Previously Discussed
This Year: 2009
Hinrich Schuetze and Michael Walsh, A graph-theoretic model of lexical syntactic acquisition.
Proceedings of EMNLP 2008
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D08/D08-1096.pdf
Proposed by Elias, Jan 2009
Discussed on Jan 30, 2009
Cristian Danescu Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee, and Richard Ducott, Without a `doubt'? Unsupervised discovery of downward-entailing operators.
Proceedings of NAACL HLT 2009.
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N09/N09-1016.pdf
Discussed on Feb 13, 2009
Sebastian Riedel and Ivan Meza-Ruiz, Collective Semantic Role Labelling with Markov Logic.
Proceedings of CoNLL 2008
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W09/W09-1213.pdf
Proposed by Rohit, Nov 2008
Discussed on Feb 27, 2009
Colin Bannard, Elena Lieven and Michael Tomasello, Modeling children’s early grammatical knowledge
Submitted to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Discussed on Mar 13, 2009
Marisa F. Boston, John Hale, Shravan Vasishth, Umesh Patil and Reinhold Kliegl, Parsing costs as predictors of reading difficulty: An evaluation using the Potsdam Sentence Corpus.
Journal of Eye Movement Research volume 2 number 1 pages 1-12.
http://www.jemr.org/online/2/1/1
Discussed on Apr 3, 2009
Katrin Erk, Diana McCarthy and Nicholas Gaylord, Investigations on Word Senses and Word Usages.
To appear in Proceedings of ACL 2009.
http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/erk/papers/erk_mccarthy_gaylord_09.pdf
Discussed on Apr 17, 2009
Joseph Reisinger and Marius Pasca, Latent Variable Models of Concept-Attribute Attachment
To appear in Proceedings of ACL, 2009.
Discussed on May 8, 2009
Ruifang Ge and Raymond J. Mooney, Learning a Compositional Semantic Parser using an Existing Syntactic Parser
To appear in Proceedings of ACL 2009.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ml/papers/ge-acl-ijcnlp09.pdf
Discussed on May 22, 2009
Trevor Cohn, Phil Blunsom and Sharon Goldwater. Inducing Compact but Accurate Tree-Substitution Grammars.
Proceedings of NAACL 2009.
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N09/N09-1062.pdf
Proposed by Elias, Aug 2009
Discussed on Aug 31, 2009
Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos. Unsupervised Semantic Parsing.
Proceedings of EMNLP 2009, (Received Best Paper Award)
http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D09/D09-1001.pdf
Proposed by Ray, Aug 2009
Discussed on Sep 14, 2009
Luke Zettlemoyer and Michael Collins Learning Context-Dependent Mappings from Sentences to Logical Form.
Proceedings of ACL 2009.
http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P09/P09-1110.pdf
Proposed by Ray, Aug 2009
Discussed on Sep 28, 2009
David Mimno, Hanna Wallach, Jason Naradowsky, David Smith and Andrew McCallum. Polylingual Topic Models.
Proceedings of EMNLP 2009.
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D09/D09-1092.pdf
Proposed by Joe, Aug 2009
Discussed on Oct 12, 2009
Jenny Rose Finkel and Christopher D. Manning Joint Parsing and Named Entity Recognition.
Proceedings of NAACL 2009.
http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N09/N09-1037.pdf
Proposed by Ray, Aug 2009
Discussed on Oct 26, 2009
Snyder, B., Naseem, T., & Barzilay, R. Unsupervised multilingual grammar induction
ACL 2009
http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P09/P09-1009.pdf
Proposed by Joe, Oct 2009
Dicsussed on Nov 9, 2009