Request for Reading group protocol

Following today when only 2 people turned up for the reading group, could everyone please register their interest (positive or negative) whenever a reading group is coming up? We had agreed that if people were ok to attend, they wouldn't reply to the post.. however, people are just not replying when they can't make it so it can feel a bit like talking to a brick wall.

I am not sure if anyone is actually subscribed to these blogs either so please reply to this post if you have read it!

Hayley

Next heavy reading group on CRFs

Next Heavy reading group will take place on:

[October 16th 2pm]

Presented by:

Hayley

Paper to read:

www.idiap.ch/~hhung/crf.pdf

Following our last heavy reading group conversation, I think this was the paper that was suggested...

Next Light Reading Group

Next reading group will take place on:
Thursday (I'm not here on Friday!) Oct. 1st - 11am

Presented by:
Kate

Paper to read:
NOTE: EXCLUDE section 3 to make it a light read!
www.cs.princeton.edu/~blei/papers/BleiLafferty2006a.pdf

Heavy Reading Group on CRF?

Are enough people here this Friday to read a paper? We have missed a few weeks already.

Choices for the next light reading group

Hi ppl,

Looks like i have to (unfortunately:-) do the next light reading group (4th Sep). But I have 3 choices, all of which i enjoyed reading.

(1) Overview paper on computational social science by pentland et al.,
(2) Statistical basis for performance evaluation.
(3) A classic paper on how and what can you measure?

Take a look at the files present in /homes/sparta/reading_group and comment on what you would prefer to read.

Thanks,
Hari

tagging and calendar reminder

Hi Everyone
Can you please make sure you always tag your posts and also if it's a reading group, please put it into the google calendar so that everyone can see when it's happening!

Heavy Reading Group on CRF

Next reading group will take place on:

[21. August 2009]

Presented by:

[Kate]

Paper to read:

[http://www.scai.fraunhofer.de/fileadmin/images/bio/data_mining/paper/crf_klinger_tomanek.pdf]