cse646: Seminar in Artificial Intelligence
meeting time: Wednesday 11.00am - 12.00am location: SBS N-111
Schedule for Fall 2004:
| Topic | Date | Presenter | First paper | Second paper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction and assignment of topics | 1-Sep | |||
| Guest speaker: John Dowding | 8-Sep | John Dowding | cs 2311 2.30pm - 3.30 pm | |
| ML and morphology | 15-Sep | Svetlana | Unsupervised discovery of morphemes, Creutz and Lagus, 2002. www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/sigphon/papers/CreutzLagus02.pdf | Knowledge-free induction of morphology using latent semantic analysis, Schone and Jurafsky 2000. citeseer.ist.psu.edu/schone00knowledgefree.html |
| ML and POS tagging | 22-Sep | Suwabhi Gupta | Fast and accurate part-of-speech tagging: the SVM approach revisited, Gimenez and Marquez, 2003, citeseer.ist.psu.edu/673021.html | |
| ML and syntax | 29-Sep | Ed | Statistical models for unsupervised prepositional phrase attachment, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, 1998, citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ratnaparkhi98statistical.html | |
| ML and word sense tagging | 6-Oct | Rui Yao | An unsupervised method for word sense tagging using parallel corpora, Diab and Resnik, 2002. http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/pubs.html | Exploiting hidden meanings: Using bilingual text for monolingual annotation, Resnik. http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/pubs.html |
| ML and semantics | 13-Oct | Robert | Acquiring word-meaning mappings for natural language interfaces, Thompson and Mooney, 2003. http://www.jair.org/contents/v18.html | Automatic labeling of semantic roles, Gildea and Jurafsky, 2002. www.cs.rochester.edu/~gildea/gildea-cv.html#SECTION00040000000000000000 |
| ML and semantics | 20-Oct | Zan Sun | Machine learning for information extraction from XML marked-up text on the Semantic Web, Nigel Collier, 2001, citeseer.ist.psu.edu/collier01machine.html | |
| Guest speaker (date may change) | 27-Oct | |||
| ML and NLG | 3-Nov | Huayan | A probabilistic genre-independent model of pronominalization, Strube and Wolters, 2000. iit.demokritos.gr/~adimit/bibliography.html | Corpus-based NP modifier generation, Cheng et al 2001. iit.demokritos.gr/~adimit/bibliography.html |
| ML and dialog | 10-Nov | Amanda | Generation and evaluation of user tailored responses in dialogue, Walker et al, 2004. www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~walker/cv.html | Automatically training a problematic dialogue predictor for the HMIHY spoken dialogue system, Walker et al, 2002. www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~walker/cv.html |
| ML and text categorization | 17-Nov | Hui Guo | RCV1: A new benchmark collection for text categorization research, Lewis et al, 2004. www.ai.mit.edu/projects/jmlr/ | |
| ML and IE | 3-Dec | Tony | Maximum entropy Markov models for information extraction and segmentation, McCallum, Freitag and Pereira, 2000, www.cis.upenn.edu/~pereira/bib/pubs.html | |
| Guest speaker (date may change) | 10-Dec |