User:Ysim

Hi, I am yanchuan (you can call me yc). I am a first year LTI PhD student from Singapore. You can find out more about me at http://www.yanchuan.sg.

I am interested in learning structured prediction techniques to help in NLP tasks.

Writeups

For September deadline:

1. Amir Globerson, Terry Y. Ko, Xavier Carreras, Michael Collins. 2007. Exponentiated Gradient Algorithms for Log Linear Structured Prediction. In ICML 2007
2. Alan Ritter, Sam Clark, Mausam, Oren Etzioni. 2011. Named Entity Recognition in Tweets: An Experimental Study. In EMNLP 2011
3. Jenny Rose Finkel and Christopher Manning. 2009. Nested Named Entity Recognition. In EMNLP 2009
4. Dekang Lin and Xiaoyun Wu. 2009. Phrase Clustering for Discriminative Learning. In ACL 2009

For Nov 2 deadline:

Ben Taskar, Dan Klein, Michael Collins, Daphne Koller, and Chris Manning. Max-margin Parsing. In EMNLP 2004

CYK Parsing method

For Nov 30 deadline:

William P. Headden III, Mark Johnson, David McClosky. Improving Unsupervised Dependency Parsing with Richer Conetxts and Smoothing. In NAACL 2009

Inside Outside algorithm