Archive of readings, Winter 2004
8 April 2004: Chris Collins and Amber Wilcox-O'Hearn lead discussion on:
Zhao, Liwei; Kipper, Karin; Schuler, William; Vogler, Christian; Badler, Norm; and Palmer, Martha. ``A machine translation system from English to American Sign Language'', Proceedings of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas 2000 (Lecture notes in artificial intelligence) 54--67, Springer-Verlag. PDF
Vogler, Christian and Metaxas, Dimitris. ``Handshapes and movements: Multiple-channel ASL recognition.'' Proceedings of the Gesture Workshop '03, Genova, Italy (Lecture notes in artificial intelligence 2915), 247--258, Springer-Verlag, 2004. PDF
Amber's slides on Zhao et al (PDF, 253 Kb)
Chris's slides on Vogler and Metaxas (PPT, 409 Kb)
1 April 2004: Ol'ga Feiguina and Xiaodan Zhu lead discussion on:
Hoover, David L. ``Multivariate analysis and the study of style variation'', Literary and Linguistic Computing, 18(4), November 2003, 341--360.
Merriam, Thomas. ``Intertextual distances, three authors'', Literary and Linguistic Computing, 18(4), November 2003, 379--388.
PDF files are on this page (Requires subscription; accessible from UofT IP addresses only).
Ol'ga's slides on Hoover (PDF, 434 Kb)
Xiaodan's slides on Hoover (PDF, 66 Kb)
Xiaodan's slides on Merriam (PDF, 316 Kb)
25 March 2004: No meeting.
18 March 2004: Uli Germann and Ted Meeds lead discussion on:
Yarowsky, David and Wicentowski, Richard (2000). ``Minimally supervised morphological analysis by multimodal alignment.'' Proceedings of the 38th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2000), Hong Kong. PDF (321Kb)
Uli and Ted's slides (PDF, 1.0 Mb)
11 March 2004: Faye Baron and Saif Mohammad present the Dekang Lin trilogy:
Dekang Lin, 1998. Automatic retrieval and clustering of similar words. Proceedings, 38th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL-98), Montreal, Canada, August 1998. PDF PS
Dekang Lin, 1998. Extracting collocations from text corpora. First Workshop on Computational Terminology, Montreal, Canada, August, 1998. PS
Dekang Lin, 1999. Automatic identification of non-compositional phrases. Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, College Park, MD, June 1999, 317--324. PDF PS
Faye and Saif's slides on Lin (PDF, 176 Kb)
4 March 2004: Jane Li and Yun Niu lead discussion on:
Resnik, Philip and Hearst, Marti A. 1993. ``Structural ambiguity and conceptual relations.'' Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Columbus, OH. PDF (560 Kb)
Collins, Michael and Brooks, James. 1995. ``Prepositional phrase attachment through a backed-off model.'' Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Very Large Corpora, 27--38. PDF (584 Kb)
Yun's slides on Resnik and Hearst (PDF, 167 Kb)
Jane's slides on Collins and Brooks (PDF, 82 Kb)
26 February 2004: Jane Morris leads discussion on:
Olson, David R. ``Knowledge and its artifacts.'' In K. Chemla (Ed.), History of science, history of text. Dordrecht, NL: Kluwer. (Photocopies will be handed out in the previous class.)
With special guest David R. Olson (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education).
Jane's slides (PowerPoint, 102 Kb)
12 February 2004: Uli Germann and Ken Hoetmer lead discussion on:
Collins, Michael. 1997. ``Three generative, lexicalized models for statistical parsing.'' Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Download from ACL archive
Klein, Dan and Manning, Christopher D. 2003. ``Accurate unlexicalized parsing.'' Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Download from ACL archive
Ken's slides on Collins (PDF, 103 Kb)
Uli's slides on Klein and Manning (PDF, 251 Kb)
5 February 2004: Ol'ga Feiguina and Afra Alishahi lead discussion on:
José Nilo G. Binongo (2003). "Who wrote the 15th book of Oz? An application of multivariate statistics to authorship attribution." Chance, 16(2), Spring 2003, 9--17. PDF (3.3 Mb)
Moshe Koppel, Shlomo Argamon, and Anat Rachel Shimoni (2002). ``Automatically categorizing written texts by author gender.'' Literary and Linguistic Computing, 17(4), December 2002, 401--412. PDF (58 Kb)
Ol'ga's slides on Binongo (PDF, 800 Kb)
Afra's slides on Koppel et al (PDF, 168 Kb)
29 January 2004: Xiaodan Zhu and Ryan North lead discussion on:
Franz Josef Och and Hermann Ney (2002). ``Discriminative training and maximum entropy models for statistical machine translation.'' In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (best paper award), 295-302, Philadelphia, PA, July 2002. PDF (107 Kb)
Xiaodan and Ryan's slides on Och and Ney (PowerPoint, 786 Kb)
22 January 2004: Saif Mohammad and Ben Bartlett lead discussion on:
Regina Barzilay and Kathleen McKeown (2001). "Extracting paraphrases from a parallel corpus." Proceedings, 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-01), Toulouse, July 2001, 50--57. PDF (54 Kb)
Regina Barzilay and Lillian Lee (2003). "Learning to paraphrase: An unsupervised approach using multiple-sequence alignment." Proceedings, Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Edmonton, May 2003, 16--23. PDF (80 Kb)
Ben's slides on Barzilay and McKeown (PDF, 49 Kb)
Saif's slides on Barzilay and Lee (PDF, 3.7 Mb)
8 and 15 January 2004: Graeme Hirst leads discussion on:
Sabine Ploux and Hjungsuk Ji (2003). "A model for matching semantic maps between languages (French / English, English / French)." Computational Linguistics, 29(2), June 2003, 155--178. PDF (195 Kb)
Hyungsuk Ji, Sabine Ploux, and Eric Wehrli (2003). "Lexical knowledge representation with contexonyms." Proceedings, Machine Translation Summit IX, New Orleans, September 2003. PDF (191 Kb)
Graeme's slides (PDF, 1.4 Mb)