instructor: David Kauchak
e-mail: first_name.last_name@pomona.edu
office hours: Edmunds 224
Tue. 11am-12
Wed. 2:30-4pm
Thu. 2:30-4pm
and by appointment
time: Fri. 11am-12:15
location: Edmunds 251
web page: http://www.cs.pomona.edu/~dkauchak/classes/cs190.4/
course overview:
In this course you will explore research in an area of computer science by reading and presenting research papers related to text processing. In addition, you will write a survey research paper, which, for those of you doing a senior project, will help prepare you for your project in the spring.
other material:
| Date | Paper | RTOTD | Reading notes | Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/2 | Introduction. Lillian Lee. "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that": Linguistics Statistics, and Natural Language Processing circa 2001. In Computer Science: Reflections on the Field, Reflections from the Field . | |||
| 9/9 | Reid Swanson and Andrew S. Gordon. 2008. Say Anything: A Massively Collaborative Open Domain Story Writing Companion. In Proceedings of International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. | Finding papers | Eli, Owen | |
| 9/16 | Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern. 2004. Natural Language Understanding in Facade: Surface-text Processing. In Proceedings of Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling. | Survey papers | Salar, Charlie W. | |
| 9/23 | Matthew Shardlow. 2014. A Survey of Automated Text Simplification. In International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications. | Academic conferences | Ziqi, Ethan, Charlie F. | |
| 9/30 | Adam Lopez. 2008. Statistical Machine Translation. In Journal of ACM Computing Surveys. | Real life finances 101 | Sections 1+2 | Owen, Zach |
| 10/7 | Rada Mihalcea and Carlo Strapparava. 2005. Making Computers Laugh: Investigations in Automatic Humor Recognition. In Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP. | Career fair | Anastasia, Christina | |
| 10/14 | David K. Elson, Nicholas Dames and Kathleen R. McKeown. 2010. Social Networks for Literary Fiction. In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics. | 1 min. survey topic presentation | Dima, Charlie F., Ziqi | |
| 10/21 | Mehran Sahami and Timothy D. Heilman. 2006. A Web-based Kernel Function for Measuring the Similarity of Short Snippets of Text. In Proceedings of WWW. | Life of a professor | Skip Section 5 | Lane, Ethan |
| 10/28 | Marjan Ghazvininejad and Kevin Knight. 2015. How to Memorize a Random 60-Bit String. In NLT/NAACL. | Paper review process | Charlie W., Anastasia | |
| 11/4 | Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward, and Wei-Jing Zhu. 2002. BLEU: a method for automatic evaluation of machine translation. In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics. | 1 min. progress updates | Dima, Rali | |
| 11/11 | Regina Barzilay and Kathleen R. McKeown. 2005. Sentence Fusion for Multidocument News Summarization. In Journal of Computational Linguistics. | Sections 1-3 | Christina, Lane | |
| 11/18 | David Ferrucci et al. 2010. Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project. In AI Magazine. | Zach, Salar | ||
| 11/25 | NO CLASS | |||
| 12/2 | Sravana Reddy and Kevin Knight. 2011. What We Know About the Voynich Manuscript. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities. | Rali, Eli |
| Date | Time | What |
|---|---|---|
| 9/23 | 5pm | Latex exercise |
| 9/30 | 5pm | Survey paper topic + 10 references |
| 10/14 | 5pm | Annotated bibliography |
| 10/28 | 5pm | Survey paper outline + introduction |
| 11/21 | 5pm | Survey paper draft |
| 11/29 | 5pm | Peer reviews |
| 12/9 | 5:00pm | Final survey paper |
See the survey paper guidelines in the administrative material for more information on what is expected for each of these deadlines.
Submit all assignments through submit.cs.pomona.edu.
Fall Semester
| Date | Time | What |
|---|---|---|
| 9/6 | 4:15pm | Senior project meeting, Edmunds 114 |
| 9/14 | 5pm | Ranked list of 1-3 topic/advisor pairs. Submit here |
| 11/21 | 5pm | Project plan draft |
| 12/7 | 5pm | Project plan |
Spring Semester
| Date | Time | What |
|---|---|---|
| 2/9 | 11-12:15am | Progress presentation 1 |
| 3/9 | 11-12:15am | Progress presentation 2 |
| 4/6 | 4:15pm | Final presentations 1 |
| 4/13 | 4:15pm | Final presentations 2 |
| 4/20 | 5pm | Senior paper draft |
| 4/30 | 11:59pm | Senior paper |