U-M Distinguished Faculty and Graduate Student Seminar
in Computation, Language, and Information

This seminar is funded by the Office of the Vice-President for Research at the University of Michigan with support from the School of Information, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Department of Linguistics.

Friday, May 3, 4 PM, in the large conference room, ATL, North Campus

Meaning and Agency in Conversation

Matthew Stone, Department of Computer Science & Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University

full announcement (including abstract): TXT

Friday, December 7, 3:30-5PM, in 311 West Hall

Text Mining Comes of Age

Jaime Carbonell, Allen Newell Professor of Computer Science and Director, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

full announcement (including abstract): TXT, DOC

Wednesday, October 24, 2001, 4PM, in G115 Angell Hall

A Probablistic Account of Logical Metonymy

Alex Lascarides, Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh

full announcement (including abstract): TXT

Tuesday, October 2, 2001, 4PM, in 175 ATL

Personalized Search and Summarization of Online Medical Information

Kathleen McKeown, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University

full announcement (including abstract): TXT, DOC

Friday, April 6, 2001, 4 PM, in 2011 MLB (Modern Languages Building)

Intonation, Grammar, and Spoken Language Processing

Mark Steedman, ICCS Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

full announcement (including abstract)

Monday, March 5, 2001, 12:30 PM, in the Ehrlicher Room (411, West Hall)

Incorporating Metadata into Domain-Specific Search

Marti Hearst, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley

full announcement (including abstract)

Tuesday, November 28, 2000, 4 PM, in 175, ATL (large conference room)

Context in Abductive Interpretation

Richmond Thomason, Departments of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Linguistics, University of Michigan

full announcement (including abstract)

This talk is cross-listed with the Artificial Intelligence Lab Seminar

Tuesday, November 21, 2000, 4 PM, in 1005, EECS

Learning in Natural Language: Theory and Algorithmic Approaches

Dan Roth, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

full announcement (including abstract)

This talk is cross-listed with the Artificial Intelligence Lab Seminar

Friday, November 17, 2000, 4 PM in 2011, Modern Languages Building

Is the human sentence parser serial or parallel? New perspectives on an old debate

Richard Lewis, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan

full announcement (including abstract)

This talk is cross-listed with the Linguistics Department Colloquium