Natural language research announcements

["Horn, Eric Bailey" <erichorn AT illinois.edu>]

The 2011 Data Sciences Summer Institute is proud to announce, as part of our Expert Speaker series:

 

Words & Pictures

 

Tamara Berg, SUNY Stony Brook

 

Tuesday, June 7, 1pm

 

2405 Siebel Center

 

Abstract:

People communicate using language, whether spoken, written, or typed. A significant portion of this language describes the world around us, especially the visual world in an environment, or depicted in images or video. Such visually descriptive language is potentially a rich source of 1) information about the world, especially the visual world, and 2) training data for how people construct natural language to describe imagery. In addition there exist billions of photographs with associated text available on the web; examples include web pages, captioned or tagged photographs, and video with speech or closed captioning. In this talk I will describe several projects related to images, descriptive text, and depiction, including: automatically labeling faces in news photographs, discovering visual attribute terms from noisy web collections, and generating simple natural language descriptions for images.

www.tamaraberg.com

 

If you are interested in an individual meeting with this speaker, please contact Eric Horn (erichorn AT illinois.edu, 333-0871)

 

Upcoming talks in this series (for abstracts, go to http://mias.illinois.edu/index.php?q=page/DSSI_2011_Expert_Speakers):

“Opinion Mining: Abstraction and Techniques,” Bing Liu (UIC); June 17, 1:00pm, 2405 Siebel Center

(Title TBA), Hang Li (Microsoft Research); June 24, 1pm, 2405 Siebel Center

 

Data Sciences Summer Institute (DSSI):

The Data Sciences Summer Institute is a 6-week long program in Data Science areas for graduate and undergraduate students from around the country.  This summer program (May 22 - July 2, 2011) consists of an intensive class in the mathematical foundations of Data Sciences, tutorials on advanced Data Science topics and collaborative research projects.  The DSSI weaves together mathematical foundations, applications, and research.

 

The mission of the Data Sciences Summer Institute is to develop diverse human resources to enhance the scientific research, education, and government workforce in Data Science disciplines.  This program is funded by the Department of Homeland Security’s Center of Excellence – Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA) at the UIUC’s Multimodal Information Access & Synthesis (MIAS) Center.

 

For more information about the Data Sciences Summer Institute, please see our website at: http://mias.illinois.edu/DSSI2011 or contact Nancy Komlanc at DSSI-cs AT illinois.edu, 217-244-4675.