1. Topics for Presentations Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou University of Texas at Dallas

2. Presented by me • Word Association (Independence tests; mutual information; Dice and Jaccard measures) • Word Association: Comparisons • Smadja, McKeown, and Hatzivassiloglou on the effectiveness of different measures • Dunning on log-likelihood association measure • Collocations and Terminology • Smadja on finding collocations • Daille on finding terms via association • Justeson & Katz on terms via recurrence

3. Presented by you • Word similarity: early work (Shütze 1992; Pereira et al., ACL-93; Hatzivassiloglou and McKeown, ACL-93) • Word similarity: IR and comparison (Smeaton SIGIR-96; Lee ACL-99; Terra and Clarke, NAACL-03) • Scalar words • Elhadad 1991 on generation • Raskin and Niremburg on ontologies • Marcu and Hirst ACL-95 on inference

4. Scalar implicature (Sedivy et al. 1999; Noveck 2001; Papafragou and Musolino 2003) • Orientation • Hatzivassiloglou and McKeown, ACL 97 on polarity of adjectives • Wiebe 2001 on subjective words • Riloff, Wiebe, and Cardie on subjective words via bootstrapping • Opinion detection • Two document-based approaches (product reviews) • Sentence based (opinion Q&A) • Ontologies and Lexical Databases • WordNet, CYC • SENSUS and expanding it automatically (Knight 1993) • Ontology creation • Two papers on text mining for ontologies • Measuring semantic distance in an ontology (Resnik 1995)

5. Word and Phrase Alignment • Bilingual dictionaries (Klavans and Chodorow 1991) • Alignment (Smadja et al. 1996 in part; Fung 1996) • Paraphrase detection (Barzilay 2002) • Sense disambiguation • Early work by Gale et al., Brown et al. • Yarowsky: One sense per discourse/collocation, extensions • Bioinformatics: Terminology and Classification • Term detection via morphology (Krauthammer 2002) • Disambiguation / classification: Hatzivassiloglou et al. 2001 • Acronyms (Yu et al. 2002) • Bioinformatics: Functional Relationships • Work by Craven, Shütze, and Altman (2 or 3 papers)