CS 775: Seminar in Natural Language Understanding

Fall 2003

Tuesdays, 4:30-5:30 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. If you want to be added to the email announcement list please contact Claire Cardie: cardie@cs.cornell.edu.

Date Paper/Topic Presenter
***Thursday***
September 11
5126 Upson
First class: informal meeting to introduce newcomers and to plan the semester's meetings.  Claire Cardie
September 16 Dan Klein and Christopher D. Manning. Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing. ACL 2003.  http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/papers/unlexicalized-parsing.pdf Eric Breck
September 23 Kushal Dave, Steve Lawrence, and David M. Pennock.  Mining the peanut gallery: Opinion extraction and semantic classification of product reviews.  WWW2003.  http://www.kushaldave.com/p451-dave.pdf  Bo Pang
September 30 Yukiko Nakano, Gabe Reinstein, Tom Stocky and Justine Cassell. Towards a Model of Face-to-Face Grounding. ACL 2003. (Best Paper Award) 
http://www.mit.edu/~t_stocky/pubs/Nakano.Reinstein.Stocky.Cassell_ACL03.pdf
Art Munson
**October 7**
In 484 Rhodes, this week only
 Jason Baldridge and Geert-Jan M. Kruijff. Multi-Modal Combinatory Categorial Grammar. EACL 2003. (Best Paper Award) 
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~gj/Publications/mmccg.pdf
Rob Young
October 14

FALL BREAK

 
October 21 Timothy Baldwin and Francis Bond.  Learning the Countability of English Nouns from Corpus Data
http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/acl2003/main/pdf/Baldwin.pdf
Yuping Zhou
October 28 Dan Klein and Christopher D. Manning. A Generative Constituent-Context Model for Improved Grammar Induction. ACL 2002.
http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/P/P02/P02-1017.pdf
Vincent Ng
November 4 Abdessamad Echihabi and Daniel Marcu. A Noisy Channel Approach to Question Answering.  http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/acl2003/main/pdf/Echihabi.pdf Ves Stoyanov
November 11  Zhang, Callan, Minka Novelty and Redundancy Detection in Adaptive Filtering.   SIGIR 2002, best paper.  http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~callan/Papers/sigir02-yiz.ps Oren Kurland
November 18 Derrick Higgins;Jerrold M. Sadock  A Machine Learning Approach to Modeling Scope Preferences Computational-Linguistics; 2003 Tejaswini Deoskar
November 25

THANKSGIVING BREAK

 
Wednesday, December 3

Information Science Seminar (301 College Ave.)

Shimon Edelman
Papers suggested for discussion thus far...

Organizer: Claire Cardie

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

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



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