Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Fachrichtung 4.7 Universität des Saarlandes

Recent Developments in Computational Discourse Processing

See References page for readings associated with each topic.

Schedule

DateTopic(s)Speaker(s)Resources
22 April Organizational Meeting
29 April Introduction to Computational Discourse Alexis Palmer [slides]
9 May
 FRIDAY
(a) Text Tiling
(b) Document Compression
(a) Patrick Carroll
(b) Tristan Hamilton
(a) [slides],[exercise]
(b) [slides],[exercise]
20 May (a) Penn Discourse TreeBank
(b) Narrative Chains
(a) Nikos Bampounis
(b) Liesa Heuschkel
(a) [slides],[exercise],[instructions]
(b)[slides],[exercise]
6 June
 FRIDAY 4pm
(a) Coreference Resolution
(b) Temporal Relations
(a) Omid Moradiannasab
(b) Susanne Fertmann
(a) [slides], [exercise],
(b) [slides]
10 June (a) Entity Grid
(b) Essay Scoring
(a) Richard Littauer
(b) Anjana Vakil
(a) [slides], (b) [slides]
17 June (a) Summarization
(b) Discourse Relations vs. Entity-Based Coherence
(a) Madhumita
(b) Zhe Wang
(a) [slides], [exercise],
(b) [slides], [exercises]
8 July (a) MT
(b) Sentiment Analysis
(a) Kleio Mavridou
(b) Ilya Kornev
(a) [slides], [exercises],
(b) [slides], [exercise],
11 July
 FRIDAY 2pm
(a) Situation Entities
(b) Discourse Relation Classification
(a) Guy Emerson
(b) Clayton Greenberg
(a) [slides], [exercises],
(b) [slides]
15 July (a) Topic Modeling
(b) wrap up and dinner
(a) Bryan Zhang
(b) everyone (bring your research proposals and food)