Lecture

Date

Description

Readings

Presenter

1

Mon, Jan 6, 2014

Introduction

FeiFei Li

2

Wed, Jan 8, 2014

Knowledge Base: Cyc and Freebase

Reading 1: Bollacker et al.; Reading 2: Guha and Lenat; Supplementary: Matuszek et al.

Justin Johnson

3

Mon, Jan 13, 2014

Making systems that use statistical reasoning easier to build and maintain over time

Reading 1: Govindaraju et al.; Reading 2: Niu et al.

Christopher Re

4

Wed, Jan 15, 2014

Using Freebase for learning relations

Mintz et al.

Vignesh Ramanathan

5

Mon, Jan 20, 2014

No Class, MLK day

6

Wed, Jan 22, 2014

Semantic Parsing on Freebase from Question-Answer Pairs

Berant et al.

Jonathan Berant

7

Mon, Jan 27, 2014

NELL (Never Ending Language Learning)

Carlson et al.

Serena Yeung

8

Wed, Jan 29, 2014

NEIL (Never Ending Image Learning)

Chen et al.

Yuke Zhu

9

Mon, Feb 3, 2014

Connecting Linguistic and Geometric Knowledge by Observing the World

Manolis Savva and Angel Chang

10

Wed, Feb 5, 2014

Games for generating descriptions

Reading: Golland et al.

Toan Tran

11

Mon, Feb 10, 2014

Jointly Learning to Parse and Perceive

Krishnamurthy and Kollar

Kevin Miller

12

Wed, Feb 12, 2014

Watson DeepQA

Ferrucci et al.

Rob Voigt

13

Mon, Feb 17, 2014

No Class, President's Day

14

Wed, Feb 19, 2014

Image to Text

Reading 1: Berg et al.; Reading 2: Kulkarni et al.

Kristen Lurie

15

Mon, Feb 24, 2014

Reasoning with Neural Tensor Networks

Socher et al.

Andrej Karpathy

16

Wed, Feb 26, 2014

Physics Based Knowledge (Blocks World)

Reading 1: Roberts; Reading 2: Gupta et al.

Yuke Zhu, Vignesh Ramanathan

17

Mon, Mar 3, 2014

Robots Learning Language

Tellex et al.

Justin Johnson

18

Wed, Mar 5, 2014

Vision + Language

Fidler et al.

Kevin Miller

19

Mon, Mar 10, 2014

Project Presentations

20

Mon, Mar 17, 2014

Project Report Due