UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series, Fall 2003

Time and Location

Talks are on Wednesdays at 11:00am 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.

Speakers:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title, abstract, other info
Sep 3, 2003	Doug Oard	UMCP	Reflections on a Year in Paradise: A Sabbatical Report .ppt
Sep 10, 2003	Nizar Habash and Burcu Karagol-Ayan	UMCP	Talk 1: Acquisition of Bilingual MT Lexicons from OCRed Dictionaries Talk 2: Matador: A Large-Scale Spanish-English GHMT System .ppt
Sep 17, 2003	Fazil Ayan and Nizar Habash	UMCP	Talk 1: Evaluation Techniques Applied to Domain Tuning of MT Lexicons Talk 2: Semitic Linguistic Phenomena and Variations .ppt
Sep 24, 2003	Kareem Darwish	UMCP	Helping NIH Find Reviewers for Proposal
Oct 1, 2003	Martin Franz	IBM T.J. Watson	Data-drive Techniques for Topic Segmentation and Categorization in the MALACH Project
Oct 10, 2003 Special Day	Martha Palmer and Lori Levin	University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon University	TALK 1: Putting Meaning into Your Trees TALK 2: Eliciting a corpus of word-aligned phrases for MT
Oct 15, 2003	Philipp Koehn	University of Southern California	Advances in Statistical Machine Translation: Phrases, Noun Phrases and Beyond
Oct 22, 2003	G. Craig Murray	UMCP	What would the neighbors say? K-nearest neighbors vs. language modeling in multi-classifications tasks
Oct 29, 2003	Lawrence M. Rudner	UMCP	Automated Essay Scoring - An Application of the Text Classification literature
Nov 12, 2003	Daqing He	UMCP	From Need Negotiation to Automatic HARD Process
Nov 26, 2003	Christof Monz	University of Amsterdam	Comparing Document Retrieval Strategies in the Context of Question Answering
Dec 10, 2003	Matt Snover	UMCP	A Lexically-Driven Algorithm for Disfluency Detection

Meeting with Speakers

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).

Directions

Directions to the University of Maryland campus
Maps, directions, parking, and floorplans for the A.V. Williams building
The Classroom Building Classroom Building (CLB) is across the street from the A.V. Williams building -- see here for a map.

Of Related Interest

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.

Series Organizer

Philip Resnik (resnik@umiacs.umd.edu)

Colloquia from Previous Semesters

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


CL Colloquium Series

Fall 2003
Wedensdays, 11 AM, AVW 2120