Invited Talks at Conferences and Workshops

Keynote Speaker, Improving Students' Writing with Automated Grammatical Error Correction, 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2013), 14 – 18 October, 2013, Nagoya, Japan. Slides.

Invited Speaker, Exploiting Language Learners' Essays and Their First Language for Automated Essay Correction, 8th National Natural Language Processing Research Symposium (NNLPRS), 24 – 25 November, 2011, Manila, Philippines.

Keynote Speaker, Translating Natural Language to Meaning Representation: An Unsupervised Learning Approach, Third Symposium on Innovations in Machine Translation Technologies (IMTT 2009), 9 – 10 March, 2009, Tokyo, Japan.

Keynote Speaker, Mapping Natural Language to Meaning Representation: An Unsupervised Learning Approach, 5th Young Scholar Symposium on Natural Language Processing (YSSNLP 2008), 13 – 14 November, 2008, Beijing, China.

Keynote Speaker, Recent Advances in Word Sense Disambiguation: Scaling Up, Sense Prior Estimation, and Integration into Statistical Machine Translation, Microsoft Research Asia – KAIST Workshop on Web-Scale Natural Language Processing, 21 – 22 February, 2008, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea.

Invited Panelist, Microsoft Research Asia – KAIST Workshop on Web-Scale Natural Language Processing, 21 – 22 February, 2008, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea.

Invited Speaker, "Recent Advances in Word Sense Disambiguation: Scaling Up, Sense Prior Estimation, and Integration into Statistical Machine Translation", 19th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2007), 6 – 7 September, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan.

Invited Panelist, "Noisy Text Analytics: An Exercise in Futility", IJCAI 2007 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, 8 January, 2007, Hyderabad, India.

Keynote Speaker, "Towards Word Sense Disambiguation in the Large", 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2007), 4 – 6 January, 2007, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India.

Keynote Speaker, "Towards Word Sense Disambiguation in the Large", 21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL 2006), 17 – 19 December 2006, Singapore.

Invited Speaker, "Getting Serious about Word Sense Disambiguation", Workshop on Tagging Text with Lexical Semantics, organized by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX), Association for Computational Linguistics, April 4 – 5, 1997, Washington, DC, USA.

Other Technical Talks

Word Sense Disambiguation for All Words without Hard Labor, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5 Feb 2010, Beijing, China.

Word Sense Disambiguation Using OntoNotes: An Empirical Study, Toshiba (China) Research and Development Center, 16 December 2008, Beijing, China.

Recent Advances in Word Sense Disambiguation: Scaling Up, Sense Prior Estimation, and Integration into Statistical Machine Translation, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 13 June 2008, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.

Who Did What to Whom: Broad-Coverage Semantic Role Labeling of Free Text. Fifth Korea-Singapore Joint Workshop on Bioinformatics and Natural Language Processing, 17 November 2006, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea.

Chinese Word Segmentation: A Maximum Entropy Approach. 5th China-Japan Natural Language Processing Joint Research Promotion Conference (CJNLP-05), 10 November 2005, Laforet Yamanakako, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.

Sister Conference Highlights: ACL 2005 Conference, 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005), 12 July 2005, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Semantic Argument Classification Exploiting Argument Interdependence, Peking University, 8 June 2005, Beijing, China.

Some Recent Research at the NUS Computational Linguistics Lab: June 2005 Progress Update, Second Young Scholar Symposium on Natural Language Processing (YSS-NLP 2005), Harbin Institute of Technology, 4 June 2005, Harbin, China.

Information Extraction from Semi-Structured and Free Text, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2 June 2005, Harbin, China.

Semantic Role Labeling, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2 June 2005, Harbin, China.

Semantic Argument Classification Exploiting Argument Interdependence, Microsoft Research Asia, 30 May 2005, Beijing, China.

Scaling Up Word Sense Disambiguation via Parallel Texts, Tsinghua University, 27 May 2005, Beijing, China.

Scaling Up Word Sense Disambiguation via Parallel Texts, Microsoft Research Asia, 25 May 2005, Beijing, China.

Some Recent Research at the NUS Computational Linguistics Lab: 2004 Progress Update, 4th China-Japan Joint Conference to Promote Cooperation in Natural Language Processing (CJNLP-04), Nov 10 – 15, 2004, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Exploiting Parallel Texts for Word Sense Disambiguation, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 30 April 2004, Cambridge, MA, USA.

A Maximum Entropy Approach to Information Extraction from Semi-Structured and Free Text, Information Sciences Institute (ISI), University of Southern California (USC), 15 July 2002, Marina del Rey, CA, USA.