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- |
Shubin Zhao |
Corroborate and Learn Facts from the Web [abstract] |
Heng Ji |
Oct 2 |
12:45pm- |
Amit Bagga |
Introduction to Cross-Document Coreference |
Heng Ji |
Oct 9 |
2pm- |
Sam Brody |
Unsupervised Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation |
Matt Huenerfauth |
Oct 23 |
12:45pm- |
Andrew Rosenberg |
Expectation Maximization Tutorial |
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Oct 23 |
2pm- |
Fei Huang |
Confidence Measure for Word Alignment |
Heng Ji |
Oct 30 |
2pm- |
Ralph Grishman |
Extracting Events and Active Learning of Event Detection Patterns [details] |
Heng Ji |
Nov 6 |
2pm- |
Jose Iria |
Machine Learning Approaches to Text and Multimedia Mining |
Heng Ji |
Nov 20 |
2pm- |
Raul Fernandez |
Expressive Text-to-Speech Synthesis: State-of-the-art and Challenges |
Andrew Rosenberg |
Dec 4 |
2pm- |
Matt Huenerfauth (CUNY) |
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