UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium Series, Spring 1998

Time and Location

Talks are on Thursdays at 4pm unless otherwise noted. The colloquium will be held in A.V. Williams Building, Room 4406 (note change!) unless noted otherwise. Titles and abstracts will be added as we receive them.

Speakers:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title, abstract, other info
Feb 5	Ann Copestake	Stanford	Integrating the lexicon and pragmatics (based on this paper)
Feb 12	Paul Jacobs	Isoquest	Gigahertz Processors, the Internet, and Commercial NLP
Feb 25	I. Dan Melamed	University of Pennyslvania	Advances in Empirical Methods for Translation Model Construction
Feb 26	Robert Krovetz	NEC Research Institute	Word Sense Disambiguation for Large Text Databases
March 5	Raman Chandrasekar	Institute for Research in Cognitive Science and Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania	Glean: Using Syntactic Information in Document Filtering (see the paper)
Apr 9	Janet Pierrehumbert	Northwestern University	The Role of Probabilities in Phonology
Apr 29	Eugene Charniak	Brown University	Probabilistic Best-First Chart Parsing, or Parsing Fast by Parsing Smart
Apr 30	Gen-ichiro Kikui	NTT, Japan and CSLI, Stanford University	TITAN: A Cross-linguistic Search Engine on the WWW and related research activities at NTT
May 7 (new date)	Gabriele Sonnenberger	Information Systems Group, Union Bank of Switzerland	Generation of Concept-Based Content Descriptions

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

Colloquia from Previous Semesters

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