UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series, Spring 2001

Time and Location

Talks are on Wednesdays at 10:00am unless otherwise noted. Light refreshments are typically served.
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.

Speakers:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title, abstract, other info
Feb 21, AVW 2168	Jianqiang Wang	UMD	Practice talk: NTCIR-2 Experiments at Maryland: Comparing structured queries and balanced translation for Chinese/English CLIR
Feb 28	Rebecca Green	UMD	Practice talk: Semantic Predicate-Argument Structure: Identifying Situation-based Semantic Verb Classes and Their Participant Structure
Mar 14	Nizar Habash	UMD	Informal student talk: Cold Fusion: Semantic Composition without Syntactic Parsing
Mar 28	Lisa Pearl	UMD	Student research presentation: Linking EVCA classes with WordNet
Mar 29 (Thursday), 6pm, AVW2120	David Alexander	UMD	Practice talk: Topical Classification and the Measurement of Word Sense Ambiguity in Natural Language
Apr 11	Kareem Darwish	UMD	Student research presentation: Arabic English Cross Lingual Information Retrieval Revisted
Apr 16 (Monday)	Claire Cardie	Cornell Univ	Highly recommended talk in the LAISEM series: Noun Phrase Coreference for Information Extraction. LAISEM talks are in AVW 3258.
Apr 18 POSTPONED	David Zajic	UMD	POSTPONED
Friday, Apr 20, 11am	Shivakumar Vaithyanathan	IBM, Almaden	Model-Based Hierarchical Clustering With Applications to Taxonomy Generation
Apr 25	Rebecca Hwa	UMD	Applying sample selection to training parsers
April 30	Lillian Lee	Cornell Univ	The Iterative Residual Rescaling algorithm: An analysis and generalization of Latent Semantic Indexing
May 2, 11:30am, AVW2460	Sandiway Fong and Christiane Fellbaum	Princeton and NEC	Ghosts, Shadows and Resultatives: The Lexical Representation of Verbs
May 17 (Thursday), 10am	Mark Steedman	Edinburgh	Intonation, Grammar, and Spoken Language Processing
June 29 (Friday), 10am	Srinivas Bangalore	AT&T Research	Head Transducer Models for Speech Translation
August 15 1pm	David Chiang	U Penn	Talk (TBA) on statistical parsing models applied to the Chinese Treebank

Meeting with Speakers

Those interested in meeting with a speaker during his or her visit should contact Denise Best (denise@cfar.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; also check out the Linguistics Lunch Talks Thursdays at 12:30pm. Many talks in these series are likely to be of interest to computational linguists.

Series Organizer

Philip Resnik (resnik@umiacs.umd.edu)

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.