The CLIP Colloquium Series, Fall 2007

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
9/5/07	Matt Snover	University of Maryland	Improving Automatic Machine Translation Using Comparable Corpora	Internal talk
9/12/07	Michelle Girvan	University of Maryland	Finding and Evaluating Community Structure in Complex Networks	AVW 3174
9/19/07	Stacy President Hobson	University of Maryland	Text Summarization Evaluation: Correlating Human Performance on an Extrinsic Task with Automatic Intrinsic Metrics	Internal talk, AVW 3174
9/26/07	Asad Sayeed	University of Maryland	English-to-Spanish Mophological Regeneration	AVW 3174
10/3/07	Jennifer Golbeck	University of Maryland	Inferring Trust in Social Networks for Information Presentation	AVW 3174
10/10/07	Mary Harper	Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland	Mandarin Parsing and Language Models	AVW 2120
10/17/07	Chris Dyer and Jimmy Lin	University of Maryland	Computing in the Clouds: Applications of MapReduce in "Web-Scale" Information Processing	KIM Bldg. Pepco room 1105
10/24/07	Ashwin Swaminathan	University of Maryland	Confidentiality Preserving Rank-Ordered Search	Internal talk, AVW 3174
10/31/07	Anton Rytting	Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland	Modeling word segmentation without assuming phonemic certainty	AVW ECE 2460
11/7/07	Zhiyong Lu	National Library of Medicine	Text Mining on GeneRIFs	AVW 2120
11/14/07	J. Scott Olsson	University of Maryland	Discriminative Term Frequency Estimation for Spoken Document Retrieval	AVW 2120
11/21/07	Happy Thanksgiving!
11/28/07	Chris Callison-Burch	Johns Hopkins University	Paraphrasing and Translation	AVW 2120
12/5/07	Pengyi Zhang	University of Maryland	Task-based Interaction with an Integrated Multilingual, Multimedia Information System: A Formative Evaluation	AVW 2120

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.