C SC 620Advanced Topics in NaturalLanguage ProcessingLecture 52/03Scope of WordNet Projects• WordNet is very popular:– Word sense disambiguation– Text mining– Language learning– Multilingual WordNets– Semantic relations– Extensions to WordNet– Lexical semantics– and others…Recent Conference Papers• 2001– NAACL Workshop. Pittsburgh PA. WordNetand Other Lexical Resources: Applications,Extensions and Customizations• 36 papers presented• 2002– Mysore. India. The First Global WordNetConference• Over 50 papers presentedCourse Requirement:Class Presentation• Rules– Starting today, scan the abstracts and select one paperfor further study• Mark paper with your name using a post-it label– Use either of the two Conference Proceedings• Approximately 86 papers to choose from– Chosen paper should be directly related to WordNet• Some papers in the NAACL 2001 workshop proceedings areunrelated …Course Requirement:Class Presentation• Rules– First come, first served …• Two people can’t pick the same paper– Not allowed to pick my papers… as I’ll be presenting them myself– Make a copy of the paper• Proceedings will be available in my mail slot over inLinguistics (Douglass 216)Course Requirement:Class Presentation• Rules– Prepare a 15 min (total) talk on the paper• 10–12 min presentation in class– use slides, e.g. Powerpoint, or– use a handout• 5 min discussion– You have 2 weeks• Presentations will begin Tuesday
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