Greetings all, I just wanted to let you know there will be a SenseClusters related tutorial at EACL in April (in Trento, Italy).
Below is the short description of the tutorial that also appears here: http://eacl06.itc.it/tutorials/tutorial.htm Methods that identify similar (but not identical) units of text have wide potential application. For example, Web search results can be better organized by grouping together pages with related and similar content. Email can be automatically foldered and categorized by finding which messages are similar to each other. Word senses can be discovered by clustering multiple contexts that use a particular ambiguous word. This tutorial will introduce a language independent methodology for identifying similar contexts based on lexical features. The tutorial will explore the use of first and second order co-occurrence vectors for representing contexts, and introduce methods for carrying out dimensionality reduction that lower the noise and computational complexity associated with these large feature spaces. A number of different clustering methods will be discussed, as will various methods of evaluating the quality of the clustering results. Finally, the tutorial will explore methods of automatically generating descriptive labels for clusters. The tutorial will also include a hands-on option for those with laptop computers. Attendees will be given a bootable Knoppix CD that will let them experiment with many of these ideas and applications using the SenseClusters package http://senseclusters.sourceforge.net So, if you happen to be at EACL, it would be nice to see you at the tutorial! Cordially, Ted -- Ted Pedersen http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nlpatumd/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
