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CUNY-NLP: Natural Language Processing Seminar at CUNY

This natural language processing seminar is hosted by the NLP faculty members at the City University of New York. The aim is to invite talented NLP researchers to give talks about state-of-the-art research in the field and stimulate collaboration opportunities.

If you want to meet with any speaker individually after the talk, please send an e-mail to the host. Some of the seminars are held as guest lectures during a computational linguistics course and consist of tutorials on modern NLP topics. Other seminars are held as independent events during which speakers discuss their current research interests. The times of the seminar vary accordingly.

The location of the seminar is The Graduate Center of CUNY, Room 4422, 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY. You may need to show identification at the main desk of the Graduate Center and explain that you are attending a guest speaker event in room 4422 hosted by the Computer Science program.

Fall 2009 Schedule

Date

Time

Speaker

Title, Abstract, Slides

Host

 

Sept 25

2pm-
3pm

Shubin Zhao
(Google)
[bio]

Corroborate and Learn Facts from the Web

[abstract]

Heng Ji

Oct 2

12:45pm-
1:45pm

Amit Bagga
(Comcast)

Introduction to Cross-Document Coreference
(Guest lecture in Statistical NLP course.)

[abstract and bio] [slides]

Heng Ji

Oct 9

2pm-
3pm

Sam Brody
(Columbia)

Unsupervised Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation

[abstract and bio] [slides]

Matt Huenerfauth

Oct 23

12:45pm-
1:45pm

Andrew Rosenberg
(CUNY)

Expectation Maximization Tutorial
(Guest lecture in Statistical NLP course.)

[abstract and bio]

 

Oct 23

2pm-
3pm

Fei Huang
(IBM)

Confidence Measure for Word Alignment

[abstract and bio]

Heng Ji

Oct 30

2pm-
3pm

Ralph Grishman
(NYU)

Extracting Events and Active Learning of Event Detection Patterns

[details]

Heng Ji

Nov 6

2pm-
3pm

Jose Iria
(Sheffield)

Machine Learning Approaches to Text and Multimedia Mining

[abstract and bio]

  Heng Ji

Nov 20

2pm-
3pm

Raul Fernandez
(IBM)

Expressive Text-to-Speech Synthesis: State-of-the-art and Challenges

[abstract and bio]

  Andrew Rosenberg

Dec 4

2pm-
3pm

Matt Huenerfauth (CUNY)