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Language Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
School of Computer Science
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Course Information
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 for
the course, students are required to write either a short critique of
one of the presentations or a comparison of two.
| Time: |
Fridays 2:30-4:00pm |
| Location: |
Baker Hall A51 (The Giant Eagle Auditorium) |
| Instructor: |
Roni Rosenfeld,roni (at) cs.cmu.edu |
| TA: |
Reyyan Yeniterzi, reyyan (at) cs.cmu.edu |
| Course Secretary: |
Corinne Meloni, cmeloni (at) cs.cmu.edu |
Schedule
| Jan 20 |
Dipanjan Das, CMU |
Multilingual Guidance for Unsupervised Linguistic Structure Prediction |
| Jan 27 |
No colloquium - LTI Admissions meeting |
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| Feb 3 |
Pedro Moreno, Google |
Google's Speech Internationalization Project: From 1 to 300 Languages and Beyond |
| Feb 10 |
William Cohen, CMU |
Fast Effective Clustering for Graphs and Documents |
| Feb 17 |
Ben Snyder, U. Wisc |
Harnessing Dozens of Languages for Robust Language Technology |
| Feb 24 |
No colloquium - LTI Open House |
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| Mar 2 |
No colloquium - LTI Faculty Retreat |
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| Mar 9 |
No colloquium - Mid-semester Break |
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| Mar 16 |
No colloquium - Spring Break |
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| Mar 23 |
1:00 pm
Hammerschlag Hall B131
Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft
2:30 pm
Baker Hall A51
Hans Uszkoreit, German Research Ctr. for AI |
Computational Advertising: Challenges and Opportunities
Learning Relation Extraction Rules from Massive Data
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| Mar 30 |
Joe Reisinger, U. Texas |
Latent Variable Models of Distributional Lexical Semantics |
| Apr 6 |
John McDonough |
Distant Speech Recognition: No Black Boxes Allowed |
| Apr 13 |
Gerald Friedland, ICSI |
Cybercasing the Joint: Language Technologies, Multimedia Retrieval, and Online Privacy |
| Apr 20 |
No colloquium - Spring Carnival |
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| Apr 27 |
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Microsoft Research (Redmond) |
Not Just for Kids: Enriching Information Retrieval with Reading Level Metadata |
| May 4 |
Eric Xing, CMU |
Jointly Maximum Margin and Maximum Entropy Learning of Graphical Models |
Past Colloquia
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Language Technologies Institute • 5000 Forbes Ave • Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 • (412) 268-6591
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