Language
Technologies Institute
Immigration
Course (IC)
August 23-September 8, 2006
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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 22,
5:00-6:30pm
Newell Simon Hall Atrium
(All
LTI faculty, staff and students are invited to attend)
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Wednesday, August 23
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Time
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Event
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Location
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| 9:00am |
Breakfast (new students) |
3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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| 9:30am |
Welcome to LTI
Jaime Carbonell, Director |
3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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| 9:45am |
New Student Information
Stacey Young, Graduate Program Coordinator |
3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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| 10:30am |
Break |
3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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| 11:00am |
LTI Support Staff Introductions
Radha Rao, Business Manager |
3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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| 11:30am |
LTI Academic Programs
Bob Frederking |
3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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| 12:30pm |
Lunch (new students & faculty) |
3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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| 1:30pm |
How Linguistics Will Help You
Lori Levin
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3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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| 3:00pm |
TBA |
3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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Time
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Event
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Location
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| 10:00am |
Breakfast (new students)
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4615A Wean Hall
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| 11:00am |
Speech Technology
Alan Black
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4615A Wean Hall
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| 11:30am |
RADAR
Jaime Carbonell |
4615A Wean Hall
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| 12:00pm |
Lunch (new students & faculty)
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4615A Wean Hall
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| 1:00pm |
Machine Translation
Alon Lavie
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4615A Wean Hall
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Friday,
August 25
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Time
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Event
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Location
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| 10:00am |
Breakfast (new students) |
3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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| 11:00am |
Computer Assisted Language Learning
Maxine Eskenazi
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3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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| 11:30am |
Computational Biology
Eric Xing |
3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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| 12:00pm |
LUNCH (new students, current students
& faculty)
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3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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| 1:00pm |
New Challenges in Information Retrieval
Yiming Yang
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3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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| 2:00pm |
Computing at LTI
Alan Black
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3002 Newell-Siimon Hall
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3:15pm-4:30pm
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LTI Picture taking
(All students, faculty and staff)
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4632
Newell
Simon Hall
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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 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 28
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5:00pm
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Carolyn Penstein-Rosé
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Mon, Aug 28
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5:30pm
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Speech Recognition
based on acoustic signals, muscle movements,
and brainwaves
Tanja Schultz
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4623
Wean Hall
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Mon, Aug 28
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6:00pm
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Learning-based MT for Low Resource Languages
Alon Lavie
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4623
Wean Hall
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Tue, Aug 29
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5:00pm
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Desktop Personal Assistants
Anthony Tomasic
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4623
Wean Hall
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Tue, Aug 29
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5:30pm
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Making Machines Talk
Alan Black
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4623
Wean Hall
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| Tue, Aug 29 |
6:00pm |
Structure Learning and Applications
Yiming Yang |
4623 Wean Hall |
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5:00pm
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Example-Based Machine Translation
Ralf Brown
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4623
Wean Hall
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Wed, Aug
30
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5:30pm |
Knowledge Representation (Scone)
Scott Fahlman
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Wed, Aug 30 |
6:00pm |
Language Learning
Brian MacWhinney |
4623 Wean Hall |
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Thurs, Aug 31
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5:00pm
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NL Applications and Text Search Engines
Jamie Callan
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4623
Wean Hall
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Thurs, Aug 31
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5:30pm
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Multilingual NLP for Dialog Systems and Question Answering
Teruko Mitamura
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4623
Wean Hall
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Thurs, Aug 31 |
6:00pm |
Open-Domain Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction
Eric Nyberg |
4623 Wean Hall |
Friday, Sept 1 |
4:00pm |
Conversing With Computers
Alex Rudnicky |
4623 Wean Hall |
Friday, Sept 1 |
4:30pm |
Robust Speech Recognition
Rich Stern |
4623 Wean Hall |
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Friday, Sept 1 |
5:00pm |
TBA |
4623 Wean Hall |
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Week 3
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| Date |
Time |
Research Talks
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Room
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Monday, September 4
LABOR DAY
UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY - NO CLASSES
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Tues, Sept 5 |
5:00pm |
Project LISTEN:
An Automated Reading Tutor That Listens
Jack Mostow
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4623
Wean Hall |
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Tues, Sept
5 |
5:30pm |
This talk has been cancelled and re-scheduled for 9/7 5:30pm
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4623
Wean Hall |
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Tues, Sept
5 |
6:00pm |
Learning From Text and the Semantic Web
Katia Sycara |
4623
Wean Hall |
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Wed, Sept
6 |
5:00pm |
Natural Language Syntax: What, Where, Why, How, When, and Who/Whom
Noah Smith |
4623
Wean Hall |
Wed, Sept
6 |
5:30pm |
Multi-Resolution and Multi-Aspect Modeling of Biological Systems---sequence, expression, network and phylogeny
Eric Xing
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4623
Wean Hall |
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Wed, Sept
6 |
6:00pm |
TBA |
4623
Wean Hall |
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Thurs, Sept
7 |
5:00pm |
RADAR: Automated Assistant for Crisis Management
Eugene Fink |
4623
Wean Hall |
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Thurs, Sept
7 |
5:30pm |
Speech Graffiti,
Speech Technology for Development, and Computational Virology
Roni Rosenfeld
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4623
Wean Hall |
Thurs, Sept 7 |
6:00pm |
TBA |
4623
Wean Hall |
Fri, Sept
8 |
4:00pm-5:00pm |
Computing Facilities Talk
|
4623 Wean Hall |
Other Events:
"Living In Pittsburgh"
Speaker - Scott Fahlman
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Wean Hall 5409, 7pm-9pm
8th
Annual SCS Graduate Women's Potluck Dinner
Thursday, September 7th 7pm-9pm
4770 Bayard Street
Details to come soon!
LTI
IC Picnic
Friday, September 29th, 3:00pm-7:00pm
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.
Please email Stacey Young at staceyy@cs.cmu.edu
if you have any questions about the LTI IC.
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