Language Processing for Different Domains and Genres (WS 2009/10)

Presentation Topics & Papers

(Every bullet point is one topic!)

Genre Distinctions

• General
  Biber, Douglas. 1993. Using register-diversified corpora for general language studies. Computational Linguistics 19:2, pp. 219
  http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/J/J93/J93-2001.pdf
  
  
• Discourse
  Bonnie Webber. 2009. Genre distinctions for discourse in the Penn TreeBank. Proc. of ACL-09
  http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P09/P09-1076.pdf
  
  
• Verb subcategorisation frequencies Roland, D., & Jurafsky, D. (1998): How verb subcategorization frequencies are affected by corpus choice. Proceedings of COLING-ACL 1998 (pp. 1117-1121), Montreal, Canada.
  http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P98/P98-2184.pdf
  
  And:
  
  Roland, D., Jurafsky, D., Menn, L., Gahl, S., Elder, E., & Riddoch, C. (2000) Verb subcategorization frequency differences between business-news and balanced corpora: The role of verb sense. Proceedings of the Workshop on Comparing Corpora (pp. 28-34), Hong Kong, October 2000.
  http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=979622&type=pdf&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=58874365&CFTOKEN=53240364
  
  

Domain Adaptation for Machine Learning

• Modifying the feature Space Daumé III, H. 2007. Frustratingly easy domain adaptation. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics.
  http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P07/P07-1033.pdf

Parsing

• Re-ranking (and self-training)
  David McClosky and Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson. 2006 Reranking and self-training for parser adaptation. Proc. of ACL
  http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P06/P06-1043.pdf
  
  And:
  
  Jennifer Foster, Joachim Wagner, Djame Seddah and Josef van Genabith. 2007. Adapting WSJ-Trained Parsers to the British National Corpus using In-domain Self-training. Proceedings of IWPT 2007, pp.33-35, Prague, Czech Republic.
  http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~jfoster/publications/foster_iwpt2007.pdf
  
  
• Self-Training
  David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, and Mark Johnson. 2008. When is Self-Training Effective for Parsing? Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008).
  http://aclweb.org/anthology/C/C08/C08-1071.pdf
  
  
• Detection of non-generalising rules
  Markus Dickinson and Jennifer Foster. 2007. Similarity Rules! Exploring Methods for Ad-Hoc Rule Detection. Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT-7 2009). Groningen, The Netherlands.
  http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~jfoster/publications/foster_tlt2009.pdf
  
  And possibly as background reading:
  
  Markus Dickinson (2008). Ad Hoc Treebank Structures. The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) with the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT) (ACL-08). Columbus, OH.
  http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P08/P08-1042.pdf
  
  
• Detecting parse reliability
  Daisuke Kawahara and Kiyotaka Uchimoto. 2006. Learning Reliability of Parses for Domain Adaptation of Dependency Parsing. COLING-ACL 2006.
  http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/I/I08/I08-2097.pdf
  
  
• Lexicalised parsing
  Laura Rimell, Stephen Clark. 2008. Adapting a Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to Contrasting Domains. EMNLP 2008.
  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lr346/pubs/emnlp08.pdf

Word-Sense Disambiguation

• Most Frequent Sense
  Rob Koeling; Diana McCarthy; John Carroll. 2005. Domain-Specific Sense Distributions and Predominant Sense Acquisition EMNLP 2005
  http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/H/H05/H05-1053.pdf
  
  
• Active Learning
  Yee Seng Chan and Hwee Tou Ng. 2007. Domain Adaptation with Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of ACL.
  http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~nght/pubs/acl07_wsd_da.pdf