Natural language research announcements

[Rajhans Samdani <rsamdan2 AT illinois.edu>]

A gentle reminder for this week's AIIS talk happening at 2 pm in 3405 SC.

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:35:24 -0600 (CST)
>From: Rajhans Samdani 
><rsamdan2 AT illinois.edu>
>  
>Subject: AIIS talk by Prof. Roxana Girju on Jan 28  
>To: 
>nl-uiuc AT cs.uiuc.edu,
> 
>aivr AT cs.uiuc.edu,
> 
>dais AT cs.uiuc.edu,
> 
cogcomp AT cs.uiuc.edu,
 
vision AT cs.uiuc.edu,
 
eyal AT cs.uiuc.edu,
 
aiis AT cs.uiuc.edu,
 
aistudents AT cs.uiuc.edu,
 "Girju, Corina R" 
<girju AT illinois.edu>,
 "Catherine Blake" 
<clblake AT illinois.edu>,
 "Efron, Miles James" 
<mefron AT illinois.edu>
>
>Hi all,
>
>This week we are hosting Prof. Roxana Girju 
>(https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/girju/) in our 
>AIIS seminar series.
>
>When: Jan 28, 2 pm. 
>
>Where: 3405 SC. 
>
>Title: Causal Reasoning in Natural Language: Some Perspectives, Models, and 
>Applications
>
>Abstract: The acquisition of causal knowledge is an indispensable part of 
>human and 
>machine reasoning, and thus, very useful in many natural language processing 
>applications. Despite its importance, the specification of a satisfactory 
>general 
>analysis of causal relations in language has long proved difficult. In this 
>talk I will 
>present some unsupervised and semi-supervised models for the identification 
>of 
>causal event sequences in various text genres. The experiments give insights 
>into 
>various issues, such as verb semantics, inference rules, causal chains, as 
>well as 
the 
>perception of causal knowledge. I will conclude with an application to the 
>analysis of 
>interpersonal interactions in social media.
>
>We hope to see you all there.
>Best,
>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.