European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies
Language and Communication Technologies Reading Group
In order to get prepared to the LCT Colloquia, starting from this year a reading group will meet and focus on topics to be selected together, like dialogue and discourse, natural language generation and natural language interfaces to databases.
The reading group will gather some time before each Colloquium. A mailing list has also been setup: https://www.inf.unibz.it/mailman/listinfo/lct-reading-group. Don't hesitate to subscribe if you want to receive a reminder before each meeting.
The reading group will take place during the months from January to May 2006. The calendar and the selected papers are below.
- Where: Piazza Domenicani, 3, Bozen-Bolzano, 1st Floor, Seminar Room
- When: Wednesdays, 16:30-18:00
For more information, please contact Raffaella Bernardi or Paolo Dongilli.
Calendar and Papers
- 25th of January:
I. Androutsopoulos, G.D. Ritchie, and P. Thanisch, "Natural Language Interfaces to Databases - An Introduction". Natural Language Engineering, 1(1):29-81, Cambridge University Press, 1995. [PDF]. Moderator: Camilo. - 8th of February:
I. Androutsopoulos, G.D. Ritchie, and P. Thanisch, "Natural Language Interfaces to Databases - An Introduction". Natural Language Engineering, 1(1):29-81, Cambridge University Press, 1995. [PDF]. From pages 14-50 pages. Backbone of the program. Moderator: Raffaella.
Summary paper[PDF TEX] - 22nd of February:
A. Bernstein, E. Kaufmann, A. Goehring, C. Kiefer "Query Ontologies: A Controlled English Interface for End-user." [PDF] Background reading on DRT: Patrick Blackburn and Johan Bos "Working with Discourse Representation Theory" [PDF] (Chapter 1). Moderators: Camilo [Slides] and Vanni [Slides]. - 15th of March:
Introduction on Discourse and Dialogue. Background for Massimo Poesio's and Bonnie Webber's talks. Moderator: Manuel [Slides] - 5th of April:
Karttunen "Discourse Referents". In Syntax and Semantics, vol 7 1976 [PDF], and Grozs, Joshi, Weinstein, "Centering: A Framework for Modeling the Local Coherence of Discourse" ACL '95 Moderator: Manuel - 9th of May:
Article Moderator: Rosella [Slides].
Links suggested by Manuel: [Dagan ed ali.], [Other teams' papers] - 24th of May:
Introduction to Natural Language Generation. Article to be decided. Background for John Bateman's talk. Moderator: Paolo.