UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series, Spring 1999

Time and Location

Talks are on Thursdays at 4pm unless otherwise noted. The colloquium will be held in A.V. Williams Building, Room 2120 unless noted otherwise. Titles and abstracts will be added as we receive them.

Speakers:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title, abstract, other info
March 4	Steve Finch	Thomson Labs	Distributional Chunking of an English Corpus
Mar 18	Steve DeRose	Inso Corp. and Brown Univ.	Linguistics Informing the Web: Language and the Information Infrastructure
Apr 15	Mark Johnson	Brown University	Estimators for Stochastic ``Unification-based'' Grammars
Apr 20 (Special day/place: 11:30pm, AVW 4406)	Janyce Wiebe	New Mexico State University	Methods for Probabilistic Classification in Natural Language Processing Applied to Identifying Subjective Sentences
Date TBA (tentative)	Joe Naft	University of Maryland	TBA

Meeting with Speakers

Those interested in meeting with a speaker during his or her visit should contact Mari Broman Olsen (molsen@umiacs.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. Many talks in these series are likely to be of interest to computational linguists.

Series Organizers

Colloquia from Previous Semesters

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