Date	Topic	Presenter
9/6	Employing EM and Pool-Based Active Learning for Text Classification (McCallum and Nigam)	Dominic
9/13	Reverse-Engineering Questions and Answers from Text / An Overview of Sundance	Bill / Ellen
9/20	Running a User Study	Dave P.
9/27	Learning Scripts	Dominic
10/4	FALL BREAK
10/11	Experiments with Open-Domain Textual Question Answering	Jingnan
10/18	Analyses for Elucidating Current Question Answering Technology (postscript, pdf)	Ellen
10/25	A Machine Learning Approach to Answering Questions for Reading Comprehension Tests	Dave P.
11/1	-- proposal dry run --	Bill
11/8	-- research --	Mike
11/15	NO MEETING
11/22	THANKSGIVING BREAK
11/29	-- research --	Cindi
12/6	-- research --	Jingnan