Student Research Symposium 2008

This document contains archived material from the 2008 Symposium.

2008 Winners

• First Prize : Kai-Min Kevin Chang
• Runners Up: John Kominek and Greg Hanneman
• Best Poster: Kevin Gimpel

Talk Abstracts

• Shilpa Arora and Mahesh Joshi "A Multi-Dimensional Annotation Scheme for Opinion Mining from Unstructured Data"
  
  
• Kai-min Kevin Chang "What Functional Brain Imaging Reveals About Semantic Representation of Object Knowledge"
  
  
• Shay Cohen "Unsupervised Bayesian Parameter Estimation for Dependency Parsing"
  
  
• Qin Gao "Parallelizing the Training Procedure of Statistical Phrase-Based Machine Translation"
  
  
• Steve Gardiner "Learning to Make Reasonable Assumptions"
  
  
• Greg Hanneman "Introducing Non-Syntactic Phrases Into a Syntax-Based Machine Translation System"
  
  
• Abhay Harpale "Personalized Active Learning for Collaborative Filtering"
  
  
• John Kominek "Synthesizer Voice Quality of New Languages Calibrated with Mean Mel Cepstral Distortion"
  
  
• Mehrbod Sharifi "Finding Domain Specific Polar Words for Sentiment Classification"

Poster Abstracts

• Shilpa Arora "Generalized Interactive Annotation Learning for Opinion Mining"
  
  
• Paisarn Charoenpornsawat "Improving Word Segmentation for Thai Speech Translation"
  
  
• Sourish Chaudhuri "Compressing Sentences Coherently and Grammatically"
  
  
• Wei Chen "Modeling Mental States in Natural Language"
  
  
• Kevin Gimpel "Novel Semirings for Approximate Dynamic Programming With Non-Local Features"
  
  
• Moonyoung Kang "Visualization of Summarization Process and Text Summary"
  
  
• Juan Pino "A Selection Strategy to Improve Cloze Question Quality"