View Seminar Video View Presentation Slides Abstract In this talk, I discuss the changing role of data in modeling natural language, as captured in linguistic theories. The generative tradition of introducing data using only “evaluation[…]

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The 2014 summer workshop is dedicated to the memory of Professor Frederick Jelinek (1932-2010) and is the capstone event of his National Science Foundation award from the International Science and Engineering Section of the Office[…]

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View the Seminar Video Abstract Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is a vector-based bag-of-words model originally intended for use in information retrieval systems, which has found use in a wide range of pure and applied settings,[…]

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Abstract The Electronic Health Record (EHR) comes laden with an ambitious array of promises: at the point of patient care, it will improve quality of documentation, reduce cost of care, and promote patient safety; in[…]

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Abstract Standard phrase-based translation models do not explicitly model context dependence between translation units. As a result, they rely on large phrase pairs and target language models to recover contextual effects in translation. In this[…]

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Abstract One of the characteristics of spontaneous speech that distinguishes it from written text is the presence of disfluencies, including filled pauses (um, uh), repetitions, and self corrections. In spoken language processing applications, disfluencies are[…]

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Abstract Topic models are powerful tools for statistical analysis in text processing. Despite their success, application to large datasets is hampered by scaling inference to large parameter spaces. In this talk, we describe two ways[…]

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