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Natural Language Acquisition Group

at the University of Texas at Austin

Previously Discussed Papers

Papers discussed (incl. some additional papers):


[discussed on April 17, 1992]
Learning Words from Context, Hastings, Lytinen, & Lindsay,
ML-91 Workshop

[discussed on April 17, 1992]
Sumita, Eiichiro and Iida, Hitoshi,  "Experiments and Prospects
of Example-Based Machine Translation" Proc 29th Mtng of ACL, 1991,
pp 185-192.

[discussed on May 1, 1992]
W. A. Gale and K. W. Church, "A Program for Aligning sentences
in  bilingual corpora." ACL-91, pp 177-184.

[additional reading]
P. Brown, J.c.Lai, & R. Mercer, "Aligning sentences in parallel
corpora"  ACL-91, pp 169-176

[discussed on May 1, 1992]
P. Brown, J. Cocke, S. Della Pietra, F. Jelinek, R. Mercer and P. Rossin,
"A Statistical Approach to Machine Translation"
COLING-88, pp. 71-76
where they basically treat French as a garbled version of English and
use statistical techniques to de-cryptify it. 

[discussed on May 22, 1992]
Steven Pinker, "Language Acquisition", from "Foundations of Cognitive Science",
ed. by Michael Posner, MIT Press, 1989, Chapter 9

[distibuted as further reading for May 22, 1992 discussion]
Chapter 4 from Slobin, "Psycholinguistics", which "gives some cogent ideas
about NL acquisition from the psycholinguistic point of view".

[discussed on June 19, 1992]
Miniature Language Acquisition: A touchstone for Cognitive Science,
Feldman, Lakoff, Stolke, & Weber, COGSCI-90

[discussed on June 19, 1992]
"Learning Spatial Concepts Using a Partially-Structured Connectionist
Architecture", Terry Regier, Berkeley TR-91-050, Oct. 1991

[further readings on topic discussed on June 19, 1992]
[available by ftp from icsi-ftp.berkeley.edu pub/techreports]
  Andreas Stolcke: Syntactic Category Formation with Vector Space Grammars
     COGSCI-91, pp.908--912 publ. 1989
  Andreas Stolcke: Learning Feature-Based Semantics with Simple Recurrent Networks
     TR-90-015 Berkeley, CA publ. 1990
  Terry Regier: Learning Perceptually Grounded Semantics in the ${L}_0$ Project
     Proc. 29th Annual Meeting ACL, pp. 138--145 publ. 1991
  Terry Regier: Learning Object-Relative Spatial Concepts in the ${L}_0$ Project
     COGSCI-91, pp.191--196 publ. 1991

[discussed July 7, 1992]
Distributed Representations, Simple Recurrent Networks, and Grammatical
Structure;  Elman; Machine Learning 7, 195-225 (Sept. 1991) 

[discussed July 31, 1992]
Induction of Augmented Transition Networks; Anderson, Cognitive Science 1977
or Readings on Machine Learning, pp. 774-790

[discussed August 21, 1992]
Learning Structural Descriptions of grammar rules from examples;
Berwick, IJCAI-79

[discussed on Sept. 4, 1992]
An architecture combining two RAAMs for translating Spanish<->English.
Some surprising results; extreme distributed point of view. My
favorite RAAM paper.
  Lonnie Chrisman: "Learning Recursive Distributed Representations for
  Holistic Computation", Connection Science, vol. 3, 1992, pages 345--366

[discussed on Sept. 4, 1992]
Parsing into RAAM representations.
  George Berg: "A Connectionist Parser with Recursive Sentence Structure
  and Lexical Disambiguation", AAAI-92, pages 32--37 (MIT Press)

[discussed on Sept. 18, 1992]
Lehnert, "Learning to Integrate Syntax and Semantics",
ML workshop, 1988.

[discussed on Sept. 18, 1992]
Zernik, "How Do Machine-Learning Paradigms Fare in Language
Acquisition?", ML workshop, 1988.

[discussed on Oct. 2, 1992]
St. John, Mark F.: "The Story Gestalt: {A} Model of Knowledge-Intensive
Processes in Text Comprehension", Cog. Sc. 1992, vol. 16, pp 271-276

[discussed on Oct. 2, 1992]
St. John, Mark F.: "Learning Language in the Service of a Task",
Cog. Sc. 1992, pp 271-276

[discussed on Oct. 16, 1992]
Hobbs, Jerry,  "Resolving Pronoun References"
from Lingua 1978, reprinted in Grosz et. al.,
Readings in Natural Language Processing.

[discussed on Oct. 16, 1992]
Pan, Haihua  "Interpreting Intrasentential Anaphora"
mss. 1992.

[discussed on Oct. 30, 1992]
Wolff, J. G. "Language Acquisition, data compression, and Generalization",
Language and Communication, 2, 1982.

[discussed on Nov. 13, 1992]
Anderson, "A Theory of Language Acquisition based on General
LEarning Principles", IJCAI, 1981.

[discussed on Dec. 11, 1992]
Ling, Cherwenka and Marinov, "A General Symbolic Pattern 
Associator", 


[discussed on Jan. 15, 1993]
Ezra Black, John Lafferty, Salim Roukos, "Development 
and Evaluation of a Broad-Coverage Probabilistic Grammar 
of English-Language Computer Manuals"
30th ACL Conf. 1992, pp.185-192

[discussed on Jan. 29, 1993]
J. Zelle, R. Mooney: "Learning Semantic Grammars with
Constructive Inductive Logic Programming" [Submitted to
AAAI '93]

[discussed on Feb. 12, 1993]
P. Langley and J. Carbonell, "Language Acquisition and Machine Learning"
   from the book, "Mechanisms of Language Acquisition", 1985

[discussed on Feb. 26, 1993]
Berwick, "Parsability and learnability"
from the book, "Mechanisms of Language Acquisition", 1985

[discussed on March 12, 1993]
Schuetze, Hinrich, "Word Space", from book "Advances in Neural Information 
Processing Systems 5", ed. C. L. Giles, S. J. Hanson and J. D. Cowan, 
San Mateo CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1993

[discussed on March 26, 1993]
Claire Cardie, "Learning to Disambiguate Relative Pronouns" AAAI-92
[the following paper is virtually identical:]
Claire Cardie, "Corpus-based Acquisition of Relative Pronoun Disambiguation
heuristics" ACL-92

[discussed on April 9, 1993]
Gregers Koch, "Computational Logico-Semantic Induction", Natural Language Understanding
and Logic Programming, II, 1988, pp. 107-133

[discussed on May 21, 1993]
Ulf Hermjakob, "Example Based Acquisition of Relevant Features and Grammar Learning
for Parsing and Machine Translation." (draft)

[discussed on June 4, 1993]
From the book, "Mechanisms of Language Acquisition", 1985
 -   Bates B. and MacWhinney B., "Competition, Variation and Language Learning." (Note:
        This is more lingusitic/cog sci, not a concrete model)

[discussed on June 18, 1993]
Donald Hindle and Mats Rooth, "Structural Ambiguity and Lexical Relations",
Comp. Ling. March 1993

[discussed on July 2, 1993]
Kenneth. W. Church and Robert L. Mercer, "Introduction to the Special Issue
on Computational Linguistics Using Large Corpora", Comp. Ling. March 1993

[discussed on July 30, 1993]
Rey-Long Liu, Von-Wun Soo, "An Empirical Study on Thematic Knowledge Acquisition 
Based on Syntactic Clues and Heuristics", ACL Proc. June '93, pp. 243 - 250

[discussed on Aug. 13, 1993]
Ted Briscoe and John Carroll, "Generalized Probabilistic LR Parsing of Natural
Language (Corpora) with Unification-Based Grammars", Comp. Ling. March 1993

[discussed on Aug. 27, 1993]
R. Weischedel, R. Schwarz, J. Palmucci, M. Meteer, L. Ramshaw: "Coping with Ambiguity
and Unknown Words through Probabilistic Models", Computational Linguistics June 1993, pp. 359-382

[discussed on Sept. 10, 1993]
Shannon D. Moeser and Albert S. Bregman, "Imagery and Language Acquisition",
Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour (JVLVB), 1973, vol. 12, pp. 91-98
[related paper (but not discussed):]
Shannon D. Moeser and Albert S. Bregman, "The Role of Reference in the Acquisition of a 
Miniature Artificial Language", Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour (JVLVB),
1972, vol. 11, pp. 759-769

[discussed on Sept. 24, 1993]
Risto Miikkulainen: "Subsymbolic Case-role Analysis of Sentences with embedded
clauses", TR AI93-202, July 1993

[discussed on Oct. 8, 1993]
McMillan, Mozer and Smolensky, "Dynamic Conflict Resolution in a Connectionist
Rule-Based System", IJCAI 93, pp1366-1371.

[discussed on Oct. 8, 1993]
Michael C. Mozer, Sreruupa Das, "A Connectionist Symbol Manipulator That
Discovers the Structure of Context-Free Languages", NIPS5, 1993, pp. 863-870
[related paper (but not discussed):]
Learning to recognize regular strings from positive and negative examples.
@InProceedings{WatrousKuhn:NIPS4,
  author =      "Watrous, Raymond L. and Kuhn, Gary M.",
  title =       "Induction of Finite-State Automata Using
                 Second-Order Recurrent Networks",
  booktitle =   "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 4",
  year =        1992,
  editor =      "Moody, J. E. and Hanson, S. J. and Lippman, R. P.",
  pages =       "309--316",
  publisher =   "Morgan Kaufmann Publishers",
  address =     "San Mateo, California",
}
[related paper (but not discussed):]
Similar to the above, but now they also extract the grammar from the
network.
@InProceedings{Giles:NIPS4,
  author =      "Giles, C. L. and Miller, C. B. and Chen, D. and Sun,
                 G. Z. and Chen, H. H. and Lee, Y. C.",
  title =       "Extracting and Learning an Unknown Grammar with
                 Recurrent Neural Networks",
  booktitle =   "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 4",
  year =        1992,
  editor =      "Moody, J. E. and Hanson, S. J. and Lippman, R. P.",
  pages =       "317--324",
  publisher =   "Morgan Kaufmann Publishers",
  address =     "San Mateo, California",
}
[related paper (but not discussed):]
This one looks like a pretty complete (35 pages) presentation of
their external stack idea. Maybe be more interesting as a NN technique
than language learning. We'll read it in my NN meeting this Friday; if
it turns out interesting language-acquisition-wise, I'll let you know.
@TechReport{sun:pushdown,
  author =      "G.Z. Sun and C.L. Giles and H.H. Chen and Y.C. Lee",
  title =       "The Neural Network Pushdown Automaton: {M}odel, Stack
                 and Learning Simulations",
  institution = "Department of Computer Science, University of
                 Maryland",
  year =        "1993",
  number =      "UMIACS-TR-93-77",
  address =     "College Park, MD"
}
[related paper (but not discussed):]
Looks like a shorter version of the above. Perhaps more appropriate to
this crowd.
@InProceedings{das:contextfree,
  author =      "Sreerupa Das and C. Lee Giles and Guo-Zheng Sun",
  title =       "Learning Context-free Grammars: {C}apabilities and
                 Limitations of a Recurrent Neural Network with an
                 External Stack Memory",
  booktitle =   COGSCI-92,
  year =        "1992",
  publisher =   LEA,
  address =     LEA-ADDR
}

[discussed on Oct. 22, 1993]
Brill, E. "Automatic Grammar Induction and Parsing Free Text: A
Transformation-Based Approach", ACL 93, pp. 259-265

[discussed on Oct. 22, 1993]
Black, Jelinek, et al. "Towards History-Based Grammars: Using Richer Models
for Probability-based Parsing", ACL 93, pp. 31-37.

[discussed on Nov. 5, 1993]
@InCollection{jain:generalization,
  author =      "Ajay N. Jain",
  title =       "Generalization Performance in {PARSEC}---{A} Structured
                 Connectionist Parsing Architecture",
  booktitle =   NIPS4,
  publisher =   KAUF,
  editor =      "John E. Moody and Stephen J. Hanson and Richard P.
                 Lippmann",
  year =        "1992",
  pages =       "209--216",
  address =     KAUF-ADDR
}

[discussed on Nov. 19, 1993]
Pereira, F. and Schabes, Y. "Inside-Outside reestimation from partially
bracketed corpora.  ACL 1992, 128-135.

[discussed on Dec. 3, 1993]
Langley, "Language acquisition through error recovery", Cognition and
Brain Theory, 5, 1982.


[discussed on Jan. 14, 1994]
Building a Large Annotated Corpus of English: The Penn Treebank,
Marcus, Marcinkiewicz, and Santorini, Comp Ling, 19,2.

[discussed on Jan. 28, 1994]
Nancy Chindor, Lynette Hirschman, David D. Lewis:
"Evaluating Message Understanding Systems: An analysis of the Third
Message Understanding Conference (MUC-3)", Comp. Ling. Sept 1993

[discussed on Feb. 11, 1994]
Eve V. Clark: "Meanings and Concepts", chapter 12 of book "Cognitive Development",
vol. 3 of series "Handbook of Child Psychology", pp. 787-840, Wiley 1983

[discussed on Feb. 25, 1994]
Derek Bickerton: "The Language Bioprogram Hypothesis", BBS (journal) 1984,
vol.7, pp. 173-221
[Risto: He makes a strong case for the innateness of certain linguistic
        principles, based on studies on pidgin and creole languages]

[discussed on Mar. 11, 1994]
Lin and Soo, "Augmenting and Efficiently utilizing Domain Theory
in Explanation-Based Natural Language Acquisition", ML92.

[discussed on Apr. 1, 1994]
Manning, C. "Automatic acquisition of a large subcategorization
dictionary from corpora", 235-242, ACL '93

[discussed on Apr. 15, 1994]
@InCollection{mclaughlin:effects,
  author =      "Barry McLaughlin",
  title =       "The Effects of Early Bilingualism",
  booktitle =   "Second Language Acquisition in Childhood, {V}olume 1:
                 {P}reschool Children",
  publisher =   LEA,
  year =        "1984",
  edition =     "Second",
  chapter =     "7",
  address =     LEA-ADDR
}

[discussed on Apr. 29, 1994]
Martin Kay and Matin Roescheisen, "Text-Translation Alignment", Comp. Ling.
March 1993

[discussed on Sept. 9, 1994]
Toward the Essential Nature of Statistical Knowledge in Sense Resolution
Jill Lehman
Proceedings, AAAI '94, Vol. I, page 734

[discussed on Sept. 23, 1994]
"Lexical Acquisition in the Presence of Noise and Homonymy",
by Jeffrey M. Siskind, AAAI 94, Vol.I, p. 760

[discussed on Oct. 7, 1994]
S Pinker, "Chatterboxes" Chapter in "The Language Instinct,"  1994.
A nativist argument written for the masses.

[discussed on Oct. 21, 1994]
R. Kazman, "Simulating the Child's Acquisition of Lexicon and Syntax,"
Machine Learning, 16,1, 1994.

[discussed on Nov. 4, 1994]
Paul Bloom "Overview: Controversies in language acquisition" in
P. Bloom Ed. "Language Acquisition: Core Readings," 1994, MIT Press.
Recent summary, an intro to a book of collected papers.

[discussed on Nov. 18, 1994]
D. Yarowsky, "Decision Lists for Lexical Ambiguity Resolution", ACL-94.

[discussed on Nov. 18, 1994]
C. Samuelsson, "Grammar Specialization through Entropy Thresholds", ACL-94.

[discussed on Dec. 2, 1994]
Louis M. Herman, "Cognition and Language Competences of Bottle-Nosed Dolphins",
chapter 10 in book "Dolphin Cognition and Behavior: {A} Comparative Approach",
LEA, 1986, R. J. Schusterman and J. A. Thomas and F. G. Wood, editors

[discussed on Dec. 16, 1994]
Miller, Scott. Bobrow, Robert. Ingria Robert. Schwartz, Richard, 
"Hidden Understanding Models of Natural Language". 25-32.
ACL Proc. of 32nd Annual Meeting, 1994


[discussed on Jan. 20, 1995]
Dresher, E. and Kaye, J. (1990) "A computational learning model for
metrical phonology"  Cognition 34, 137-195

[discussed on Febr. 3, 1995]
Gupta, P. and Touretzky, "Connectionist Models and Linguistic Theory:
Invesitigations of Stress Systems in Language" Cognitive Science, 18,1,
January, 1994.

[discussed on Febr. 17, 1995]
Daelemans, Gillis, & Durieux, The Acquisition of Stress:
A Data Oriented Approach, Computational Linguistics, 20,3, Sept 1994.

[discussed on Mar. 3, 1995]
Gasser, Michael. "Acquiring Receptive Morphology: A Connectionist
Model". 279-86.  ACL Proc. of 32nd Annual Meeting, 1994

[discussed on Mar. 24, 1995]
Diane J. Litman: "Classifying Cue Phrases in text and Speech using Machine
Learning", AAAI94, Vol. I, pp. 806-813

[discussed on Mar. 24, 1995]
Eric V. Siegel and Kathleen R. McKeown: "Emergent Linguistic Rules from
Inducing Decision Trees: Disambiguating Discourse Clue Words"
AAAI 94, Vol. I, pp. 820-826

[discussed on April 7, 1995]
Leacock, Towell and Voorhees: "Towards Building Contextual Representations of
Word Senses Using Statistical Models"
in personal files of Cindi Thompson, from one of the authors

[discussed on April 21, 1995]
Pat Langley: "Simplicity and Representation Change in Grammar Induction"
[From the author via John Zelle, 1995; submitted to the special issue of
Machine Learning on Bias Evaluation and Selection; 19 pages]

[discussed on May 5, 1995]
Garrison W. Cottrell and Kim Plunkett (1994). Acquiring the Mapping
from Meaning to Sounds. Connection Science 6:379--412.

[discussed on May 19, 1995]
Evaluating Automated and Manual Acquisition of Anaphora Resolution Startegies,
C. Aone and S. Bennett, to appear ACL-95
[Uses C4.5 to learn decision trees for resolving anaphora.]
[~mooney/papers-others/aone-acl95.ps]

[discussed on June 2, 1995]
David M. Magerman: "Statistical Decision-Tree Models for Parsing"
To appear in ACL95
[available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/cmp-lg/ with search for author magerman]

[discussed on August 3, 1995]
Roland Kuhn & Renato De More: "The Application of Semantic Classification
Trees to Natural Language Understanding" IEEE, PAMI 17/5, May 1995

Yarowsky, D.: "Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Rivaling Supervised Methods"
33rd Annual Meeting of the ACL, 1995, pp. 189-196
discussed on September 1, 1995

S. Huffman: " Learning Information Extraction Patterns from Examples "
1995 IJCAI workshop on New Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing, pp. 127-134.
discussed on September 27, 1995

Lund, K., Burgess, C. and Atchley, R.A.: " Semantic and Associative Priming in High-Dimensional Semantic Space. "
in Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1995
discussed on October 13, 1995

I. Dagan and S. Engelson: " Selective Sampling in Natural Language Learning "
1995 IJCAI workshop on New Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing
pp. 41-48.
discussed on October 27, 1995

T. Yamazaki, M. Pazzani, and C. Merz: " Acquiring and Updating Hierarachical Knowledge for Machine Translation Based on a Clustering Technique "
1995 IJCAI workshop on New Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing
pp. 111-118.
discussed on November 10, 1995

Knight, Chander, Haines, Hatzivassiloglou, Hovy, Iida, Luk, Whitney, Yamada: " Filling Knowledge Gaps in a Broad-Coverage Machine Translation System "
IJCAI 1995
pp. 1390-1396
discussed on December 14, 1995

U. Hermjakob & R. Mooney: " Learning Parse Decisions from Examples with Rich Context "
submitted to ACL 1996
download from ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/mooney/papers/contex-acl-96.ps.Z
discussed on January 26, 1996

E. Brill: " Transformation-Based Error-Driven Learning and Natural Language Processing: A Case Study in Part-of-Speech Tagging "
Computational Linguistics, 21(4), 1995; pp. 543-565
A journal article summary of some of Brill's thesis work
discussed on February 9, 1996

P. Geutner, et al.: " Integrating Different Approaches into a Multilingual Spoken Language Translation System "
1995 IJCAI workshop on New Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing
pp. 33-40
discussed on February 23, 1996

Raymond J. Mooney: " Comparative Experiments on Disambiguating Word Senses: An Illustration of the Role of Bias in Machine Learning "
submitted to: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
download from ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/mooney/papers/emnlp-96.ps.Z
discussed on March 8, 1996

Yarowsky, D.: " Word-sense disambiguation using statistical models of Roget's categories trained on large corpora. "
in Proceedings of Coling-92, pp. 454-460
discussed on March 22, 1996

Eugene Charniak: " Tree-bank Grammars "
scheduled for AAAI '96
Abstract: By a ``tree-bank grammar'' we mean a context-free grammar created by reading the production rules directly from hand-parsed sentences in a tree bank. Common wisdom has it that such grammars do not perform well, though we know of no published data on the issue. The primary purpose of this paper is to show that the common wisdom is wrong. In particular we present results on a tree-bank grammar based on the Penn Wall Street Journal tree bank. To the best of our knowledge, this grammar out-performs all other non-word-based statistical parsers/grammars on this corpus. That is, it out-performs parsers that consider the input as us. That is, it out-performs parsers that consider the input as a string of tags and ignore the actual words of the corpus.
download from ftp://ftp.cs.brown.edu/pub/techreports/96/cs96-02.ps.Z (12 pages)
discussed on April 5, 1996

Michael Brent: " Advances in the Computational Study of Language Acquisition "
Abstract: This paper provides a tutorial introduction to computational studies of how children learn their native languages. Its aim is to make recent advances accessible to the broader research community, and to place them in the context of current theoretical issues. The papers reviewed here focus on learning the meanings of words, learning the sounds of words, and learning the values of grammatical parameters. ...
download from http://www.cog.jhu.edu/faculty/Brent/Pub/BC96CN.ps (40 pages)
discussed on April 19, 1996

M. Ersan, E. Charniak: " A statistical syntactic disambiguation program and what it means "
download from ftp://ftp.cs.brown.edu/pub/techreports/95/cs95-29.ps.Z
from lecture note book Connectionist, Statistical, and Symbolic Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing (published 1996 by Springer; edited Natural Language Processing (published 1996 by Springer; edited by Wermter, Riloff and Scheler), pp. 146-159
discussed on May 3, 1996

Steve Lawrence, Sandiway Fong, C. Lee Giles: " Natural Language Grammatical Inference: A Comparison of Recurrent Neural Networks and Machine Learning Methods "
download from http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/giles/papers/Lecture.Notes.AI.NLP.with.NNs.ps.Z
from lecture note book Connectionist, Statistical, and Symbolic Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing (published 1996 by Springer; edited by Wermter, Riloff and Scheler), pp. 33-47
discussed on June 21, 1996

Claire Cardie: " Automating Feature Set Selection for Case-Based Learning of Linguistic Knowledge "
download from http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/cardie/papers/rep-or-alg.ps
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 113-126
discussed on July 8, 1996

Michael J. Collins: " A New Statistical Parser Based on Bigram Lexical Dependencies "
download via http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cmp-lg/9605012
Abstract: This paper describes a new statistical parser which is based on probabilities of dependencies between head-words in the parse tree. Standard bigram probability estimahead-words in the parse tree. Standard bigram probability estimation techniques are extended to calculate probabilities of dependencies between pairs of words. Tests using Wall Street Journal data show that the method performs at least as well as SPATTER (Magerman 95, Jelinek et al 94), which has the best published results for a statistical parser on this task. The simplicity of the approach means the model trains on 40,000 sentences in under 15 minutes. With a beam search strategy parsing speed can be improved to over 200 sentences a minute with negligible loss in accuracy.
Proceedings of 34th Annual Meeting of the ACL (1996), pp. 184-191
discussed on July 30, 1996

Hwee Tou Ng and Hian Beng Lee: " Integrating Multiple Knowledge Sources to Disambiguate Word Sense: An Exemplar-Based Approach "
download via http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cmp-lg/9606032
Proceedings of 34th Annual Meeting of the ACL (1996), pp. 40-47
discussed on August 23, 1996

Sean P. Engelson and Ido Dagan: " Minimizing Manual Annotation Cost in Supervised Training from Corpora "
download via http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cmp-lg/9606030
Proceedings of 34th Annual Meeting of the ACL (1996), pp. 319-326
discussed on September 4, 1996

Scott Miller, David Stallard, Robert Bobrow and Richard Schwartz: " A Fully Statistical Approach to Natural Language Interfaces "
Proceedings of 34th Annual Meeting of the ACL (1996), pp. 55-61
discussed on October 2, 1996

Joshua Goodman: " Parsing Algorithms and Metrics "
download via http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cmp-lg/9605036
Proceedings of 34th Annual Meeting of the ACL (1996), pp. 177-183
discussed on October 16, 1996

Michael K. Tanenhaus: " Using Eye Movements to Study Spoken Language Comprehension "
Proceedings of 34th Annual Meeting of the ACL (1996), pp. 48-54
discussed on October 30, 1996

Elman et al.: " "Learning the Past Tense", a chapter section fromtheir recently published book "Rethinking Innateness - A Connectionist Perspective on Development" ", pp. 130-147
discussed on November 13, 1996

Ellen Riloff: " An empirical study of automated dictionary construction for information extraction in three domains "
AI Journal, Vol 85, pp. 101-134
discussed on November 25, 1996
download from http://www.cs.utah.edu/~riloff/psfiles/aij.ps