CS 775: Seminar in Natural Language Understanding

Fall 2005

Mondays, 4 :00-5:00 p.m., Upson 5160

Fridays, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Upson 5126

Seminar plans: This semester, we will convene to present and discuss research papers from recent (usually this year's) NLP conferences as well as to discuss ongoing work in Cornell's NLP group. Some week where the topic seems relevant, we will use the Friday MLDG (machine learning discussion group) instead of the Monday seminars.

If you want to be added to the NLP seminar email announcement list, please contact Claire Cardie: cardie@cs.cornell.edu.

If you want to be added to the MLDG email announcement list, please go to http://lists.cs.cornell.edu/mailman/listinfo/mldg-l .

Date

Paper

Sept 9

Stacked Sequential Learning
William Cohen, In IJAI-2005.

Additional readings:

A Maximum Entropy Approach to Natural Language Processing, Adam L. Berger, Stphen A. Della Pietra, Vincdent J. Della Pietra

Maximum Entropy Markov Models for Information Extraction and Segmentation, Adrew McCallum, Dayne Freitag, Fernando Pereira

Sept 16

Ideas presented by Eric and Alex

Sept 23

Modeling Word Burstiness Using the Dirichlet Distribution, R Madsen, D Kauchak and C Elkan,ICML-2005

Sept 26

Unsupervised learning of natural languages, Zach Solan, David Horn, Eytan Ruppin, and Shimon Edelman

Oct 7

Zoubin Gharamani's tutorial on non-parametric Bayesian methods

Oct 14

Bayesian Haplotype Inference via the Dirichlet Process, Eric Xing, Roded Sharan, Michael I. Jordan, Tech report, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, 2003

Oct 21

Ideas presented by Thomas Finley

Oct 24

Collective Content Selection for Concept-To-Text Generation, Regina Barzilay, Mirella Lapata, In Proc. of EMNLP, 2005.

Nov 4

Pranking with ranking, K. Crammer and Y. Singer, NIPS 2001

Nov 7

A Shortest Path Dependency Kernel for Relation Extraction, Bunescu, R. C., and Mooney, R.J.,in Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Nov 14

No seminar

Nov 21

Emotions from text: machine learning for text-based emotion prediction, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Dan Roth and Richard Sproat, HLT-EMNLP 2005

Organizer: Claire Cardie

Previous runnings: F98, S00, S01 (as Statistical Natural Language Processing: Models and Methods), F01, S02, F02, S03, F03, S04, F04, S05

See also the AI graduate studies page or the Cornell NLP page.

CS775, Spring '05

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Date	Paper
Sept 9	Stacked Sequential Learning William Cohen, In IJAI-2005. Additional readings: A Maximum Entropy Approach to Natural Language Processing, Adam L. Berger, Stphen A. Della Pietra, Vincdent J. Della Pietra Maximum Entropy Markov Models for Information Extraction and Segmentation, Adrew McCallum, Dayne Freitag, Fernando Pereira
Sept 16	Ideas presented by Eric and Alex
Sept 23	Modeling Word Burstiness Using the Dirichlet Distribution, R Madsen, D Kauchak and C Elkan,ICML-2005
Sept 26	Unsupervised learning of natural languages, Zach Solan, David Horn, Eytan Ruppin, and Shimon Edelman
Oct 7	Zoubin Gharamani's tutorial on non-parametric Bayesian methods
Oct 14	Bayesian Haplotype Inference via the Dirichlet Process, Eric Xing, Roded Sharan, Michael I. Jordan, Tech report, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, 2003
Oct 21	Ideas presented by Thomas Finley
Oct 24	Collective Content Selection for Concept-To-Text Generation, Regina Barzilay, Mirella Lapata, In Proc. of EMNLP, 2005.
Nov 4	Pranking with ranking, K. Crammer and Y. Singer, NIPS 2001
Nov 7	A Shortest Path Dependency Kernel for Relation Extraction, Bunescu, R. C., and Mooney, R.J.,in Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Nov 14	No seminar
Nov 21	Emotions from text: machine learning for text-based emotion prediction, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Dan Roth and Richard Sproat, HLT-EMNLP 2005