UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series, Fall 1997

Time and Location

Talks are on Thursdays at 4pm unless otherwise noted. The colloquium will be held in A.V. Williams Building, Room 2460 unless noted otherwise. Titles and abstracts will be added as we receive them.

Confirmed speakers:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title, abstract, other info
Sep 11	Bill Woods	Sun Labs	"Beyond Search Engines"
Oct 9	Dekang Lin	U. Manitoba	``Raise Duty'' vs. ``Perform Duty'' -- Using Syntactic Dependencies to Resolve Semantic Ambiguities
Oct 16	Ralph Weischedel	BBN	Statistical Language Modeling: The New Wave in Computational Linguistics?
Oct 23	Susann LuperFoy	MITRE	Dialogue Topology and Dialogue Agents
Nov 6	Judith Klavans	Columbia Univ.	Analysis for Generation of Coherent Summaries of On-Line Documents
Nov 13	Ed Hovy	USC/ISI	Combining and Standardizing Large-Scale, Practical Ontologies for Machine Translation and Other Uses
Dec 4	Eric Brill	Johns Hopkins	Automatically Learning Natural Language from On-Line Text Corpora
December 11	Steve Abney	AT&T Labs	Stochastic Attribute-Value Grammars
December 18	Dragomir Radev	Columbia University	Generating Natural Language Briefings from Multiple On-Line Sources

Spring 1998 series

Plans for the Spring 1998 Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series are underway...

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 Tuesdays at 4pm, and the Linguistics colloquium series Fridays at 2pm. Many talks in these series are likely to be of interest to computational linguists.

Series Organizers

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