UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series, Spring 2003

Time and Location

Talks are on Wednesdays at 3:30pm unless otherwise noted.
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
Feb 5, 2003; AVW 2120	Anton Leuski	USC/ISI	Evaluating Interactive Topic Tracking
April 23, 2003	Ralph Weischedel	BBN	Empirical Studies on the Impact of Lexical Resources on CLIR Performance
May 9, 2003 Special time, 11am, Special room: CSI 2107	Mimi Zhang		Cascaded FST Parsing and Its Support of Information Extraction (Note: CSI is the new computer science instructional building adjoining AV Williams)
TBA	Tom Rindflesch	National Library of Medicine	Knowledge-Based Semantic Interpretation for Biomedical Text
TBA	Sandiway Fong	NEC	TBA (minimalist parsing)

For most speakers you can sign up for a meeting slot on the meetings sign-up page. If not, contact Denise Best (denise@cfar.umd.edu). or 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; 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.

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