UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series, Spring 2000

Time and Location (another new day and time!)

Talks are on Mondays at 1:30pm unless otherwise noted: bring your lunch!
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.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title, abstract, other info
Special day/time: Mar 2, 4pm	Helen Meng	Chinese University of Hong Kong	The Use of Syllables and Words for Indexing Spoken Documents in Chinese
Special day/time/location: Mar 3, 2pm, AVW 4405	Hsin-Min Wang	Academia Sinica, Taiwan	Retrieval of Mandarin Spoken Documents Based on Syllable Lattice Matching
Mar 13	K L Kwok	Queens College, City University of New York	English-Chinese Cross Language Information Retrieval
Mar 27	Mona Diab	Univ of Maryland	Short practice talk for RIAO'2000: A Statistical Model of Word-Level Mapping for Comparable Corpora
Apr 3	Ken Litkowski	CL Research	Application-Driven Dictionary Definition Parsing (slides here)
Special day/time/location: Apr 6, 1pm, AVW 3258	Gary Marcus	NYU	Computational models of cognitive development: A neural network approach
Apr 10	Michael Littman	AT&T Labs Research	Solving Crossword Puzzles via Probabilistic Constraint Satisfaction
Apr 24 Special room: AVW 3258	Lori Levin and Alon Lavie	CMU	Speech-to-speech MT in the JANUS System
May 8	Mari Broman Olsen	Microsoft	Predicting functional control from lexical semantics: Control verbs in Natural Language Processing
May 15	Fei Xia and Martha Palmer	U Penn	Developing guidelines and ensuring annotation accuracy for the Chinese Penn Treebank
June 12 Special Time/Place: 10:30am, AVW 4406	Rebecca Hwa	Harvard University	Learning Probabilistic and Lexicalized Grammars for Natural Language Processing

Those interested in meeting with a speaker during his or her visit should contact Philip Resnik (resnik@umiacs.umd.edu).

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.

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