CS 775: Seminar in Natural Language Understanding

Fall 2002

Tuesdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Upson 5216

Seminar plans: This semester, we will convene largely as a reading group to present/discuss research papers from recent (usually this year's) NLP conferences. There may also be occasional work-in-progress talks. If you want to be added to the email announcement list please contact Claire Cardie: cardie@cs.cornell.edu.

Date	Paper	Presenter
September 10	Banko & Brill. Scaling to Very Very Large Corpora for Natural Language Disambiguation. ACL 2001.	Claire Cardie
September 17	Keller, Lapata, and Ourioupina. Using the Web to Overcome Data Sparseness. EMNLP 2002. (best paper award)	Filip Radlinski
September 24	Och and Ney. Discriminative Training and Maximum Entropy Models for Statistical Machine Translation. ACL 2002. (best paper award)	Eric Breck
October 1	Eisner. Parameter Estimation for Probabilistic Finite-State Transducers. ACL 2002.	Hubie Chen
October 8	Ravichandran and Hovy. Learning surface text patterns for a Question Answering system. ACL 2002.	Ves Stoyanov
October 15	*FALL BREAK*
October 22	Clough, Gaizauskas, Piao and Wilks. METER: MEasuring TExt Reuse. ACL 2002.	Amanda Holland-Minkley
October 29	Narayanan and Jurafsky. A Bayesian Model Predicts Human Parse Preference and Reading Times in Sentence Processing. NIPS 2001.	Bo Pang
November 5	Ion Muslea, Steve Minton, Craig Knoblock (2002). Active + Semi-Supervised Learning = Robust Multi-View Learning. In Proceedings of ICML-02.	Vincent Ng
November 12	Abney. Bootstrapping. ACL 2002.	Oren Kurland
November 19	Schulte im Walde and Brew. Inducing German Semantic Verb Classes from Purely Syntactic Subcategorisation Information. ACL 2002.	Rob Young
November 26	* THANKSGIVING BREAK*
December 3	Information Science Seminar by Warren Sack. *Meets in Upson 5130*
Next semester...	Marcu and Echihabi. An Unsupervised Approach to Recognizing Discourse Relations. ACL 2002.	Regina Barzilay

Papers suggested for discussion thus far...

Collins. Discriminative Training Methods for Hidden Markov Models: Theory and Experiments with Perceptron Algorithms. EMNLP 2002. (best paper award)
Klein and Manning. A Generative Constituent-Context Model for Improved Grammar Induction. ACL 2002.
Curran. Ensemble Methods for Automatic Thesaurus Extraction. EMNLP 2002. (results conflict with Banko & Brill ACL 2001)
Gildea and Jurafsky. Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles. Computational Linguistics. 2002. (new journal article)
Daume and Marcu. A Noisy-Channel Model for Document Compression. ACL 2002.
Charniak. Immediate-Head Parsing for Language Models. ACL 2001. (best paper award)
Germann, Jahr, Knight, Marcu and Yamada. Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation. ACL 2001. (best paper award)

Organizer: Claire Cardie

Previous runnings: F98, S00, S01 (as Statistical Natural Language Processing: Models and Methods), F01, S02

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