Christopher Potts +> Selected recent talks

Christopher Potts. 2011. Sentiment Analysis Tutorial. Sentiment Analysis Symposium, San Francisco, Nov 8-9.
Interactive website for my practical introduction to building effective sentiment analysis systems.
Tutorial website
Christopher Potts. 2011. Exploring question-driven models of discourse using a task-oriented dialogue corpus. University of Rochester Center for Language Sciences, Oct 13.
Describes the publicly-available Cards corpus (version 1) and some pilot experiments with it.
The Cards Corpus, the slideshow, and code for working with the corpus
Christopher Potts. 2011. Developing adjective scales from user-supplied textual metadata. NSF Workshop on Restructuring Adjectives in WordNet. Arlington,VA, Sep 30-Oct 1.
Develops and evaluates methods for using naturally occurring metadata (star ratings on service and product reviews) to inform WordNet annotators in constructing modifier scales.
Slides, data, and documentation
Christopher Potts. 2011. The emergent expressivity of functional morphemes. Workshop on the Prosody–Discourse Interface. University of Salford, Sep 12-14.
Summarizes the work I've done with colleagues in finding expressive meaning in seemingly mundane functional elements (pronouns, negation, demonstratives).
Slides
Associated data and lexicon browsing tools
Christopher Potts. 2011. Computational Pragmatics. LSA Institute, Boulder, CO, July 8 - August 2.
Lecture series on on using computational resources (corpora, algorithms, etc.) to explore pragmatic phenomena.
Course website
Christopher Potts. 2008. The dynamics of apposition. Chris Barker's NYU Linguistics seminar on dynamics, Feb 25.
Seeks to intergrate my multidimensional approach to appositives with non-monotonic dynamic semantics.
Handout
Interactive demo