Readings and Materials for Class; Project Due Dates

Readings and Materials for Class

Date	Presenter, Handouts	Readings	Assignments
Tue 2/2	Introduction to the class
Thurs 2/4	Evaluating NLP research
Tues 2/9	Claire Intro to Argumentation Mining poster Slides and poster thanks(!!) to Ivan Habernal, Iryna Gurevych and Cristian Stab.	Exploiting Debate Portals for Semi-Supervised Argumentation Mining in User-Generated Web Discourse, Ivan Habernal and Iryna Gurevych, EMNLP 2015.	1 review; 1 research idea.
Thurs 2/11	Claire Example Slides (Thanks to Andreas Peldszus and Manfred Stede!)	Joint prediction in MST-style discourse parsing for argumentation mining, Andreas Peldszus and Manfred Stede, EMNLP 2015.
Tues 2/16	February Break
Thurs 2/18	Claire Karthik's slides	Machine Comprehension with Discourse Relations, Karthik Narasimhan and Regina Barzilay, ACL-IJCNLP 2015. I do not disagree: leveraging monolingual alignment to detect disagreement in dialogue, Ajda Gokcen and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, ACL-IJCNLP 2015.	1 review OR research idea.
Tues 2/23 and Thurs 2/25	No lecture. Class time (and classroom) free for project idea brainstorming meetings.		First presenter(s) should start preparing their presentation. In general, all students should start preparing their presentation and/or do the reading a week ahead of time; students are responsible for keeping track of due dates for presentations, critiques, etc.
Tues 3/1	Claire slides	Joint Prediction for Entity/Event-Level Sentiment Analysis using Probabilistic Soft Logic Models, Lingjia Deng; Janyce Wiebe, EMNLP 2015.
Thurs 3/3	Claire Lu's slides	Socially-Informed Timeline Generation for Complex Events, Lu Wang; Claire Cardie; Galen Marchetti, NAACL 2015.	1 related research idea
Tues 3/8	Laure slides	Determining If Two Documents Are Written by the Same Author, Moshe Koppel and Yaron Winter, JAIST 65:1, 178–187, 2014.	1 related research idea
Thurs 3/10	Kevin	A Frame of Mind: Using Statistical Models for Detection of Framing and Agenda Setting Campaigns, Oren Tsur, Dan Calacci, David Lazer, ACL-IJCNLP, 2015	1 related research idea PROJECT PROPOSAL (draft) due Friday 3/11 via Piazza. Describe the problem or application to be addressed; the method or approach you'll employ; what data or corpora you'll use or create; evaluation plans. Authorship statement: if you intend to ask or have already arranged to have people other than your CS6740-enrolled teammates, also name each such person.
Tues 3/15	Project proposal feedback and discussion.		Read proposals and prepare questions and feedback.
Thurs 3/17	Project proposal feedback and discussion (continued).		Read proposals and prepare questions and feedback.
Tues 3/22	Ji Hun Heejung slides	Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Justin Cheng, Jon Kleinberg, Lillian Lee. You had me at hello: How phrasing affects memorability. ACL 2012.	1 related research idea
Thurs 3/24			1 related research idea RELATED WORK SUMMARY due FRI 3/25 via CMS. Write up short descriptions of relevant previous work in the context of your project. For the purposes of this class, you need not be exhaustive, but include at least 5 related papers in the discussion. Focus on organizing the related work into coherent sets rather than just describing one paper after another. In addition, make clear how your work differs from (or in what respects it is the same as) the previous work.
Tues 3/29	Spring Break
Thurs 3/31	Spring Break
Tues 4/5	Mingtong Yingbin	Reasoning about Entailment with Neural Attention, Rocktäschel et al., ICLR 201.6
Thurs 4/7	Liye Yao	Automatic Sarcasm Detection: A Survey, Aditya Joshi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Mark James Carman, arxiv.org	1 related research idea
Tues 4/12	Kai Huichu	Deep Learning for Event-Driven Stock Prediction, Ding et al., IJCAI 2015.	1 related research idea PROGRESS REPORT due Monday 4/11 via CMS. Report progress w.r.t. coding, corpus creation, initial results (and analysis of errors), problems that arose, etc. Include a plan (with dates) for how you will complete the project.
Thurs 4/14	Yu Esin	Who caught a cold? — Identifying the subject of a symptom, Kanouchi et al., ACL 2015. From Word Embeddings To Document Distances, Matt Kusner, Yu Sun, Nikolas Kolkin and Kilian Weinberger, ICM 2015.	1 related research idea
Tues 4/19	NO CLASS Class time (and classroom) free for project-related meetings.
Thurs 4/21	NO CLASS Class time (and classroom) free for project-related meetings.
Tues 4/26	Becca Tom	A Unified Multilingual Semantic Representation of Concepts, Jose Camacho-Collados et al., ACL 2015. ́ Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal: A Case Study on an Online Strategy Game, Niculae et al., ACL 2015.
Thurs 4/28	Tianyun	Joint Graphical Models for Date Selection in Timeline Summarization, Tran et al., ACL 2015.
Tues 5/3	Radu	Sentiment after Translation: A Case-Study on Arabic Social Media Posts, Salameh et al., NAACL 2015.
Thurs 5/5	No class (moved toTues 5/10)
Tues 5/10	Project Presentations: 11:40am-1:30pm *To be held in Gates 114*	Mingtong/Yingbin Liye/Yao/Esin Tom Tianyun Ji Hun/Heejung Kai/Huichu Yu Radu Becca Kevin Laure	10 minutes / project. 8 min + 2 min for questions. Presentations should cover: (1) problem studied; (2) data and methods; (3) results (or status) thus far.
			Final project write-up due (as specified by the registrar): Weds, May 18th at 11:30am via CMS.