Hi Ted, Thanks for your kind and encouraging words. :) I'm sure everyone would agree when I say that it was really our time at Duluth as your advisees that prepared us so well for this kind of research work.
I really do enjoy the work, and I'm glad to see it bear fruit in the form of good publications. It would have been a great if you came for the conference too. We could've had a group meeting just like old times! -- Sid. PS: Congratulations on the new addition to your family. :) On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 10:15 -0500, ted pedersen wrote: > I have been very pleased to learn that three (!) papers by three > different former UMD students will appear at EMNLP this year. EMNLP is > always a fiercely competetive event, and the quality is excellent, so > Amruta, Sid and Saif are to be heartily congratulated!! > > I would really encourage everyone to read over these papers, and to let > the authors know if you have any comments or observations. > > "Humor: Prosody Analysis and Automatic Recognition for F * R * I * E * N * D > * S *", > Amruta Purandare and Diane Litman > http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~amruta/pubs/2006/emnlp06.pdf > > "Distributional measures of concept-distance: A task-oriented evaluation", > Saif Mohammad and Graeme Hirst > http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~smm/WebDocs/ConceptDistance.pdf > > "Feature Subsumption for Opinion Analysis" > Ellen Riloff, Siddharth Patwardhan, and Jan Wiebe > http://www.cs.utah.edu/~sidd/papers/RiloffPW06.pdf > > All of these will appear in the Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical > Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), July 22-23, 2006, Sydney, > Australia. http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/emnlp06/ > > I should also mention that I am very impressed with the co-authors Amruta, > Sid and Saif have on these papers. This reads like a list of some of the > people I admire most in the field: Diane Litman, Graeme Hirst, Ellen > Riloff and Jan Wiebe. > > I *really* regret that I will not be at EMNLP. But, the important thing is > that Sid, Saif and Amruta will be there!! > > Keep up the good work, and congratulations! > Ted > > -- > Ted Pedersen > http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy technology. It's free. http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/x3XolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
