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Natural Language is one of the crucial aspects of human intelligence that has been studied extensively in Artificial Intelligence Research. In recent years, there has been a resurgence in research in language understanding and processing fueled by technologies such as search, question answering and interactive drama. What is all the excitement about? How do we make computers interpret human language, how does it work, how is it applied, what research is ongoing to improve it? We'll discuss a range of topics such as representation, acquisition, syntax, semantics and different learning methods for the same. The class will be run as a senior undergraduate / graduate research class, with a mix of lectures, paper readings, in-class discussions, and hands-on projects. Recommended Texts (Optional): - <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3953">Understanding Language Understanding: Computational Models of Reading</a> Edited by Ashwin Ram and Kenneth Moorman - Natural Language Understanding. Benjamin/Cummings, 2ed, James Allen. Projects: - Sep 18: Project 1 due : <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/NL_Assignment1.pdf">Assignment 1</a> (2 weeks) (*Solutions*) - Oct 1: *Term Project brainstorm* open - Oct 5: Project 2 due : <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/nl_hw2.1.pdf">Assignment 2</a> (2 weeks) (*Solutions*) - Oct 6: *Term Project teaming>Term Project brainstorm* open - Oct 18: Term Project proposal due - Nov 4: Term Project 1st milestone due (2 weeks) - Nov 20: Term Project 2nd milestone due (3 weeks) - Nov 25 - Dec 4: Term Project presentations - Dec 11: Term Project final paper due (including final milestones and project submission) Project Paper Template: <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/AAMAS2008Template.doc">doc</a> Class Blog: *http://fall08nlgt.blogspot.com* !Schedule: <html> <table width=100% border=1> <tr><td width=50%><b>Foundations</b></td><td width=50%><b>Foundations</b></td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Tue Aug 19</b><p>Introduction</td> <td><b>Thu Aug 21</b><p>Introduction</td> </tr> <tr><td><b>Foundations</b></td><td><b>Foundations</b></td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Tue Aug 26</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry into Human Knowledge Structures (Ch 1-2)</u> Authors: Robert P Abelson, Roger C Schank <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/schank_ch1.pdf">ch1</a> <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/schank_ch2.pdf">ch2</a></i> <p> <i>Presentation: Anupreet Walia <a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~anupreet/Presentation-Schank.pdf"> ppt </a></i><br> <i>Critique: Anushree Venkatesh <a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~anushree/Critique.pdf"> ppt </a></i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>Language Analysis and Understanding, in Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology (1997)</u> Section 3.1, 3.2, 3.6, 3.7 <a href="http://www.lt-world.org/HLT_Survey/ltw-chapter3-all.pdf">ch 3</a></i> <p> <i>Presentation: Sneha Chandrababu</i><br> <i>Critique: Gagan Malik</i><br> </td> <td><b>Thu Aug 28</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>Natural Language Processing in Information Retrieval</u>, Google inc.</i> <i>Author: Thorsten Brants <a href="http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/clin2003/proc/03Brants.pdf">pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Steven Crain</i> <a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~scrain6/Brant2004.pdf">pdf</a><br> <i>Critique: Anupreet Walia <a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~anupreet/Critique_Brants.pdf"> Critique </a></i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>Ontologies in Support of Problem Solving</u>, In Staab, S. and Studer, R., editor, Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems, International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, In press. </i> <i>Authors: M. Crubezy and M. A. Musen <a href="http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rd/0%2C579135%2C1%2C0.25%2CDownload/http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/27737/http:zSzzSzwww-smi.stanford.eduzSzpubszSzSMI_ReportszSzSMI-2003-0957.pdf/ontologies-in-support-of.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Alejandro Dominguez</i><br> <i>Critique: Purna Mehta</i><br> </td> </tr> <tr><td><b>Language Models</b></td><td><b>Parsing</b></td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Tue Sep 2</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to ad hoc information retrieval</u>, In 24th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'01), 2001. </i> <i>Authors: C. Zhai and J. Lafferty <a href="http://www.aladdin.cs.cmu.edu/papers/pdfs/y2001/smooth.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation:Anushree Venkatesh <a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~anushree/PresentationSep2.pdf"> pdf </a></i><br> <i>Critique: Nicholas Marquez</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>A language modeling approach to predicting reading difficulty</u>. In Proceedings of the HLT/NAACL 2004 Conference. Boston. </i> <i>Authors: K. Collins-Thompson and J. Callan <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~callan/Papers/hlt04-kct.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Neha Deodhar</i><br> <i>Critique: Anupreet Walia <a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~anupreet/Critique_Callan.pdf"> Critique </a></i><br> </td> <td><b>Thu Sep 4</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>Grammars and Parsing (Chapter 3) </u></i> <i>Author: James Allen <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/allen_ch3.1.pdf"> PDF</a></i> <p> <i>Presentation: Travis Gockel</i> <a href="http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~tgockel3/grammars-and-parsing.pptx">PPT</a><br> <i>Critique: Alejandro Dominguez</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>Features and Augmented Grammars (Chapter 4) </u></i> <i>Author: James Allen <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/allen_ch4.pdf"> PDF</a></i> <p> <i>Presentation: Anupreet Walia <a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~anupreet/Presentation-Allan.pdf"> ppt </a></i><br> <i>Critique: Anushree Venkatesh<a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~anushree/CritiqueSep4.pdf"> pdf </a></i><br> </td></tr> <tr><td><b>Parsing</b></td><td><b>Parsing</b></td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Tue Sep 9</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>Generating Typed Dependency Parses from Phrase Structure Parses</u>. 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), pp. 449-454. </i> <i>Author: Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Bill MacCartney, and Christopher D. Manning <a href="http://nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/LREC06_dependencies.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Sneha Chandrababu</i><br> <i>Critique: Neha Deodhar</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>A robust parsing algorithm for link grammars. </u> Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, Prague, September, 1995 Authors: Dennis Grinberg, John Lafferty and Daniel Sleator. 1995. <a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.33.937&rep=rep1&type=pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Madhav Deshpande</i><br> <i>Critique: Aninda Ray</i><br> </td> <td><b>Thu Sep 11</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>Sentence Processing in Understanding: Interaction and Integration of Knowledge Sources </u></i> <i>Authors: Kavi Mahesh, Kurt P. Eiselt, and Jennifer K. Holbrook <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/ulu_ch3.pdf"> PDF</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Aninda Ray</i><br> <i>Critique: Nitisha Warkari</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>Computing Semantic Similarity between Skill Statements for Approximate Matching </u>, HLT-NAACL 2007. Authors: Pan, Feng, Farrell, Robert <a href="http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N07/N07-1072.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Alejandro Dominguez</i><br> <i>Critique: Mugdha Jamsandekar</i><br> </td> </tr> <tr><td><b>Ambiguity Resolution</b></td><td><b>Knowledge Representation</b></td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Tue Sep 16</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>Unsupervised word sense disambiguation rivaling supervised methods</u>. ACL 95 Author: David Yarowsky <a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.45.5723&rep=rep1&type=pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Ruchir Gupta</i><br> <i>Critique: Ajay Choudhari</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>Scaling to Very Very Large Corpora for Natural Language Disambiguation</u>. ACL 2001 Authors: Michele Banko and Eric Brill <a href="http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/P/P01/P01-1005.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Ajay Choudhari</i><br> <i>Critique: Nihar Gadkari</i><br> </td> <td><b>Thu Sep 18</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>Capturing the Contents of Complex Narratives </u></i> <i>Authors: Eric Domeshek, Eric Jones, and Ashwin Ram <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/ulu_ch4.pdf"> PDF</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Bryan Wiltgen</i><br> <i>Critique: Travis Gockel</i> <a href="http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~tgockel3/narrative-contents-critique.pdf">PDF</a><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>Methodologies for the Reliable Construction of Ontological Knowledge</u></i> <i>Author: Eduard Hovy <a href="http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/hovy/papers/05ICCS-ontol-methods-hovy.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Nitin Kumar</i><br> <i>Critique: Akshay Phadke</i><br> </td> </tr> <tr><td><b>Semantics</b></td><td><b>Semantics</b></td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Tue Sep 23</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u> A Connectionist Model of Narrative Comprehension </u></i> <i>Authors: Mark C. Langston, Tom Trabasso, and Joseph P. Magliano <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/ulu_ch6.pdf"> PDF</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Samantha Misra</i><br> <i>Critique: Bryan Wiltgen</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2:<u> The Proposition Bank: An Annotated Corpus of Semantic Roles, Computational Linguistics </u>, December, 2003. Authors: Martha Palmer, Dan Gildea, Paul Kingsbury <a href="http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~gildea/palmer-propbank-cl.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Purna Mehta</i><br> <i>Critique: Steven Crain</i> <a href="uploads/63/Palmer2003-Critique.pdf">pdf</a><br> </td> <td><b>Thu Sep 25</b><p> <i>Paper 1:<u> Towards Robust Semantic Role Labeling, Computational Linguistics </u></i> Authors: Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward and James H. Martin <a href="http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/Papers/towards-robust-srl.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Nihar Gadkari</i><br> <i>Critique: Chien-Ming Huang</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2:<u> The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them </u>, Technical Report IHMC CmapTools Authors: Joseph D. Novak & Alberto J. Cañas <a href="http://cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/ResearchPapers/TheoryUnderlyingConceptMaps.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Gagan Malik</i><br> <i>Critique: Travis Gockel</i><a href="http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~tgockel3/concept-maps-critique.pdf">PDF</a><br> </td> </tr> <tr><td><b>Semantics</b></td><td><b>Tagging and Shallow Parsing</b></td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Tue Sep 30</b><p> <i>Paper 1:<u> Semantic taxonomy induction from heterogenous evidence</u>. Proceedings of COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney. (ACL Best Paper Award) Authors: Rion Snow, Dan Jurafsky, and Andrew Y. Ng <a href="http://nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/semtax_acl06.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Mugdha Jamsandekar</i><br> <i>Critique: Madhav Deshpande</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>Learning concept hierarchies from text corpora using formal concept analysis </u>, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2005 Authors: P Cimiano, A Hotho, S Staab <a href="http://www.jair.org/media/1648/live-1648-2403-jair.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Bryan Wiltgen</i><br> <i>Critique: Nicholas Marquez</i><br> </td> <td><b>Thu Oct 2</b><p> <i>Paper 1:<u>Shallow Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machiens</u></i> <i>Authors: Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, Kadri Hacioglu, James H. Martin, Dan Jurafsky <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/hlt-2004-verb.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Neha Deodhar</i><br> <i>Critique: Akshay Phadke</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2:<u> The Talent System: TEXTRACT Architecture and Data Model (2004)</u>, Natural Language Engineering 10 (3/4): 307–326. Authors: Mary S. Neff, Roy J. Byrd and Branimir K. Boguraev</i> <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/TALENT.pdf"> PDF</a> <p> <i>Presentation: Neha Kharsikar</i><br> <i>Critique: Gagan Malik</i><br> </td> </tr> <tr><td><b>Retrieval</b></td><td><b>Memory</b></td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Tue Oct 7</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>Scaling Spreading Activation for Information Retrieval</u> Authors: Anthony Francis, Mark Devaney, Juan Santamaria, Ashwin Ram <a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/faculty/ashwin/papers/er-01-01.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Ajay Choudhari</i><br> <i>Critique: Ajay Choudhari</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>Modern Information Retrieval: A Brief Overview.</u> In IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 24(4), pages 35-43, 2001. Author: Amit Singhal <a href="http://singhal.info/ieee2001.pdf"> pdf</a></i> <p> <i>Presentation: Samantha Misra</i><br> <i>Critique: Vighnesh Venkatesan</i><br> </td> <td><b>Thu Oct 9</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>Retrieval from Episodic Memory by Inferencing and Disambiguation</u></i> <i>Authors: Trent E. Lange and Charles M. Wharton</i> <a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~ssahay/ch5_ulu.pdf"> pdf</a> <p> <i>Presentation: Madhav Deshpande</i><br> <i>Critique: Nitisha</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>A capacity theory of comprehension: Individual differences in working memory</u>. Psychological Review, Vol 99(1), Jan 1992. pp. 122-149. Authors: Just, Marcel A., Carpenter, Patricia A.</i> <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/capacity.pdf"> PDF</a> <p> <i>Presentation: Karan Mehra</i><br> <i>Critique: Neha Deodhar</i><p> <br> </td> </tr> <tr><td><b></b></td><td><b>Comprehension</b></td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Tue Oct 14</b><p><i>Fall Break</i></td> <td><b>Thu Oct 16</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>The Acquisition of Reading Comprehension Skill</u>, The Science of Reading: A Handbook, 2008 Authors: Charles A. Perfetti, Nicole Landi, Jane Oakhill</i> <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/Acquisition.pdf"> PDF</a> <p> <i>Presentation: Karan Mehra</i><br> <i>Critique: Ruchir Gupta</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>Recency preference in the human sentence processing mechanism </u>, Cognition. 1996 Apr;59(1):23-59 Authors: Gibson E, Pearlmutter N, Canseco-Gonzalez E, Hickok G.</i> <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/recency.pdf"> PDF</a> <p> <i>Presentation: Aniket Patil</i> <a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/a/aniketp/Presentation%201.pdf"> pdf</a><br> <i>Critique: Sneha Chandrababu</i></td> </tr> <tr><td><b>Contextualization/Meta-reasoning</b></td><td><b>Novelty</b></td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Tue Oct 21</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>Three Computer-Based Models of Storytelling: BRUTUS, MINSTREL and MEXICA</u> Author: Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Mike Sharples </i> <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/MEXICAKBS.pdf"> PDF</a> <p> <i>Presentation: Nitisha Warkari</i><br> <i>Critique: Karan Mehra</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>On the intersection of Story Understanding and Learning </u></i> <i>Authors: Michael T. Cox and Ashwin Ram <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/ulu_ch11.pdf"> PDF</a></i> <p> <i>Presentation: Akshay Phadke</i><br> <i>Critique: Samantha Misra</i></td> <td><b>Thu Oct 23</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>Creativity in Reading: Understanding Novel Concepts </u></i> <i>Authors: Kenneth Moorman and Ashwin Ram <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/ulu_ch10.pdf"> PDF</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Harikrishna<a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~hnarayan/CreativityinReading.pdf">ppt</a> </i><br> <i>Critique: Bryan Wiltgen</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>Story Planning as Exploratory Creativity: Techniques for Expanding the Narrative Search Space </u></i> <i>Authors: Mark Riedl and R. Michael Young</i> <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/cc05.pdf"> pdf</a> <p> <i>Presentation: Nicholas Marquez</i><br> <i>Critique: Aninda Ray</i><br> </td> </tr> <tr><td><b>Summarization</b></td><td><b>Categorization/Extraction</b></td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Tue Oct 28</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>Single Document Summarization Using Natural Language Processing </u> Authors: J. Jagadeesh and Vasudeva Varma <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/289.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Mugdha Jamsandekar </i><br> <i>Critique: Abhinav Karhu</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>LexRank: Graph-based Lexical Centrality as Salience in Text Summarization </u>", Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) , 2004, 22:457-479 Authors: Gunes Erkan and Dragomir Radev <a href="http://tangra.si.umich.edu/~radev/lexrank/lexrank.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Chien-Ming Huang</i><br> <i>Critique: Steven Crain</i> <a href="uploads/63/erkan2004-critique.pdf">pdf</a><p> <br> </td> <td><b>Thu Oct 30</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>Machine Learning in Automated Text Categorisation</u> (1999) Author: Fabrizio Sebastiani <a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=96E2F6FBA4536DF2D8E6AF54B1E6B88A?doi=10.1.1.17.6513&rep=rep1&type=pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Aninda Ray</i><br> <i>Critique: Vighnesh Venkatesan</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>Discovering Semantic Biomedical Relations utilizing the Web </u>, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 2(1):3, 2008 Authors: Saurav Sahay, Sougata Mukherjea, Eugene Agichtein, Ernest Garcia, Sham Navathe and Ashwin Ram <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ssahay/uploads/3/final%20tkdd%20version.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Nitin Kumar><br> <i>Critique: Neha Kharsikar</i><br> </td> </tr> <tr><td><b>Industrial Applications and Product Reviews</b></td><td><b>HealthCare 2.0/Enterprise 2.0</b></td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Tue Nov 4</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>Semantic Wave 2008 Report: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 & Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities</u>, Project10X Author: Mills Davis <a href="http://www.isoco.com/pdf/Semantic_Wave_2008-Executive_summary.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Neha Kharsikar</i><br> <i>Critique: Nitin Kumar</i><br> <p> <i><u>Analysis of Powerset, Hakia and True Knowledge technologies</u></i> <p> <i>Presentation: Purna Mehta</i><br> <i>Critique: Aniket Patil</i> <a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/a/aniketp/Presentation%202.pdf"> pdf</a><br> <p> <i><u>Analysis of 'News At Seven',FeedHub and Open Calais technologies</u></i> <p> <i>Presentation: Nitisha Warkari</i><br> <i>Critique: Harikrishna<a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~hnarayan/product_critique.pdf"> ppt</a></i><br> <p> <br> </td> <td><b>Thu Nov 6</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education </u>, Health Info Libr J. 2007 Mar;24(1):2-23</i> <i>Authors: Kamel Boulos MN, Wheeler S <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/healthcare_article.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Aniket Patil</i> <a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/a/aniketp/Presentation%203.pdf"> pdf</a><br> <i>Critique: Aniket Patil</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>Semantic Search, WWW2003</u> </i> <i>Authors: R. Guha, Rob McCool and Eric Miller <a href="http://elvis.slis.indiana.edu/irpub/WWW/2003/pdf98.pdf"> pdf</a> </i> <p> <i>Presentation: Chien-Ming Huang</i><br> <i>Critique: </i><p> <br> </td> </tr> <tr><td><b>Interactive Drama</b></td><td><b>Conversational Agents</b></td></tr> <tr><td><b>Tue Nov 11</b><p> <i>Paper 1:<u> Natural Language Understanding in Façade: Surface-text Processing</u>, TIDSE 04 Authors: Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern </i> <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/facade.pdf"> pdf</a> <p> <i>Presentation: Vighnesh Venkatesan</i><br> <i>Critique: Ruchir Gupta</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>Interactive Storytelling with Literary Feelings</u>, ACII 07 Authors: David Pizzi, Fred Charles, Jean-Luc Lugrin and Marc Cavazza</i> <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/feelings.pdf"> pdf</a> <p> <i>Presentation: Abhinav Karhu</i><br> <i>Critique: Mugdha Jamsandekar</i><p> <br> <td><b>Thu Nov 13</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>Cobot in LambdaMOO: A Social Statistics Agent</u>, AAAI 2000 Authors: Charles Lee Isbell, Jr., Michael Kearns, Dave Kormann, Satinder Singh and Peter Stone</i> <a href="http://cobot.research.att.com/papers/cobot.pdf"> pdf</a> <p> <i>Presentation: Harikrishna <a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~hnarayan/cobot.pdf"> ppt </a> </i><br> <i>Critique: Madhav Deshpande</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Bots as Language Learning Tools</u> Authors: Luke Fryer, Rollo Carpenter</i> <a href="http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ccl/uploads/63/emerging.pdf"> pdf</a> <p> <i>Presentation: Akshay Phadke</i><br> <i>Critique: Abhinav Karhu</i><br> <p> <br> </td> </tr> <tr><td><b>Question Answering</b></td><td><b>Intelligent Interfaces/Personalization</b></td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Tue Nov 18</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>Structured Retrieval for Question Answering </u>, Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval. Authors: Bilotti, Matthew, Paul Ogilvie, Jamie Callan and Eric Nyberg</i> <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mbilotti/pubs/Bilotti:SIGIR07.pdf"> pdf</a> <p> <i>Presentation: Anushree Venkatesh</i><br> <i>Critique: Purna Mehta</i><br> <p> <i>Paper 2: <u>Finding the Right Facts in the Crowd: Factoid Question Answering over Social Media </u>. WWW2008 Authors: Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyuan Zha </i> <a href="http://www2008.org/papers/pdf/p467-bianA.pdf"> pdf</a> <p> <i>Presentation: Steven Crain</i> <a href="uploads/63/Bian2008-presentation.pdf">pdf</a><br> <i>Critique: Chien-Ming Huang</i><br> <p> <br> </td> <td><b>Thu Nov 20</b><p> <i>Paper 1: <u>User Interfaces and Visualization</u>, a textbook chapter in Modern Information Retrieval, edited by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto</i> <i>Author: Marti Hearst</i> <a href="http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hearst/irbook/print/chap10.pdf"> pdf</a> <p> <i>Presentation: Nihar Gadkari</i><br> <i>Critique: Samantha Misra</i><br> <p> <br> <i>Paper 2: <u>Personalized Web Exploration with Task Models, WWW08</u></i> <i>Authors: Jae-wook Ahn, Peter Brusilovsky, Daqing He, Jonathan Grady, Qi Li </i> <a href="http://www2008.org/papers/pdf/p1-ahnA.pdf"> pdf</a> <p> <i>Presentation: Abhinav Karhu</i><br> <i>Critique: Nitin Kumar</i><br> <p> </td> </tr> <tr><td><b>Term Project Work Time</b></td><td><b></b></td></tr> <tr><td><b>Tue Nov 25</b><p> <td><b>Thu Nov 27</b><p> <i>Thanksgiving Holiday</i> <br> </td> </tr> <tr><td><b>Term Project Presentations</b></td><td><b>Term Project Presentations</b></td></tr> <tr><td><b>Tue Dec 2</b><p> <i>Project 2:</i> PUN - Pun Understanding in NLP BY Anushree Venkatesh, Anupreet Walia, Ruchir Gupta <p> <i>Project 3:</i> Understanding Stories represented as Unstructured Data BY Sneha Chandrababu, Abhinav Karhu, Madhav Deshpande <p> <i>Project 4:</i> Lyrics based Music Recommendation System BY Neha Deodhar, Karan Mehra, Gagan Malik <p> <i>Project 5:</i> Medical conversation tagging BY Alejandro Dominguez <p> </td> <td><b>Thu Dec 4</b><p> <i>Project 1:</i> Feature Based Product Summarization for Online Reviews BY Ajay Choudhari, Nihar Gadkari, Nitin Kumar, Purna Mehta <p> <i>Project 2:</i> Movie Recommendation System BY Aninda Ray, MUgdha Jamsandekar, Nitisha Warkari <p> <i>Project 3:</i> Book Summarization BY Steven Crain, Travis Gockel, Chien-Ming Huang, Alex Marquez, Bryan Wiltgen <p> <i>Project 4:</i> Stock Price Prediction BY Samantha Misra, Harikrishna, Vighnesh <p> <p> </td></tr> </table> </html>
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