UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium

April 2, 2004, 9:45am, AVW Room 2120

Presentation describes the three types of HLT research -- traditional, statistical, and table lookup. The newest NLP trend is to table-store everything and just do lookup at run-time. Works better than anything else for MT, close to best for factoid QA, and has the potential for most other applications too, except perhaps summarization.

About the Speaker:

EDUARD HOVY (PhD, Yale University, 1987) is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California and of the University of Waterloo in Canada. He currently heads the Natural Language Group at the Information Sciences Institute and is also Deputy Director of the Intelligent Systems Division. His research focuses on automated text summarization, question answering, text planning and generation, the semi-automated construction of large lexicons and ontologies, and machine translation. Dr. Hovy is the author or co-editor of five books and over 140 technical articles. In 2001, Dr. Hovy served as President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and in 2001-03 as President of the International Association of Machine Translation (IAMT). Dr. Hovy regularly co-teaches a course in the Master's Degree Program in Computational Linguistics at the University of Southern California, as well as occasional short courses on MT and other topics at universities and conferences. He has served on the Ph.D. and M.S. committees for students from USC, Carnegie Mellon University, the Universities of Toronto, Karlsruhe, Pennsylvania, Stockholm, Waterloo, Nijmegen, Pretoria, and Ho Chi Minh City.

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