Reflections on a Year in
In this talk, I will reflect on some of the high points of my sabbatical
year in the Natural Language Group at the University of
Southern California Information Sciences Institute. I'll briefly mention a number of things that
I worked on, and then I'll focus for the remainder of the talk on four specific
projects: (1) cross-language question answering, (2) automatic mediation for
access to recorded interviews, (3) machine translation for Cebuano
and Hindi, and (4) access to archival collections of electronic mail. I'll describe the genesis and current state
of each project, and will remark on how what I have learned in each might
influence our work here at
For the colloquium series schedule, see the UMD Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series web page at http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/cl_colloquium/. If you are interested in meeting with the speaker, please contact Doug Oard (oard@umiacs.umd.edu).