Natural Language Acquisition Group at the University of Texas at Austin

Previously Discussed Papers

2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 | Currently Proposed Papers

2007

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Fei Xia and William Lewis
"Multilingual Structural Projection across Interlinearized Text"
NAACL-HLT 2007, Rochester, NY, April 22-27, 2007
download from http://faculty.washington.edu/fxia/mpapers/NAACL07.pdf

Rohit J. Kate and Raymond J. Mooney
"Learning Language Semantics from Ambiguous Supervision"
To appear in Proceedings of the 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2007), Vancouver, Canada, July 2007.
download from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ml/publication/paper.cgi?paper=krisper-aaai-07.ps.gz

Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Shaul Markovitch
"Overcoming the Brittleness Bottleneck using Wikipedia: Enhancing Text Categorization with Encyclopedic Knowledge"
Proceedings of AAAI, 2006
download from http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/papers/wiki-aaai06.pdf
"Computing Semantic Relatedness using Wikipedia-based Explicit Semantic Analysis"
Proceedings of IJCAI, 2007
download from http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/papers/ijcai-2007-sim.pdf

Sandra Collovini de Abreau and Renata Vieira
"Learning Portuguese Discourse-new References"
Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice - IFIP 19th World Computer Congress, 2006
Download from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/nl-acq/ifip06-collovini-vieira.pdf

Rie Kubota Ando
"Applying Alternating Structure Optimization to Word Sense Disambiguation"
CoNLL-X, 2006
Download from http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll/pdf/07784.pdf

Katrin Erk and Sebastian Pado
"Shalmaneser -- a toolchain for shallow semantic parsing"
LREC, 2006
Download from http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/%7Epado/pub/papers/lrec06_erk.pdf

2006

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Katrin Erk "Unknown Word Sense Detection as Outlier Detection"
Proceedings of HLT-NAACL, 2006
download from http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/salsa/papers/nd_nn_final.pdf

Pascal Denis and Jason Baldridge
"A Ranking Approach to Pronoun Resolution"
IJCAI, 2007
Download from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/nl-acq/ijcai07.pdf

Peter D. Turney
"Similarity of Semantic Relations"
Computational Linguistics, 32(3), 2006
Download from http://cogprints.org/5098/01/NRC-48775.pdf

James Hampton
"The Combination of Prototype Concepts"

Marc D. Hauser, Noam Chomsky, W. Tecumseh Fitch
"The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve"
Science, 22 November 2002, Vol. 298
Download from http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/298/5598/1569.pdf

Ray Jackendoff and Steven Pinker
"The Nature of the Language Faculty and its Implications for Evolution of Language (Reply to Fitch, Hauser, & Chomsky)"
Cognition 97 (2005)
Download from http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/papers/2005_09_Jackendoff_Pinker.pdf

Brian Roark and Michiel Bacchiani
"Supervised and unsupervised PCFG adaptation to novel domains"
Proceedings of HLT-NAACL, 2003
Download from http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/N/N03/N03-1027.pdf

John Blitzer; Ryan McDonald; Fernando Pereira
"Domain Adaptation with Structural Correspondence Learning"
Proceedings of EMNLP, 2006
Download from http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/W/W06/W06-1615.pdf

Eduard Hovy, Mitchell Marcus, Martha Palmer, Lance Ramshaw and Ralph Weischedel "OntoNotes: The 90% Solution"
Proceedings of HLT-NAACL, 2006
Download from http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/hovy/papers/06HLT-NAACL-OntoNotes-short.pdf

Andrew Philpot, Eduard Hovy and Patrick Pantel "The Omega Ontology"
Proceedings of the ONTOLEX Workshop at IJCNLP, 2005
Download from http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/hovy/papers/05IJCNLP-ontolex-omega.pdf

Simon Lacoste-Julien, Ben Taskar, Dan Klein and Michael I. Jordan "Word Alignment via Quadratic Assignment"
Proceedings of HLT-NAACL, 2006
Download from http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~taskar/pubs/naacl06_qap.pdf

Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein "Prototype-driven learning for sequence models"
Proceedings of HLT-NAACL, 2006
Download from http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~aria42/pubs/naacl06-posinduction.pdf

Aron Culotta, Andrew McCallum, and Jonathan Betz "Integrating probabilistic extraction models and data mining to discover relations and patterns in text"
Proceedings of HLT-NAACL, 2006
Download from http://www.cs.umass.edu/~culotta/pubs/culotta06integrating.pdf

Hal Daumé III and Daniel Marcu "Domain Adaptation for Statistical Classifiers"
To appear in JAIR
Download from http://pub.hal3.name/daume06megam.pdf
discussed on Apr 25, 2006

Ani Nenkova, Advaith Siddharthan and Kathleen McKeown "Automatically learning cognitive status for multi-document summarization of newswire"
Proceedings of HLT-EMNLP, 2005
download from http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ani/papers/emnlp05.pdf
discussed on Feb 28, 2006

Ani Nenkova and Rebecca Passonneau "Evaluating Content Selection in Summarization: the Pyramid Method"
Proceedings of HLT-NAACL, 2004
download from http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ani/papers/pyramid.pdf
discussed on Feb 28, 2006

Ryan McDonald, Koby Crammer and Fernando Pereira "Flexible Text Segmentation with Structured Multilabel Classification"
Proceedings of HLT-EMNLP, 2005
download from http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~ryantm/papers/segmentationHLT-EMNLP2005.pdf
discussed on Feb 14, 2006

Noah A. Smith and Jason Eisner "Contrastive Estimation: Training Log-Linear Models on Unlabeled Data"
Proceedings of ACL 2005
download from http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~jason/papers/smith+eisner.acl05.pdf
discussed on Jan 31, 2006

2005

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Marshall R. Mayberry, III, Matthew Crocker and Pia Knoweferle "A Connectionist Model of Language-Scene Interaction"

download from http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~martym/publications/mayberry_cogsci05.pdf
Proceedings of COGSCI, 2005
discussed on Dec 7, 2005

Hal Daume III and Daniel Marcu "A Large Scale Exploration of Effective Features for a Joint Entity Detection and Tracking Model"

download from http://www.isi.edu/~marcu/papers/daume05coref.pdf
Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP, 2005
discussed on Nov 23, 2005

David Chiang "A hierarchical phrase-based model for statistical machine translation"

download from http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~dchiang/papers/chiang-acl05.pdf
Proceedings of ACL, 2005
discussed on Nov 10, 2005

Ryan McDonald and Fernando Pereira
"Non-projective dependency parsing using spanning tree algorithms"

download from http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~ryantm/papers/nonprojectiveHLT-EMNLP2005.pdf
Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP, 2005
discussed on Oct 27, 2005

Stephen Clark and James R. Curran
"Parsing the WSJ using CCG and Log-Linear Models"

download from http://www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk/~stevec/papers/clark_acl04.pdf
Proceedings of ACL, 2004
discussed on Oct 13, 2005

Mark Steedman and Jason Baldridge
"Combinatory Categorial Grammar"

download from ftp://ftp.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/pub/steedman/ccg/manifesto.pdf
Book chapter, 2003
discussed on Sep 29, 2005

Luke S. Zettlemoyer and Michael Collins
"Learning to Map Sentences to Logical Form: Structured Classification with Probabilistic Categorial Grammars"

download from http://people.csail.mit.edu/mcollins/papers/uai05.pdf
Proceedings of UAI 2005
discussed on Sep 15, 2005

Deb K. Roy
"Learning Visually-Grounded Words and Syntax for a Scene Description Task"

download from http://web.media.mit.edu/~dkroy/papers/pdf/csl.pdf
Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 16, 2002
discussed on May 10, 2005

Aron Culotta and Jeffrey Sorensen
"Dependency Tree Kernels for Relation Extraction"

download from http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/acl2004/main/pdf/244_pdf_2-col.pdf
Proceedings of ACL, Barcelona, July 2004
discussed on Apr 15, 2005

D. Zelenko and C. Aone and A. Richardella
"Kernel methods for relation extraction"

download from http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/pdf/jmlr_3_6_1083_0.pdf
Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 3, 2003
discussed on Apr 15, 2005

Roger Levy and Christopher Manning
"Deep dependencies from context-free statistical parsers: correcting the surface dependency approximation"

download from http://www.stanford.edu/~rog/papers/levy-manning-acl04.pdf
Proceedings of ACL, Barcelona, July 2004
discussed on Feb 8, 2005

Miles Osborne and Jason Baldridge
"Ensemble-based Active Learning for Parse Selection"

download from http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/hlt-naacl2004/main/pdf/83_Paper.pdf
Proceedings of HLT-NAACL, 2004
discussed on Feb 23, 2005

Ulrike Baldewein, Katrin Erk, Sebastian Pado, and Detlef Prescher
"Semantic role labelling with similarity-based generalization using EM-based clustering"

download from http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/acl2004/senseval/pdf/baldewein.pdf
Proceedings of Senseval-3, 2004
discussed on Feb 23, 2005

2004

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Dan Klein and Christopher Manning
"Corpus-Based Induction of Syntactic Structure: Models of Dependency and Constituency"

download from http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/acl2004/main/pdf/341_pdf_2-col.pdf
Proceedings of ACL, Barcelona, July 2004, pp. 478-485
discussed on Sep 23, 2004

David Bean and Ellen Riloff
"Unsupervised Learning of Contextual Role Knowledge for Coreference Resolution"

download from http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/hlt-naacl2004/main/pdf/134_Paper.pdf
Proceedings of HLT-NAACL, Boston, May 2004, pp. 297-304
discussed on Oct 21, 2004

Rebecca Green, Bonnie J. Dorr and Philip Resnik
"Inducing Frame Semantic Verb Classes from WordNet and LDOCE"

download from http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/acl2004/main/pdf/264_pdf_2-col.pdf
Proceedings of ACL, Barcelona, July 2004
discussed on Nov 18, 2004

2003

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Daniel Gildea, and Daniel Jurafsky "Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles"

download from http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dgildea/gildea-cl02.ps
Computational Linguistics, 28(3):245-288, 2002.
proposed by Raymond Mooney, Mar 3, 2003
discussed on Mar 21, 2003

Jonas Kuhn "OT Syntax: Decidability of Generation-based Optimization"

download from http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/P/P02/P02-1007.pdf
Proceedings of ACL, Philadelphia, July 2002, pp. 48-55.
discussed on Apr 16, 2003

Stefan Riezler, Tracy H. King, Ronald M. Kaplan, Richard Crouch, John T. Maxwell III and Mark Johnson
"Parsing the Wall Street Journal Using a Lexical-Functional Grammar and Discriminative Estimation Techniques"

download from http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/P/P02/P02-1035.pdf
Proceedings of ACL, Philadelphia, July 2002, pp. 271-278
discussed on Apr 30, 2003

2002

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Satinder Singh, Michael S. Kearns, Diane J. Litman, and Marilyn A. Walker "Reinforcement Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems"

download from http://www.research.att.com/~diane/nips99.ps
proposed by Rupert Tang, Jan 19, 2002
discussed on Jan 22, 2002

M. Walker, O. Rambow, and M. Rogati "A trainable approach to sentence planning for spoken dialogue"

download from http://www.research.att.com/~walker/spot-csl-3.pdf
proposed by Rupert Tang, Feb 02, 2002
discussed on Feb 05, 2002

Cynthia A. Thompson "Adaptive Conversational Agents for Task-Oriented Dialogues"

download from http://www.cs.utah.edu/~cindi/papers/apa-agents99.ps.gz
proposed by Rupert Tang, Feb 16, 2002
discussed on Feb 19, 2002

Marshall R. Mayberry, III and Risto Miikkulainen "Broad-Coverage Parsing with Neural Networks"

download from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/martym/cogsci02.ps
proposed by Rupert Tang, Mar 02, 2002
discussed on Mar 05, 2002

Konrad Scheffler and Steve Young "Corpus-based dialogue simulation for automatic strategy learning and evaluation"

download from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/rupert/scheffler01corpusbased.ps
proposed by Rupert Tang, Mar 23, 2002
discussed on Mar 26, 2002

Ann Copestake, Rob Malouf, Susanne Riehemann, and Ivan Sag "Translation using Minimal Recursion Semantics"

download from http://hpsg.stanford.edu/hpsg/final.ps
proposed by Rupert Tang, Apr 07, 2002
discussed on Apr 09, 2002

2001

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Sanda M. Harabagiu, Marius A. Pasca, and Steven J. Maiorono. "A Knowledge-Based Answer Engine for Open-Domain Questions"
proposed by Ray Mooney, Jan 18, 2001
discussed on Jan 31st, 2001

C. Cardie, V. Ng, D. Pierce, and C. Buckley. "Examining the Role of Statistical and Linguistic Knowledge Sources in a General-Knowledge Question-Answering System"
download from http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/cardie/papers/anlp-2000.ps
proposed by Ray Mooney, Jan 31st, 2001
discussed on Feb 14, 2001

Dragomir R. Radev, John Prager, and Valerie Samn. "Ranking suspected answers to natural language questions using predictive annotation"
download from http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/publication/anlp-qa.ps
proposed by Ray Mooney, Jan 18, 2001
discussed on Jan 31st, 2001

Rohini Srihari and Wei Li. "A Question Answering System Supported by Information Extraction"
proposed by Ray Mooney, Feb 12, 2001
discussed on Feb 28, 2001

Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu. "Statistics-Based Summarization -- Step One: Sentence Compression"
download from http://www.isi.edu/~marcu/papers/aaai-stat-sum-00.ps
proposed by Ray Mooney, Feb 12, 2001
discussed on Mar 28, 2001

Kathleen R. McKeown, Judith L. Klavans, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Regina Barzilay and Eleazar Eskin's "Towards multidocument summarization by reformulation: Progress and prospects."
download from http://www.cmis.csiro.au/Stephen.Wan/summarization_papers/1999_mckeown_EA_summ_reformulation.ps
In Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI--99).
proposed by Ray Mooney, Feb 12, 2001
discussed on Apr 4, 2001

M. Witbrock and V. Mittal. "Ulta-summarization: A statistical approach to generating highly condensed non-extractive summaries"
download from http://www.cmis.csiro.au/Stephen.Wan/summarization_papers/Mittal_99_UltraSummarisation.pdf
SIGIR'99
proposed by Ray Mooney, Feb 12, 2001
discussed on Apr 18, 2001

Ted Briscoe and John Carroll's "Automatic Extraction of Subcategorization from Corpora"
download from http://xxx.soton.ac.uk/ps/cmp-lg/9702002 .
proposed by Ken Barker, April 27, 2001
discussed on May 2, 2001

Steven Abney's "Statistical Methods and Linguistics",
download from http://www.research.att.com/~abney/95c.ps.gz
proposed by Ken Barker, April 27, 2001
discussed on May 16, 2001

James Henderson "A Neural Network Parser That Handles Sparse Data"
download from http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/henderson00neural.html
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Sep 1, 2001
discussed on Sep 12, 2001

Douglas Rohde " thesis proposal from Sep, 1999"
download from www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dr/Papers/proposal.ps.gz
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Sep 14, 2001
discussed on Sep 26, 2001

John Hutchins and Evgenii Lovtskii "Petr Petrovich Troyanskii (1894-1950): A Forgotten Pioneer of Mechanical Translation"

download from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/rupert/mactrans15.pdf
proposed by Rupert Tang, Oct 7, 2001
discussed on Oct 10, 2001

Ulrich Germann, Michael Jahr, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, and Kenji Yamada "Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation"

download from http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/projects/rewrite/decoder.pdf
proposed by Sanda Harabagiu, Oct 10, 2001
discussed on Oct 24, 2001

K. Knight and I. Langkilde "Preserving Ambiguities in Generation via Automata Intersection"

download from http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/mt/preserve.ps
proposed by Sanda Harabagiu, Oct 24, 2001
discussed on Nov 7, 2001

P. Koehn and K. Knight "Estimating Word Translation Probabilities from Unrelated Monolingual Corpora Using the EM Algorithm"

download from http://www.isi.edu/~koehn/publications/aaai2000.ps
proposed by Sanda Harabagiu, Nov 15, 2001
discussed on Nov 21, 2001

K. Yamada and K. Knight "A Syntax-Based Statistical Translation Model"

download from http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/projects/rewrite/syntax.ps
proposed by Rupert Tang, Nov 28, 2001
discussed on Dec 5, 2001

2000

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Mark S. Seidenberg and Maryellen C. MacDonald: "A Probabilistic Constraints Approach to Language Acquisition and Processing",
Special Issue of Cognitive Science on Connectionist Models of Human Language Processing: Progress and Prospects, edited by M.H. Christiansen, N. Chater and M.S. Seidenberg
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Jan 20, 2000
discussed Jan 26, 2000

David Plaut: " A connectionist approach to word reading and acquired dyslexia: Extension to sequential processing ",
Special Issue of Cognitive Science on Connectionist Models of Human Language Processing: Progress and Prospects, edited by M.H. Christiansen, N. Chater and M.S. Seidenberg
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Jan 20, 2000
discussed Feb 9, 2000

Gary Dell, Franklin Chang, and Zenzi Griffin: "Connectionist Models of Language Production: Lexical Access and Grammatical Encoding ",
Special Issue of Cognitive Science on Connectionist Models of Human Language Processing: Progress and Prospects, edited by M.H. Christiansen, N. Chater and M.S. Seidenberg
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Jan 20, 2000
discussed Feb 23, 2000

David Dowty "Thematic proto-roles and argument selection ",
Language, Vol 67, No 3, Sep. 1991.
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Jan 20, 2000
discussed Mar 8, 2000

E. Riloff and R. Jones: "Learning Dictionaries for Information Extraction by Multi-Level Bootstrapping",
Proceedings AAAI99, Orlando, FL, pp. 474-479
proposed by Ray Mooney, Sep 23, 1999
discussed Mar 29, 2000

J. Henderson and E. Brill: "Exploiting Diversity in Natural Language Processing: Combining Parsers",
Proceedings EMNLP-VLC99, College Park, MD, pp. 187-194
proposed by Ray Mooney, Sep 23, 1999
discussed Apr 12, 2000

Roni Khardon, Dan Roth, and Leslie Valiant: "Relational Learning for NLP using Linear Threshold Elements",
download from http://l2r.cs.uiuc.edu/~danr/Papers/ijcai99krv.ps.gz
Proc. of IJCAI, 1999
proposed by Ray Mooney, Apr 12, 2000
discussed on Apr 26, 2000

James Hurford "Social Transmission Favours Linguistic Generalization",
download from http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~jim/london.paper.final.html
proposed by Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Aug 31, 2000
discussed on Sep 13, 2000

Hinrich Schütze and Craig Silverstein "Projections for Efficient Document Clustering",
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. July 1997, pp. 74-81.)
download from http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~csilvers/papers/metrics-sigir.ps
proposed by Inderjit Dhillon, Sep 16, 2000
discussed on Sep 27, 2000

Inderjit Dhillon "Concept Decompositions for Large Sparse Text Data using Clustering"
(to appear in Machine Learning Journal in Jan, 2001)
download from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/inderjit/public_papers/concept_mlj.ps.gz
proposed by Inderjit Dhillon, Sep 16, 2000
discussed on Oct 11, 2000

Chris Manning and Hinrich Schuetze. "Clustering"
Chapter 14 of "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing"
proposed by Marshall Mayberry, Oct 15, 2000
discussed on Oct 25, 2000

Hwee Tou Ng, Leong Hwee Teo, and Jennifer Lai Pheng Kwan. "A Machine Learning Approach to Answering Questions for Reading Comprehension Tests"
EMNLP 2000
proposed by Rupert Tang, Nov 1, 2000
discussed on Nov 8, 2000
Steven Abney, Michael Collins, and Amit Singhal. "Answer Extraction"
download from http://www.research.att.com/~mcollins/papers/ANLP.ps
discussed on Dec 6, 2000

1999

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Ivan Sag: "Taking Performance Seriously",
Unpublished manuscript.
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Jan 25, 1999
discussed on Feb 3, 1999

Jamie Henderson and Peter Lane: "A Connectionist Architecture for Learning to Parse",
Proc. of COLING-ACL, 1998
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Jan 25, 1999
discussed on Feb 17, 1999

Jill Burstein, Karen Kukich, Susanne Wolff, Chi Lu, Martin Chodorow, Lisa Braden-Harder, and Mary Dee Harris: "Automated Scoring Using a Hybrid Feature Identification Technique",
proposed by Mary Dee Harris, Feb 17, 1999
discussed on Mar 17, 1999

Jason Eisner and Giorgio Satta: "Efficient Parsing for Bilexical Context-Free Grammars and Head Automaton Grammars",
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Mar 24, 1999
discussed on Mar 31, 1999

Dragomir Radev: "Learning Correlations between Linguistic Indicators and Semantic Constraints",
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Apr 7, 1999
discussed on Apr 14, 1999

Doug Beeferman, Adam Berger, and John Lafferty: "Statistical Models for Text Segmentation",
Machine Learning 34, 1-34, 1999
proposed by Ray Mooney, Jan 25, 1999
discussed on Apr 28, 1999

Ellen Riloff: "Automatically Generating Extraction Patterns from Untagged Text"
download from http://www.cs.utah.edu/~riloff/psfiles/aaai96.ps (6 pages)
accepted for AAAI-96
see also Riloff, E. and Shoen, J.
proposed by Ulf Hermjakob, April 26, 1996
discussed on May 12, 1999

Matthew Berland and Eugene Charniak: "Finding Parts in Very Large Corpora"
Proc. of ACL 1999
proposed by Ray Mooney, Sep 2, 1999
discussed on Sep 15, 1999

Sharon A. Caraballo: "Automatic Construction of a Hypernym-labeled Noun Hierarchy from Text"
Proc. of ACL 1999
proposed by Ray Mooney, Sep 2, 1999
discussed on Sep 29, 1999

C. Cardie and K. Wagstaff: "Noun Phrase Coreference as Clustering",
Proceedings EMNLP-VLC99, College Park, MD, pp. 82-89
proposed by Ray Mooney, Sep 23, 1999
discussed on Oct 13, 1999

Simon Kirby: "Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners"
in Chris Knight (ed.) second book on Approaches to the Evolution of Language.
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Oct 30, 1999
discussed on Oct 27, 1999

Peter Wiemer-Hastings: "How Latent is Latent Semantic Analysis"
Proc. of IJCAI, 1999
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Oct 30, 1999
discussed on Nov 10, 1999

Walter Daelemans, Sabine Buchholz, Jorn Veenstra: "Memory-Based Shallow Parsing"
Proceedings of CoNLL-99, pp. 53-60, Bergen, Norway, June 12, 1999.
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Nov 12, 1999
discussed on Nov 24, 1999

Ivelin Stoianov, Laurie Stowe, and John Nerbonne: "Connectionist Learning to Read Aloud and Comparison to Human Data"
Proc. of Cognitive Science 1999
proposed by Risto Miikkulainen, Nov 28, 1999
discussed on Dec 8, 1999

1998

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David D. Lewis: "Evaluating Text Categorization"
In Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language Workshop, Asilomar, Feb. 1991, Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, pp.312-318
proposed by Nora Aguirre, Nov 17, 1997
discussed on Jan 21, 1998

Eric Brill and Raymond Mooney: "An Overview of Empirical Natural Language Processing",
AI Magazine, Vo. 18, No. 4, Winter 1997, pp. 13-24
proposed by Ray Mooney, Jan 12, 1998
discussed on Feb 4, 1998

Eugene Charniak: "Statistical Techniques for Natural Language Processing",
AI Magazine, Vo. 18, No. 4, Winter 1997, pp. 33-44
proposed by Ray Mooney, Jan 12, 1998
discussed on Feb 4, 1998

Kevin Knight: "Automating Knowledge Acquisition for Machine Translation",
AI Magazine, Vo. 18, No. 4, Winter 1997, pp. 81-96
proposed by Ray Mooney, Jan 12, 1998
discussed on Feb 18, 1998

Hwee Tou Ng and John Zelle: "Corpus-Based Approaches to Semantic Interpretation in NLP",
AI Magazine, Vo. 18, No. 4, Winter 1997, pp. 45-64
proposed by Ray Mooney, Jan 12, 1998
discussed on Apr 1, 1998

Andreas Stolcke: "Linguistic Knowledge and Empirical Methods in Speech Recognition",
AI Magazine, Vo. 18, No. 4, Winter 1997, pp. 25-32
proposed by Ray Mooney, Jan 12, 1998
discussed on Apr 15, 1998

Claire Cardie: "Empirical Methods in Information Extraction",
AI Magazine, Vo. 18, No. 4, Winter 1997, pp. 65-80
proposed by Ray Mooney, Jan 12, 1998
discussed on Apr 15, 1998

R. Bod, R. Bonnema and R. Scha: "A Data-Oriented Approach to Semantic Interpretation",
Proceedings Workshop on Corpus-Oriented Semantic Analysis, ECAI-96, Budapest, Hungary, 1996.
proposed by Bobby Bryant, Apr 9, 1998
available from cmp-lg/9606024
download from http://earth.let.uva.nl/~rens/ecai.ps
discussed on Apr 29, 1998

Y. Wilks and M. Stevenson: "Sense tagging: Semantic Tagging with a Lexicon",
Proceedings of the SIGLEX Workshop "Tagging Text with Lexical Semantics", Washington, DC, 1997, pp. 47-51.
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Apr 23, 1998
discussed on May 13, 1998

K. C. Litkowski: "Desiderata for Tagging with WordNet Synsets or MCCA Categories",
Proceedings of the SIGLEX Workshop "Tagging Text with Lexical Semantics", Washington, DC, 1997, pp. 12-17.
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Apr 23, 1998
discussed on May 27, 1998

T. Briscoe: "Co-evolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device",
Proceedings ACL-EACL'97, Madrid, Spain), pp. 418-427.
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Apr 23, 1998<
discussed July, 1998

M. Christiansen and N. Chater, N. "Connectionist Natural Language Processing: The State of the Art.",
Submitted to a Special Issue of Cognitive Science on Connectionist Models of Human Language Processing: Progress and Prospects, edited by M.H. Christiansen, N. Chater and M.S. Seidenberg
download from here
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Sep 1, 1998
discussed Sep 9, 1998

W. Tabor and M. Tanenhaus: "Dynamical Models of Sentence Processing ",
Submitted to a Special Issue of Cognitive Science on Connectionist Models of Human Language Processing: Progress and Prospects, edited by M.H. Christiansen, N. Chater and M.S. Seidenberg
download from here
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Sep 1, 1998
discussed Sep 23, 1998

M. Christiansen and N. Chater: "Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic performance",
accepted for publication in Cognitive Science 1998
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Sep 1, 1998
discussed Oct 7, 1998

M. Steedman: "Connectionist Sentence Processing in Perspective",
Submitted to a Special Issue of Cognitive Science on Connectionist Models of Human Language Processing: Progress and Prospects, edited by M.H. Christiansen, N. Chater and M.S. Seidenberg
download from here
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Sep 19, 1998
discussed Nov 4, 1998

Nance Ide and Jean Véronis: "Introduction to the Special Issue on Word Sense Disambiguation: The State of the Art",
Comp. Ling. March 1998, pp. 1-40
proposed by Ray Mooney, Oct 1998
discussed on Nov 18, 1998

P. Resnik and D. Yarowsky: "A Perspective on Word Sense Disambiguation Methods and Their Evaluation",
Proceedings of the SIGLEX Workshop "Tagging Text with Lexical Semantics", Washington, DC, 1997, pp. 79-86.
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Apr 23, 1998
discussed on Nov 23, 1998

H. T. Ng: "Getting serious about word sense disambiguation",
Proceedings of the SIGLEX Workshop "Tagging Text with Lexical Semantics", Washington, DC, 1997, pp. 1-7.
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Apr 23, 1998
discussed on Dec 4, 1998

1997

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S. Soderland, D. Fisher, J. Aseltine and W. Lehnert: " CRYSTAL: Inducing a Conceptual Dictionary "
IJCAI 1995
pp. 1314-1319
discussed on January 29, 1997

Burke, Hammond, & Kozlovsky, " Knowledge-based information Retrieval from Semi-Structured Text ",
AI Applications in Knowledge Navigation & Retrieval,
AAAI Fall Symposium.
About the FAQFinder system for NL queries to USENET FAQs, short, not very
detailed but may stimulate discussion.
discussed on February 12, 1997

Wermter, S. and Weber, V. " SCREEN: Learning a Flat Syntactic and Semantic Spoken Language Analysis Using Artificial Neural Networks ",
JAIR, Volume 6 (1997), pages 35-85.
download from http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/jair/abstracts/wermter97a.html
discussed on February 26, 1997

Hadley, Robert F. & Cardlei, Vlad C., " Acquisition of the Active-Passive Distinction from Sparse Input and No Error Feedback ",
download from ftp://ftp.fas.sfu.ca/pub/cs/hadley/act.pas.ps
Simon Fraser University, Technical Report -- CSS-IS TR 97-01.
discussed on March 26, 1997

Gildea & Jurafsky, " Learning Bias and Phonological Rule Induction "
Computational Linguistics, 22, 4, Dec. 1996
proposed by Ray Mooney, March 21, 1997
Comment: Looks interesting. A midpoint between nativist and empiricists. Relates to the trilogy of stress learning papers we read about a year ago.
discussed on April 9, 1997

Briscoe & Carroll, " Generalized Probabilistic LR Parsing of Natural Language with Unification-Based Grammars"
Computational Linguistics, 19, 1, March 1993
proposed by Ray Mooney, March 21, 1997
Comment: A paper from the old special corpus-based special issues that seems more relevant to learning to control parsers (compared to the normal grammar learning view) and therefore related to our approaches that learn to control shift-reduce type parsers.
discussed on April 23, 1997

T. Pedersen, R. Bruce: "A New Supervised Learning Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation",
to appear in AAAI-97
proposed by Ray Mooney, April 23, 1997
discussed on May 7, 1997

Roberto Basili, Maria Teresa Paziena, and Paola Velardi: " An empirical approach to natural language processing"
AI Journal, Vol 85
proposed by Ray Mooney, October 26, 1996
discussed on May 21, 1997

Kevin Knight: "Learning Word Meanings by Instruction",
AAAI-96
proposed by Ray Mooney, April 23, 1997
discussed on Jun 3, 1997

Ken Yip & Gerald Sussman: "A Computational Model for the Acquisition and Use of Phonological Knowledge"
download from ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/1500-1999/AIM-1575.ps.Z
MIT AI Lab, AI Memo 1575
Comment: Some more on past tense (and plurals) using a symbolic constraint method.
proposed by Ray Mooney, May 2, 1996
discussed on Jun 17, 1997

Thomas K. Landauer and Susan T. Dumais: "A Solution to Plato's Problem: The Latent Semantic Analysis Theory of Acquisition, Induction, and Representation of Knowledge",
Psychological Review, 1997, Vol. 104, No. 2, 211-240
proposed by Risto Miikkulainen, Jun 1, 1997
discussed on Jul 2, 1997

Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky: " Optimality: From Neural Networks to Universal Grammar", and Mark S. Seidenberg: " Language Acquisition and Use: Learning and Applying Probabilistic Constraints",
Science, 275, 14 March 1997
proposed by Risto Miikkulainen, May 13, 1997
discussed on Jul 16, 1997

Eugene Charniak: "Statistical Parsing with a Context-free Grammar and Word Statistics",
AAAI 97, pp 598-603
proposed by Ray Mooney, Sep 8, 1997
discussed on Sep 10, 1997

Ellen Riloff and Jessica Shepherd: "A Corpus-Based Approach for Building Semantic Lexicons",
Proc. of the Second Conf. on Empirical Methods in NLP, pp. 109-116
proposed by Ray Mooney, Sep 8, 1997
discussed on Sep 24, 1997

Timo Honkela, Samuel Kaski, Krista Lagus, and Teuvo Kohonen: "Newsgroup Exploration with {WEBSOM} Method and Browsing Interface",
Report A32, Laboratory of Computer and Information Science, Faculty of Information Technology, Helsinki University of Technology, 1996
proposed by Risto Miikkulainen, Oct 16, 1997
discussed on Nov 3, 1997

Werner, Gregory M. and Michael G. Dyer: "Evolution of Communication in Artificial Organisms.",
Tech Report UCLA-AI-90-06.
(Available in PCL as QA 76.952 C344 1990 No. 38, or get a copy from Risto.)
The authors encourage the development of communication skills by putting blind males and immobile females together in a simple A-Life environment, and cross genes between M&F pairs whenever they come into contact. Remarkably, the females learn to steer the males to contact, while the random movers and random signalers go extinct. The technology is a simple genetic algorithm encoding the weights in an integer-based neural network. It's fun, interesting, and an easy read. (You may want to vote for it on a week when you've got a lot of other things to do!)
proposed by Bobby Bryant, Aug. 17, 1997
discussed on Nov 17, 1997

Noel Sharkey and Amanda Sharkey: "Separating Learning and Representation",
Connectionist, Statistical, and Symbolic Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing
proposed by Marty Mayberry, Oct 15, 1997
discussed on Nov 31, 1997

1996

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Ulf Hermjakob and Ray Mooney: "Learning Parse Decisions from Examples with Rich Context"
submitted to ACL 1996
download from ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/mooney/papers/contex-acl-96.ps.Z
discussed on January 26, 1996

E. Brill: "Transformation-Based Error-Driven Learning and Natural Language Processing: A Case Study in Part-of-Speech Tagging"
Computational Linguistics, 21(4), 1995; pp. 543-565
A journal article summary of some of Brill's thesis work
discussed on February 9, 1996

P. Geutner, et al.: "Integrating Different Approaches into a Multilingual Spoken Language Translation System"
1995 IJCAI workshop on New Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing
pp. 33-40
discussed on February 23, 1996

Raymond J. Mooney: "Comparative Experiments on Disambiguating Word Senses: An Illustration of the Role of Bias in Machine Learning"
submitted to: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
download from ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/mooney/papers/emnlp-96.ps.Z
discussed on March 8, 1996

Yarowsky, D.: "Word-sense disambiguation using statistical models of Roget's categories trained on large corpora."
in Proceedings of Coling-92, pp. 454-460
discussed on March 22, 1996

Eugene Charniak: "Tree-bank Grammars"
scheduled for AAAI '96
Abstract: By a ``tree-bank grammar'' we mean a context-free grammar created by reading the production rules directly from hand-parsed sentences in a tree bank. Common wisdom has it that such grammars do not perform well, though we know of no published data on the issue. The primary purpose of this paper is to show that the common wisdom is wrong. In particular we present results on a tree-bank grammar based on the Penn Wall Street Journal tree bank. To the best of our knowledge, this grammar out-performs all other non-word-based statistical parsers/grammars on this corpus. That is, it out-performs parsers that consider the input as a string of tags and ignore the actual words of the corpus.
download from ftp://ftp.cs.brown.edu/pub/techreports/96/cs96-02.ps.Z (12 pages)
discussed on April 5, 1996

Michael Brent: " Advances in the Computational Study of Language Acquisition "
Abstract: This paper provides a tutorial introduction to computational studies of how children learn their native languages. Its aim is to make recent advances accessible to the broader research community, and to place them in the context of current theoretical issues. The papers reviewed here focus on learning the meanings of words, learning the sounds of words, and learning the values of grammatical parameters. ...
download from http://www.cog.jhu.edu/faculty/Brent/Pub/BC96CN.ps (40 pages)
discussed on April 19, 1996

M. Ersan, E. Charniak: " A statistical syntactic disambiguation program and what it means "
download from ftp://ftp.cs.brown.edu/pub/techreports/95/cs95-29.ps.Z
from lecture note book Connectionist, Statistical, and Symbolic Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing (published 1996 by Springer; edited Natural Language Processing (published 1996 by Springer; edited by Wermter, Riloff and Scheler), pp. 146-159
discussed on May 3, 1996

Steve Lawrence, Sandiway Fong, C. Lee Giles: " Natural Language Grammatical Inference: A Comparison of Recurrent Neural Networks and Machine Learning Methods "
download from http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/giles/papers/Lecture.Notes.AI.NLP.with.NNs.ps.Z
from lecture note book Connectionist, Statistical, and Symbolic Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing (published 1996 by Springer; edited by Wermter, Riloff and Scheler), pp. 33-47
discussed on June 21, 1996

Claire Cardie: " Automating Feature Set Selection for Case-Based Learning of Linguistic Knowledge "
download from http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/cardie/papers/rep-or-alg.ps
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 113-126
discussed on July 8, 1996

Michael J. Collins: " A New Statistical Parser Based on Bigram Lexical Dependencies "
download via http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cmp-lg/9605012
Abstract: This paper describes a new statistical parser which is based on probabilities of dependencies between head-words in the parse tree. Standard bigram probability estimahead-words in the parse tree. Standard bigram probability estimation techniques are extended to calculate probabilities of dependencies between pairs of words. Tests using Wall Street Journal data show that the method performs at least as well as SPATTER (Magerman 95, Jelinek et al 94), which has the best published results for a statistical parser on this task. The simplicity of the approach means the model trains on 40,000 sentences in under 15 minutes. With a beam search strategy parsing speed can be improved to over 200 sentences a minute with negligible loss in accuracy.
Proceedings of 34th Annual Meeting of the ACL (1996), pp. 184-191
discussed on July 30, 1996

Hwee Tou Ng and Hian Beng Lee: " Integrating Multiple Knowledge Sources to Disambiguate Word Sense: An Exemplar-Based Approach "
download via http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cmp-lg/9606032
Proceedings of 34th Annual Meeting of the ACL (1996), pp. 40-47
discussed on August 23, 1996

Sean P. Engelson and Ido Dagan: " Minimizing Manual Annotation Cost in Supervised Training from Corpora "
download via http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cmp-lg/9606030
Proceedings of 34th Annual Meeting of the ACL (1996), pp. 319-326
discussed on September 4, 1996

Scott Miller, David Stallard, Robert Bobrow and Richard Schwartz: " A Fully Statistical Approach to Natural Language Interfaces "
Proceedings of 34th Annual Meeting of the ACL (1996), pp. 55-61
discussed on October 2, 1996

Joshua Goodman: " Parsing Algorithms and Metrics "
download via http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cmp-lg/9605036
Proceedings of 34th Annual Meeting of the ACL (1996), pp. 177-183
discussed on October 16, 1996

Michael K. Tanenhaus: " Using Eye Movements to Study Spoken Language Comprehension "
Proceedings of 34th Annual Meeting of the ACL (1996), pp. 48-54
discussed on October 30, 1996

Elman et al.: " "Learning the Past Tense", a chapter section fromtheir recently published book "Rethinking Innateness - A Connectionist Perspective on Development" ", pp. 130-147
discussed on November 13, 1996

Ellen Riloff: " An empirical study of automated dictionary construction for information extraction in three domains "
AI Journal, Vol 85, pp. 101-134
discussed on November 25, 1996
download from http://www.cs.utah.edu/~riloff/psfiles/aij.ps

1995

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Dresher, E. and Kaye, J. (1990), "A computational learning model for metrical phonology",
Cognition 34, 137-195
discussed on Jan. 20, 1995

Gupta, P. and Touretzky, "Connectionist Models and Linguistic Theory: Invesitigations of Stress Systems in Language"
Cognitive Science, 18,1, January, 1994.
discussed on Febr. 3, 1995

Daelemans, Gillis, & Durieux, "The Acquisition of Stress: A Data Oriented Approach, Computational Linguistics",
20,3, Sept 1994.
discussed on Febr. 17, 1995

Gasser, Michael. "Acquiring Receptive Morphology: A Connectionist Model".
279-86. ACL Proc. of 32nd Annual Meeting, 1994
discussed on Mar. 3, 1995

Diane J. Litman: "Classifying Cue Phrases in text and Speech using Machine Learning",
AAAI94, Vol. I, pp. 806-813
discussed on Mar. 24, 1995

Eric V. Siegel and Kathleen R. McKeown: "Emergent Linguistic Rules from Inducing Decision Trees: Disambiguating Discourse Clue Words"
AAAI 94, Vol. I, pp. 820-826
discussed on Mar. 24, 1995

Leacock, Towell and Voorhees: "Towards Building Contextual Representations of Word Senses Using Statistical Models"
in personal files of Cindi Thompson, from one of the authors
discussed on April 7, 1995

Pat Langley: "Simplicity and Representation Change in Grammar Induction"
From the author via John Zelle, 1995; submitted to the special issue of Machine Learning on Bias Evaluation and Selection; 19 pages
discussed on April 21, 1995

Garrison W. Cottrell and Kim Plunkett (1994): " Acquiring the Mapping from Meaning to Sounds".
Connection Science 6:379--412.
discussed on May 5, 1995

C. Aone and S. Bennett, " Evaluating Automated and Manual Acquisition of Anaphora Resolution Startegies, "
to appear ACL-95
Uses C4.5 to learn decision trees for resolving anaphora.
download from file://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/mooney/papers-others/aone-acl95.ps
discussed on May 19, 1995

David M. Magerman: "Statistical Decision-Tree Models for Parsing" To appear in ACL95
available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/cmp-lg/ with search for author magerman
discussed on June 2, 1995

Roland Kuhn & Renato De More: "The Application of Semantic Classification Trees to Natural Language Understanding"
IEEE, PAMI 17/5, May 1995
discussed on August 3, 1995

Yarowsky, D.: "Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Rivaling Supervised Methods"
33rd Annual Meeting of the ACL, 1995, pp. 189-196
discussed on September 1, 1995

S. Huffman: "Learning Information Extraction Patterns from Examples"
1995 IJCAI workshop on New Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing, pp. 127-134.
discussed on September 27, 1995

Lund, K., Burgess, C. and Atchley, R.A.: " Semantic and Associative Priming in High-Dimensional Semantic Space. "
in Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1995
discussed on October 13, 1995

I. Dagan and S. Engelson: " Selective Sampling in Natural Language Learning "
1995 IJCAI workshop on New Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing, pp. 41-48.
discussed on October 27, 1995

T. Yamazaki, M. Pazzani, and C. Merz: " Acquiring and Updating Hierarachical Knowledge for Machine Translation Based on a Clustering Technique "
1995 IJCAI workshop on New Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing, pp. 111-118.
discussed on November 10, 1995

Knight, Chander, Haines, Hatzivassiloglou, Hovy, Iida, Luk, Whitney, Yamada: " Filling Knowledge Gaps in a Broad-Coverage Machine Translation System "
IJCAI 1995, pp. 1390-1396
discussed on December 14, 1995

1994

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Marcus, Marcinkiewicz, and Santorini, "Building a Large Annotated Corpus of English: The Penn Treebank",
Comp Ling, 19,2.
discussed on Jan. 14, 1994

Nancy Chindor, Lynette Hirschman, David D. Lewis: "Evaluating Message Understanding Systems: An analysis of the Third Message Understanding Conference (MUC-3)",
Comp. Ling. Sept 1993
discussed on Jan. 28, 1994

Eve V. Clark: "Meanings and Concepts",
chapter 12 of book "Cognitive Development",
vol. 3 of series "Handbook of Child Psychology", pp. 787-840, Wiley 1983
discussed on Feb. 11, 1994

Derek Bickerton: "The Language Bioprogram Hypothesis",
BBS (journal) 1984, vol.7, pp. 173-221
Risto: He makes a strong case for the innateness of certain linguistic principles, based on studies on pidgin and creole languages
discussed on Feb. 25, 1994

Lin and Soo, "Augmenting and Efficiently utilizing Domain Theory in Explanation-Based Natural Language Acquisition",
ML92.
discussed on Mar. 11, 1994

Manning, C. "Automatic acquisition of a large subcategorization dictionary from corpora",
ACL '93, 235-242,
discussed on Apr. 1, 1994

Barry McLaughlin, "The Effects of Early Bilingualism",
in "Second Language Acquisition in Childhood, {V}olume 1: {P}reschool Children",
LEA, 1984
discussed on Apr. 15, 1994

Martin Kay and Matin Roescheisen, "Text-Translation Alignment"
Comp. Ling.March 1993
discussed on Apr. 29, 1994

Jill Lehman, "Toward the Essential Nature of Statistical Knowledge in Sense Resolution",
Proceedings, AAAI '94, Vol. I, page 734
discussed on Sept. 9, 1994

Jeffrey M. Siskind, "Lexical Acquisition in the Presence of Noise and Homonymy",
AAAI 94, Vol.I, p. 760
discussed on Sept. 23, 1994

S Pinker, "Chatterboxes"
Chapter in "The Language Instinct," 1994.
A nativist argument written for the masses.
discussed on Oct. 7, 1994

R. Kazman, "Simulating the Child's Acquisition of Lexicon and Syntax, "
Machine Learning, 16,1, 1994.
discussed on Oct. 21, 1994

Paul Bloom "Overview: Controversies in language acquisition"
in P. Bloom Ed. "Language Acquisition: Core Readings," 1994, MIT Press.
Recent summary, an intro to a book of collected papers.
discussed on Nov. 4, 1994

D. Yarowsky, "Decision Lists for Lexical Ambiguity Resolution",
ACL-94.
discussed on Nov. 18, 1994

C. Samuelsson, "Grammar Specialization through Entropy Thresholds",
ACL-94.
discussed on Nov. 18, 1994

Louis M. Herman, "Cognition and Language Competences of Bottle-Nosed Dolphins",
chapter 10 in book "Dolphin Cognition and Behavior: {A} Comparative Approach",
LEA, 1986, R. J. Schusterman and J. A. Thomas and F. G. Wood, editors
discussed on Dec. 2, 1994

Miller, Scott. Bobrow, Robert. Ingria Robert. Schwartz, Richard, "Hidden Understanding Models of Natural Language".
ACL Proc. of 32nd Annual Meeting, 1994, 25-32.
discussed on Dec. 16, 1994

1993

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Ezra Black, John Lafferty, Salim Roukos, "Development and Evaluation of a Broad-Coverage Probabilistic Grammar of English-Language Computer Manuals"
30th ACL Conf. 1992, pp.185-192
discussed on Jan. 15, 1993

J. Zelle, R. Mooney: "Learning Semantic Grammars with Constructive Inductive Logic Programming"
Submitted to AAAI '93
discussed on Jan. 29, 1993

P. Langley and J. Carbonell, "Language Acquisition and Machine Learning"
from the book, "Mechanisms of Language Acquisition", 1985
discussed on Feb. 12, 1993

Berwick, "Parsability and learnability"
from the book, "Mechanisms of Language Acquisition", 1985
discussed on Feb. 26, 1993

Schuetze, Hinrich, "Word Space",
from book "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 5",
ed. C. L. Giles, S. J. Hanson and J. D. Cowan,
San Mateo CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1993
discussed on March 12, 1993

Claire Cardie, "Learning to Disambiguate Relative Pronouns"
AAAI-92
the following paper is virtually identical:
Claire Cardie, "Corpus-based Acquisition of Relative Pronoun Disambiguation heuristics" ACL-92
discussed on March 26, 1993

Gregers Koch, "Computational Logico-Semantic Induction",
Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming, II, 1988, pp. 107-133
discussed on April 9, 1993

Ulf Hermjakob, "Example Based Acquisition of Relevant Features and Grammar Learning for Parsing and Machine Translation." (draft)
discussed on May 21, 1993

Bates B. and MacWhinney B., "Competition, Variation and Language Learning."
From the book, "Mechanisms of Language Acquisition", 1985
(Note: This is more lingusitic/cog sci, not a concrete model)
discussed on June 4, 1993

Donald Hindle and Mats Rooth, "Structural Ambiguity and Lexical Relations",
Comp. Ling. March 1993
discussed on June 18, 1993

Kenneth. W. Church and Robert L. Mercer, "Introduction to the Special Issue on Computational Linguistics Using Large Corpora",
Comp. Ling. March 1993
discussed on July 2, 1993

Rey-Long Liu, Von-Wun Soo, "An Empirical Study on Thematic Knowledge Acquisition Based on Syntactic Clues and Heuristics",
ACL Proc. June '93, pp. 243 - 250
discussed on July 30, 1993

Ted Briscoe and John Carroll, "Generalized Probabilistic LR Parsing of Natural Language (Corpora) with Unification-Based Grammars",
Comp. Ling. March 1993
discussed on Aug. 13, 1993

R. Weischedel, R. Schwarz, J. Palmucci, M. Meteer, L. Ramshaw: "Coping with Ambiguity and Unknown Words through Probabilistic Models",
Computational Linguistics June 1993, pp. 359-382
discussed on Aug. 27, 1993

Shannon D. Moeser and Albert S. Bregman, "Imagery and Language Acquisition",
Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour (JVLVB), 1973, vol. 12, pp. 91-98
discussed on Sept. 10, 1993
related paper (but not discussed):
Shannon D. Moeser and Albert S. Bregman, "The Role of Reference in the Acquisition of a Miniature Artificial Language", Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour (JVLVB), 1972, vol. 11, pp. 759-769

Risto Miikkulainen: "Subsymbolic Case-role Analysis of Sentences with embedded clauses",

TR AI93-202, July 1993
discussed on Sept. 24, 1993

McMillan, Mozer and Smolensky, "Dynamic Conflict Resolution in a Connectionist Rule-Based System",
IJCAI 93, pp. 1366-1371.
discussed on Oct. 8, 1993

Michael C. Mozer, Sreruupa Das, "A Connectionist Symbol Manipulator That Discovers the Structure of Context-Free Languages",
NIPS5, 1993, pp. 863-870
discussed on Oct. 8, 1993
Related paper (but not discussed): Learning to recognize regular strings from positive and negative examples.
Watrous, Raymond L. and Kuhn, Gary M.,"Induction of Finite-State Automata Using Second-Order Recurrent Networks", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 4, 1992, pp 309--316.
Related paper (but not discussed): Similar to the above, but now they also extract the grammar from the network.
Giles, C. L. and Miller, C. B. and Chen, D. and Sun, G. Z. and Chen, H. H. and Lee, Y. C., "Extracting and Learning an Unknown Grammar with Recurrent Neural Networks", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 4, 1992, pp 317--324
Related paper (but not discussed): This one looks like a pretty complete (35 pages) presentation of their external stack idea. Maybe be more interesting as a NN technique than language learning. We'll read it in my NN meeting this Friday; if it turns out interesting language-acquisition-wise, I'll let you know.
G.Z. Sun and C.L. Giles and H.H. Chen and Y.C. Lee, "The Neural Network Pushdown Automaton: {M}odel, Stack and Learning Simulations", Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, 1993, UMIACS-TR-93-77.
Related paper (but not discussed): Looks like a shorter version of the above. Perhaps more appropriate to this crowd.
Sreerupa Das and C. Lee Giles and Guo-Zheng Sun, "Learning Context-free Grammars: {C}apabilities and Limitations of a Recurrent Neural Network with an External Stack Memory", COGSCI-92, 1992,

Brill, E. "Automatic Grammar Induction and Parsing Free Text: A Transformation-Based Approach",

ACL 93, pp. 259-265
discussed on Oct. 22, 1993

Black, Jelinek, et al. "Towards History-Based Grammars: Using Richer Models for Probability-based Parsing",
ACL 93, pp. 31-37.
discussed on Oct. 22, 1993

Ajay N. Jain, "Generalization Performance in PARSEC--A Structured Connectionist Parsing Architecture",
NIPS4, 1992, pp. 209-216
discussed on Nov. 5, 1993

Pereira, F. and Schabes, Y. "Inside-Outside reestimation from partially bracketed corpora".
ACL 1992, 128-135.
discussed on Nov. 19, 1993

Langley, "Language acquisition through error recovery",
Cognition and Brain Theory, 5, 1982.
discussed on Dec. 3, 1993

1992

Hastings, Lytinen, & Lindsay: "Learning Words from Context",
ML-91 Workshop
discussed on April 17, 1992

Sumita, Eiichiro and Iida, Hitoshi, "Experiments and Prospects of Example-Based Machine Translation"
Proc 29th Mtng of ACL, 1991, pp 185-192.
discussed on April 17, 1992

W. A. Gale and K. W. Church, "A Program for Aligning sentences in bilingual corpora"
ACL-91, pp 177-184.
discussed on May 1, 1992

P. Brown, J.C.Lai, & R. Mercer, "Aligning sentences in parallel corpora"
ACL-91, pp 169-176
additional reading

P. Brown, J. Cocke, S. Della Pietra, F. Jelinek, R. Mercer and P. Rossin: "A Statistical Approach to Machine Translation"
COLING-88, pp. 71-76
where they basically treat French as a garbled version of English and use statistical techniques to de-cryptify it.
discussed on May 1, 1992
Steven Pinker: "Language Acquisition",
from "Foundations of Cognitive Science", ed. by Michael Posner, MIT Press, 1989, Chapter 9
discussed on May 22, 1992

Chapter 4 from Slobin: "Psycholinguistics",
which "gives some cogent ideas about NL acquisition from the psycholinguistic point of view".
distibuted as further reading for May 22, 1992 discussion

Feldman, Lakoff, Stolke, & Weber: "Miniature Language Acquisition: A touchstone for Cognitive Science",
, COGSCI-90
discussed on June 19, 1992

Terry Regier: "Learning Spatial Concepts Using a Partially-Structured Connectionist Architecture",
Berkeley TR-91-050, Oct. 1991
discussed on June 19, 1992

Andreas Stolcke: "Syntactic Category Formation with Vector Space Grammars ",
COGSCI-91, pp.908--912 publ. 1989

Andreas Stolcke: "Learning Feature-Based Semantics with Simple Recurrent Networks",
TR-90-015 Berkeley, CA publ. 1990

Terry Regier: "Learning Perceptually Grounded Semantics in the ${L}_0$ Project",
Proc. 29th Annual Meeting ACL, pp. 138--145 publ. 1991

Terry Regier: "Learning Object-Relative Spatial Concepts in the ${L}_0$ Project", further readings on topic discussed on June 19, 1992 available by ftp from icsi-ftp.berkeley.edu pub/techreports COGSCI-91, pp.191--196 publ. 1991

J. Elman: "Distributed Representations, Simple Recurrent Networks, and Grammatical Structure",

Machine Learning 7, 195-225 (Sept. 1991)
discussed July 7, 1992

Anderson: "Induction of Augmented Transition Networks",
Cognitive Science 1977 or Readings on Machine Learning, pp. 774-790
discussed July 31, 1992

Berwick: "Learning Structural Descriptions of grammar rules from examples",

IJCAI-79
discussed August 21, 1992

Lonnie Chrisman: "Learning Recursive Distributed Representations for Holistic Computation",
Connection Science, vol. 3, 1992, pages 345--366
An architecture combining two RAAMs for translating Spanish<->English. Some surprising results; extreme distributed point of view. My favorite RAAM paper.
discussed on Sept. 4, 1992

George Berg: "A Connectionist Parser with Recursive Sentence Structure and Lexical Disambiguation",
AAAI-92, pages 32--37 (MIT Press)
Parsing into RAAM representations.
discussed on Sept. 4, 1992

Lehnert, "Learning to Integrate Syntax and Semantics",
ML workshop, 1988.
discussed on Sept. 18, 1992

Zernik, "How Do Machine-Learning Paradigms Fare in Language Acquisition?",
ML workshop, 1988.
discussed on Sept. 18, 1992

St. John, Mark F.: "The Story Gestalt: {A} Model of Knowledge-Intensive Processes in Text Comprehension",
Cog. Sc. 1992, vol. 16, pp 271-276
discussed on Oct. 2, 1992

St. John, Mark F.: "Learning Language in the Service of a Task",
Cog. Sc. 1992, pp 271-276
discussed on Oct. 2, 1992

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