NERT @ Georgetown University

Things we’re working on include: meaning representation and parsing in multiple languages (frameworks: AMR, CCG, STREUSLE/SNACS, UCCA, UD) ▪ natural language generation and evaluation ▪ models and methods for annotation quality and efficiency

• July 2020: At ACL 2020, Aryaman presents "Supervised grapheme-to-phoneme conversion of orthographic schwas in Hindi and Punjabi" and Nathan presents "(Re)construing meaning in NLP"
• May 2020: Siyao et al.'s paper "A corpus of adpositional supersenses for Mandarin Chinese" and Luke et al.'s paper '"AMALGUM – A free, balanced, multilayer English web corpus" are published at LREC
• March 6, 2020: Michael, Emma, Shira, and Luke present at MASC-SLL at UMD College Park
• November 3–4, 2019: Jakob presents at the CoNLL conference
• August & September 2019: Bradford presents at the TBLT and SLRF conferences
• August 1, 2019: Jakob and Lucia present at the Designing Meaning Representations Workshop
• June 2019: Emma presents "A Partially Rule-Based Approach to AMR Generation" at the NAACL Student Research Workshop
• May 23–27, 2019: Austin presents "An Improved Approach for Semantic Graph Composition with CCG" at IWCS 2019
• May 6, 2019: Lucia defends her dissertation to become Dr. Donatelli! (link) Her next adventure will be a postdoc at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany.
• January 3–6, 2019: Several NERT and CorpLing students present at SCiL 2019
• August 25–26, 2018: At the LAW-MWE-CxG workshop, Lucia presents work on tense/aspect for AMR, and Nathan gives a keynote talk on comprehensive annotation of multiword expressions and preposition supersenses
• June 26–27, 2018: Jakob and Nathan present at the Google Assistant and Dialog Workshop
• May 12, 2018: Lucia, Emma, and Jakob present their work at MASC-SLL at UMBC
• May 9-11, 2018: Austin presents "Semantic supersenses for English possessives" at LREC, Miyazaki, Japan
• May 6, 2017: Austin presents his work on possessive semantics at MASC-SLL, Washington, DC