Readings from AAAI 2007

AAAI 2007 is now going on at Vancouver. Here is my selection of NLP and Learning papers I would like to know more about.

Deriving a Large-Scale Taxonomy from Wikipedia, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Michael Strube

Relation Extraction from Wikipedia Using Subtree Mining, Dat P. T. Nguyen, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka

Finding Related Pages Using Green Measures: An Illustration with Wikipedia, Yann Ollivier, Pierre Senellart

Graph Partitioning Based on Link Distributions, Bo Long, Mark (Zhongfei) Zhang, Philip S. Yu

Semi-supervised Learning by Mixed Label Propagation, Wei Tong, Rong Jin

Semi-Supervised Learning with Very Few Labeled Training Examples, Zhi-Hua Zhou, De-Chuan Zhan, Qiang Yang

Clustering with Local and Global Regularization, Fei Wang, Changshui Zhang, Tao Li

Isometric Projection, Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Jiawei Han

Improving Similarity Measures for Short Segments of Text, Wen-tau Yih, Christopher Meek

Topic Segmentation Algorithms for Text Summarization and Passage Retrieval: An Exhaustive Evaluation, Gaël Dias, Elsa Alves. José Gabriel Pereira Lopes

Robust Estimation of Google Counts for Social Network Extraction, Yutaka Matsuo, Hironori Tomobe, Takuichi Nishimura

Harvesting Relations from the Web - Quantifiying the Impact of Filtering Functions, Sebastian Blohm, Philipp Cimiano, Egon Stemle

Template-Independent News Extraction Based on Visual Consistency, Shuyi Zheng, Ruihua Song, Ji-Rong Wen

Comprehending and Generating Apt Metaphors: A Web-driven, Case-based Approach to Figurative Language, Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao

Mobile Service for Reputation Extraction from Weblogs - Public Experiment and Evaluation, Takahiro Kawamura, Shinichi Nagano, Masumi Inaba, Yumiko Mizoguchi

The Impact of Time on the Accuracy of Sentiment Classifiers Created from a Web Log Corpus, Kathleen T. Durant, Michael D. Smith

Nectar: Learning by Combining Observations and User Edits, Vittorio Castelli, Lawrence Bergman, Daniel Oblinger

Multi-Label Learning by Instance Differentiation, Min-Ling Zhang, Zhi-Hua Zhou

Extracting Influential Nodes for Information Diffusion on a Social Network, Masahiro Kimura, Kazumi Saito, Ryohei Nakano

Temporal and Information Flow Based Event Detection from Social Text Streams, Qiankun Zhao, Prasenjit Mitra, Bi Chen

Analyzing Reading Behavior by Blog Mining, Tadanobu Furukawa, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Yutaka Matsuo, Ikki Ohmukai, Koki Uchiyama

Reading List from KDD 2007

KDD 2007 will be on Aug 12-15 in the neighborhood at San Jose. Here is my selection:

"Extracting Semantic Relations from Query Logs", Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Alessandro Tiberi

"Efficient Incremental Clustering with Constraints", Ian Davidson, S.S. Ravi, and Martin Ester

"A Probabilistic Framework for Relational Clustering", Bo Long, Zhongfei Zhang, and Philip S. Yu

"Tracking Multiple Topics for Finding Interesting Articles", Raymond Pon, Alfonso Cardenas, David Buttler, and Terence Critchlow

"Feature Selection Methods for Text Classification", Anirban Dasgupta, Petros Drineas, Boulos Harb, Vanja Josifovski, and Michael Mahoney

"Hierarchical Mixture Models: a Probabilistic Analysis", Mark Sandler

"Information distance from a question to an answer", Xian Zhang, Yu Hao, Xiaoyan Zhu, and Ming Li

"Statistical Change Detection for Multi-Dimensional Data", Xiuyao Song, Mingxi Wu, Chris Jermaine, and Sanjay Ranka

"Constraint-Driven Clustering", Rong Ge, Martin Ester, Wen Jin, and Ian Davidson

"Enhancing Semi-Supervised Clustering: A Feature Projection Perspective", Wei Tang, Hui Xiong, Shi Zhong, and Jie Wu

UMASS Statistical NLP reading list

http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/~fuchun/readlist_all/readlist.pdf

Reading List from EMNLP 2007

A GRAPH-BASED APPROACH TO NAMED ENTITY CATEGORIZATION IN WIKIPEDIA
USING CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELDS
Yotaro Watanabe, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto

A TOPIC MODEL FOR WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION
Jordan Boyd-Graber, Xiaojin Zhu and David Blei

BOOTSTRAPPING INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM FIELD BOOKS
Sander Canisius and Caroline Sporleder

CROSS-LINGUAL DISTRIBUTIONAL PROFILES OF CONCEPTS FOR MEASURING
SEMANTIC DISTANCE
Saif Mohammad, Iryna Gurevych, Graeme Hirst and Torsten Zesch

CRYSTAL: ANALYZING PREDICTIVE OPINIONS ON THE WEB
Soo-Min Kim and Eduard Hovy

EXPLORATIONS IN AUTOMATIC BOOK SUMMARIZATION
Rada Mihalcea and Hakan Ceylan

LARGE SCALE NAMED ENTITY DISAMBIGUATION BASED ON WIKIPEDIA DATA
Silviu Cucerzan

LEXICAL SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS WITH RANDOM GRAPH WALKS
Thad Hughes and Daniel Ramage

TOWARDS ROBUST UNSUPERVISED PERSONAL NAME DISAMBIGUATION
Ying Chen and James Martin

WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION INCORPORATING LEXICAL AND STRUCTURAL SEMANTIC
INFORMATION
Takaaki Tanaka, Francis Bond, Timothy Baldwin, Sanae Fujita and Chikara
Hashimoto