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[Rajhans Samdani <rsamdan2 AT illinois.edu>]

The title says it all.

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon,  7 Mar 2011 13:27:38 -0600 (CST)
>From: Rajhans Samdani 
><rsamdan2 AT illinois.edu>
>  
>Subject: AIIS talk by Chad Cumby on March 11  
>To: 
>nl-uiuc AT cs.uiuc.edu,
> 
>aivr 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 have Chad Cumby from Accenture speaking at the AIIS seminar. 
>Details are...
>
>When: Friday 2 pm, March 11.
>
>Where: Siebel Center, 3405.
>
>Title: Business Applications of Text Mining and Machine Learning
>
>Abstract: 
>In this talk I’ll describe our research group at Accenture Labs, and give a 
>survey of 
>several pilot applications that we have worked on collaboratively with 
>clients in 
>different industries and with internal groups at Accenture.  Accenture 
>Technology 
>Labs is the dedicated R&D organization for the company with locations in 
>Chicago, 
>San Jose, Bangalore, and (now also!) Beijing.  Some examples of projects 
>I’ll talk 
>about are:  automatic extraction of product catalogs and attributes from 
>Ebay auction 
>text using semi-supervised learning, active learning for flagging insurance 
>claim 
>payment errors, and improving enterprise content search systems with 
>personalization.
>
>Hoping to see you all,
>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.