The CLIP Colloquium Series, Spring 2006

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	Host	Other info
2/1/06	CLIP PI's	University of Maryland	5 minute madness		Internal Talk
2/8/06	Bill Kules	University of Maryland	Supporting exploratory search with overviews based on meaningful and stable categories	Jimmy Lin	Special Location: AVW 3258
2/15/06	Theresa Wilson	University of Pittsburgh	Subjectivity Analysis and Recognizing Contextual Polarity	Doug Oard
2/22/06	Markus Dickinson	Georgetown University	Error Detection, Error Correction, and Improved Tagging	Amy Weinberg
3/1/06	Smaranda Muresan	Columbia University	Inducing Constraint-based Grammars using a Domain Ontology	Philip Resnik	Special Location: AVW 3258
3/8/06	Becky Passonneau	Columbia University	Evaluate, Evaluate, Evaluate: Issues and Results in Pyramid Evaluation for DUC 2003, 2005 and 2006	Jimmy Lin
3/15/06	Necip Fazil Ayan	University of Maryland			Internal Talk
3/22/06	Happy Spring Break!
3/29/06	John Wilbur	National Library of Medicine	Spelling Correction in the PubMed Search Engine	Jimmy Lin
4/5/06	Ken Church	Microsoft Research	Using Sketches to Estimate Associations	Philip Resnik
4/12/06	Liang Zhou	USC/ISI	ParaEval: Using Paraphrases to Improve Machine Translation and Summarization Evaluations	Doug Oard
4/19/06	Allison Powell	CNRI	Integrated Feasibility Experiments in TIDES	Doug Oard
4/26/06	Eugene Agichtein	Microsoft Research	Data Mining to Improve Access to Information on the Web	Jimmy Lin
5/3/06	Tapas Kanungo	IBM Research	Text Analysis Tools for Drug Discovery and Manufacturing	Doug Oard
5/10/06	Nina Wacholder	Rutgers University	People with Attitude	Amy Weinberg	Special Location: AVW 3258
5/17/06	CLIP members	University of Maryland	HLT/NAACL 2006 practice talks	Bonnie Dorr	Internal Talk
5/31/06	Craig Murray	University of Maryland	EAMT 2006 practice talk	Bonnie Dorr	Internal Talk
06/14/06	Fazil Ayan	University of Maryland	Going Beyond AER: An Extensive Analysis of Word Alignments and Their Impact on MT	Bonnie Dorr	Internal Talk

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 Research Seminar Series, Thursdays at 2pm.

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.