1. Topics for Presentations
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou
University of Texas at Dallas

2. Presented by me
Word Association (Independence tests; mutual information; Dice and Jaccard measures)
Word Association: Comparisons
Smadja, McKeown, and Hatzivassiloglou on the effectiveness of different measures
Dunning on log-likelihood association measure
Collocations and Terminology
Smadja on finding collocations
Daille on finding terms via association
Justeson & Katz on terms via recurrence

3. Presented by you
Word similarity: early work
(Shütze 1992; Pereira et al., ACL-93; Hatzivassiloglou and McKeown, ACL-93)
Word similarity: IR and comparison
(Smeaton SIGIR-96; Lee ACL-99; Terra and Clarke, NAACL-03)
Scalar words
Elhadad 1991 on generation
Raskin and Niremburg on ontologies
Marcu and Hirst ACL-95 on inference

4. (Sedivy et al. 1999; Noveck 2001; Papafragou and Musolino 2003)
Scalar implicature
(Sedivy et al. 1999; Noveck 2001; Papafragou and Musolino 2003)
Orientation
Hatzivassiloglou and McKeown, ACL 97 on polarity of adjectives
Wiebe 2001 on subjective words
Riloff, Wiebe, and Cardie on subjective words via bootstrapping
Opinion detection
Two document-based approaches (product reviews)
Sentence based (opinion Q&A)
Ontologies and Lexical Databases
WordNet, CYC
SENSUS and expanding it automatically (Knight 1993)
Ontology creation
Two papers on text mining for ontologies
Measuring semantic distance in an ontology (Resnik 1995)

5. Word and Phrase Alignment
Bilingual dictionaries (Klavans and Chodorow 1991)
Alignment (Smadja et al in part; Fung 1996)
Paraphrase detection (Barzilay 2002)
Sense disambiguation
Early work by Gale et al., Brown et al.
Yarowsky: One sense per discourse/collocation, extensions
Bioinformatics: Terminology and Classification
Term detection via morphology (Krauthammer 2002)
Disambiguation / classification: Hatzivassiloglou et al. 2001
Acronyms (Yu et al. 2002)
Bioinformatics: Functional Relationships
Work by Craven, Shütze, and Altman (2 or 3 papers)