[Probcogsci] Prob Cogsci reading group this quarter

[Roger Levy]

Hi all,

Actually, we covered this paper (the ACL 2006 paper) in my lab a  
couple of years ago.  However, it'd probably be going over it in  
probcogsci group as well -- it's a good paper.

Roger

On Jan 12, 2010, at 3:41 PM, Angela Yu wrote:

> Dear Mike,
>
> Thanks for reminding me.  Yes!  I was thinking about this paper by  
> Yee-whye:
> http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~ywteh/research/compling/acl2006.pdf
>
> This was a model proposed for natural languages (and also has power- 
> law properties), and so may especially appeal to the language  
> modeling members of our reading group.
>
> The newer paper you referred to also looks very interesting, and in  
> fact finds a formal relationship between a new model with the old  
> model.
>
> I suggest that we read the 2006 paper first, and then see if we want  
> to continue with the newer paper the following week.
>
> Mike, do you think you can lead the discussion on the 2006 paper at  
> our first meeting on Jan. 29?
>
> Thanks,
> Angela
>
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> Angela J. Yu
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> Department of Cognitive Science
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>
> On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Michael C. Mozer wrote:
>
>> you'd mentioned some work involving dirichlet priors and power law
>> functions for memory, maybe by Yee Whye Teh.  we talked about  
>> reading it
>> for the group.
>>
>> i remember seeing this at NIPS:
>> http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips22/NIPS2009_0464.pdf
>> is this the work you were referring to?
>>
>>
>> On 1/11/2010 4:46 PM, Angela Yu wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> We will meet Friday 1-2 this quarter.  Would anyone like to  
>>> suggest a
>>> paper for this Friday?
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Angela
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>> Angela J. Yu
>>> Assistant Professor
>>> Department of Cognitive Science
>>> UCSD, Mail Code 0515
>>> 9500 Gilman Drive
>>> La Jolla, CA 92093-0515
>>>
>>> Email: ajyu at cogsci.ucsd.edu
>>> Phone: 858-822-3317
>>> Fax: 858-534-1128
>>> Website: www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~ajyu
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>
>
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