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Date
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Topic and Slides
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Reading
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Jan 21st
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Introduction and
Summarization
(Slides: intro)
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Automatic
Summarising:
Factors and Directions (K. Sparck Jones),
Advances in Automatic Text Summarization 2000.
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Automatic
Evaluation
of Summaries Using N-gram Co-Occurrence Statistics (C.Y.
Lin and E. Hovy), HLT-NAACL 2003.
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Jan 28th
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Generation for
Summarization
(Slides: spark-jones-00)
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Cut
and
paste based text summarization (H. Jing and K.R. McKeown),
NAACL 2000.
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Supervised
and
Unsupervised Learning for Sentence Compression,(J. Turner
and E. Charniak), ACL, 2005.
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Sentence
Fusion
for Multidocument News Summarization (R. Barzilay and
K.R. McKeown), CL 2005.
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Sentence
Compression
beyond Word Deletion, Cohn and Lapata, COLING
2008.
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Feb 4th
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Summarization on the Web
(Slides: sun-05
/ buyukkokten-02
/ tools)
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Efficient
web
browsing on handheld devices using page and form
summarization.Orkut Buyukkokten, Oliver Kaljuvee, Hector
Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke, and Terry Winograd. In ACM Transactions
on Information Systems, Vol. 20, No. 1, pages 82-115, January 2002.
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Web-page
summarization using clickthrough data.Jian-Tao Sun, Dou
Shen, Hua-Jun Zeng, Qiang Yang, Yuchang Lu, and Zheng Chen. In SIGIR
2005, pages 194-201, 2005.
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On
the
Summarization of Dynamically Introduced Information: Online
Discussions and Blogs, L. Zhou and E. Hovy, in AAAI
Spring Symposium 2006.
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Ocelot:
a
system for summarizing web pages. A. Berger and V.
Mittal. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR
Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR'00), pages 144-151, 2000.
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Feb 11th
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Social Networking
(Slides: gruzd-2008)
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Automated
discovery
and analysis of social networks from threaded discussions, International Network of
Social Network Analysts (Gruzd and
Haythornthwaite), 2008 |
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| From
social bookmarking to social summarization: an experiment in
community-based summary generation. Oisin Boydell and
Barry Smyth. In IUI '07: Proceedings of the 12th international
conference on Intelligent user interfaces, pages 42-51, New York, NY
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Joint
Group and Topic Discovery from Relations and Text, Andrew McCallum, Xuerui Wang, and Natasha
Mohanty, Statistical
Network Analysis: Models, Issues and New Directions, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4503,
pages 28-44, 2007.
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| Discovering
authorities in question answer communities by using link analysis,
Pavel Jurczyk and Eugene Agichtein, In CIKM '07: Proceedings of the
sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge
management (2007) |
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Feb 18th
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Question Answering
(Slides: prager-06
/ hermjakob-02
/ prager-acl-06
/ hong-09)
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Open-Domain
Question-Answering (J. Prager), Foundations and Trends in
Information Retrieval 2006. NOTE:
Sections 2 and 3.
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Natural
language
based reformulation resource and web exploitation for question
answering (U. Hermjakob et al), TREC 2002.
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Improving
QA
Accuracy by Question Inversion (J. Prager et al), ACL 2006.
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A
classification-based approach to question answering in discussion boards, Liangjie Hong and Brian D Davison, SIGIR 09.
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Feb 25th
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Question Answering
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Invited Speaker: Sanda Harabagiu, Language Computer Corporation
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**Answering
Questions with Authority (A. Hickl), CIKM 2008.
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**Answering
Complex Questions with Random Walk Models (S. Harabagiu, F. Lacusu,
A. Hickl), SIGIR 2006.
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Using
Discourse Commitments to Recognize Textual Entailment (A. Hickl),
COLING 2008.
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Negation,
Contrast and Contradiction in Text Processing (S. Harabagiu, A.
Hickl, F. Lacatusu), AAAI 2006.
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Mar 4th
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Entailment
(Slides: mccartney-06 / mccartney-08 )
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Learning
to
recognize features of valid textual entailments (B.
MacCartney et al), NAACL06.
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Containment,
Exclusion,
and Implicativity: A Model of Natural Logic for Textual
Inference (B. MacCartney and C. Manning), Stanford TR08.
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An
Inference
Model for Semantic Entailment in Natural Language (R.
de Salvo Braz et al), AAAI05.
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An
Inference
Model for Semantic Entailment in Natural Language Recognition (R.
Bar-Haim et al), ACL PASCAL-RTE Workshop 07.
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Mar 11th
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Generating online content
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Invited Speaker: Regina Barzilay,
MIT
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Automatically
Generating
Wikipedia Articles: A Structure-Aware Approach",
Christina Sauper and Regina Barzilay , Proceedings of ACL, 2009.
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Mar 18th
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Spring Break
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Mar 25th
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Opinions
(Slides: wiebe-05 / breck-07 / thomas-06)
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Get
out
the vote: Determining support or opposition from Congressional
floor-debate transcripts, (M. Thomas et al), emnlp06.
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Annotating
Expressions
of Opinions and Emotions in Language, (J. Wiebe et
al), Language Resources and Evaluation 05.
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Identifying
expressions
of opinion in context, (E. Breck et al), IJCAI07.
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Just
How
Mad are You? Finding Strong and Weak Opinion Caluses, (T.
Wilson et al), AAAI04.
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Apr 1st
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Sentiment Analysis for
the Web
(Slides: snyder-07 / branavan-08 / archak-07 / lerman-09)
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Multiple
Aspect
Ranking using the Good Grief Algorithm, (B. Snyder and
R. Barzilay), NAACL07.
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Learning
Document-Level
Semantic Properties from Free-text Annotations, S.
R. K. Branavan and Harr Chen and Jacob Eisenstein and Regina Barzilay,
ACL08
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Show
me
the money! Deriving the Pricing Power of Product Features by Mining
Consumer Reviews, (N. Archak et al), ACM SIGKDD07.
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Sentiment
Summarization: Evaluating and Learning User Preferences, K.
Lerman, S. Blair-Goldensohn, and R. McDonald, EACL 09.
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Apr 8th
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Multilingual Tasks and
Approaches
(Slides: lapata-05
/ resnik-03
)
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Web-based
Models
for Natual Language Processing , (M. Lapata and F.
Keller), TSLP05.
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The
Web
as a Parallel Corpus , (P. Resnick and N.A. Smith), CL
Journal03.
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Translating
Named
Entities Using Monolingual and Bilingual Resources , (R.
Sproat et al), COLING-ACL06.
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Answering
English Questions using Foreign-Language, Semi-Structured Sources,
(Boris Katz, Gary Borchardt, Sue Felshin, Yuan Shen and Gabriel
Zaccak), ICSC 2007.
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Web
as
Corpus , (A. Kilgarriff and G. Grefenstette), CL Journal03.
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Apr 15th
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Search
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Invited Speaker: Wisam Dakka, Google
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Learning
query-biased web page summarization. Wang, C., Jing, F., Zhang,
L., and Zhang, H. 2007.
In CIKM '07
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Fast generation of
result snippets in web search.Turpin, A., Tsegay, Y., Hawking,
D., and Williams, H. E. 2007. In SIGIR '07
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Apr 22nd
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IE and Semantics on the Web
(Slides: etzioni-06 / nothman-09)
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Strategies for Lifelong
Knowledge Extraction from the Web, Michele Banko and Oren
Etzioni
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Machine Reading, Oren
Etzioni et al.
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Analysing
Wikipedia and Gold-Standard Corpora for NER Training Joel
Nothman, Tara Murphy and James R. Curran, ACL 09
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Deriving
Generalized Knowledge from Corpora Using WordNet Abstraction Benjamin Van
Durme, Phillip Michalak and Lenhart Schubert, ACL 09.
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Apr 29th
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Final Project presentations
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Exam
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More final project presentations
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