BURC: Bootstrapping Using ResearchCyc
A Cyc based common sense extraction project developed for University of North Texas Seminar on Natural Language Processing (CSCE 6330)
2005-02-08
Project proposals (1 pg.)
BURC: Bootstrapping Using ResearchCyc
[http://www.daxtron.com/csce6330/burc_proposal.htm]
2005-02-22
Literature overview
Deriving General World Knowledge from Texts and Taxonomies [http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~schubert/projects/world-knowledge-mining.html]
Lenhart K. Schubert and Matthew Tong, "Extracting and evaluating general world knowledge from the Brown Corpus", Proc. of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Text Meaning, May 31, 2003, Edmonton, Alberta, pp. 7-13.
Lenhart K. Schubert, "Can we derive general world knowledge from texts?", Human Language Technology Conference (HLT 2002), San Diego, CA, March 24-27, 2002, pp. 94-97.
D. Rajesh Duthie & Rajendra Akerkar. 2002. Knowledge Representation in KRIS Using Link Grammar Parser. [PDF]
Lei Zhang and Yong Yu. 2001. Learning to Generate CGs from Domain Specific Sentences. In The Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, LNAI 2120, July 30-August 3, 2001, Stanford, CA, USA. [Abstract] [Full text (PDF)]
Molla-Aliod,D and Hutchinson,B. 2002, Dependency-based semantic interpretation for answer extraction,In 2002 Australasian Natural Language Processing Workshop [PDF]
Harsha V. Madhyastha, N. Balakrishnan, & K. R. Ramakrishnan. 2003. Event Information Extraction Using Link Grammar. 13th International WorkShop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Multi-lingual Information Management (RIDE'03). [Abstract]
Chirag Shah and Pushpak Bhattacharyya. 2003. Improving Document Vectors Representation using Semantic Links and Attributes. International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), Mysore, India, December 2003. [PDF]
Ted Pedersen, Weidong Chen. 1995. Lexical Acquisition via Constraint Solving. In Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Representation and Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge [Citeseer]
Timothy Chklovski and Patrick Pantel. 2004. VerbOcean: Mining the Web for Fine-Grained Semantic Verb Relations. In Proceedings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-04). pp. 33-40. Barcelona, Spain. [PDF][PS]
Patrick Pantel, Deepak Ravichandran and Eduard Hovy. 2004. Towards Terascale Knowledge Acquisition. In Proceedings of Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-04). pp. 771-777. Geneva, Switzerland. [PDF][PS]
Deepak Ravichandran, Patrick Pantel, and Eduard Hovy. 2004. The Terascale Challenge. In Proceedings of KDD Workshop on Mining for and from the Semantic Web (MSW-04). pp. 1-11. Seattle, WA. [PDF][PS]
Dekang Lin and Patrick Pantel. 2001. DIRT - Discovery of Inference Rules from Text. In Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-01). pp. 323-328. San Francisco, CA. [PDF][PS]
Deepak Ravichandran and Eduard Hovy. 2002. Learning Surface Text Patterns for a Question Answering system. In Proceedings of the 40th ACL conference. Philadelphia, PA. [ ps, pdf ]
Eduard Hovy, Ulf Hermjakob, and Deepak Ravichandran. 2002. A Question/Answer Typology with Surface Text Patterns. In Proceedings of the DARPA Human Language Technology Conference (HLT). San Diego, CA. [ ps, pdf ]
Daniel Gildea and Daniel Jurafsky, ACL 2000 . Automatic labeling of semnantic roles, [pdf]
2005-03-08
Project proposal presentations (10-15 minutes)
2005-04-12
Project draft (5-6 pg.)
2005-05-03
Final project paper (8 pg.)
Final project presentation
Project Outputs
Adjective and Subject-verb-object link data[ 12Meg zip]
Mined Predicate Hypothesis [450K zip]
Raw Fragment counts from BNC [117 Meg zip]
2005-02-08 |
Project proposals (1 pg.)
BURC: Bootstrapping Using ResearchCyc
[http://www.daxtron.com/csce6330/burc_proposal.htm] |
2005-02-22 |
Literature overview Deriving General World Knowledge from Texts and Taxonomies [http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~schubert/projects/world-knowledge-mining.html] Lenhart K. Schubert and Matthew Tong, "Extracting and evaluating general world knowledge from the Brown Corpus", Proc. of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Text Meaning, May 31, 2003, Edmonton, Alberta, pp. 7-13. Lenhart K. Schubert, "Can we derive general world knowledge from texts?", Human Language Technology Conference (HLT 2002), San Diego, CA, March 24-27, 2002, pp. 94-97. D. Rajesh Duthie & Rajendra Akerkar. 2002. Knowledge Representation in KRIS Using Link Grammar Parser. [PDF] Lei Zhang and Yong Yu. 2001. Learning to Generate CGs from Domain Specific Sentences. In The Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, LNAI 2120, July 30-August 3, 2001, Stanford, CA, USA. [Abstract] [Full text (PDF)] Molla-Aliod,D and Hutchinson,B. 2002, Dependency-based semantic interpretation for answer extraction,In 2002 Australasian Natural Language Processing Workshop [PDF] Harsha V. Madhyastha, N. Balakrishnan, & K. R. Ramakrishnan. 2003. Event Information Extraction Using Link Grammar. 13th International WorkShop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Multi-lingual Information Management (RIDE'03). [Abstract] Chirag Shah and Pushpak Bhattacharyya. 2003. Improving Document Vectors Representation using Semantic Links and Attributes. International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), Mysore, India, December 2003. [PDF] Ted Pedersen, Weidong Chen. 1995. Lexical Acquisition via Constraint Solving. In Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Representation and Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge [Citeseer] Timothy Chklovski and Patrick Pantel. 2004. VerbOcean: Mining the Web for Fine-Grained Semantic Verb Relations. In Proceedings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-04). pp. 33-40. Barcelona, Spain. [PDF][PS] Patrick Pantel, Deepak Ravichandran and Eduard Hovy. 2004. Towards Terascale Knowledge Acquisition. In Proceedings of Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-04). pp. 771-777. Geneva, Switzerland. [PDF][PS] Deepak Ravichandran, Patrick Pantel, and Eduard Hovy. 2004. The Terascale Challenge. In Proceedings of KDD Workshop on Mining for and from the Semantic Web (MSW-04). pp. 1-11. Seattle, WA. [PDF][PS] Dekang Lin and Patrick Pantel. 2001. DIRT - Discovery of Inference Rules from Text. In Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-01). pp. 323-328. San Francisco, CA. [PDF][PS] Eduard Hovy, Ulf Hermjakob, and Deepak Ravichandran. 2002. A Question/Answer Typology with Surface Text Patterns. In Proceedings of the DARPA Human Language Technology Conference (HLT). San Diego, CA. [ ps, pdf ] Daniel Gildea and Daniel Jurafsky, ACL 2000 . Automatic labeling of semnantic roles, [pdf] |
2005-03-08 |
Project proposal presentations (10-15 minutes) |
2005-04-12 |
Project draft (5-6 pg.) |
2005-05-03 |
Final project paper (8 pg.) Final project presentation Project Outputs Adjective and Subject-verb-object link data[ 12Meg zip] Mined Predicate Hypothesis [450K zip] Raw Fragment counts from BNC [117 Meg zip] |