Thursday, January 13, 2011

Reading for 1/20/11: Kwiatkowski et al., 2010

Here is the first reading:

Inducing Probabilistic CCG Grammars from Logical Form with Higher-order Unification
Authors:  Tom Kwiatkowski, Luke Zettlemoyer, Sharon Goldwater, and Mark Steedman
Venue:  EMNLP 2010
Leader:  Weisi

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13 comments:

  1. Brendan O'ConnorJanuary 13, 2011 at 2:49 PM

    I think I plan to read this review of the CCG formalism.

    Mark Steedman and Jason Baldridge. Combinatory Categorial Grammar. To appear in Robert Borsley and Kersti Borjars (eds.) Constraint-based approaches to grammar: alternatives to transformational syntax. Oxford: Blackwell. PDF (Will appear in February 2011.)

    http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/SteedmanBaldridgeNTSyntax.pdf

    Mark Steedman's website claims a different citation "forthcoming 2007" for a differently titled book, but that book appears not to have ever existed.

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  2. DanielJanuary 16, 2011 at 7:26 PM

    I plan to read the following paper in order to learn about one of the other methods for solving this problem.
    Lu et al. A generative model for parsing natural language to meaning representations. EMNLP 2008.
    http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lsz/papers/lnlz-emnlp08.pdf

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  3. Dong NguyenJanuary 16, 2011 at 8:49 PM

    I plan to read:

    Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
    Hoifung Poon, Pedro Domingos, EMNLP 2009
    http://aclweb.org/anthology/D/D09/D09-1001.pdf

    Similar goal (mapping text to formal meaning representations), but different setting (unsupervised versus supervised).

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  4. axzJanuary 17, 2011 at 11:44 AM

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  5. axzJanuary 17, 2011 at 11:45 AM

    I will read the following paper (by one of the co-authors):

    Zettlemoyer, L.S. & Collins, M.
    Learning context-dependent mappings from sentences to logical form
    http://people.csail.mit.edu/mcollins/papers/acl09.pdf

    The problem addressed now deals with context-dependent mappings.

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  6. Dhananjay D. KulkarniJanuary 17, 2011 at 12:36 PM

    I plan to read the following paper -

    Clark, S. & Curran, J. R. (2007). Wide-coverage efficient
    statistical parsing with CCG and log-linear models.
    Computational Linguistics, 33(4), 493–552.

    http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1120000/1119368/p97-clark.pdf

    It presents a set of log linear methods for parsing CCGs and develops a strategy to build a CCG parser.

    *This is a very lengthy paper (~60 pages), so I aim at reading a significant part.

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  7. Weisi DuanJanuary 17, 2011 at 1:28 PM

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  8. Weisi DuanJanuary 17, 2011 at 1:36 PM

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  9. Weisi DuanJanuary 17, 2011 at 1:41 PM

    I plan to read the paper:

    Luke S. Zettlemoyer, Michael Collins. Learning Context-dependent Mappings from Sentences to Logical Form. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics and International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP), 2009.

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  10. Michael DenkowskiJanuary 17, 2011 at 2:24 PM

    I am going to read one of the discussed related papers:

    Yuk Wah Wong; Raymond Mooney
    Learning for Semantic Parsing with Statistical Machine Translation
    http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N/N06/N06-1056.pdf

    This work applies established techniques from the area of statistical machine translation to the task of semantic parsing.

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  11. steffenJanuary 17, 2011 at 7:00 PM

    I pick the same paper as Michael:

    Yuk Wah Wong; Raymond Mooney
    Learning for Semantic Parsing with Statistical Machine Translation
    http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N/N06/N06-1056.pdf

    To be honest, I pick it because I'm interested in SMT techniques and want to see how they can relate to the topic discussed in our focus paper.

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  12. Jonathan ClarkJanuary 17, 2011 at 7:17 PM

    "Using string-kernels for learning semantic parsers"

    Link: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1220290

    With limited experience in semantic parsing, I selected this paper from the references of this week's primary paper. It learns a SVM classifier for each possible production in the semantic grammar. These are used to compose entire semantic derivations. The authors claim it is robust against "noise."

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  13. Matt WytockJanuary 17, 2011 at 8:17 PM

    I am planning to read:

    Bos, J., Clark, S., Steedman, M., Curran, J. R., & Hockenmaier, J. (2004). Wide-coverage semantic representations from a CCG parser. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics

    Which looks like an interesting, earlier result using similar techniques.

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