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["Samdani, Rajhans" <rsamdan2 AT illinois.edu>]

We still have a few slots open to meet with Martha on the afternoon (at or 
after 3 pm) of Friday, June 7. Please let me know if you want to meet her.
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Subject: RE: AIIS talk by Prof. Martha Palmer on Thursday, June 6

Also, if you're interested in meeting her, please let me know. She'll be 
available to meet Thursday, June 6 and Friday, June 7 with the exception of a 
few time slots.

Rajhans
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Subject: [aiis] AIIS talk by Prof. Martha Palmer on Thursday, June 6

Hi all,

We are hosting Prof. Martha Palmer (http://verbs.colorado.edu/~mpalmer/) at 
the AIIS seminar next week. Following are the details of her talk.

When: Thursday, June 6, 2 pm (**note that it is different from our usual 
Friday slot**)

Where: 3405 Siebel

Title: Beyond Shallow Semantics


Abstract:
Shallow semantic analyzers, such as semantic role labelers and sense taggers, 
are increasing in accuracy and becoming commonplace. However, they only 
provide limited and local representations of
words and individual predicate-argument structures. This talk will address 
some of the current opportunities and challenges in producing deeper, richer 
representations of coherent eventualities. Available resources, such as 
VerbNet, that can assist in this process will also be discussed, as well as 
some of their limitations.

Bio:
Martha Palmer is a Full Professor at the University of Colorado with joint 
appointments in Linguistics
and Computer Science and is an Institute of Cognitive Science Faculty Fellow. 
She recently won a
Boulder Faculty Assembly 2010 Research Award. Her research has been focused 
on trying to capture elements of the meanings of words that can comprise 
automatic representations of complex
sentences and documents. Supervised machine learning techniques rely on vast 
amounts of annotated
training data so she and her students are engaged in providing data with word 
sense tags and semantic role labels for English, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, and 
Urdu, funded by DARPA and NSF. They also train automatic sense taggers and 
semantic role labelers, and extract bilingual lexicons from
parallel corpora. A more recent focus is the application of these methods to 
biomedical journal articles and clinical notes, funded by NIH. She is a 
co-editor for the Journal of Natural Language Engineering and for LiLT, 
Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, and on the CLJ Editorial Board. She 
is a past President of the Association for Computational Linguistics, past 
Chair of SIGLEX and SIGHAN, and was the Director of the 2011 Linguistics 
Institute held in Boulder, Colorado.

Hope a lot of you can make it.
Best,
Rajhans
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