[Senseclusters-news] SenseClusters at EACL 2006

[ted p. <tpederse@d.umn.edu>]

I will be attending EACL in Trento, Italy April 3-7, and I will be doing
three different presentations that revolve around SenseClusters. Please
plan on attending any or all of these. There is one paper, one tutorial,
and one demo, so you get a little bit of everything.

First, on April 3 I will present the following paper at the Cross Language
Induction Workshop http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/eacl2006-clki-workshop.html :

Improving Name Discrimination : A Language Salad Approach (Pedersen,
Kulkarni, Angheluta, Kozareva, and Solorio) - Appears in the Proceedings
of the EACL 2006 Workshop on Cross-Language Knowledge Induction, April 3,
2006, Trento, Italy. http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/Pubs/eacl2006-salad.pdf

This is very fun work that I like very much, where we have mixed together
English with Bulgarian, Romanian and Spanish in order to improve name
discrimination. As crazy as that sounds, it works pretty well. :)

Second, the next day (April 4) I will present a tutorial that focuses on
the methods that are implemented in SenseClusters. This tutorial will
also feature the unveiling and debut of our new SenseClusters Live! CD.
This is a Knoppix based Linux distribution that includes SenseClusters
and lots of data, and you can run it from the CD without having to install
Linux or SenseClusters on your hard drive. I will have extra CDs available
so even if you don't come to the tutorial you can get one, and we will
also have an iso version of this posted so if you aren't at EACL can
download and burn onto a CD, just like you do for Linux.

Here's a short description of the tutorial, and it will be on the
afternoon of April 4. http://eacl06.itc.it/tutorials/tutorial.htm#TU03

Third, the *next* day (April 5) I will present a demo of the new
cluster stopping techniques found in SenseClusters. Those are described in
the following paper:

Selecting the "Right" Number of Senses Based on Clustering Criterion
Functions (Pedersen and Kulkarni), Appears in the Proceedings of the
Posters and Demo Program of the Eleventh Conference of the European
Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 5-7, 2006,
Trento, Italy.  http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/Pubs/eacl2006-demo.pdf

If you haven't already gotten your SenseClusters Live! CD by this time,
please stop by and see the demo and get a CD. I will be in Demo Session 2
on April 5, and it looks like there are quite a few demos of interest at
all the sessions so please plan on visiting several of them.

http://eacl06.itc.it/posters-demos/posters.htm

So, if you are at EACL please do come to some or all of these events. They
are all really different so you won't get bored (I promise :)!

Your questions or comments on any of the above are of course most welcome.

See you in Trento!
Ted

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Ted Pedersen
http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse