UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series, Fall 1999

Time and Location (new day and time!)

Talks are on Tuesdays at 12:15pm unless otherwise noted: bring your lunch!
The colloquium will be held in A.V. Williams Building, Room 2120 unless noted otherwise.
The schedule is always evolving. Titles and abstracts will be added as we receive them.

Scheduled

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title, abstract, other info
Oct 8 Note special day/time/location: Friday, 2pm, Marie Mount Hall 1304 (directions)	Ted Gibson	MIT	Linguistic Complexity: Locality of Syntactic Dependencies
Oct 26	Sharon Flank	PNI	WordNet and Multimedia Information Retrieval (papers)
Nov 16 Special room: AVW 4406 (CFAR conference room)	Fan Jiang	Duke University	The Role of Spectral Flattening in Vector-based Information Retrieval (slides, more slides)
Nov 23	Dan Tufis	Romanian Academy	Accurate morpho-syntactic tagging using large tagsets
Nov 30	Inderjeet Mani	MITRE	New Directions in Automatic Summarization
Dec 7	Sandiway Fong, *Christiane Fellbaum, and David Lebeaux	NEC (and *Princeton University)	Semantic Templates and Transitivity Alternations

Confirmed, without dates set, for future colloquia (in alphabetical order):

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title, abstract, other info
TBA	Justine Cassell	MIT	TBA
TBA	Michael Littman	AT&T	TBA
TBA	Mari Broman Olsen	Microsoft	TBA
TBA	Howard Turtle	Visiting Professor, CLIS; Cogitech Group	TBA
TBA	Lucy Venderwende	Microsoft	TBA
TBA	David Yarowsky	Johns Hopkins	TBA

Those interested in meeting with a speaker during his or her visit should contact Philip Resnik (resnik@umiacs.umd.edu).

People who attend the CL colloquium series are encouraged to also attend the LAISEM (Logic and Artificial Intelligence) series Mondays at 11am, and the Linguistics colloquium series Fridays at 2pm. Many talks in these series are likely to be of interest to computational linguists.

This series is sponsored by the University of Maryland Language and Media Processing Laboratory, under a contract from the Department of Defense.