|
Date
|
Topic and Slides
|
Discussant
|
Presenter |
Reading
|
|
Jan 21st
|
Introduction and
Summarization
|
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|
Automatic
Summarising:
Factors and Directions
|
|
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Automatic
Evaluation
of Summaries Using N-gram Co-Occurrence Statistics
|
|
|
Discussant |
Presenter |
|
|
Jan 28th
|
Generation for
Summarization
|
|
|
Cut
and
paste based text summarization
|
|
|
Supervised
and
Unsupervised Learning for Sentence Compression
|
|
|
Sentence
Fusion
for Multidocument News Summarization
|
|
|
Sentence
Compression
beyond Word Deletion
|
|
|
Discussant |
Presenter |
|
|
Feb 4th
|
Summarization on the Web
|
Elizabeth
|
Shrenik
|
Efficient
web
browsing on handheld devices using page and form
summarization.Orkut Buyukkokten, Oliver Kaljuvee
|
|
Lauren
|
|
Web-page
summarization using clickthrough data
|
|
Mukund
|
Clement
|
On
the
Summarization of Dynamically Introduced Information: Online
Discussions and Blogs
|
|
Or
|
|
Ocelot:
a
system for summarizing web pages
|
|
|
|
Discussant |
Presenter |
|
|
|
Feb 11th
|
Social Networking
|
|
|
Automated
discovery
and analysis of social networks from threaded discussions |
|
Lauren
|
|
From
social bookmarking to social summarization: an experiment in
community-based summary generation |
|
Weiwei
|
|
Joint
Group and Topic Discovery from Relations and Text
|
|
|
Kenny
|
Discovering
authorities in question answer communities by using link analysis |
|
|
|
Discussant |
Presenter |
|
|
|
Feb 18th
|
Question Answering
|
|
Lauren
|
Open-Domain
Question-Answering
|
|
Yang
|
|
Natural
language
based reformulation resource and web exploitation for question
answering
|
|
|
Vikas
|
Improving
QA
Accuracy by Question Inversion
|
|
Shrenik
|
|
A
classification-based approach to question answering in discussion boards
|
|
|
|
Discussant |
Presenter |
|
|
|
Feb 25th
|
Question Answering
|
Junfeng
|
|
Invited Speaker: Sanda Harabagiu, Language Computer Corporation
|
|
Vikas
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Discussant |
Presenter |
|
|
|
Mar 4th
|
Entailment
|
Mukund
|
|
Learning
to
recognize features of valid textual entailments
|
|
Andrew
|
|
Containment,
Exclusion,
and Implicativity: A Model of Natural Logic for Textual
Inference
|
|
|
Boyi
|
An
Inference
Model for Semantic Entailment in Natural Language
|
|
|
Or
|
An
Inference
Model for Semantic Entailment in Natural Language Recognition
|
|
|
|
Discussant |
Presenter |
|
|
|
Mar 11th
|
Generating online content
|
Boyi
|
|
Invited Speaker: Regina Barzilay,
MIT
|
|
Or
|
|
Automatically
Generating
Wikipedia Articles: A Structure-Aware Approach
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gary
|
Overview of research activities @ Bloomberg
|
|
|
|
Discussant |
Presenter |
|
|
|
Mar 18th
|
Spring
Break
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Discussant |
Presenter |
|
|
|
Mar 25th
|
Opinions
|
Weiwei
|
Mohamed
|
Get
out
the vote: Determining support or opposition from Congressional
floor-debate transcripts
|
|
Clem
|
Andrew
|
Annotating
Expressions
of Opinions and Emotions in Language
|
|
Mohamed
|
Vinod
|
Identifying
expressions
of opinion in context
|
|
Elizabeth
|
|
Just
How
Mad are You? Finding Strong and Weak Opinion Caluses
|
|
|
|
Discussant |
Presenter |
|
|
|
Apr 1st
|
Sentiment Analysis for
the Web
|
Mohamed
|
Elizabeth
|
Multiple
Aspect
Ranking using the Good Grief Algorithm
|
Vikas
|
|
Learning
Document-Level
Semantic Properties from Free-text Annotations
|
|
Shrenik
|
Mukund
|
Show
me
the money! Deriving the Pricing Power of Product Features by Mining
Consumer Reviews
|
|
Vinod
|
|
Sentiment
Summarization: Evaluating and Learning User Preferences
|
|
|
|
Discussant |
Presenter |
|
|
|
Apr 8th
|
Multilingual Tasks and
Approaches
|
Clem
|
|
Web-based
Models
for Natual Language Processing
|
|
Kenny
|
|
The
Web
as a Parallel Corpus
|
|
Kenny
|
Weiyun
|
Translating
Named
Entities Using Monolingual and Bilingual Resources
|
|
Yang
|
|
Answering
English Questions using Foreign-Language, Semi-Structured Sources
|
Boyi
|
|
Web
as
Corpus
|
|
|
Discussant |
Presenter |
|
|
|
Apr 15th
|
Search
|
Junfeng
|
|
Invited Speaker: Wisam Dakka, Google
|
|
Weiyun
|
|
Learning
query-biased web page summarization
|
|
Weiyun
|
|
Fast generation of
result snippets in web search
|
|
|
Discussant |
Presenter |
|
|
|
Apr 22nd
|
IE and Semantics on the Web
|
Andrew
|
Junfeng
|
Strategies for Lifelong
Knowledge Extraction from the Web
|
Vinod
|
|
Machine Reading
|
|
Yang |
Analysing
Wikipedia and Gold-Standard Corpora for NER Training
|
Elizabeth
|
Weiwei |
Deriving
Generalized Knowledge from Corpora Using WordNet Abstraction
|