What this is About

Schedule

Requirements:

1. Attendance
2. Presentation
3. Language capsule
4. Three responses, including written summary

Links on Presenting

1. Harvard Guidelines
2. Ian Parberry on Presenting
3. Ian Parberry's Speaker's Guide
4. Visual Aids
5. Using Colors

Important Links

1. NLP in Israel
2. NLP Israel Blog
3. ISCOL
4. Last Year's Seminar

Fun

1. Hardest languages
   

Basic Materials

1. Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition, by Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin.
2. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing by Chris Manning and Hinrich Schutze, MIT Press, 1999.
3. Gideon Dror's Course
4. Natural Language Processing: Course by Christopher D. Manning
5. Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Topics

• Week 3
  Language: Russian [Michal]
  Topic: Speech Recognition
  1. Paper 1 [Annat]: Hidden Markov Models for Speech Recognition
  Additional: Speech Recognition using Hidden Markov Model
  2. Paper 2 [Ran]: Spoken Arabic Dialect Identification Using Phonotactic Modeling
  Respondents: Yotam; Yotam; Nadav; Daniel; Daniel
  
• Week 4
  Language: Maltese [Amit]
  Topic: Morphology
  1. Paper 1 [Adam]: Knowledge-Free Induction of Inflectional Morphologies
  Respondents: Sanda; Amir; Daniel
• Week 5
  Language: Haitian Creole [Sanda]
  Topic: Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagging
  1. Paper 1 [Hila]: Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for POS Tagging
  Respondents: Nadav; Amit; Guy
  
• Week 6
  Language: Chechen [Tomer]
  Topics: Named Entity Extraction (NER); Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD)

  1. Paper 1 [Nadav]: Extracting Named Entities using Support Vector Machines
  2. Paper 2 [Amir]: Combining Orthogonal Monolingual and Multilingual Sources of Evidence for All Words WSD
  Respondents: Sanda
  
• Week 7
  Language: Somali [Ran]; Khoekhoe [Anat]
  
  Topic: Syntax; Shallow Parsing
  1. Paper 1 [Michal]: Modeling Syntactic Context Improves Morphological Segmentation
  2. Paper 2: Shallow Parsing using Specialized HMMs
  Respondents:  
• Week 8
  Language: American Sign Language [Nadav]; Farsi; Turkish
  Topic: Semantics
  1. Paper 1 [Nimrod]: Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles
  2. Paper 2: Learning to Map Sentences to Logical Form: Structured Classification with Probabilistic Categorial Grammars
     Additional: Learning Context-Dependent Mappings from Sentences to Logical Form
  Respondents: Nadav
• Week 9
  Language: Basque [Or]
  
  Topic: Anaphora Resolution; Topic Model
  1. Paper 1 [Yotam]: Mining a Corpus to Support Associative Anaphora Resolution
  2. Paper 2 [Amit]: Latent Dirichlet Allocation
  Respondents: Hila; Tammy; Tomer; Amir; Annat
  
• Week 10
  Language:
  
  Topic: Classification & Clustering
  1. Paper 1 [Daniel]: Computational Methods in Authorship Attribution
  2. Paper 2 [Tomer]: Clustering the Bible
  Respondents: Michal; Ran; Ran; Nimrod
  
• Week 11
  Language: Mandarin [Yotam]; Hindi [Nimrod]
  Topic: Summarization; Question Answering (QA)
  1. Paper 1 [Guy]: Information Fusion in the Context of Multi-Document Summarization
  2. Paper 2: Using Semantic Roles to Improve Question Answering
  Respondents: Michal; Hila; Tomer; Amit; Annat; Or; Tammy; Nimrod
  
• Week 12
  Language: Middle Egyptian [Lena]; Coptic [Guy]
  
  Topic: Machine Translation (MT)
  1. Paper 1 [Sanda]: Improved Statistical Machine Translation Using Paraphrases
  2. Paper 2: Using a Dependency Parser to Improve SMT for Subject-Object-Verb Languages
  Respondents: Michal; Yotam; Adam; Or; Nimrod
  
• Week 13
  Language: Navajo [Hila]; Finnish [Daniel]
  Topic: Hebrew and Arabic Processing
  1. Paper 1 [Tammy]: Noun Phrase Chunking in Hebrew Influence of Lexical and Morphological Features
     
  2. Paper 2: Arabic Tokenization, Part-of-Speech Tagging and Morphological Disambiguation in One Fell Swoop
  Respondents: Guy; Hila; Tomer; Adam; Amir; Annat; Or
  
• Week 14
  Languages: Hungarian [Tammy]; Japanese [Adam]; Mayan [Amir]
  Topic: Discourse; Story Generation
  
  Paper 1 [Or]: Realization of Discourse Relations by Other Means: Alternative Lexicalizations
  Paper 2: Story Planning as Exploratory Creativity: Techniques for Expanding the Narrative Search Space
  Respondents: Guy; Adam; Amit; Sanda; Ran; Tammy