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The Next Talk Sp'13 Talks General Info Speaking Req't

Natural Language Understanding Using Knowledge and Construction Grammars

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 from 12-1 pm in GHC 6501.

Fatima Al-Raisi, LTI

This talk will present an approach to natural language understanding (NLU) using knowledge and construction grammars. The aim of the system is to extract "meaning" from unstructured text by recognizing surface forms that match predefined "constructions". These constructions are defined as pairings of "surface form" and "underlying meaning". Based on this matching, a semantic representation of the input is created and relevant knowledge is extracted. The knowledge base also plays a role in the recognition process. The talk will introduce NLU using knowledge and construction grammars and briefly discuss possible applications and two other related problems of learning and evaluation

Spring 2013 Schedule
Tue, Jan 15 GHC 6501 Expired
Fri, Jan 18 GHC 4303 Expired
Tue, Jan 22 GHC 6501 Expired
Fri, Jan 25 GHC 4303 Expired
Tue, Jan 29 GHC 6501 Expired
Fri, Feb 1 GHC 4303 Expired
Tue, Feb 5 GHC 6501 Expired
Fri, Feb 8 GHC 4303 Expired
Tue, Feb 12 GHC 6501 Expired
Fri, Feb 15 GHC 4303 Expired
Tue, Feb 19 GHC 6501 Expired
Fri, Feb 22 GHC 4303 Expired
Tue, Feb 26 GHC 6501 Expired
Fri, Mar 1 GHC 4303 Shivanshu Singh Testing in the World of Plug-In Based Systems
Tue, Mar 5 GHC 6501 Expired
Fri, Mar 8 GHC 4303 Expired
Tue, Mar 12 GHC 6501 Spring Break By request only
Fri, Mar 15 GHC 4303 Spring Break By request only
Tue, Mar 19 GHC 6501 Expired
Fri, Mar 22 GHC 4303 Expired
Tue, Mar 26 GHC 6501 Expired
Fri, Mar 29 GHC 4303 Expired
Tue, Apr 2 GHC 6501 Expired
Fri, Apr 5 GHC 4303 Expired
Tue, Apr 9 GHC 6501 Gabriel Weisz C-to-CoRAM: Compiling Perfect Loop Nests to the Portable CoRAM
Fri, Apr 12 GHC 4303 Expired
Tue, Apr 16 GHC 6501 Vivek Seshadri "Why is DRAM so slow?"
Fri, Apr 19 GHC 4303 Spring Carnival By request only
Tue, Apr 23 GHC 6501 Henry DeYoung Linear Logical Voting Protocols
Fri, Apr 26 GHC 4303 Athula Balachandran Developing a Predictive Model of Quality of Experience for Internet Video
Tue, Apr 30 GHC 6501 Aapo Kyrola GraphChi: Large-Scale Graph Computation on Just a PC
Fri, May 3 GHC 4303 Expired
Tue, May 7 GHC 6501 Fatima Al-Raisi Natural Language Understanding Using Knowledge and Construction Grammars
Fri, May 10 GHC 7501 Danai Koutra Unifying Guilt-by-Association Approaches: Theorems and Fast Algorithms

General Info

The Student Seminar Series is an informal research seminar by and for SCS graduate students from noon to 1 pm on Tuesdays and Fridays. Lunch is provided by the Computer Science Department (personal thanks to Sharon Burks and Debbie Cavlovich!). At each meeting, a different student speaker will give an informal, 40-minute talk about his/her research, followed by questions/suggestions/brainstorming. We try to attract people with a diverse set of interests, and encourage speakers to present at a very general, accessible level.

So why are we doing this and why take part? In the best case scenario, this will lead to some interesting cross-disciplinary work among people in different fields and people may get some new ideas about their research. In the worst case scenario, a few people will practice their public speaking and the rest get together for a free lunch.

Guideline & Speaking Requirement Need-to-Know

Note: Step #1 below are applicable to all SSS speakers. You can schedule AT MOST THREE talks per semester.

SSS is an ideal forum for SCS students to give presentations that count toward fulfilling their speaking requirements. The specifics, though, vary with each department. For instance, students in CSD will need to be familiar with the notes in Section 8 of the Ph.D. document and follow the instructions outlined on the Speakers Club homepage. Roughly speaking, these are the steps:

  1. Schedule a talk with SSS by sending your talk title, abstract, additional info (like "Joint work with..." or "In Partial Fulfillment of the Speaking Requirement"), and a picture of yourself (preferably jpeg) to sss@cs at least TWO WEEKS before your scheduled talk.
  2. After you are confirmed with your SSS slot, go to the Speakers Club Calendar and schedule your talk at least THREE WEEKS in advance of the talk date.
  3. On the day of your talk, make sure you print Speakers Club evaluation forms for your evaluators to use.
Students outside of CSD will need to check with their respective departments regarding the procedure. As another example, ISRI students fulfill their speaking requirements by attending a semesterly Software Research Seminar and giving X number of presentations per school year. If you have experience with your department that might help others in your department, please feel free to contribute your knowledge by emailing us. Thank you!

SSS Coordinators

Armaghan Naik, Computational Biology
Lin Xiao, CSD

 


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