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ACL 2011 Debrief. Lin Ziheng. Portland. Pride parade. Invited talk: Watson DeepQA. David Ferrucci , IBM. Interesting papers: Sentiment analysis. Target-dependent Twitter Sentiment Classification Long Jiang, Mo Yu, Ming Zhou, Xiaohua Liu, Tiejun Zhao
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ACL 2011 Debrief Lin Ziheng
Invited talk: Watson DeepQA • David Ferrucci, IBM
Interesting papers: Sentiment analysis • Target-dependent Twitter Sentiment Classification • Long Jiang, Mo Yu, Ming Zhou, Xiaohua Liu, Tiejun Zhao • Classify a tweet as +ve, -ve, or neutral • Query dependent features, eg, iPad, Lady Gaga • Context: related tweets, eg, retweets, replies
Interesting papers: Sentiment analysis • Content Models with Attitude • Christina Sauper, Aria Haghighi, Regina Barzilay • A joint prob topic model to jointly identity • product properties (battery life, image, …) and • the aggregate user sentiment
Interesting papers: Sentiment analysis • Contrasting Opposing Views of News Articles on Contentious Issues • Souneil Park, Kyung Soon Lee, Junehwa Song • News articles are always biased difficult for readers to understand the conflicting arguments and contention • Build a opponent-based frame
Interesting papers: Summarization • Coherent Citation-Based Summarization of Scientific Papers • Amjad Abu-Jbara and DragomirRadev • Previous approaches: extract and select citation sentences • Produce readable and cohesive citation-based summary • Multiple references in one citation sentence • Sentence ordering • Position and format of reference
My talk • Automatically Evaluating Text Coherence Using Discourse Relations • Ziheng Lin, HweeTou Ng, Min-Yen Kan • Last day of main conference • Feedbacks is quite good • Many questions in Q&A • Received an email after the talk