The CLIP Colloquium Series, Fall 2006

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

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title/Abstract	Host	Other info
9/5/06	Richard Zens	Aachen University	Exploiting Ambiguous Input in Statistical Machine Translation	Chris Dyer	SPECIAL DATE
9/13/06	Ashish Venugopal	CMU/LTI	Synchronous parsing approaches for Statistical Machine Translation	Philip Resnik
9/21/06	I. Dan Melamed	NYU	Scalable Discriminative Learning for Powerful Translation Models	Amy Weinberg	SPECIAL DATE, TIME, AND PLACE
9/27/06	Ben Shneiderman	University of Maryland	Information Visualization for High-Dimensional Spaces	Jimmy Lin
10/4/06	CLIP PI's	University of Maryland	5 minute madness		Internal Talk
10/11/06	GALE PI Meeting
10/18/06	Paul McNamee	JHU APL	Why You Should Use N-grams for Multilingual Information Retrieval	Doug Oard
10/25/06	Hugo Liu	MIT Media Lab	Aesthetic issues in user modeling	Jimmy Lin
11/1/06	Chris Quirk	Microsoft Research	The importance and effectiveness of syntax in machine translation	Philip Resnik
11/8/06	Yejun Wu	University of Maryland	Attitude and Aspect Classification for English and Chinese Document Collections	Doug Oard	SPECIAL LOCATION
11/10/06	Anton Leuski	USC ICT	Tracking Dragon-Hunters with Language Models	Doug Oard	SPECIAL LOCATION
11/13/06	Rob McArthur	CSIRO	Socio-cognitive Representation of Meaning in Electronic Communication		SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH CLIS
11/15/06	TREC 2006
11/22/06	Happy Thanksgiving!
11/29/06	Matt Kirschenbaum and Catherine Plaisant	University of Maryland	Nora, MONK, and Naive Bayes Pattern Recognition: What Literary Scholars Do With Bags of Words	Jimmy Lin
12/6/06	Gideon Mann	U. Mass	Multi-document Database Extraction and Fusion	Jimmy Lin

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 Information Studies Colloquium

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.