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2007 Program Schedule

     
         
  Friday, September 14, 2007 9AM to 5PM Newell Simon Hall 1305  
     
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Time

Speaker

Title

 
  9:00AM

Opening Remarks

 
  9:15AM Christian Monson ParaMor: Finding Paradigms across Morphology  
  9:45AM Richard Wang Language-Independent Set Expansion of Named Entities using the Web  
 

10:15AM

Break

 
  10:30PM

Yi-Chia Wang

Using thread structure to improve context-based classification of newsgroup discussion acts  
  11:00PM

Xiaonan Zhang

All in the (word) family: Using learning decomposition to estimate transfer between skills in a Reading Tutor that listens  
  11:30PM

Mahesh Joshi

Using Transactivity in Conversation for Summarization of Educational Dialog  
 

12:00PM

Lunch

 
  1:00PM

Shilpa Arora & Manas Pathak

Learning More with Less: Reducing Annotation Effort with Active and Interactive Learning  
  1:30PM

Pinar Donmez

Dual Strategy Active Learning  
  2:00PM

Abhimanyu Lad

Generalizing from Relevance Feedback using Named Entity Wildcards  
 

2:30PM

Break

 
  2:45PM Vamshi Ambati Noun Phrase driven Bootstrapping of Word Alignment  
  3:15PM Jonathan Elsas Fast learning of Document Ranking Functions with the Committee Perceptron  
 

3:45PM

Setup for Panel Discussion / Judges proceed to discuss final decision

 
  4:00PM

Student Panel Discussion - "Commercial Language Technologies: Near term prospects"
Panelists: TBA

 
  4:45PM

Announcement of Result and Closing Remarks