University of Toronto

Computer Science 2528, Fall 2004
Advanced Computational Linguistics

2 December 2004: Linda Peto and Uli Germann lead discussion on:

• C. Brockett, T. Aikawa, A. Aue, A.Menezes, C. Quirk, and H. Suzuki. 2002. ``English--Japanese example-based machine translation using abstract linguistic representations.'' COLING 2002 Workshop on Machine Translation in Asia. PDF
  
  
• Ralf Brown, 2001. ``Transfer-rule induction for example-based translation.'' MT Summit VIII Workshop on Example-Based MT. PDF

25 November 2004: Jane Li and Yun Niu lead discussion on:

• Feng H., Chen K., Deng X., Zheng W. 2004. ``Accessor variety criteria for Chinese word extraction.'' Computational Linguistics, 30(1): 75--93. PDF

18 November 2004: Saif Mohammad and Ben Bartlett lead discussion on:

• McCarthy, Diana; Koeling, Rob; Weeds, Julie; and Carroll, John. 2004. ``Finding predominant senses in untagged text.'' Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain, 280--287. PDF
  
  
• Pantel, Patrick and Lin, Dekang. 2002. ``Discovering word senses from text.'' Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGKDD International Conference On Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Edmonton, Canada, 613--619. PDF

11 November 2004: Christopher Collins and Kyoko Baba lead discussion on:

• Richard Sproat. 2001. ``Inferring the environment in a text-to-scene conversion system.'' First International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP '01), Victoria, Canada, 2001. PDF
  
  
• Richard Johansson, David Williams, Anders Berglund and Pierre Nugues. 2004. ``Carsim: A system to visualize written road accident reports as animated 3D scenes.'' Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation, 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain, 2004. 57--64. PDF
  
  
• Some non-CL background reading --- skim only: Bob Coyne and Richard Sproat. 2001. ``WordsEye: An automatic text-to-scene conversion system.'' SIGGRAPH 2001, Los Angeles, U.S.A., 2001. PDF

4 November 2004: Graeme Hirst leads discussion on:

• Turney, Peter and Littman Michael. ``Measuring praise and criticism: Inference of semantic orientation from association.'' ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 21(4): 315--346, October 2003. PDF

28 October 2004: Jane Li and Uli Germann lead discussion on:

• Moore, Robert C. 2001. ``Towards a simple and accurate statistical approach to learning translation relationships among words.'' Proceedings, Workshop on Data-driven Machine Translation, 39th Annual Meeting and 10th Conference of the European Chapter, Association for Computational Linguistics, Toulouse, France, 79--86. PDF
  
  
• Yamamoto, Kaoru; Kudo, Taku; Tsuboi, Yuta; and Matsumoto, Yuji. 2003. ``Learning sequence-to-sequence correspondences from parallel corpora via sequential pattern mining.'' Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond. PDF

21 October 2004: Linda Peto and Yun Niu lead discussion on:

• Sharon Small, Tomek Strzalkowski, Ting Liu, Sean Ryan, Robert Salkin, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Paul Kantor, Diane Kelly, Robert Rittman, Nina Wacholder, and Boris Yamrom. ``HITIQA: Scenario Based Question Answering.'' Workshop on Pragmatics of Question Answering, Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics May 2004, Boston, 52--59. PDF
  
  
• Lapalme, Guy and Kosseim, Leila. ``Mercure: Towards an automatic e-mail follow-up system.'' 2003. IEEE Computational Intelligence Bulletin, 2(1), June 2003, 14--18. PDF

14 October 2004: Kyoko Baba and Ben Bartlett lead discussion on:

• Clough; Paul; Gaizauskas, Robert; Piao, Scott; and Wilks, Yorick. ``METER: MEasuring TExt Reuse.'' Proceedings of the 40th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-02), July 2000, Philadelphia, 152--159. PDF
  
  
• Jing, Hongyan and McKeown. Kathleen. ``The decomposition of human-written summary sentences.'' Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 1999, 129--136. PDF

7 October 2004: Saif Mohammad and Chris Collins lead discussion on:

• Thompson, Cynthia A.; Califf, Mary Elain; and Mooney, Raymond J. ``Active learning for natural language parsing and information extraction.'' Proceedings, 16th Annual Conference on Machine Learning, Bled, Slovenia, June 1999, 406--414. PDF
  
  
• Liere, Ray and Tadepalli, Prasad. ``Active learning with committees for text categorization.'' Proceedings, 14th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97), 1997, 591--596. PostScript PDF

23-30 September 2004: Graeme Hirst leads discussion on:

• Leacock, Claudia and Chodorow, Martin. ``C-rater: Automated scoring of short-answer questions.'' Computers and the Humanities, 37(4), November 2003, 389--405.

  This paper may be downloaded from this link -- select "Journal contents" and then issue 37(4). (NB: Accessible only from IP addresses of UofT or other paid subscribers.)

• Boonthum, Chutima. ``iSTART: Paraphrase recognition.'' Proceedings, 42nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Student Workshop, Barcelona, July 2004. PDF