User:Emayfiel

My name is Elijah Mayfield. I'm coming into this course with a language technologies background. I'm a first-year Ph.D. in LTI, though I've been around CMU for awhile before this. In general, I work on conversation analysis, discourse and dialogue, with a special emphasis on sociolinguistics and applying insights from the social sciences in a way that can be reproduced reliably by automated means.

Obviously, structured prediction for linguistic data might be helpful for these tasks.

For information on recent research and publications, visit my webpage. You'll also potentially be interested in SIDE, a toolkit I maintain for text mining, which extends Weka's capabilities with numerous tools for feature extraction and error analysis.

My project for this course will be Stylistic Structure in Historic Legal Text with William Y. Wang.

Wiki Writeups:

Hi Brendan! Only two of these have been done because I have a conference deadline tomorrow (Saturday) and I underestimated how much time it would take for me to do a proper job on each article. I'll have six completed by the next deadline, I assure you. Not clear how grading works in this class, so hopefully this won't be too detrimental.

Barzilay and Elhadad, 2003 - finished

Munteanu and Marcu, 2006 - unfinished

Farkas et al., 2010 - unfinished

Morante et al., 2010 - finished