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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
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
- Domain-specific databases
- Tracked (business)
- Knowledge-like data
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
- Nathan, Exploiting unlabeled data and lexical/ontological structure for frame-semantic parsing
- Nov 5:
- Jayant, Semantic feature vectors and modeling the impact of adjectives on them.
- Brendan, Rich knowledge for coreference resolution
- 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
- Mehrbod: Resolving Entity Ambiguity
- 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
