constraints. AAAI (2008)
** Notes by Scott Yih on Setting up Global Inference as Integer Linear Programming
** Notes by Vivek Srikumar on the use of soft constraints in Integer Linear Programming
** Notes on Work on Constrained Conditional Models in the Cognitive Computation Group (Updated ~2010)
** Bibliography on Constrained Conditional Models and Integer Linear Programming Formulations of Global Inference in NLP

AAAI 2013 The 27th Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. A tutorial on Infromation Trustworthiness. (given together with Jeffrey Pasternack (Facebook Inc.) and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), July 2013, Bellevue, WA)

COLING 2012 the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. A tutorial on Temporal Information Extraction and Shallow Temporal Reasoning (pdf , pptx). (given together with Dan Roth, Heng Ji, Taylor Cassidy and Quang Do. December 2012, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India)

NAACL-2012 The 13th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. A tutorial on Structured Predictions in NLP: Constrained Conditional Models and Integer Linear Programming. (given together with Vivek Srikumar and Dan Goldwasser, June 2012, Los Angeles) (PPT Package)
Related Material:
** Notes by Scott Yih on Setting up Global Inference as Integer Linear Programming
** Notes by Vivek Srikumar on the use of soft constraints in Integer Linear Programming
** Notes on Work on Constrained Conditional Models in the Cognitive Computation Group (Updated ~2010)
** Bibliography on Constrained Conditional Models and Integer Linear Programming Formulations of Global Inference in NLP

NAACL-2010 The 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. A tutorial on Integer Linear Programming and Constrained Conditional Models for NLP. (given together with Ming-Wei Chang and Nick Rizzolo, June 2010, Los Angeles) (PDF)
Related Material:
** Notes by Scott Yih on Setting up Global Inference as Integer Linear Programming
** Notes on Work on Constrained Conditional Models in the Cognitive Computation Group
** Bibliography on Constrained Conditional Models and Integer Linear Programming Formulations of Global Inference in NLP

NAACL-2010 The 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. A tutorial on Textual Entailment. (given by Mark Sammons, V.G. Vinod Vydiswaran, and Idan Szpektor at Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA)

EACL-2009 The 12th Conference of the European Association of Computation Linguistics. A tutorial on Constrained Conditional Models. (given together with Ming-Wei Chang and Lev Ratinov, March 2009, Athens)

ACL-2007 The 13th Conference of the Association of Computation Linguistics. A tutorial on Textual Entailment. (given together with Ido Dagan and Fabio Zanzotto, June 2007, Prague)

ESSLLI-2001 The 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language. University of Helsinki, Helsinki. A tutorial on Machine Learning: Theory and applications to Natural Language. (Aug. 2001)