instructor: Dave Kauchak
e-mail: [first_initial][last_name]@cs.pomona.edu
office hours: Edmunds 224
Mon. 10:30am-12
Thu. 11am-12
Fri. 1:30-3:00pm
and by appointment
time: Tue. 11am-12:15
location: Edmunds 251
web page: http://www.cs.pomona.edu/~dkauchak/classes/cs190.1/
general information:
This course is the first step for tackling your senior work. We will read and present research papers as well as walk you through laying the groundwork for your thesis work in the spring.
General CS 190 information: http://www.cs.pomona.edu/classes/cs190/
Date | Paper | Citations | Reading notes | Presenters |
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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 . | 31 | ||
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. | 36 | Michael, Pooja | |
9/16 | Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern. 2004. Natural Language Understanding in Facade: Surface-text Processing. In Proceedings of Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling. | 59 | Garrett, Matthew | |
9/23 | Rada Mihalcea and Carlo Strapparava. 2006. Learning to laugh (Automatically): Computational Models for Humor Recognition. In Journal of Computational Intelligence. | 66 | Ellie, Olufemi, Xiaoyin | |
9/30 | Adam Lopez. 2008. Statistical Machine Translation. In Journal of ACM Computing Surveys. | 204 | Sections 1+2 | James, Shannon |
10/7 | Presentation of proposed projects | |||
10/14 | 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. | 4,414 | Pooja, Xiaoyin | |
10/21 | NO CLASS | |||
10/28 | David K. Elson, Nicholas Dames and Kathleen R. McKeown. 2010. Social Networks for Literary Fiction. In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics. | 80 | Bryan, Matthew, Michael | |
11/4 | Regina Barzilay and Kathleen R. McKeown. 2005. Sentence Fusion for Multidocument News Summarization. In Journal of Computational Linguistics. | 171 | Sections 1-3 | Ellie, James |
11/11 | David Ferrucci et al. 2010. Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project. In AI Magazine. | 393 | Bryan, Garrett | |
11/18 | Project progress reports | |||
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.. | 8 | Olufemi, Shannon | |
12/9 | NO CLASS |
Date | Time | What |
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9/3 | 1:00pm | Submit paper preferences here. |
9/9 | 4:15pm | Meeting to discuss project ideas (Edmunds 114) |
9/16 | 5:00pm | Ranked list of three possible senior project topic/advisor pairs. Submit here. |
9/28 | 5:00pm | Initial project description to project advisor |
10/26 | 5:00pm | Annotated bibliography to project advisor |
11/17 | 5:00pm | Extended abstract and literature review to project advisor |
12/10 | 5:00pm | Revised literature review to project advisor |
See a more detailed list of all deadlines for your senior project on the General CS 190 information page.