Natural language research announcements

[Rajhans Samdani <rsamdan2 AT illinois.edu>]

Hi everyone! 

Just a gentle reminder regarding this week's AIIS seminar talk by Shankar 
Vembu on 
Structured Prediction. 

Shankar Vembu is a post doc working with Prof. Dan Roth. He will present his 
ECML 
tutorial talk on Structured Prediction in the AIIS seminar, this Friday. The 
tutorial can 
be found at http://sites.google.com/site/ecml10sptutorial/. The location of 
the talk is 
3405 SC and the timing: 2 - 3.30 pm. 

Here is an abstract of his tutorial: 

Structured prediction is the problem of predicting multiple outputs with 
complex 
internal structure and dependencies among them. Algorithms and models for 
predicting structured data have been in use for a long time. For example, 
recurrent 
neural networks and hidden Markov models have found interesting applications 
in 
temporal pattern recognition problems such as speech recognition. With the 
introduction of support vector machines in the 1990s, there has been a lot of 
interest 
in the machine learning community in discriminative models of learning. In 
this 
tutorial, we plan to cover recent developments in discriminative learning 
algorithms for 
predicting structured data. 

We believe this tutorial will be of interest to machine learning researchers 
including 
graduate students who would like to gain an understanding of structured 
prediction 
and state-of-the-art approaches to solve this problem. Structured prediction 
has 
several applications in the areas of natural language processing, computer 
vision and 
computational biology, just to name a few. We believe the material presented 
in this 
tutorial will also be of interest to researchers working in the 
aforementioned 
application areas. 

Thanks! 
Regards, 
Rajhans 


Rajhans Samdani, 
Graduate Student, 
Dept. of Computer Science, 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 


Rajhans Samdani,
Graduate Student,
Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.