CS 775: Seminar in Natural Language Understanding

Spring 2005

Mondays, 2:00-3:00 p.m.

Upson 5160

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

Feb 14

On Learning Parsimonious Models for Extracting Consumer Opinions
Xue Bai and Rema Padman Edoardo Airoldi, in Proceedings of the 38th IEEE HICSS Conference, Hawaii, 2005

Feb 21

Weakly Supervised Learning for Cross-Document Person Name Disambiguation Supported by Information Extraction
Cheng Niu, Wei Li and Rohini K. Srihari, in ACL 2004

Feb 28

TextRank: Bringing Order into Texts
Rada Mihalcea and Paul Tarau, in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2004)

March 7

A Generative Model for Semantic Role Labeling. Cynthia A. Thompson, Roger Levy, and Christopher D. Manning. in ECML 2003.

March 14

March 21

SPRING BREAK

March 28

An Integrated, Conditional Model of Information Extraction and Coreference with Application to Citation Matching ,Wellner et al. in Proceedings of the 20th conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence 2004

April 4

Reputation Network Analysis for Email Filtering, Jennifer Golbeck, James Hendler, In Proceedings of the First Conference on Email and Anti-Spam 2004

April 11

Submitted paper by Art Munson

April 18

A Unified Model of Early Word Learning: Integrating Statistical and Social Cues, Chen Yu and Dana H. Ballard, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Development and Learning 2004.

April 25

Collecting Evaluative Expressions for Opinion Extraction, Nozomi Kobayashi, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto, Kenji Tateishi (NEC), Toshikazu Fukushima (NEC), In Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-04)

May 2

 

Organizer: Claire Cardie

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

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