NLP Reading Group

This is an informal student reading group. We meet regularly once per week. On each meeting we have one person present either a recent publications from NLP or AI conferences/journal or their own research project/ideas

The Purpose

Meeting time: Mondays 5:20 - 6:20 (unless specified different)

Meeting location: 2313A

Schedule

Date Presenter Topic
09/25 Sarah Hoffman Predicting deception automatically
10/02/2006 - Holiday - Rosh Hashanah
10/09/2006 Everyone Interspeech 2006: http://www.interspeech2006.org
10/16/2006 Eugene Borodin Voice XML browsing
10/23/2006 - -
10/30/2006 Hui Guo Ontology based data extraction from Web pages
10/06/2006 starts at 6 pm Andrew Mehler Spatial Analysis of News Sources ( InfoVis 2006.)
11/13/2006 - -
11/20/2006 Zan Sun Machine Learning in Interface Design for an Audio Browser.
11/27/2006 Svetlana Stenchikova Demo of the calendar dialogue system and overview of the Raven Claw architecture used for the calendar
12/4/2006 Svetlana Stenchikova Dialog Systems for Surveys: The Rate-a-Course System

Proposed readings

Hui Guo

S. Mukherjee, Automatic Annotation of Content-Rich Web Documents: Structural and Semantic Analysis, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)' 2003

G. Yang and S. Mukherjee and W. Tan and IV. Ramakrishnan and H. Davulcu, On the Power of Semantic Partitioning of Web Documents, IJCAI Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (WIIW)'2003

Y. Zhai and B. Liu, Web Data Extraction Based on Partial Tree Alignment, WWW 2005

Svetlana Stenchikova

Stephanie Tomko, Ronie Rosenfeld, Shaping user input in speech graffiti: a first pass, ICSLP 2006

E. Reitter, F. Keller, D. Moore Computational Modelling of Structural Priming in Dialogue, HLT 2006

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