January 31
Mark Damashek (NSA)
Guaging Similarity via N-Grams: Language-Independent Sorting, Categorization, and Retrevial of Text

February 7
Wayne Ward (CMU)
Understanding Spontaneous Speech

February 14
Jeff Siskind (McGill)

February 21
Kenneth Wexler (MIT)

February 28
Kathy McKeown (Columbia)

March 7
Lee Giles (NEC Princeton)

March 14
Eric Brill (JHU)

March 21
Spring Break

March 28
TBA

April 4
Jorma Rissanen (IBM)

April 11
Bishnu Atal (ATT)

April 18
TBA

April 25
Renato De Mori (McGill)

May 1
Barbara Grosz (Harvard)