11-700 LTI Colloquium

Fall 2010

The LTI colloquium is a series of talks related to language technologies. The topics include but are not restricted to Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Information Retrieval, Computational Biology, Machine Learning, Text Mining, Knowledge Representation, Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Intelligent Language Tutoring. To get credit of the course, students are required to write either a short critique of one of the presentations or a comparison of two.

Time:	Fridays 2:30-3:50pm
Location:	7500 Wean Hall
Instructor:	Teruko Mitamura, teruko (at) cs.cmu.edu
TA:	Wei Chen, weichen (at) cs.cmu.edu

Schedule

Aug 27, 2010	--------------------------------------------No Colloquium-----------------------------------------------------------------
Sept 3, 2010	Noah Smith, LTI	Text-Driven Forecasting: Meaning as a Real Number
Sept 10, 2010	Carolyn Rose, LTI	Displayed Bias as a Reflection of Both Speaker and Intended Hearer in Conversational Settings
Sept 17, 2010	Justine Cassell, HCII	Understanding and Modeling Dialogue among Peers and its Role in Language-Learning
Sept 24, 2010	Abdur Chowdhury, Twitter, Inc.	Discovery & Emergence
Oct 1, 2010	Bob Murphy, Computational Biology, CMU	Representation and Learning of Protein Distributions and Cellular Organization
Oct 8, 2010	Ben Carterette, University of Delaware	Measuring Search Engine Utility
Oct 15, 2010	--------------------------No Colloquium (LTI Student Research Symposium)----------------------------------------
Oct 22, 2010	Paul Bennett, Microsoft	Class-Based Contextualized Search
Oct 29, 2010	Slav Petrov, Google Inc	Coarse-to-Fine Inference in Natural Language Processing
Nov 5, 2010	Katharina Morik, Technical University Dortmund	Data Mining – Learning under Resource Constraints
Nov 12, 2010	Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University	WordsEye: Creating 3D Scenes from Natural Language Text
Nov 19, 2010	Nigel Ward, University of Texas at El Paso	Prosody and Prediction for Dialog Systems, and in particular for language modeling, adaptation and turn-taking
Nov 26, 2010	---------------------------------------No Colloquium (Thanksgiving)---------------------------------------------------
Dec 3, 2010	Regina Barzilay, MIT	Learning to Behave by Reading

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