Abstract People turn to the Web to seek answers to a wide variety of questions, a significant portion of which being“how to” questions. For a given “how to” question, rather than one single canonical set[…]
[sz-vimeo url=”http://vimeo.com/87341703″/] Abstract There is an abundance of health-related free text that can be used for a variety of immediate biomedical applications – phenotyping for Genome Wide Studies (GWAS), clinical point of care, patient powered[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract In this talk, I will discuss how to automatically derive the orderings and meanings of gradable adjectives (such as okay < good < great < wonderful). To determine whether the intended[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract In this talk, we will discuss a new class of models and techniques that can effectively model and extract rich low-dimensional structures in high-dimensional data such as images and videos, despite[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract While large-scale discriminative training has triumphed in many NLP problems, its definite success on machine translation has been largely elusive. Most recent efforts along this line are not scalable: they only[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract A fundamental part of understanding human behavior is understanding social interactions between people. We would like to be able to make better predictions about social behavior so that we can improve[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract The amount of data available today is a problem not only for humans but also for computer consumers of information. At the same time, bigger is different, and discovering how is[…]
