LTI Colloquium
Official page of LTI colloquium course. Time: Fridays 2:30-3:50pm
Location: 2315 Doherty Hall
The LTI colloquium is a series of talks related to language technologies. The topics include but are not restricted to Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Information Retrieval, Computational Biology, Machine Learning, Text Mining, Knowledge Representation, Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Intelligent Language Tutoring. To get credit of the cour
09/04/2015
Title of Talk: Statistical Language Modeling Turns Thirty-Something: Are We Ready To Settle Down?
Sanjeev Khudanpur
Johns Hopkins University
Friday, April 10th,2015
Location:2210 Doherty
03/04/2015
Title of Talk: A New Platform for Cloud-based Distributed Machine Learning on Big Data
Eric Xing
Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
Location: 2210 Doherty
16/03/2015
Title of Talk: Semantic Word Embedding: Challenges and Solutions
Tie-Yan Liu
Microsoft Research Asia
Friday, March 20, 2015
Location: 2210 Doherty
12/02/2015
Title of Talk: Toward Learning by Reading using a New Semantics that Merges Propositional and Distributional Information
Eduard Hovy
CMU LTI
Time:Friday, February 13, 2015
Location: 2210 Doherty
30/01/2015
Title of Talk: Learning from Descriptive Text
Speaker: Tamara Berg
Affiliation: UNC Chapel Hill
Date: February 6, 2015
Time: 2:30-3:50 PM
Location: 2210 Doherty Hall
more details: http://colloquium.lti.cs.cmu.edu/
11-700 LTI Colloquium People communicate using language, whether spoken, written, or typed. A significant amount of this language describes the world around us, especially the visual world in an environment, or depicted in images or video. In addition there exist billions of photographs with associated text available on…
14/01/2015
Welcome to the new semester. Note the change of the classroom:)
"Cognitive Models of Language Comprehension"
Dr. John T. Hale
Cornell University and the CMU Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging
Jan 16, Fri, 2015
Time: Fridays 2:30-3:50pm
Location: 2210 Doherty Hall
More details: http://colloquium.lti.cs.cmu.edu/
11-700 LTI Colloquium As people read or listen to sentences, how do they actually comprehend what is being said? Cognitive models of human parsing are possible answers to this question. The talk presents a general way to connect these models with behavioral and neural data. It develops the view that human language is bot…
07/12/2014
The slides for our last Colloquium talk this semester has been uploaded, and the last video will also be uploaded tomorrow. (We tried our best to collect most of the materials, but still, some videos and slides are not available to us due to various reasons.)
We made some changes this semester, including the new website, the Facebook fan page, and the Colloquium YouTube channel. Hope you like it. Please leave a comment here if you have any feedback.
http://colloquium.lti.cs.cmu.edu/schedule.html
11-700 LTI Colloquium Where are the slides/videos? We'll upload the slides and videos for most lectures, mostly within a week after the talk. However, sometimes the slides and/or videos are not available due to various reasons.
03/12/2014
"Modeling the Lifespan of Discourse Entities with Application to Coreference Resolution"
Dr. Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
The Ohio State University
Dec 5, Fri, 2014
Time: Fridays 2:30-3:50pm
Location: 2315 Doherty Hall
More details: http://colloquium.lti.cs.cmu.edu/index.html
20/11/2014
"Large-scale Paraphrasing for Natural Language Generation"
Dr. Chris Callison-Burch
University of Pennsylvania
Nov 21, Fri, 2014
Time: Fridays 2:30-3:50pm
Location: 2315 Doherty Hall
More details: http://colloquium.lti.cs.cmu.edu/index.html
We are having some technical problems for the LTI Colloquium website right now. We've contacted SCS Help Desk to resolve it.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
04/11/2014
"Graph Grammars and Automata for NLP"
Dr. David Chiang
University of Notre Dame
Nov 7, Fri, 2014
Time: Fridays 2:30-3:50pm
Location: 2315 Doherty Hall
More details: http://colloquium.lti.cs.cmu.edu/index.html
26/10/2014
One more thing: This semester, we have a YouTube Channel for LTI Colloquium!
23/10/2014
"Exploring the Relationship between Summarization and Diversity"
Dr. Bruce Croft
University of Massachusetts
Oct 24, Fri, 2014
Time: Fridays 2:30-3:50pm
Location: 2315 Doherty Hall
More details: http://colloquium.lti.cs.cmu.edu/index.html
Reminder: We do NOT have LTI colloquium today due to the midterm break.
04/10/2014
"Modeling and Exploiting Review Helpfulness for Summarization"
Dr. Diane J. Litman
University of Pittsburgh
Oct 10, Fri, 2014
Time: Fridays 2:30-3:50pm
Location: 2315 Doherty Hall
More details: http://colloquium.lti.cs.cmu.edu/index.html
27/09/2014
"Recognizing Dialogue Structure in Online Forums"
Dr. Marilyn Walker
University of California Santa Cruz
Oct 3, Fri, 2014
Time: Fridays 2:30-3:50pm
Location: 2315 Doherty Hall
More details: http://colloquium.lti.cs.cmu.edu/index.html
"Spoken dialog systems: bigger and better"
Dr. Jason D. Williams
Microsoft Research
Date: Sep 26, Fri, 2014
Time: Fridays 2:30-3:50pm
Location: 2315 Doherty Hall
More details: http://colloquium.lti.cs.cmu.edu/index.html
19/09/2014
"The Words are Alive: Associations with Sentiment, Emotions, Colours, and Music"
Dr. Saif M. Mohammad
National Research Council Canada
Date: Sep 19, Fri, 2014
Time: Fridays 2:30-3:50pm
Location: 2315 Doherty Hall
More details: http://colloquium.lti.cs.cmu.edu/index.html
"The Words are Alive: Associations with Sentiment, Emotions, Colours, and Music"
Dr. Saif M. Mohammad
National Research Council Canada
Date: Sep 19, Fri, 2014
Time: Fridays 2:30-3:50pm
Location: 2315 Doherty Hall
More details: http://colloquium.lti.cs.cmu.edu/index.html
"Deciphering Social Interactions from Text"
Speaker: Dr. Aram Galstyan (University of Southern California)
Date: Sep 12, Fri, 2014
More details: http://colloquium.lti.cs.cmu.edu/index.html
This semester, we have a new website for LTI Colloquium!
http://colloquium.lti.cs.cmu.edu/