ICCS/HCRC Seminar Series
Please note that this programme is subject to change/additions so please bookmark us and check this page on a regular basis.
Friday talks take place at 11am, unless otherwise specified. The venue will be announced for each individual talk, but the default is room 4.31 in the Informatics Forum.
If you want to arrange a meeting with one of the seminar speakers, please contact the ICCS/HCRC admin team. If you want to suggest a speaker for the seminar, please contact Sharon Goldwater or Mirella Lapata.
If you are hosting a speaker, please check the guidance notes for your responsibilities and other useful information. (This page is accessible only from within the Informatics domain.)
Program for 2009/2010, Semester 1
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Friday 25 September
John Tait
Information Retrievel Facility (http://www.ir-facility.org/)
Patent Search: Collaborative Information Retrieval in Action
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Friday 2 October
Anoop Sarkar
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Bootstrapping a Classifier using the Yarowsky Algorithm
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Friday 16 October
Regina Barzilay
MIT
Embracing Language Diversity: Unsupervised Multilingual Learning?
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Friday 30 October
Bonnie Webber
University of Edinburgh
Early problems, current successes, future challenges
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Friday 13 November
Luke Zettlemoyer
University of Edinburgh
Learning to Follow Orders: Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions
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Friday 4 December
Matthew Purver
Queen Mary University of London
Incrementality, Alignment and Shared Utterances - Revisited