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Contents 1 Advanced Statistical Language Processing: Reading the Web (10-709) 2 Course Projects 3 Useful Resources 4 Upcoming Class Lectures 5 Sign up for project update meeting

Advanced Statistical Language Processing: Reading the Web (10-709)

Instructor: Tom Mitchell, GHC 8211, x8-2611

Course administrative assistant: Sharon Cavlovich, GHC 8215, x8-5196

Class lectures: Thursdays 3:00pm-4:50pm, Gates-Hillman Center, 4211

Official Course Web Site

Course Projects

• Patterns in Person Names, Discussion --Reza Bosagh Zadeh
• Constrained Singular Value Decomposition, Discussion --Sivaraman Balakrishnan --Andreas Zollmann
• Exploiting unlabeled data and lexical/ontological structure for frame-semantic parsing Proposal Discussion --Nathan Schneider
• Constraint-Driven Active Learning Across Tasks, Discussion --Yi Zhang
• Learning how Adjectives Affect the Meaning of Phrases in a Vector Space Model, Discussion --Jayant Krishnamurthy
• Rich knowledge to support coreference resolution --Brendan O'Connor
• Entity Ambiguity Resolution with Topic Models Proposal Discussion --Mehrbod Sharifi
• Continuous Ontology Extension through ‘Active & Self-Reflective learning’, Discussion --Thahir

Useful Resources

• Knowledge Databases
  • Factual
  • Freebase
  • DBpedia
  • NYTimes Data nyt quick notes

• Domain-specific databases
  • Tracked (business)

• Knowledge-like data
  • U.S. Census name lists

Upcoming Class Lectures

Please sign up for a 45 min slot (25 min presentation/20 min discussion). Two slots per class meeting.

• Oct 29:
  • Nathan, Exploiting unlabeled data and lexical/ontological structure for frame-semantic parsing

    proposal; readings: Gildea & Jurafsky 2002, Johansson & Nugues 2007

  • Reza, Patterns in Person Names

    proposal ; reading: Mikheev, Moens, & Grover 1999

• Nov 5:
  • Jayant, Semantic feature vectors and modeling the impact of adjectives on them.
    • reading: Widdows 2008. Semantic Vector Products: Some Initial Investigations
  • Brendan, Rich knowledge for coreference resolution
    • reading: Haghighi and Klein 2009. Simple Coreference Resolution with Rich Syntactic and Semantic Features
• Nov 12
  • Han Liu, Decision forests, <reading>
  • Mohamed Thahir, Ontology Extension for Never Ending Learning
    • reading: Banko and Etzioni 2008. The Tradeoffs Between Open and Traditional Relation Extraction
    • reading: Please review our first reading as well: Carlson et.al 2009. Coupling Semi-Supervised Learning of Categories and Relations
• Nov 19:
  • Mehrbod: Resolving Entity Ambiguity
    • reading: A Topic Model for Word Sense Disambiguation, Boyd-Graber et al. EMNLP 2007
• Dec 3
  • Sivaraman and Andreas

Sign up for project update meeting

If you are officially registered and doing a course project, then sign up your project to meet with Tom for 30 min to discuss your results to date.

Thursday Nov 5

• 1:00 pm: Jayant
• 1:30 pm: Brendan
• 2:00 pm: Mehrbod
• 2:30 pm:

Friday Nov 13:

• 11:00 am: Thahir
• 11:30 am: Nathan
• 12:30 pm: Yi
• 1:00 pm: Andreas and Sivaraman