Selected Abstracts

2007 Winners

1st Place: Pinar Donmez
Honorable Mention: Mahesh Joshi
Honorable Mention: Christian Monson

• Vamshi Ambati "Noun Phrase driven Bootstrapping of Word Alignment"
  
  
• Shilpa Arora and Manas Pathak "Learning More with Less: Reducing Annotation Effort with Active and Interactive Learning"
  
  
• Pinar Donmez "Dual Strategy Active Learning"
  
  
• Jonathan Elsas "Fast learning of Document Ranking Functions with the Committee Perceptron"
  
  
• Mahesh Joshi "Using Transactivity in Conversation for Summarization of Educational Dialog"
  
  
• Abhimanyu Lad "Generalizing from Relevance Feedback using Named Entity Wildcards"
  
  
• Christian Monson "ParaMor: Finding Paradigms across Morphology"
  
  
• Richard Wang "Language-Independent Set Expansion of Named Entities using the Web"
  
  
• Yi-Chia Wang "Using thread structure to improve context-based classification of newsgroup discussion acts"
  
  
• Xionan Zhang "All in the (word) family: Using learning decomposition to estimate transfer between skills in a Reading Tutor that listens"