some 2019-20 projects (presentations) for reference

• PEDAGOGICAL :- Introduction to CTC-based Automatic Speech Recognition, Peter Sullivan (some material  [report][lecture][assignment])

• Dujian Ding and Raymond Li, Visual Analysis of Abstractive Document Summarization [pdf]
  
• Tanzila Rahman, An Improve Attention based Architecture for Visual Question Answering [pdf]
  
• Vaastav Anand and Joseph Wonsil - Tracey - Distributed Trace Comparison and Aggregation using NLP techniques [pdf]
  
• Ganesh Jawahar, Detecting human written text from machine generated text by modeling discourse coherence [pdf]
  
• John-Jose Nunez,  Comparing the Intrinsic Performance of Clinical Concept Embeddings by Their Field of Medicine. This project led to this paper in the following workshop  LOUHI@EMNLP 2019: 11-17
• Neural RST-based Evaluation of Discourse Coherence (Guz et al) - This project is under submission as a short paper to ACL.

some 2016 projects (presentations) for reference

• Image Caption Generator Based On Deep Neural Networks  (final project)
• Sentiment Analysis with D-Neural Networks (project update). This project led to this paper in the SIGDIAL 2017 conference.
• Improving discourse parsing by using data generated by another parser (project update). This project led to this paper in the COLING conference.
• Learning from memoirs. (project update) This project is related to several other publications by this student.
• Context dependent parsing for time-expressions: Error Analysis (project update)

some 2014 projects (presentations) for reference

• Exploiting Ordinality in Predicting Star Reviews (A Virani, C Cameron)
• Robust Feature Extraction Algorithm for Sarcasm Detection in Debates (Olivia Norton & Issam H. Laradji)

some 2012 projects (presentations) for reference

• Extractive Summarization and Dialogue Act Modeling on Email Threads ... (Tatsuro Oya)
• Inferring history of Austronesian languages using language models (Yongliang Vincent Zhai)
• Korean morphology (Seong-Hwan Jun)
• Semantic predictability and word sense disambiguation in spontaneous speech (Michael McAulffe)
• Semi-supervised Dialogue Act Recognition (Maryam Tavafi)
• A Markov Logic Semantic Role Labeler using Phrase Structure Grammars (Connor Mayer)
• Named Entity Recognition with Random Forests and Bayesian Optimization (Arni, Sanjana)
   

some 2010 projects for reference

• Structured Nonsense: Automatic Imitation of Writing Style (M. Denil)
• Practice and Exploration of Ontology Creation Algorithms (T. Li)
• Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translator for English to Bangla Machine Translation (A. Mahmud)

some 2009 projects for reference

• Analyzing Context using Natural Language Parsers for Sentence Boundary Disambiguation (A. Tjia)
• Music Classification Using Lyrics (J. Chia)
• Topic Modeling Using Semantic and Network Structure (S. Liang)
• Open-Source Implementation of Document Structuring Algorithm for NLTK (N. Fitzgerald)

some 2008 projects for reference

• Emulating Mental State in Natural Language Generation Systems (M Dockery)
• Automatic Annotation for Supervised and Semi-supervised Query-focused Summarization (S. Joty)
• An Unsupervised Parts-of-Speech Tagger for the Bangla language (H. Ali)

some 2007 projects for reference

• Extracting information from comparative sentences  (L. Rizoli)
• POS filtering in unsupervised learning to improve discourse relation recognition (J. Wright)
• Summarization of Evaluative Text: the role of controversiality (J. Cheung)
• Urgency analysis in voicemail messages (R. Biehn)
• Similarity measures for slang (B. Swerdfeger)
• Evaluating machine learning algorithms for email thread summarization (J. Ulrich)

More Ideas for possible Topics for Research  (look also at these Synthesis Lectures in Natural Language Processing webpage)

Ideas for possible Topics for Pedagogical Project

•  Neural Methods
• backward-forward / inside outside algorithms
• machine translation
• LDA topic modeling and variations