CS G224 Natural Language Processing
		         Assignment 2

Spring 2006, Prof. Hafner
Due Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 

During the past 15 years, the NLP research community has increasingly been
engaged in coordinated activities to develop large-scale computational 
resources and evaluation frameworks that benefit the entire NL field, 
including:
	-- large corpuses of naturally occurring text and speech data, some 
	of which are marked for part-of-speech (tagged corpuses), and some of 
	which are further marked for syntactic structure (treebanks); 
	-- computational lexicons, concept networks, and/or ontologies
	-- tools for performing important NLP tasks: such as tagging, 
	parsing, and content extraction
	-- methodologies and test collections for empirical evaluation
	and comparison of NLP systems

Working with a partner, prepare a 25-minute talk to be presented to
the class on January 25.  The talk will be an overview of a particular
resource category or evaluation activity: its purpose, its organization,
its size or scope, and its contributions and/or outcomes to date. Hand in 
an annotated outline of your talk, including references*. This can be a 
written document or a printout of PowerPoint slides used in your talk.

******* Use of technology for presentations.  If you wish to use computer
	projection in your presentation you may:
        -- bring your own laptop computer
        -- send PowerPoint files or other displayable material to 
	   Prof. Hafner by email before 3:30 on January 25.
	-- bring displayable files on USB stick or CD to class or to Prof. 
	   Hafner's office before class
	-- Plan to access the Web for your presentation (*** risky ***)

Teams and selected topics:

  Alan Feuer, Dan Kunkle                   TREC evaluation activities
  Jun Gong, Dan Schulman                   Corpora and Treebanks
  Kevin Bloomquist, Dan Pratt              Lexicons, Concept Networks,
					    and Ontologies (esp. WordNet)
  John Kennedy, Victor Ortenberg	   MUC evaluation activities
  Guruprasad, Kham Nguyen		   Tools
  Lisa Norman, Jason Blind		   SENSEVAL evaluation activities

*References to a Web site should include: 
        -- One or more of:
		Author
		Title
		Sponsoring Organization
		(include all of these unless they are the same or unknown)
	-- URL
	-- Date visited