The CLIP Colloquium Series, Fall 2005

Time and Location

Talks are on Wednesdays, 11:00 AM unless otherwise noted.
Free and open to the public, unless marked Internal Talk.
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.

Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title/Abstract	Other info
9/7/05	Nitin Madnani	University of Maryland		Internal Talk
9/14/05	Okan Kolak	University of Maryland	OCR Post-Processing for Low Density Languages	Internal Talk in CS 3258
9/21/05	Florian Jaeger	Stanford University	Predictability Effects on Optional Word Omission
9/30/2005	Necip Fazil Ayan	University of Maryland		Internal Talk in ISR 2168
10/3/05	Dina Demner-Fushman	University of Maryland	Automatically Evaluating Answers to Definition Questions	Internal Talk in CS 3258
10/5/05	Canceled due to HLT/EMNLP 2005
10/12/05	Okan Kolak	University of Maryland	Cross-Lingual Utilization of NLP Resources for New Languages	Internal Talk
10/19/05	Hang Cui	University of Singapore	Fuzzy Matching for Passage Retrieval in Question Answering
10/26/05	Ken Litkowski	CL Research	Summarization in the biomedical domain: A case study with extrinsic evaluation measures
11/2/05	Necip Fazil Ayan	University of Maryland	Combining Linguistic and Machine Learning Techniques for Word Alignment Improvement	Internal Talk in AVW 3460
11/9/05	Dan Gildea	University of Rochester	Syntactic Models of Alignment
11/15/05	Bill Hersh	Oregon Health and Science University	Beyond Recall and Precision: From System-Oriented to User-Oriented Evaluation	NOTE SPECIAL DATE (USUAL ROOM)
11/23/05	Have a great Thanksgiving!
11/30/05	Dawn Lawrie	Loyola College	Language Models for Hierarchical Summarization
12/7/05	Ani Nenkova	Columbia University	Content selection and rewrite for generic multi-document summarization
12/14/05	Noah Smith	Johns Hopkins University	Contrastive Estimation for Unsupervised Sequence Modeling

Contacts

Series organizer is Jimmy Lin (jimmylin -at- umd .dot. edu). For travel arrangements and reimbursement, contact Denise Best (denise -at- umiacs .dot. umd .dot. edu).

Directions

Directions to the University of Maryland campus
Detailed location of A.V. Williams building
Here are directions in brief: As you enter campus from Rt 1., take the first right, which is Paint Branch Drive. The A.V. Williams building is on your right after the first stop sign. The visitor's lot is beyond the building on your left.

Of Related Interest

Linguistics Colloquium Series, Fridays at 2pm.
Linguistics Lunch Talks, Thursdays at 12:30pm.
CLIS Research Seminar Series, Thursdays at 2pm.

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.