Reading list

• September 11 (meeting in the Connector Room, 3rd floor, West Hall, Central Campus): moderator Zhu Zhang
  • David Yarowsky, Decision Lists for Lexical Ambiguity resolution, (ACL 1994), PDF
  • David Yarowsky, Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Rivaling Supervised Methods (ACL 1995), PDF
• September 25 (same place): moderator Bryan Pardo
  • Avrim Blum and Tom Mitchell, "Combining Labeled and Unlabeled Data with Co-Training" (COLT 1998), PS
• October 9 (same place): moderator Victoria Fossum
  • Michael Collins and Yoram Singer "Unsupervised models for named entity classification" (EMNLP 1999), Link
  • Steve Abney "Boostrapping" (ACL 2002), Link
• October 23 (same place): moderator Li Yang
  Michael Collins "Head-Driven Statistical Models for Natural Language Parsing" (to appear in Computational Linguistics), Link
• November 6 (same place): moderator Yang Ye
  • Daniel Bikel, Richard Schwartz, and Ralph Weischedel "An Algorithm that learns what's in a name" (ML Journal)Link
  • Borthwick, A., Sterling, J., Agichtein, E., and Grishman, R. (1998). "Exploiting Diverse Knowledge Sources via Maximum Entropy in Named Entity Recognition". (Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora).Link
• November 20 (same place): moderator Siwei Shen
  • Regina Barzilay and Lillian Lee. Learning to Paraphrase: An Unsupervised Approach Using Multiple-Sequence Alignment (HLT-NAACL 2003)Link
  • Bo Pang, Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu. Syntax-based Alignment of Multiple Translations: Extracting Paraphrases and Generating New SentencesLink
• December 4 (in the Large Conference Room, ATL, North Campus): moderator Rich Thomason
  • Matthew Stone, "Towards a Computational Account of Knowledge, Action and Inference in Instructions" Link (background reading)
• January 29 , 2004
  • Organizational meeting.
• February 12, 2004 (TO BE CONFIRMED)
  • Adwait Ratnaparkhi, "Trainable Methods for Surface Natural Language Generation" Link (ANLP 2000)
  • I. Langkilde and K. Knight), "Generation that Exploits Corpus-based Statistical Knowledge" PDF PS (COLING/ACL 1998)
• Later...
  • Michael Johnson et al, "MATCH: An Architecture for Multimodal Dialogue Systems" Link
• Other topics for this semester: Machine Translation, Summarization, Human Sentence Processing, Information Retrieval, Biomedical IE