CPSC 503 - Winter 2008 - Computational Linguistics

Final Projects

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