UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series, Fall 2000

Time and Location (yet another new day and time!)

Talks are on Wednesdays at 10:30am unless otherwise noted. Light refreshments are typically served.
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.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title, abstract, other info
Aug 30 Special time: 2pm	Sam Tseng	Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan; Visiting Professor, CLIS	Document Image Retrieval for Chinese News
Sep 20 Special room: AVW 1112	Mona Diab	UMD	An Unsupervised Method for Multilingual Word Sense Tagging Using Parallel Corpora (practice talk)
Oct 4	Nizar Habash	UMD	oxyGen: A Language Independent Linearization Engine (practice talk)
Oct 11	Gina Levow, Doug Oard, and Jianqiang Wang	UMD	Cross-Language Retrieval from Mandarin Speech: The MEI Project
Oct 18	Doug Jones	Firespout, Inc.	A 'Reverse-Turing' Scoring Function for Quality Driven Machine Translation
Oct 24, 4pm Special day/time	Justine Cassell	MIT	The Good Enough Listener: Applying Narrative Technologies and Embodied Conversational Agents to Children's Literacy
Nov 13, 10am Special day/time	Jianfeng Gao and Ming Zhu	Microsoft Research China	A Unified Approach to Statistical Language Modeling for Chinese and A Block-Based Robust Dependency Parser for Unrestricted Chinese Text
Date TBA	Noah Smith	UMD	Talk on statistical MT models (title TBA)

Those interested in meeting with a speaker during his or her visit should contact Denise Best (denise@cfar.umd.edu). or 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; also check out the Linguistics Lunch Talks Thursdays at 12:30pm. 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.