2007
projects for reference
Ideas
for possible Topics
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 )
Multidocument summarization of email threads (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)
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
(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)
NLP in teaching
Natural Language
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carenini at cs.ubc.ca