CS 775: Seminar in Natural Language Understanding
(The NLP Seminar)

Spring 2007
Mondays, 3:45-4:45 p.m., Upson 5126

This weekly graduate-level seminar involves presentation and/or discussion of recent research results in natural language processing, computational linguistics, and related fields as relevant (e.g., information retrieval or machine learning). To sign up to receive seminar announcements, please contact the Spring 2007 organizer, Claire Cardie.

Date	Event/paper/Emcee
Jan. 29	Organizational meeting.
Feb. 5	Open Information Extraction from the Web. Michele Banko, Michael J. Cafarella, Stephen Soderland, Matt Broadhead, Oren Etzioni. [pdf] Eric leads the discussion.
Feb. 12	Applying Alternating Structure Optimization to Word Sense Disambiguation. Rie Kubota Ando. CoNLL 2006 (best paper award). [pdf] Yejin leads the discussion.
Feb. 19	Local Textual Inference: It's hard to circumscribe, but you know it when you see it — and NLP needs it. Christopher D. Manning. Manuscript, 2006 [pdf] Ves leads the discussion.
Feb. 26	Scope and Situation Binding in LTAG using Semantic Unification. Maribel Romero and Laura Kallmeyer. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Computational Semantics. Tilburg, January 2005. [pdf] Matt leads the discussion.
Mar. 5	CS Phd visit day.
Mar. 12	No meeting - Claire out of town.
Mar. 19	Spring Break - no meeting
Mar. 26	Sequential Document Representations and Simplicial Curves. Guy Lebanon. In Proceedings of UAI 2006. [pdf] Asif leads the discussion.
Apr. 2	Postponed.
Apr. 9	Automatically Constructing a Lexicon of Verb Phrase Idiomatic Combinations. Fazly and Stevenson. In Proceedings of EACL 2006. [pdf] Effi leads the discussion.
Apr. 16	No meeting - Claire out of town.
Apr. 23	NAACL conference!!!
Apr. 30	Osamu Furuse, Nobuaki Hiroshima, Setsuo Yamada, Ryoji Kataoka. Opinion Sentence Search Engine on Open-Domain Blog. IJCAI-2007. 2760.  [pdf] Kelly leads the discussion.

Possible sources for recent papers, in no particular order:  IJCAI-07 (organized by topic), COLING/ACL 2006, SIGIR 2006, HLT NAACL 2006, EMNLP 2006, CoNLL 2006 (Cornell NLP-group alum wins best paper award!), EACL 2006.

Some specific papers of possible interest that have not already been claimed (obviously not an exclusive list):

• Carlo Strapparava, Alessandro Valitutti, Oliviero Stock. Dances with Words.  IJCAI-2007. 1719.  [pdf]
• David Kauchak and Regina Barzilay. Paraphrasing for automatic evaluation. HLT-NAACL 2006 [ps]
• David Blei and John Lafferty. Dynamic topic models. ICML 2006 [pdf]
• Ben Carterette, James Allan, and Ramesh Sitaraman. Minimal test collections for retrieval evaluation. SIGIR 2006 (best paper award) [pdf]
• Wei Li and Andrew McCallum. Pachinko Allocation: DAG-structured Mixture Models of Topic Correlations. ICML 2006. [pdf]
• Gilad Mishne, David Carmel, and Ronny Lempel. Blocking blog spam with language model disagreement. Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, 2005. [pdf]
• Claude St-Jacques and Caroline Barrière. Similarity judgments: Philosophical, psychological and mathematical investigations. Workshop on Linguistic Distances, 2006 [pdf]

Previous runnings: F98, S00, S01 (as Statistical Natural Language Processing: Models and Methods), F01, S02, F02, S03, F03, S04, F04,S05, F05, S06, F06

See also the Cornell NLP page and the Cornell machine learning page.

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