The Computational Linguistics And Information Retrieval group (CLAIR) is offering a number of independent study projects for course credit.

• Text summarization
  • compression-based multi-document summarization
  • news summarization in the cross-document structure theory (CST) framework
  • revision-based summarization
  • Web document summarization
  • text summarization for mobile devices
• Text generation
  • machine learning for generation
  • text generation using functional unification grammars
  • generation for summarization and sentence simplification
• Machine translation
  • using multiple-sequence alignment for machine translation
  • syntax-based machine translation
• Question answering
  • question answering using language models
  • query modulation for question answering
  • using time and event markup for question answering
  • generating time-dependent answers
• Other projects
  • models of the Web
  • analysis of the blogosphere
  • link-based language models
  • natural language interfaces to databases
  • Web-based information extraction
  • novelty identification
  • models of change in text
  • topic detection and tracking
  • language reuse and regeneration

Please visit the CLAIR home page (http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/) for more details.

Contact: Dragomir Radev (radev@umich.edu)