| Foundations | Foundations |
| Tue Aug 19 Introduction |
Thu Aug 21 Introduction |
| Foundations | Foundations |
| Tue Aug 26 Paper 1: Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry into Human Knowledge Structures (Ch 1-2) Authors: Robert P Abelson, Roger C Schank ch1 ch2
Presentation: Anupreet Walia ppt Paper 2: Language Analysis and Understanding, in Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology (1997) Section 3.1, 3.2, 3.6, 3.7 ch 3
Presentation: Sneha Chandrababu |
Thu Aug 28 Paper 1: Natural Language Processing in Information Retrieval, Google inc. Author: Thorsten Brants pdf
Presentation: Steven Crain pdf Paper 2: Ontologies in Support of Problem Solving, In Staab, S. and Studer, R., editor, Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems, International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, In press. Authors: M. Crubezy and M. A. Musen pdf
Presentation: Alejandro Dominguez |
| Language Models | Parsing |
| Tue Sep 2 Paper 1: A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to ad hoc information retrieval, In 24th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'01), 2001. Authors: C. Zhai and J. Lafferty pdf
Presentation:Anushree Venkatesh pdf Paper 2: A language modeling approach to predicting reading difficulty. In Proceedings of the HLT/NAACL 2004 Conference. Boston. Authors: K. Collins-Thompson and J. Callan pdf
Presentation: Neha Deodhar |
Thu Sep 4 Paper 1: Grammars and Parsing (Chapter 3) Author: James Allen PDF
Presentation: Travis Gockel PPT Paper 2: Features and Augmented Grammars (Chapter 4) Author: James Allen PDF
Presentation: Anupreet Walia ppt |
| Parsing | Parsing |
| Tue Sep 9 Paper 1: Generating Typed Dependency Parses from Phrase Structure Parses. 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), pp. 449-454. Author: Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Bill MacCartney, and Christopher D. Manning pdf
Presentation: Sneha Chandrababu Paper 2: A robust parsing algorithm for link grammars. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, Prague, September, 1995 Authors: Dennis Grinberg, John Lafferty and Daniel Sleator. 1995. pdf
Presentation: Madhav Deshpande |
Thu Sep 11 Paper 1: Sentence Processing in Understanding: Interaction and Integration of Knowledge Sources Authors: Kavi Mahesh, Kurt P. Eiselt, and Jennifer K. Holbrook PDF
Presentation: Aninda Ray Paper 2: Computing Semantic Similarity between Skill Statements for Approximate Matching , HLT-NAACL 2007. Authors: Pan, Feng, Farrell, Robert pdf
Presentation: Alejandro Dominguez |
| Ambiguity Resolution | Knowledge Representation |
| Tue Sep 16 Paper 1: Unsupervised word sense disambiguation rivaling supervised methods. ACL 95 Author: David Yarowsky pdf
Presentation: Ruchir Gupta Paper 2: Scaling to Very Very Large Corpora for Natural Language Disambiguation. ACL 2001 Authors: Michele Banko and Eric Brill pdf
Presentation: Ajay Choudhari |
Thu Sep 18 Paper 1: Capturing the Contents of Complex Narratives Authors: Eric Domeshek, Eric Jones, and Ashwin Ram PDF
Presentation: Bryan Wiltgen Paper 2: Methodologies for the Reliable Construction of Ontological Knowledge Author: Eduard Hovy pdf
Presentation: Nitin Kumar |
| Semantics | Semantics |
| Tue Sep 23 Paper 1: A Connectionist Model of Narrative Comprehension Authors: Mark C. Langston, Tom Trabasso, and Joseph P. Magliano PDF
Presentation: Samantha Misra Paper 2: The Proposition Bank: An Annotated Corpus of Semantic Roles, Computational Linguistics , December, 2003. Authors: Martha Palmer, Dan Gildea, Paul Kingsbury pdf
Presentation: Purna Mehta |
Thu Sep 25 Paper 1: Towards Robust Semantic Role Labeling, Computational Linguistics Authors: Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward and James H. Martin pdf
Presentation: Nihar Gadkari Paper 2: The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them , Technical Report IHMC CmapTools Authors: Joseph D. Novak & Alberto J. Cañas pdf
Presentation: Gagan Malik |
| Semantics | Tagging and Shallow Parsing |
| Tue Sep 30 Paper 1: Semantic taxonomy induction from heterogenous evidence. Proceedings of COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney. (ACL Best Paper Award) Authors: Rion Snow, Dan Jurafsky, and Andrew Y. Ng pdf
Presentation: Mugdha Jamsandekar Paper 2: Learning concept hierarchies from text corpora using formal concept analysis , Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2005 Authors: P Cimiano, A Hotho, S Staab pdf
Presentation: Bryan Wiltgen |
Thu Oct 2 Paper 1:Shallow Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machiens Authors: Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, Kadri Hacioglu, James H. Martin, Dan Jurafsky pdf
Presentation: Neha Deodhar Paper 2: The Talent System: TEXTRACT Architecture and Data Model (2004), Natural Language Engineering 10 (3/4): 307–326. Authors: Mary S. Neff, Roy J. Byrd and Branimir K. Boguraev PDF
Presentation: Neha Kharsikar |
| Retrieval | Memory |
| Tue Oct 7 Paper 1: Scaling Spreading Activation for Information Retrieval Authors: Anthony Francis, Mark Devaney, Juan Santamaria, Ashwin Ram pdf
Presentation: Ajay Choudhari Paper 2: Modern Information Retrieval: A Brief Overview. In IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 24(4), pages 35-43, 2001. Author: Amit Singhal pdf
Presentation: Samantha Misra |
Thu Oct 9 Paper 1: Retrieval from Episodic Memory by Inferencing and Disambiguation Authors: Trent E. Lange and Charles M. Wharton pdf
Presentation: Madhav Deshpande Paper 2: A capacity theory of comprehension: Individual differences in working memory. Psychological Review, Vol 99(1), Jan 1992. pp. 122-149. Authors: Just, Marcel A., Carpenter, Patricia A. PDF
Presentation: Karan Mehra
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| Comprehension | |
| Tue Oct 14 Fall Break |
Thu Oct 16 Paper 1: The Acquisition of Reading Comprehension Skill, The Science of Reading: A Handbook, 2008 Authors: Charles A. Perfetti, Nicole Landi, Jane Oakhill PDF
Presentation: Karan Mehra Paper 2: Recency preference in the human sentence processing mechanism , Cognition. 1996 Apr;59(1):23-59 Authors: Gibson E, Pearlmutter N, Canseco-Gonzalez E, Hickok G. PDF
Presentation: Aniket Patil
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| Contextualization/Meta-reasoning | Novelty |
| Tue Oct 21 Paper 1: Three Computer-Based Models of Storytelling: BRUTUS, MINSTREL and MEXICA Author: Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Mike Sharples PDF
Presentation: Nitisha Warkari Paper 2: On the intersection of Story Understanding and Learning Authors: Michael T. Cox and Ashwin Ram PDF
Presentation: Akshay Phadke |
Thu Oct 23 Paper 1: Creativity in Reading: Understanding Novel Concepts Authors: Kenneth Moorman and Ashwin Ram PDF
Presentation: Harikrishnappt Paper 2: Story Planning as Exploratory Creativity: Techniques for Expanding the Narrative Search Space Authors: Mark Riedl and R. Michael Young pdf
Presentation: Nicholas Marquez |
| Summarization | Categorization/Extraction |
| Tue Oct 28 Paper 1: Single Document Summarization Using Natural Language Processing Authors: J. Jagadeesh and Vasudeva Varma pdf
Presentation: Mugdha Jamsandekar Paper 2: LexRank: Graph-based Lexical Centrality as Salience in Text Summarization ", Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) , 2004, 22:457-479 Authors: Gunes Erkan and Dragomir Radev pdf
Presentation: Chien-Ming Huang
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Thu Oct 30 Paper 1: Machine Learning in Automated Text Categorisation (1999) Author: Fabrizio Sebastiani pdf
Presentation: Aninda Ray Paper 2: Discovering Semantic Biomedical Relations utilizing the Web , 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 pdf
Presentation: Nitin Kumar> |
| Industrial Applications and Product Reviews | HealthCare 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 |
| Tue Nov 4 Paper 1: Semantic Wave 2008 Report: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 & Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities, Project10X Author: Mills Davis pdf
Presentation: Neha Kharsikar Analysis of Powerset, Hakia and True Knowledge technologies
Presentation: Purna Mehta Analysis of 'News At Seven',FeedHub and Open Calais technologies
Presentation: Nitisha Warkari
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Thu Nov 6 Paper 1: The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education , Health Info Libr J. 2007 Mar;24(1):2-23 Authors: Kamel Boulos MN, Wheeler S pdf
Presentation: Aniket Patil pdf Paper 2: Semantic Search, WWW2003 Authors: R. Guha, Rob McCool and Eric Miller pdf
Presentation: Chien-Ming Huang
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| Interactive Drama | Conversational Agents |
| Tue Nov 11 Paper 1: Natural Language Understanding in Façade: Surface-text Processing, TIDSE 04 Authors: Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern pdf
Presentation: Vighnesh Venkatesan Paper 2: Interactive Storytelling with Literary Feelings, ACII 07 Authors: David Pizzi, Fred Charles, Jean-Luc Lugrin and Marc Cavazza pdf
Presentation: Abhinav Karhu
| Thu Nov 13 Paper 1: Cobot in LambdaMOO: A Social Statistics Agent, AAAI 2000 Authors: Charles Lee Isbell, Jr., Michael Kearns, Dave Kormann, Satinder Singh and Peter Stone pdf
Presentation: Harikrishna ppt Paper 2: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Bots as Language Learning Tools Authors: Luke Fryer, Rollo Carpenter pdf
Presentation: Akshay Phadke
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| Question Answering | Intelligent Interfaces/Personalization |
| Tue Nov 18 Paper 1: Structured Retrieval for Question Answering , 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 pdf
Presentation: Anushree Venkatesh Paper 2: Finding the Right Facts in the Crowd: Factoid Question Answering over Social Media . WWW2008 Authors: Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyuan Zha pdf
Presentation: Steven Crain pdf
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Thu Nov 20 Paper 1: User Interfaces and Visualization, a textbook chapter in Modern Information Retrieval, edited by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto Author: Marti Hearst pdf
Presentation: Nihar Gadkari
Presentation: Abhinav Karhu
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| Term Project Work Time | |
| Tue Nov 25
| Thu Nov 27
Thanksgiving Holiday
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| Term Project Presentations | Term Project Presentations |
| Tue Dec 2 Project 2: PUN - Pun Understanding in NLP BY Anushree Venkatesh, Anupreet Walia, Ruchir Gupta Project 3: Understanding Stories represented as Unstructured Data BY Sneha Chandrababu, Abhinav Karhu, Madhav Deshpande Project 4: Lyrics based Music Recommendation System BY Neha Deodhar, Karan Mehra, Gagan Malik Project 5: Medical conversation tagging BY Alejandro Dominguez
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Thu Dec 4 Project 1: Feature Based Product Summarization for Online Reviews BY Ajay Choudhari, Nihar Gadkari, Nitin Kumar, Purna Mehta Project 2: Movie Recommendation System BY Aninda Ray, MUgdha Jamsandekar, Nitisha Warkari Project 3: Book Summarization BY Steven Crain, Travis Gockel, Chien-Ming Huang, Alex Marquez, Bryan Wiltgen Project 4: Stock Price Prediction BY Samantha Misra, Harikrishna, Vighnesh
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