Bill Byrne
November 24th
4:30PM
"Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation with Weighted Finite State Transducers "
Current News and Events: Seminars
Upcoming Seminars
Title: Use of a perturbation-correlation method to measure the relative importance of different frequency bands for speech recognition
Presenter: Christophe Micheyl
Affiliation(s): MIT
Presentation Slides: PDF
Other:
Recent publication on this topic: Gilbert G., Micheyl C. 2004. Influence of competing multi-talker babble on frequency-importance functions for speech measured using a correlational approach. Acustica united with Acta Acustica. in press
Title: Towards a Universal Framework for Tree Transduction
Presenter: Stuart Shieber
Affiliation(s): Harvard
Presentation Slides: PDF
Title: Coping with Information Overload
Presenter:Dr. Allen Gorin
Affiliation(s): US Department of Defense
Presentation Slides: PDF
Title: Discriminative Learning of Generative Models
Presenter: Tony Jebara
Affiliation(s): Columbia
Presentation Slides: PPT
Title: Unsupervised Learning of Natural Language Structure
Presenter: Dan Klein
Affiliation(s): Berkeley
Title: Towards Automatic Acquisition of Ontological Knowledge
Presenter: Patrick Pantel
Affiliation(s): ISI USC
Presentation Slides: PDF
Title: Towards Semi-Supervised Algorithms for Semantic Relation Detection in BioScience Text
Presenter: Marti Hearst
Affiliation(s): Berkeley
Location: 10:00 AM in Shaffer 2
Presentation Slides: PPT
Title: Time Independent ICA through a Fisher Game
Presenter: Dr. Ravi C. Venkatesan
Affiliation(s): Systems Research Corp
Other:
1. Frieden, B. R., Science from Fisher Information, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004.
2. R. C. Venkatesan, “Invariant Extreme Physical Information and Fuzzy Clustering”, Proc. SPIE Symposium on Defense & Security, Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications II, Priddy, K. L. ed, Volume 5421, pp. 48-57, Orlando, FL, 2004. To Appear in expanded form, Phys. Rev. E, 2005.
3. R. C. Venkatesan, “Knowledge Acquisition through a Fisher Game”, To Appear in Proceedings of Foundations of Data Mining, International Conference on Data Mining ICDM 2004, Brighton, UK, November 2004.
4. T. D. Lee, “Difference Equations and Conservation Laws”, J. Stat. Phys., 46, pp. 843-860, 1987.
5. Landau, L. D. and E. M. Lifshitz, Quantum Mechanics Non-Relativistic Theory, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1991.
6. P. Comon, “Independent Component Analysis – A New Concept ?”, Signal Processing, 36, pp. 287- 314, 1994.
Title: Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Underspecification
Presenter: Alexander Koller
Affiliation(s): Universität des Saarlandes
Presentation Slides: PDF
Other: joint work with Joachim Niehren, Stefan Thater, and Ruth Fuchss
Title: Unsupervised learning of natural languages
Presenter: Shimon Edelman
Affiliation(s): Cornell
Presentation Slides: PDF
Title: Joint discriminative language modeling and utterance classification
Presenter: Brian Roark
Affiliation(s): OGI
Presentation Slides: PDF
Title: Listener-oriented Phonology
Presenter: Paul Boersma
Affiliation(s): University of Amsterdam
Presentation Slides: PDF
Title: Algorithms and Rate-Distortion Bounds in Data Compression for Multi-User Communications
Presenter: Michelle Effros
Affiliation(s): CalTech
Title: Network Models for Game Theory and Economics
Presenter: Michael Kearns
Affiliation(s): University of Pennsylvania
Title: Discriminative Estimation of Mixtures of Exponential Distributions
Presenter:Vaibhava Goel
Affiliation(s): IBM
Presentation Slides: .PS
Title: Wiretapping the Brain
Presenter: Terry Sejnowski
Affiliation(s): Salk Institute
Title: Discriminative Language Modeling for LVCSR
Presenter: Murat Saraclar
Affiliation(s): AT&T Labs - Research
Presentation Slides: PDF
Other:
Joint work with Brian Roark and Michael Collins In collaboration with Michiel Bacchiani and Mark Johnson
Title: Interactivity in Written Language Processing: Evidence from Impairments
Presenter: Michael McCloskey
Affiliation(s): JHU Department of Cognitive Science
Presentation Slides: PPT
Title: Scaling of Information in Natural Language
Presenter: Naftali Tishby
Affiliation(s): The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Title: Structuring Semantic Representations
Presenter: Beth Levin
Affiliation(s): Stanford
Title: Automatic Speech Processing by Inference in Generative Models
Presenter: Sam Roweis
Affiliation(s): University of Toronto
Title: Semantic Lexicons and Semantic Tagging: towards content interoperability
Presenter: Nicoletta Calzolari
Affiliation(s): Istituto Di Linguistica Computazionale
Presentation Slides: PPT
Title: Norms and Exploitations: Mapping Meaning onto Use
Presenter: Patrick Hanks
Affiliation(s): Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Brandeis University
Presentation Slides: PPT
Other:
Selected Publications:
Forthcoming 2004: Norms and Exploitations: computational analysis of the lexicon. MIT Press.
2003: Lexicography in R. Mitkov ed.: Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics. Oxford University Press.
2000: Do Word Meanings Exist? in Computing and the Humanities 34.
1994 with K. Church and others: Lexical Substitutability in B. T. S. Atkins and A. Zampolli eds. Computational Approaches to the Lexicon, Oxford University Press.
1993: Lexicography: Theory and Practice in Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, vol. 14.
1992: Computational Analysis and Definitional Structure in F. M. Dolezal, A. Kucera, A. Rey, H. E. Wiegand, W. Wolski, and L. Zgusta eds: Lexicographica 8. Niemeyer.
1989 with K. Church: Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography, in Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics; reprinted in Computational Linguistics 16, Spring 1990
1988: Typicality and Meaning Potentials in M. Snell-Hornby ed. ZüriLEX 86, Francke Verlag. Reprinted 2003 in G. Sampson and Diana McCarthy eds.: Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a Widening Discipline. London: Continuum.
Title: A Bayesian view of inductive learning in humans and machines
Presenter: Josh Tenenbaum
Affiliation(s): MIT
Title: Name That Tune: Finding a song from a sung query
Presenter: Bryan Pardo
Affiliation(s): University of Michigan