Talks

Finale Doshi-Velez - Harvard University

Interpretable Machine Learning: What it means, How we're getting there

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Marine Carpuat - University of Maryland

Semantic and Stylistic Variations in Machine Translation

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

5-minute madness

CLIP lab

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

5-minute madness

CLIP lab

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Mark Finlayson - Florida International University

Automatically Extracting Narrative Structure: Results & Directions

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Mohit Iyyer - University of Maryland

Using Deep Learning to Understand Creative Language

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Knowledge Mismatch in Communicative Interaction: Probabilistic Weighing of Perspectives

Suzanne Stevenson - University of Toronto

2124 H. J. Patterson Hall (Language Science Center)

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Herman Kamper - Toyota Technological Institute

Learning from unlabelled speech, with and without visual cues

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Sam Bowman - New York University

Sentence Understanding with Neural Networks and Natural Language Inference

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Marie desJardins - University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Planning and Learning with Abstract Markov Decision Processes

Friday, March 10, 2017

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

Chris Manning - Stanford University

Defining and Parsing Universal Dependencies

2114 H.J. Patterson

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Senses, paraphrases and substitutes: exploring boundaries in translation induced meaning representations

Marianna Apidianaki - LIMSI-CNRS

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Algorithmic Bias in Artificial Intelligence: The Seen and Unseen Factors Influencing Machine Perception of Images and Language

Meg Mitchell - Google Research

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Recognizing Stance and Influence from Public Comments in Regulatory Rule-making

Vlad Eidelman - FiscalNote

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Grant McKenzie - University of Maryland

Geosocial thematic signatures of place

Felix Naumann - Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik

Friday, December 9, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CLIP ⋅ DBChat

A Data Profiling Tool

2120 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Paul McNamee - Johns Hopkins University

Machine Learning not Boolean Search: A Case Study in Public Health Informatics

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Martha White - Indiana University

Insights on learning representations with dictionary learning and autoencoders

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Konstantinos Pelechrinis - University of Pittsburgh

Civiconomics: Urban Economy in the Era of Social Media and Shared Economy

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Toward Robust Speech Processing Systems: Speech Perception, Gestural Phonology and Machine Learning

Vikram Mitra - SRI International

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

resMBS: Information Extraction, Topic Modeling and Tensor Factors for Financial Contracts

Zheng Xu - University of Maryland

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Ravi Shroff - New York University

Simple rules for decision-making

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Lu Wang - Northeastern University

Understanding Opinions and Arguments in Text

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CLIP Lab Meeting

No speaker yet

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Mona Diab - George Washington University

Processing Arabic Social Media: Challenges and Opportunities

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

The Ins and Outs of Preposition Semantics: Challenges of Coverage and Cross-linguistic Adequacy

Nathan Schneider - Georgetown University

Friday, September 16, 2016

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Opening up the Black Box: Interactive Machine Learning for Understanding Large Document Collections, Characterizing Social Science, and Language-Based Games

Jordan Boyd-Graber - University of Colorado

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Human Use and Evaluation of Machine Translation

Erica Michael and Petra Bradley - University of Maryland

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

5-Minute Madness

CLIP lab

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

5-Minute Madness

CLIP lab

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Jay Ghurye - University of Maryland

A Framework to Model Human Behavior at LargeScale during Natural Disasters

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Articulatory phonological approach to address acoustic variability in Automatic Speech Recognition

Ganesh Sivaraman - University of Maryland

1:30 pm

- 2:30 pm

2120 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Cutting a Cake with a Hammer in Vector Space: Models of Thematic Fit

Asad Sayeed - University of the Saarland

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

11:00 am

-11:30 am

Jyothi Vinjumur - University of Maryland

MINECORE – MINimizing the Expected COst of Review in Ediscovery

11:30 am

-12:00 pm

Journalists and Twitter: A Multidimensional Quantitative Description of Usage Patterns

Mossaab Bagdouri - University of Maryland

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Doug Oard - University of Maryland

Information Abolition

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Philip Resnik - University of Maryland

From Linguistic Signal to Mental State: Computational Models of Framing

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Jennifer Golbeck - University of Maryland

Understanding users with social data

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Matthew Marge - U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Miscommunication Recovery for Robots using Spoken Dialogue

Monday, March 21, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Johanne Trippas - RMIT University

Spoken Conversational Search: Speech-only Interactive Information Retrieval

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Continuous Wide-Band Machine Translation – Report from the 2015 Jelinek Summer Workshop

Kevin Duh - Johns Hopkins University

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Cody Buntain - University of Maryland

Discovering Key Moments in Social Media Streams

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Alona Fyshe - University of Victoria

Corpora, Cognition and Composition

0125 Taliaferro (Language Science Center)

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Micha Elsner - The Ohio State University

Learning a variable language

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Sameer Singh - University of Washington

Interactive Training of Relation Embeddings Using High-level Supervision

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Hadi Amiri - University of Maryland

Short Text Representation in Microblogs

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Dan Jurafsky - Stanford University

Computational Models of the Evolution of Word Meaning

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Graham Neubig - Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Simultaneous Speech Translation

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Ryan Adams - Harvard University

You Should Be Using Automatic Differentiation

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

11:00 am

-12:30 pm

Chris Dyer - Carnegie Mellon University

Finding Function in Form: Open Vocabulary Natural Language Processing

0125 Taliaferro (Language Science Center)

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Wei Xu - University of Pennsylvania

Multiple Instance Learning from Unlimited Text

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

TREC: Researching the Problem of Measuring Search

Ian Soboroff - National Institute of Standards and Technology

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Nick Diakopoulos - University of Maryland

Computational Journalism: Challenges and Opportunities

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Grounded Language Acquisition: A Physical Agent Approach

Cynthia Matuszek - UMBC

Friday, October 2, 2015

2:30 pm

- 3:30 pm

An Axiomatically Derived Measure for the Evaluation of Classification Algorithms

Fabrizio Sebastiani - Qatar Computing Research Institute

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

KyungHyun Cho - New York University

Neural machine translation -- Progress Report

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Graph-based Algorithms for Discovering Associations from Ontological Annotated Biomedical Data

Maria-Esther Vidal - Universidad Simón Bolívar

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

5 minute madness: Part 2

CLIP faculty and students

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Hoifung Poon - Microsoft Research

Machine Reading for Cancer Panomics

Friday, September 4, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

3165 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Adaptive Query Auto Completion

Amit Goyal - Yahoo Labs

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

5 minute madness: Part 1

CLIP faculty and students

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Synergy in Search: Pushing the Boundaries of Information Seeking with Collaboration

Chirag Shah - Rutgers University

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Automated Grammatical Error Correction for Language Learners: Where are we, and where do we go from there?

Joel Tetreault - Yahoo! Labs

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Kevin Gimpel - Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Neural Models of Compositionality and Paraphrase

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Alan Ritter - The Ohio State University

Extracting Knowledge from Informal Text

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Climate Informatics: Recent Advances and Challenge Problems for Machine Learning in Climate Science

Claire Monteleoni - George Washington University

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Mark Steedman - University of Edinburgh

Semantics for Question-Answering

Marie Mount Hall 1310A

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Developing and Using Multilayer Corpora

Amir Zeldes - Georgetown

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

More Than Just Words: On Discovering Themes in Online Reviews to Explain Restaurant Closures

Jorge Mejia - University of Maryland

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Distributed Problem Solving: Toward technology that supports collaborative work on difficult problems by minimizing process losses and maximizes process gains

Yla Tausczik - University of Maryland

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Language, Demographics and Emotions on Twitter: Detecting Latent User Properties from Public Streams

Svitlana Volkova - Johns Hopkins University

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Hansen Andrew Schwartz - University of Pennsylvania

Discovering Psychological and Health Insights from Social Media Language

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Humor and hyperbole in natural language: how common background knowledge leads to evocative language use

Noah D. Goodman - Stanford

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Doug Oard - University of Maryland

CLIP Research on E-Discovery

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Amittai Axelrod - University of Maryland

Data Selection for Statistical Machine Translation

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Michael Paul - Johns Hopkins University

Making sense of social media for public health using NLP

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Practical Learning Algorithms for Structured Prediction

Kai-Wei Chang - UIUC

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Hal Daumé III - University of Maryland

Learning to Search, Revisited

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Jimmy Lin - University of Maryland

The Evolution of WTF: Follower Recommendation Services at Twitter

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Eric Ringger - Brigham Young University

Machine Learning for Machine-Assisted Data Annotation and Data Exploration

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Using Tree Structures for Improved Dependency Parsing Algorithms

Emily Pitler - Google

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Improving Access to Clinical Data Locked in Narrative Reports: An Informatics Approach

Wendy W. Chapman - University of Utah

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

David D. Lewis - David D. Lewis Consulting

Open Research Problems in Electronic Discovery for the Law

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Jiaul Paik - University of Maryland

A Fixed-Point Method for Weighting Terms in Verbose Informational Queries

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Grace Hui Yang - Georgetown

Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Glen Coppersmith - Hopkins - HLT COE

Quantified Mental Health Signals in Twitter

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Naomi Feldman - University of Maryland

Using Speech Corpora in Phonetic Modeling

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

5 minute madness/what I did this summer: Part 2

CLIP faculty and students

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

1:30 pm

- 2:30 pm

Zhaochun Ren - University of Amsterdam

Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification of Social Text Streams

3126 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

5 minute madness/what I did this summer: Part 1

CLIP faculty and students

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Gareth J.F. Jones - Dublin City University

Towards Effective Retrieval of Spontaneous Conversational Spoken Content

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Practice talks

CLIP Students

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Practice talks

CLIP Students

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Noémie Elhadad - Columbia University

Summarizing the patient record at the point of care

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Chris Callison-Burch - Penn

Large-scale paraphrasing for natural language understanding and generation

3450 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Vanessa Frias-Martinez - University of Maryland iSchool

From Digital Footprints to Social Insights

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Ke Zhai - University of Maryland

Scalable Topic Models and Applications to Machine Translation

3450 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Brandon Stewart - Harvard

Structural Topic Models and Applied Social Science

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

David Graus - University of Amsterdam

Generating Pseudo-ground Truth for Predicting New Concepts in Social Streams

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Mohamed Yahya - Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University

Question Answering over the Web of Linked Data

Friday, January 31, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Karen Livescu - Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Learning from Speech Production for Improved Recognition

2120 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Interactive Topic Modeling: Adding Expressive Knowledge Resources and Learning from Users

Yuening Hu - University of Maryland

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Adnan H. Yahya - Birzeit University

Efficiency Enhancement Tools for Arabic Text Search and Processing

Friday, December 6, 2013

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

From Language to the Mind: Learning to Read Deception, Nuanced Connotation and the Likely Success of Novels

Yejin Choi - Stony Brook University

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

NIPS practice talks

Jordan Boyd-Graber et al.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Miles Osborne - University of Edinburgh

Cross-stream event detection

Friday, November 8, 2013

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Computational style analysis, with practical applications to automatic summarization

Ani Nenkova - University of Pennsylvania

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Teaching machines to read for fun and profit

Gary Kazantsev - Bloomberg LP

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Towards Minimizing the Annotation Cost of Certified Text Classification

Mossaab Bagdouri - University of Maryland

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Using Semantics to help learn Phonetic Categories

Stella Frank - University of Edinburgh

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Text Analysis and Social Science: Learning to Extract International Relations from the News

Brendan O'Connor - Carnegie Mellon University

Friday, October 4, 2013

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Yang Liu - University of Texas, Dallas

Recent Advances in Automatic Summarization

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Jiaul Paik - University of Maryland

Development of a Term Weighting Formula for Search Result Ranking

Thursday, April 12, 2012

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

AI ⋅ CLIP ⋅ CS Department ⋅ DBChat ⋅ ML Seminar

Inference and Search for Graphical Models

Rina Dechter - UC Irvine