some 2007
projects for reference
some
2008
projects for reference
some 2009
projects for reference
More Ideas
for possible Topics for Research
Multidocument summarization of human conversations e.g email threads, blogs (there is an ongoing
project here at UBC )
Evaluation Techniques for multidocument summarization
Multidocument summarization of evaluative text. For instance, summarizing a
large set of customer reviews (there is an ongoing project here at
UBC )
Information
extraction from evaluative text. For instance, again customer reviews
(you could focus on extracting the rhetorical structure)
Topic
modeling (identifying what topics are covered in a given document)
Machine Learning for Natural language Generation
Text reconstruction:
reconstructing a text from unordered (or partially ordered) pieces of it
If you are fond of
stats and machine learning. Pick a topic we have not covered in class from
(for instance from Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing by Christopher D.
Manning, Hinrich Schutze. reading room) read about it, search for recent
(>2002) paper(s) about an aspect of the problem that intrigues you and start
from there...
Project on languages
other than English (caveat: you may not find corpora / software)
Evaluating/Extending
tools to teach NLP (ACL workshop in 2002 and one of two follow ups)
NLP in teaching
Natural Language
Dependency
Parsing
Machine
Reading (large scale web knowledge extrection)
.....
Ideas
for possible Topics for Pedagogical Project
- MaxEntMM
- backward-forward / inside outside
algorithms
- machine translation
carenini at cs.ubc.ca