Recent Developments in Computational Discourse Processing
See References page for readings associated with each topic.
Schedule
Date | Topic(s) | Speaker(s) | Resources |
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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) |