The Natural Language Processing (NLP) group at the University of
Pittsburgh has several GSR positions to fill, beginning Summer or Fall
2004.
Interested graduate students in Computer Science or Intelligent
Systems are invited to peruse our webpages (nlp.cs.pitt.edu), and to
apply directly to one or more of the following NLP faculty members,
each of whom is hiring:
Professor Rebecca Hwa (hwa@cs.pitt.edu), for the project
"Semi-supervised Learning for Multilingual Processing"
(www.cs.pitt.edu/~hwa/semi.htm)
Professor Diane Litman (litman@cs.pitt.edu), for the projects
"Monitoring Student State in Tutorial Spoken Dialogue" and
"Adding Spoken Language to a Text-Based Dialogue Tutor"
(www.cs.pitt.edu/~litman/itspoke.html)
Professor Janyce Wiebe (wiebe@cs.pitt.edu), for the projects
"Improving Subjectivity Analysis to Achieve High-Precision Information
" Extraction" and "Opinions in Automatic Question Answering"
(www.cs.pitt.edu/~wiebe/projects.html)
To apply, send a statement of interest and your vita. Please send a separate
application to each faculty member whose project(s) you are interested in.
For full consideration, applications should be received no later than
March 1, 2004.
I received announcements for two new LCD corpora (info below). If you would like the lab to get either one (or both), please post a comment to this message.
Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane Litman
We present an annotation scheme for student emotions in tutoring dialogues.
Analyses of our scheme with respect to interannotator agreement and predictive accuracy
indicate that our scheme is reliable in our domain, and that our emotion
labels can be predicted with a high degree of accuracy.
We discuss issues concerning the implementation of emotion
prediction and adaptation in the computer tutoring dialogue system we are developing.