UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series, Fall 2002

Time and Location

Talks are on Wednesdays at 3:30pm unless otherwise noted.
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
October 23	Padmini Srinivasan	University of Iowa and National Library of Medicine	Text Mining from MEDLINE using MeSHMap
November 13	Khalil Sima'an	Univ of Amsterdam	Linguistic Metrics and Optimal Parsing Algorithms
November 20	Suzanne Stevenson	University of Toronto	A General Feature Space for Automatic Verb Classification
Postponed (snow!)	Tom Rindflesch	National Library of Medicine	Knowledge-Based Semantic Interpretation for Biomedical Text

For most speakers you can sign up for a meeting slot on the meetings sign-up page. If not, 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.