CMSC485 03 Special Topics : Question Answering Systems
 

Spring 2003
 


List of Papers/Topics


Topic 
Paper and Demonstration Materials
Presenter
Presentation 
Date
1.   Web Information Retrieval : Google's Success
¤    Paper : Papers/Google/icde.pdf
R. D. VonGleich
Week of 02/10
2    Essential Properties of Information Retrieval : NLP for IR
P. Y. Ng
Week of 02/17
3.   SMART System : Paper with a demonstration session
D. S. Barber
Week of 02/24
4.   Eric Brill's Part-of-Speech Tagger : Paper with the tagger installation and demonstration 
Paper : Papers/POSTagger/aaai94-tagger.ps, Resource directory : ~mmmartin/Information Retrieval/EricBrill'sTagger/
¤ Presentation
¤ Critique
M. D. Scehovic
Week of 03/03
5.   Apple Pie Parser for English : Paper with a demonstration session
      Papers : Papers/APParser/manual.ps, Papers/APParser/APParser.htm¤ Papers/APParser/CBSSemanticParser.pdf,  ¤ Papers/APParser/SemanticParsingAIMag.pdf ,
¤
Presentation
Resource directory (on springfield) : /projects/mmmartin/Information Retrieval/NYU Parser/
K. A. Wilson, Jr.
Week of 03/17 
6.   WordNet Electronic Lexicon : Paper with a demonstration session
Documentation : http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/doc.shtml, Resource directory : ~mmmartin/www/CMSC485/Papers/WordNet/
¤ Presentation
¤ Critique
J. N. Hankins
 Week of 03/24
7.   Named Entity Recognition
Paper Resource Directory : Papers/NER/
R. J. Wagner
Week of 04/14
8.   Anaphora Resolution
Paper Resource Directory : Papers/Anaphora/
A. Archer Waterman
Week of 04/14
8.   Anaphora Resolution
Paper Resource Directory : Papers/Anaphora/
J. M. Burger
Week of 04/14

Paper critique and presentation guidelines