Category: NLP related Research
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International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL2006) in Kyoto day 1
Opening Keynote by Dr. Makoto Nagao Owlery: A Flexible Content Management System for ‘Growing Metadata’ of Cultural Heritage Objects and its Education Use in the CEAX Project “A Digital Video Archive System of DNAP Taiwan” Some general information. About 190 registered participants on the first day. 220+ abstract submissions, 46 full papers, 13 short papers, […]
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IPSJ in Shinjuku Day two
Wednesday was the final day of the IPSJ meeting. I’ve got more comments on the papers that I saw that day below. Yoshihisa Shinozawa – “Extended simple recurrent networks by using bigram” – Keio University I had a tough time understanding this paper: I don’t know much about word nets using perceptrons. I also had […]
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Information Processing Society of Japan Natural Language Meeting
Notes from the 2006-09-12 to 13 Information Processing Society of Japan meeting. The Information Processing Society of Japan Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing holds bi-monthly meetings all around Japan. Two months ago, the meeting was in Hakodate. This time, the meeting was in Shinjuku, very close to where I live, so I decided […]
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2006-08-10 New Directions in Multilingual Information Access
David A. Evans’ invited talk: From R&D to Practice – Challenges to Multilingual Information Access in the Real World Combining Evidence from Homologous Datasets Translation Disambiguation in Web-based Translation Extraction for English-Chinese CLIR Real World Understanding for Multilingual Statistical Tables Multilingual Summarization at DUC and MSE Identification of Document Language in Hard Contexts Integrated Content […]
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2006-08-09 SIGIR Notes
Wednesday’s keynote: Information Access in the Extended Boeing Enterprise Radha Radhakrishnan Overview of Boeing’s information technology and information distribution structure. — Session VI: Clustering Document Clustering with Prior Knowledge Xiang Ji, Wei Xu, Shenhou Zhu, Yihong Gong NEC Labs America Document Clustering for summarization reference to Neto 2000? http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/laroccaneto00document.html Their application is to build a […]
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2006-08-08 SIGIR notes
Keynote: Social Networks, Incentives, and Search Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University An introduction to social networks, and some parallels to information retrieval. Via mathematical models of the web, we are looking for “Kepler’s Laws of Motion for the Web” (Mike Steuerwalt NSF KDI 1998). Looking at social networks and decentralized search. LiveJornal friendships [Liben-Nowell et al. […]
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2006-08-07 SIGIR in Seattle Notes
Keynote talk is by Keith van Rijsbergen (recipient of the Salton award, the highest SIGIR honor.) Talk entitled “Quantum Haystacks”, and is more on the fun side of things according to him. Early work has been on clustering, and went over other areas he has worked in as well. — Session I: Speech and Music […]
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Notes from Friday 2006-07-21 COLING/ACL conference
Notes from Friday’s sessions at the last day of COLING/ACL. Friday 2007-07-21 Notes from COLING/ACL Language, gender and sexuality: Do bodies always matter? Sally McConnel-Ginet Cornell University (Invited talk) Co-author of book “Language and Gender” – sounds interesting. Gave an example of John Summers (sp?) the Harvard guy and his talk about women and science. […]
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Notes from Thursday 2006-07-20 COLING/ACL conference
Rough notes from Thursday’s presentations at COLING/ACL. Exploiting Syntactic Patterns as Clues in Zero-Anaphora Resolution Ryu Iida, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto A nominee for the best asian paper award. A fairly interesting approach to anaphoric identification for “missing” zero-anaphora. I can’t really say that I know much about anaphoric resolution research, but they have a […]
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Notes from Tuesday 2007-07-18 COLING/ACL 2006 session
2006-07-18 Invited Keynote Tuesday morning Argmax Search in Natural Language Processing Daniel Marcu The goal is to convince us that search is hard, and by not worrying about it (just throwing in an argmax without thinking about it much) we have a problem. For example with ISI’s syntax based MT system, the big problem they […]