Current News and Events: Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

 December 

5^th
Title: Improved Statistical Machine Translation Using Paraphrases
Presenter: Chris Callison-Burch
Affiliation(s): University of Edinburgh

 November 

28^th
Title: Data Compression and Secrecy Generation
Presenter: Prakash Narayan
Affiliation(s): University of Maryland
Presentation Slides: PDF

21^st
Title: Scan Statistics on Enron Graphs
Presenter: Carey Priebe
Affiliation(s): Johns Hopkins University

14^th
Title: Current and Future Trends in Question Answering
Presenter: Sanda Harabagiu
Affiliation(s): University of Texas at Dallas

6^th
Title: Search Result Summarization and Disambiguation via Contextual Dimensions
Presenter: Raghuram Krishnapuram
Affiliation(s): IBM, India Research Lab
Location: Shaffer 100
Other: Please note this is on a MONDAY

 October 

30^th
Title: The architecture of speech perception: Data from language acquisition and speech processing
Presenter: Emmanuel Dupoux
Affiliation(s): Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris
Location: Krieger 134A
Other: Please note this is on a MONDAY

24^th
Title: Depth of Feelings: Alternatives for Modeling Affect in User Models and Cognitive Architectures
Presenter:Eva Hudlicka
Affiliation(s): Psychometrix Associates

16^th
Title: The Multimedia Communications Revolution of the 21st Century
Presenter: Larry Rabiner
Affiliation(s): Rutgers University
Location: Shaffer 100
Other: Please note this semiar is scheduled on MONDAY

10^th
Title: Straw Man as Weapon: Simple Approaches to Processing Human Language
Presenter:James Mayfield
Affiliation(s): JHU Applied Physics Lab

 May 

2^nd
Title: Sensing and Computation for Autonomous Surveillance Systems
Presenter: Andreas Andreou
Affiliation(s): Johns Hopkins University

 April 

25^th
Title: Learning to Model Text Structure
Presenter: Regina Barzilay
Affiliation(s): MIT
Location: New Date - May 4 at 10:30am

18^th
Title: Distance Metric Learning for Large Margin Classification
Presenter: Lawrence K. Saul
Affiliation(s): University of Pennsylvania

11^th
Title: Assistive Technology for the Deaf: American Sign Language Machine Translation
Presenter: Matt Huenerfauth
Affiliation(s): University of Pennsylvania

4^th
Title: Is Sengwato a Possible Language?
Presenter: Elizabeth Zsiga
Affiliation(s): Georgetown University

 March 

28^th
Title: CUR Matrix Decompositions for Improved Data Analysis
Presenter: Michael Mahoney
Affiliation(s): Yahoo Research 21^st NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK

16^th
Title: Adaptive Human Language Processing
Presenter: Matt Crocker
Affiliation(s): Saarland University
Location: Maryland 110 7^th NO SEMINAR

 February 

28^th
Title: Modeling Science: Topic models of Scientific Journals and Other Large Text Databases
Presenter: David Blei
Affiliation(s): Princeton University
Presentation Slides: PDF

21^st
Title: Multilingual Dependency Parsing with Spanning Tree Algorithms
Presenter: Ryan McDonald
Affiliation(s): University of Pennsylvania 14^th NO SEMINAR

7^th
Title: Improving Access to Conversational Speech: The MALACH Project
Presenter: Doug Oard
Affiliation(s): University of Maryland

 January 

31^st
Title: What does "bwick" have that "bnick" does not?
Presenter: Adam Albright
Affiliation(s): MIT