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Date
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Topic and
Slides
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Reading
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Jan 24th
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Introduction
and Summarization
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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 31st
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Single
Document Summarization and Evaluation
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Cut
and paste based text summarization (H. Jing
and K.R. McKeown), NAACL 2000.
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Statistics-Based
Summarization --- Step One: Sentence Compression,(K.
Knight and D. Marcu), AAAI, 2000.
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Evaluating
content selection in summarization: the Pyramid method, (A. Nenkova and R. Passonneau),
NAACL-HLT 2004.
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Multi-Candidate
Reduction: Sentence Compression as a Tool for Document Summarization Tasks,
Zajic et al, Information Processing and
Management, 2007.
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Feb 7th
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Multi-document
Summarization
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Sentence
Fusion for Multidocument News Summarization (R.
Barzilay and K.R. McKeown), CL 2005. NOTE: DROPPED FROM READING ASSIGNMENT
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Topic-Focused
Multi-document Summarization Using an Approximate Oracle Score (J.M.
Conroy et al), COLING/ACL 2006.
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Bayesian
Query-Focused Summarization (H. Daume III
and D. Marcu), ACL 2006.
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Do
Summaries Help? A Task-Based Evaluation of Multi-Document Summarization (K.
McKeown et. al.), SIGIR 2005.
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Automatic
Text Summarization of Newswire: Lessons Learned from the Document
Understanding Conference (A. Nenkova),
AAAI 05.
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Feb 14th
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Question
Answering
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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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IBM's
Statistical Question-answering System - TREC 10 (I. Ittycheriah et al), TREC 2001.
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The
Structure and Performance of an Open Domain Question-answering System (D.
Moldovan et al), ACL00.
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Feb 21st
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Question Answering
at IBM
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Invited Speaker: JohnPrager, IBM, Abstract
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Improving
QA Accuracy by Question Inversion (J. Prager
et al), ACL 2006.
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Question-Answering
by Predictive Annotation (J. Prager et
al), SIGIR 2000.
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Feb 28th
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Paraphrasing
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Learning
to Paraphrase: An Unsupervised Approach Using Multiple-Sequence Alignment (R.
Barzilay and L. Lee), NAACL-HLT03.
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Extracting
Paraphrases from a Parallel Corpus (R. Barzilay
and K. McKeown), ACL/EACL01.
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Search
in Constraint-Based Paraphrasing (M. Dras),
NLPIA98.
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Syntax-based
alignment of multiple translations: extracting paraphrases and generating
new sentences (B. Pang et al), NAACL03.
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Paraphrase
Acquisition for Information Extraction (Y. Shinyama
et al), 2nd International Workshop on Paraphrasing 03.
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Mar 6th
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Entailment
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Invited Speaker: Bill MacCartney,
Stanford University
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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 13th
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Opinions
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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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Mar
20th
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Spring Break
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Mar 27th
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Sentiment Analysis for
the Web
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Invited Speaker: Regina Barzilay,
MIT
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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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Opinion
Mining Using Econometrics: A Case Study on Reputation Systems
, (A. Ghose et al), ACL07.
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Apr 3rd
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Multilingual Tasks
and Approaches
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Translating
Named Entities Using Monolingual and Bilingual Resources
, (Y. Al-Onaizan and K. Knight),
ACL02.
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Translating
Named Entities Using Monolingual and Bilingual Resources
, (R. Sproat et al), COLING-ACL06.
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Web
as Corpus , (A. Kilgarriff
and G. Grefenstette), CL Journal03.
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The
Web as a Parallel Corpus , (P. Resnick and N.A. Smith), CL Journal03.
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Apr 10th
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Domain Adaptation
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Web-based
Models for Natual Language Processing
, (M. Lapata and F. Keller),
TSLP05.
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Domain
Adaptation for Statistical Classifiers , (H.
Daume and D. Marcu), AI
Journal 06.
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A
Backoff Model for Bootstrapping Resources for
Non-English Languages, (C. Xi and R. Hwa),
EMNLP05.
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Apr 17th
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NLP for IR
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Invited Speaker: Ronald
Kaplan, Powerset
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Meeting of the
MINDS: An Information Retrieval Agenda, Jamie Callan
et al.
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Apr 24th
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IE and Semantics on the Web
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Strategies
for Lifelong Knowledge Extraction from the Web, Michele Banko and Oren Etzioni
Machine
Reading, Oren Etzioni et al.
Unsupervised
Recognitions of Objects and Relations on the Web, Alexander Yates
and Oren Etzioni
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May 1st
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Final Project
presentations
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Exam
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More final project
presentations
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