Please send me an ordered list of papers that you would like to present, and any dates that you absolutely cannot lead class. Please do not pick a paper by local authors if you are working (even indirectly) on that project.
If you don't like any of the papers below, feel free to suggest others.
If this constraint satisfaction process proves intractable, I will randomly assign students to topics/dates.
Memory-Based Morphological Analysis, Antal van den Bosch and Walter Daelemans, Proceedings of ACL, 1999. (Litman)
An Empirical Study of Smoothing Techniques for Language Modeling , Stanley F. Chen and Joshua Goodman, Proceedings of ACL, 1996. (Lu)
Reading Comprehension Programs in a Statistical-Language-Processing Class,
Eugene Charniak, Yasemin Altun, Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, et al.,
Proceedings ANLP/NAACL Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as
Evaluation for Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems,
2000.
OR
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)
OR
A Machine Learning Approach to Answering Questions for Reading Comprehension Tests,
Ng, Hwee Tou, & Teo, Leong Hwee, & Kwan, Jennifer Lai Pheng,
Proceedings of EMNLP/VLC-2000,
2000.
OR
Deep Read: A Reading Comprehension System,
Lynette Hirschman and Marc Light and Eric Breck and John D. Burger,
Proceedings of ACL,
1999. (Ma)
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)
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. (TBA)
English SENSEVAL: Report and Results , A. Kilgarriff and J. Rosenzweig, Proceedings of LREC, 2001. (TBA)
Producing Biographical Summaries: Combining Linguistic Knowledge with Corpus Statistics, Barry Schiffman, Inderjeet Mani, and Kristian J. Concepcion, Proceedings of ACL, 2001. (Kane)
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. (TBA)
Statistical Models for Topic Segmentation,
Jeffrey C. Reynar,
Proceedings of ACL,
1999. (Silliman)
OR
A Prosodic Analysis of Discourse Segments in Direction-Giving
Monologues ,
Julia Hirschberg and Christine H. Nakatani,
Proceedings of ACL,
1996.
OR
Combining Multiple Knowledge Sources for Discourse Segmentation,
Diane J. Litman and Rebecca J. Passonneau,
Proceedings of ACL,
1995.
Predicting and Adapting to Poor Speech Recognition in a Spoken Dialogue System,
Diane J. Litman and Shimei Pan,
Proceedings of AAAI,
2000. (TBA)
OR
Automatic Optimization of Dialogue Management,
Diane J. Litman, Michael S. Kearns, Satinder Singh, and Marilyn A. Walker.
Proceedings of COLING,
2000. (Bhembe)
An Empirical Investigation of Proposals in Collaborative Dialogues, Barbara Di Eugenio, Pamela W. Jordan,Johanna D. Moore and Richmond H. Thomason. Proceedings of ACL, 1998.
PARADISE: A Framework for Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Agents, Marilyn A. Walker and Diane J. Litman and Candace A. Kamm and Alicia Abella, Proceedings of ACL, 1997.
Plan-Based Dialogue Management in a Physics Tutor, Reva Freedman, Proceedings of ANLP, 2000.