Selected Conference Talks

• Topic-wise, Sentiment-wise, or Otherwise? Identifying the Hidden Dimension for Unsupervised Text Classification. (Slides)
  Talk prepared and presented by Sajib Dasgupta at EMNLP 2009, Suntec, Singapore, August 2009.
  Reference: Dasgupta & Ng EMNLP 2009 paper

• Supervised Models for Coreference Resolution. (Slides)
  Talk prepared and presented by Altaf Rahman at EMNLP 2009, Suntec, Singapore, August 2009.
  Reference: Rahman & Ng EMNLP 2009 paper

• Mine the Easy, Classify the Hard: A Semi-Supervised Approach to Automatic Sentiment Classification. (Slides)
  Talk prepared and presented by Sajib Dasgupta at ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Suntec, Singapore, August 2009.
  Reference: Dasgupta & Ng ACL-IJCNLP 2009 paper

• Semi-Supervised Cause Identification from Aviation Safety Reports. (Slides)
  Talk prepared with the help of Isaac Persing; presented at ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Suntec, Singapore, August 2009.
  Reference: Persing & Ng ACL-IJCNLP 2009 paper

• Graph-Cut-Based Anaphoricity Determination for Coreference Resolution. (Slides)
  Talk presented at NAACL HLT 2009, Boulder, CO, June 2009.
  Reference: Ng NAACL HLT 2009 paper

• Weakly Supervised Part-of-Speech Tagging for Morphologically-Rich, Resource-Scarce Languages. (Slides)
  Talk prepared and presented by Kazi Saidul Hasan at EACL 2009, Athens, Greece, April 2009.
  Reference: Hasan & Ng EACL 2009 paper

• Learning-Based Named Entity Recognition for Morphologically-Rich, Resource-Scarce Languages. (Slides)
  Talk prepared and presented by Kazi Saidul Hasan at EACL 2009, Athens, Greece, April 2009.
  Reference: Hasan et al. EACL 2009 paper

• Unsupervised Models for Coreference Resolution. (Slides)
  Talk presented at EMNLP 2008, Honolulu, HI, October 2008.
  Reference: Ng EMNLP 2008 paper

• Semantic Class Induction and Coreference Resolution. (Slides)
  Talk presented at ACL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.
  Reference: Ng ACL 2007 paper

• High-Performance, Language-Independent Morphological Segmentation. (Slides)
  Talk prepared and presented by Sajib Dasgupta at NAACL HLT 2007, Rochester, NY, April 2007.
  Reference: Dasgupta & Ng NAACL HLT 2007 paper

• Shallow Semantics for Coreference Resolution. (Slides)
  Talk presented at IJCAI 2007, Hyderabad, India, January 2007.
  Reference: Ng IJCAI 2007 paper

• Unsupervised Word Segmentation for Bangla. (Slides)
  Talk prepared with the help of Sajib Dasgupta; presented at ICON 2007, Hyderabad, India, January 2007.
  Reference: Dasgupta & Ng ICON 2007 paper

• Machine Learning for Coreference Resolution: From Local Classification to Global Ranking. (Slides)
  Talk presented at ACL 2005, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2005.
  Reference: Ng ACL 2005 paper

• Learning Noun Phrase Anaphoricity to Improve Coreference Resolution: Issues in Representation and Optimization. (Slides)
  Talk presented at ACL 2004, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004.
  Reference: Ng ACL 2004 paper

• Bootstrapping Coreference Classifiers with Multiple Machine Learning Algorithms. (Slides)
  .Talk presented at EMNLP 2003, Sapporo, Japan, July 2003.
  Reference: Ng & Cardie EMNLP 2003 paper

• Weakly Supervised Natural Language Learning Without Redundant Views. (Slides)
  Talk presented at HLT-NAACL 2003, Edmonton, Canada, May 2003.
  Reference: Ng & Cardie HLT-NAACL 2003 paper

• Identifying Anaphoric and Non-Anaphoric Noun Phrases to Improve Coreference Resolution. (Slides)
  Talk presented at COLING 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2002.
  Reference: Ng & Cardie COLING 2002 paper

• Improving Machine Learning Approaches to Coreference Resolution. (Slides)
  Talk presented at ACL 2002, Philadelphia, PA, July 2002.
  Reference: Ng & Cardie ACL 2002 paper

• Combining Sample Selection and Error-Driven Pruning for Machine Learning of Coreference Rules. (Slides)
  Talk presented at EMNLP 2002, Philadelphia, PA, July 2002.
  Reference: Ng & Cardie EMNLP 2002 paper

• Examining the Role of Statistical and Linguistic Knowledge Sources in a General-Knowledge Question-Answering System. (Slides)
  Talk presented at ANLP-NAACL 2000, Seattle, WA, May 2000.
  Reference: Cardie et al. ANLP 2000 paper