CS 775: Seminar in Natural Language Understanding

Spring 2004

Tuesdays, 1:30-2:30 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
Feb 10 Kurland/Lee submission Eric Breck
Feb 17 Evaluating an Opinion Annotation Scheme Using a New Multi-Perspective Question and Answer Corpus Oren Kurland
Feb 24 NO SEMINAR
March 2 Peng Xu, Ahmad Emami and Frederick Jelinek. Training  Connectionist Models for the Structured Language Model. EMNLP  2003. (Best Paper Award) Ves Stoyanov
March 9 Barzilay/Lee Submission Art Munson
March 16 Fernando Pereira's talk at the AI Seminar (CS772) will be the CS775 meeting for this week:

         Friday, March 19, 12:15-1:15.

March 23

SPRING BREAK

March 30 No class
April 6 Breck/Cardie submission Bo Pang
April 13 Pang/Lee submission Yejin Choi
April 20 No class
April 27

Michael Collins. Discriminative Training Methods for Hidden Markov Models: Theory and Experiments with Perceptron Algorithms. EMNLP 2002.

(Best Paper Award)

Vincent Ng
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, F03.

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



CS775, Spring '04

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