Current News and Events: Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

 November 

18^th
Title: Stuff Ive Seen: A system for personal information retrieval
Presenter: Susan Dumais
Affiliation(s): Microsoft Research
Presentation Slides: PDF

11^th
Title: Could We Double the Functionality--and the Use--of Hearing Aids?
Presenter: David Myers
Affiliation(s): Hope College
Presentation Slides: PPT

4^th
Title: Named Entity Classification in the Biology Domain: Investigating Some Sources of Information
Presenter: Vijay Shanker
Affiliation(s): University of Deleware
Presentation Slides: PPT

 October 

28^th
Title: Turning Probabilistic Reasoning into Programming
Presenter: Avi Pfeffer
Affiliation(s): Harvard University
Presentation Slides: PPT

21^st
Title: Speech and Language Processing: Where have we been and where are we going
Presenter: Ken Church
Affiliation(s): AT&T Research Labs
Presentation Slides: PPT

14^th
Title: Advances in Statistical Machine Translation: Phrases, Noun Phrases and Beyond
Presenter: Philipp Koehn
Affiliation(s): USC/ISI
Presentation Slides: PDF

 September 

25^th
Title: The Integration of Technologies within Conversational Interfaces
Presenter: Timothy J. Hazen
Affiliation(s): MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Presentation Slides: PPT

16^th
Title: Repair Detection in Transcribed Speech
Presenter: Mark Johnson
Affiliation(s): Brown University
Presentation Slides: PDF

9^th
Title: Supervised Learning without Annotated Data, and Other Sabbatical Adventures in the Making
Presenter: Philip Resnik
Affiliation(s): University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University
Presentation Slides: PPT

 May 

6^th
Title: Learning Theory: Overview and Applications in Computer Vision and Computer Graphics
Presenter:Tomaso Poggio
Affiliation(s): Center for Biological and Computational Learning, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 April 

29^th
Title: Speech and Dialog Mining on Heterogeneous Data
Presenter:Allen Gorin
Affiliation(s): AT&T Research

22^nd
Title: An Overview of Digital Libraries
Presenter:Tim DiLauro
Affiliation(s): Johns Hopkins University

15^th
Title: Resource demands and sentence complexity
Presenter:Edward Gibson
Affiliation(s): Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences/Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT

1^st
Title: A supercomputer in your cellphone
Presenter:Adam Berger
Affiliation(s): Eizel Technologies, Inc.

 March 

18^th
Title: Natural Language Human-Computer Interaction on Relational Domains
Presenter:Ciprian Chelba
Affiliation(s): Microsoft Research
Presentation Slides: PDF

4^th
Title: Tracking Lexical Access in Continuous Speech
Presenter:Michael Tanenhaus
Affiliation(s): University of Rochester
Presentation Slides: PPT

 February 

25^th
Title: Ontological Semantics: An Overview
Presenter:Sergei Nirenburg
Affiliation(s): University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Presentation Slides: PPT

18^th
Title: MEasuring TExt Reuse
Presenter:Yorick Wilks
Affiliation(s): Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield

11^th
Title: Kernel Machines for Pattern Classification and Sequence Decoding
Presenter:Gert Cauwenberghs
Affiliation(s): Johns Hopkins University
Presentation Slides: HTM

4^th
Title: Towards Meaning: The Tectogrammatical Sentence Representation
Presenter:Jan Hajic
Affiliation(s): Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University
Presentation Slides: PPT

 January 

28^th
Title: Rational Kernels -- General Framework, Algorithms and Applications
Presenter:Patrick Haffner
Affiliation(s): AT&T Research
Presentation Slides: .GZ