Language
Technologies Institute
Immigration
Course (IC)
August 24-September 17, 2004
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Important Note for New Students:
All events shaded in blue are mandatory for new students.
Important
Dates
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LTI
IC Welcome Reception
Tuesday, August 24th, 5:00-6:30pm
Newell Simon Hall atrium
(All
LTI faculty, staff and students are invited to attend)
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Wednesday, August 25
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Time
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Event
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Location
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| 9:00am |
Breakfast |
4623 Wean Hall
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| 9:30 |
Welcome to LTI
Jaime Carbonell, Director |
4623 Wean Hall
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| 9:45 |
New Student Information
Chris Koch, Graduate Program Coordinator |
4623 Wean Hall |
| 10:30 |
Break |
4623 Wean Hall
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| 11:00 |
LTI Support Staff
Introductions
Radha Rao, Business Manager |
4623 Wean Hall
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| 11:30 |
LTI Academic Programs
Alon Lavie |
4623 Wean Hall
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| 12:30pm |
Lunch |
4623 Wean Hall
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| 1:30 |
Information Retrieval, Text Mining
& Summarization
Yiming Yang
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4623 Wean Hall
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| 2:00 |
Break |
4623 Wean Hall
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| 2:30 |
Machine
Translation
Alon Lavie
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4623 Wean Hall
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| 3:00 |
Computer Assisted Language Learning
Maxine Eskenazi |
4623 Wean Hall
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Time
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Event
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Location
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| 10:30am |
Registration
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Outside Rangos Ballroom |
| 11:00 |
Grad Student Panel
Insights on life as a grad student at CMU |
McConomy Auditorium |
| 12:00pm |
LUNCH & Welcome |
Rangos Ballroom |
| 1:00 |
Paychecks and Payroll
Understanding what goes in and what comes out
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McConomy Auditorium |
| 2:00 |
Resource/Service Dessert Fair |
Rangos Ballroom |
| 3:30 |
City Tour or Campus Tour
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University Center Parking Circle |
| 5:00pm |
GSA Happy Hour
Come meet fellow grad students at the first (of many) GSA happy
hours |
Schatz Dining Room |
Friday,
August 27
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Time
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Event
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Location
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| 10:00am |
Breakfast |
4623 Wean
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| 11:00 |
Speech Technology
Alan Black
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4623 Wean
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| 11:30 |
Biological Language Modeling
Roni Rosenfeld |
4623 Wean
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| 12:00pm |
LUNCH
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4623 Wean
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| 1:00 |
Introduction to LTI Computing
Alan Black |
4623 Wean
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| 1:30 |
LTI Academics
Bob Frederking
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4623 Wean
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| 2:00 - 3:30 |
LTI Picture taking
(All students, faculty and staff) |
4513 NSH
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LTI
IC Research Talks:
This
is a series of talks about faculty members' current projects and research
interests, scheduled after class on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays during the first weeks of the semester.
Attendance for all research talks is mandatory
for new students.
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Week 2
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| Date |
Time |
Research Talks
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Room
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Mon, Aug 30
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5:00p
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Speech Synthesis
Alan Black
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Mon, Aug 30
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5:30p
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Learning Patterns in Gene Expressions
Yiming Yang
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Mon, Aug 30
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6:00p
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The Universal Dictionary
Michael Shamos
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Wed, Sept 1
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5:00p
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Example-Based Machine Translation
Ralf Brown
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Wed, Sept 1
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5:30p
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RADAR: Automated Assistant for Crisis Management
Eugene Fink
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Wed, Sept 1
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6:00p
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4623 Wean Hall |
Women@SCS
Welcome Potluck
September 2, 7:00pm
Lenore Blum's house
4770 Bayard Street
All graduate and faculty women in SCS/ECE are invited to attend.
A group will leave from NSH Atrium around 6:40-6:45. RSVP to Lea,
for general info contact Tina.
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Fri, Sept 3
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12:30p
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Native Accent for Pronunciation Correction
Maxine Eskenazi
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Fri, Sept 3
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1:00p
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REAP: Choosing Authentic Documents for Reading
Education and Research
Maxine Eskenazi
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Fri, Sept 3
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1:30p
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Statistical Machine Learning and Natural
Language Processing
John Lafferty
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Week 3
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| Date |
Time |
Research Talk |
Presenter(s) |
| Mon, Sept 6 |
LABOR DAY
UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY - NO CLASSES
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Tues, Sept 7
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5:00p
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Multilingual Speech Recognition
Tanja Schultz
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Tues, Sept 7
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5:30p
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Advances in Question Answering
Teruko Mitamura and Eric Nyberg
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Tues, Sept 7
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6:00p
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Knowledge Acquisition from Text
Teruko Mitamura and Eric Nyberg
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Wed, Sept 8
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5:00p
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Statistical Machine Learning and Computational
Biology
Eric Xing
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Wed, Sept 8
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5:30p
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Tutorial Dialogue: Using Language Technology
to Study and Support Learning
Carolyn Rose
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Wed, Sept 8
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6:00p
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Video Analysis and Retrieval: Some Facets
of the Informedia Project
Alex Hauptmann
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Fri, Sept 10
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12:30p
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Text Mining in Public Comment Databases
Jamie Callan
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Fri, Sept 10
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1:00p
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Conversational Systems
Alex Rudnicky
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4623 Wean Hall
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Fri, Sept 10
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1:30p
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Knowledge Representation and Natural Language
Scott Fahlman
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4623 Wean Hall
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LTI
IC Picnic
Sunday,
September 12th, 1:00pm
Veteran's Pavilion, Schenley Park
Please
RSVP at the LTI reception desk. You can also get maps to the park
at the reception desk. Family and friends are welcome.
All LTI faculty, staff and students are invited to attend. Food,
drinks and dessert will be provided.
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Week 4
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| Date |
Time |
Research Talk |
Presenter(s) |
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Mon, Sept 13
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5:00p
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The AVENUE Project: A learning-based framework
for machine translation
Alon Lavie
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Mon, Sept 13
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5:30p
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The AVENUE Project: Dynamic corpus creation
based on language typology
Lori Levin
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Mon, Sept 13
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6:00p
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Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor that listens
Jack Mostow
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Wed, Sept 15
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5:00p
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Signal Processing for Robust Speech Recognition
Richard Stern
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Wed, Sept 15
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5:30p
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TBD
Alex Waibel
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Wed, Sept 15
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6:00p
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TBD
Alex Waibel
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Fri, Sept 17
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12:30p
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Statistical Machine Translation
Stephan Vogel
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Fri, Sept 17
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1:00p
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Machine Learning Approaches to Information
Extraction and Integration
William Cohen
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4623 Wean Hall |
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Fri, Sept 17
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1:30p
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4623 Wean Hall |
LTI Student Research Symposium
Friday, September 24th
Newell-Simon Hall 1305
The LTI Student Research Symposium (SRS) is a one-day series of presentations
designed to increase awareness of the diverse aspects of language
technologies research conducted by students within the LTI, as well
as introduce incoming LTI students to the work of current students.
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Please email Chris Koch at ckoch@cs.cmu.edu
if you have any questions about the LTI IC.
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