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11-700 LTI Colloquium

Spring 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:

 Baker Hall A51

Instructor:

 Teruko Mitamura, teruko (at) cs.cmu.edu

TA:

 Wei Chen, weichen (at) cs.cmu.edu

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule

 

Jan 15, 2010

Jaime Carbonell, LTI

Active and Proactive Learning Methods with Applications to MT and CompBio

Jan 22, 2010

Bhiksha Raj, LTI

Topic Models for Sound Processing

Jan 29, 2010

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Feb 5, 2010

Jason Baldridge, Univ of Texas

We don't know what we don't know: important, but often-overlooked, considerations for active learning

Feb 12, 2010

Alan Black, LTI

Speech Synthesis: past, present and future and its relation to Speech Technology

Feb 19, 2010

Ani Nenkova, UPenn

Fully Automatic Evaluation For Text Summarization

Feb 26, 2010

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Mar 5, 2010

Jacob Eisenstein, MLD

Putting language in context with hierarchical Bayesian models

Mar 12, 2010

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Mar 19, 2010

Alexander I. Rudnicky, LTI

Language Based Communication between Humans and Robots

Mar 26, 2010

Sanjeev Khudanpur, JHU

Discovering the Language of Surgery: Automatic Gesture Induction for Manipulative Tasks

Apr 2, 2010

Philip Resnik, UMCP

Translation as a Collaborative Activity

Apr 9, 2010

Tom Mitchell, MLD

Read the Web

Apr 16, 2010

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Apr 23, 2010

Dan Roth, UIUC

Constraints Driven Structured Learning with Indirect Supervision

Apr 30, 2010

Rebecca Hwa, UPitt

Applications of Information Visualization for Natural Language Processing

 

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