Natural Language Processing Reading Assignments

Chapter 3

Memory-Based Morphological Analysis, Antal van den Bosch and Walter Daelemans, Proceedings of ACL, 1999. (Litman)

Chapter 6

An Empirical Study of Smoothing Techniques for Language Modeling , Stanley F. Chen and Joshua Goodman, Proceedings of ACL, 1996. (Lu)

Our Class Project

A Rule-based Question Answering System for Reading Comprehension Tests, Ellen Riloff and Michael Thelen, Proceedings ANLP/NAACL Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems, 2000. (Ringenberg)

Deep Read: A Reading Comprehension System, Lynette Hirschman and Marc Light and Eric Breck and John D. Burger, Proceedings of ACL, 1999. (Ma)

Chapter 15

Inducing Information Extraction Systems for New Languages via Cross-Language Projection, Riloff, E., Schafer, C., and Yarowsky, D., Proceedings of COLING, 2002. (Penkrot)

A Question Answering System Supported by Information Extraction , Rohini Srihari and Wel Li, Proceedings of ANLP, 2000. (McKibbon)

Chapter 16

Noun-phrase co-occurrence statistics for semi-automatic semantic lexicon construction, Brian Roark and Eugene Charniak, Proceedings of ACL, 1998. (Rotaru)

The Berkeley FrameNet Project, Collin F. Baker and Charles J. Fillmore and John B. Lowe, Proceedings of ACL, 1998. (Gingrich)

Chapter 17

English SENSEVAL: Report and Results , A. Kilgarriff and J. Rosenzweig, Proceedings of LREC, 2001. (Kong)

Producing Biographical Summaries: Combining Linguistic Knowledge with Corpus Statistics, Barry Schiffman, Inderjeet Mani, and Kristian J. Concepcion, Proceedings of ACL, 2001. (Kane)

Chapter 18

Discourse Processing for Explanatory Essays in Tutorial Applications, Pamela Jordan and Kurt VanLehn, Proceedings of SIGdial, 2002. (Gaddam)

Specifying the Parameters of Centering Theory: a Corpus-Based Evaluation using Text from Application-Oriented Domains, Massimo Poesio, Hua Cheng, Renate Henschel, Janet Hitzeman, Rodger Kibble, and Rosemary Stevenson, Proceedings of ACL, 2000. (Tseytlin)

Chapter 19

Predicting and Adapting to Poor Speech Recognition in a Spoken Dialogue System, Diane J. Litman and Shimei Pan, Proceedings of AAAI, 2000. (Pelikan)

Automatic Optimization of Dialogue Management, Diane J. Litman, Michael S. Kearns, Satinder Singh, and Marilyn A. Walker. Proceedings of COLING, 2000. (Bhembe)