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HLTC Special Seminars

In addition to regular postgraduate seminar courses, the HLTC Special Seminars series offers talks of particular interest to Human Language Technology researchers.

See also

• AI & Statistics Seminars, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• Database Seminars, Department of Computer Science
• Seminars, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• Seminars, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
• Seminars, Division of Humanities

Seminars

• Daichi MOCHIHASHI, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
  Nonparametric Bayesian Methods in Language Modeling
  2008.05.23, 16:00-17:00, LTH

• Yuk Wah WONG, University of Texas at Austin
  Learning for Semantic Parsing and Natural Language Generation Using Statistical Machine Translation
  2007.09.17, 16:00-17:00, LTF

• Liang HUANG, University of Pennsylvania
  Binarizing Synchronous Grammars for Machine Translation
  2007.07.30, 16:00-17:30, Rm 1505

• Liang HUANG, University of Pennsylvania
  K-best Algorithms in Parsing and Machine Translation
  2007.07.30, 10:30-12:00, Rm 2578

• Ovid J. L. TZENG, Academia Sinica & National Yang Ming University
  Neurocorrelates of Reading Chinese Words in Texts without Word Boundaries: Evidence from the Educated Eyes to the Educated Brain
  2007.06.07, 16:00-18:00, LTK

• Hermann HELBIG, University Hagen
  Multilayered Semantic Networks as a Knowledge Representation Paradigm and Interlingua for Meaning Representation
  2006.08.04, 10:30-11:30, Rm 3530

• CAO Lu, HKUST
  An Introduction of Mandarin Tone Recogntion
  2006.07.28, 16:30-17:30, Rm 2461

• Ido DAGAN, Bar Ilan University
  Textual Entailment as a Framework for Applied Semantics
  2006.07.27, 17:30-18:30, Rm 3311

• Nianwen XUE, University of Colorado at Boulder
  Linguistically Informed Engineering
  2006.04.27, 15:00-16:30, Rm 2578 (HLTC)

• Patrick HANKS, Brandeis University
  Word Meaning and Word Context: Implications for NLP
  2006.04.12, 16:00-18:00, Rm 2578 (HLTC)

• Marine CARPUAT, HKUST
  Word Sense Disambiguation vs. Statistical Machine Translation: PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
  2005.11.21, 13:00-15:00, Rm 4480

• Marine CARPUAT, HKUST
  Word Sense Disambiguation vs. Statistical Machine Translation: PhD Qualifying Examination
  2005.09.21, 12:00-14:00, Rm 4480

• YU Xiaofeng, HKUST
  Automatic Building of Bilingual Semantic Lexicons for Translation Selection
  2005.09.15, 15:00-18:00, Rm 2578 (HLTC)

• Richard STALLMAN, Free Software Foundation
  The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System
  2005.09.06, 16:30-18:30, LTA

• Pascale FUNG, HKUST
  Modeling, Summarizing and Translating Speech
  2005.05.09, 13:00-14:00, LTE

• Alex WAIBEL, Carnegie Mellon University
  2005.04.01, 11:00-12:00, Rm 2406

• Stephan VOGEL, Carnegie Mellon University
  The ISL Statistical Machine Translation System
  2005.03.23, 15:00-16:00, LTC

• Michelle ZHOU, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  Responsive Information Architect: Context-Sensitive Information Seeking
  2005.02.03, 16:00-17:00, Rm 3464 (Math/CS)

• Jianfeng GAO, Microsoft Research Asia
  Natural language processing at MSR Asia
  2004.11.15, 11:00-12:00, Rm 2578 (HLTC)

• Dekai WU, HKUST
  Natural and Artificial Language, Intelligence, and the ITG Hypotheses: From Scientific Grand Challenges to Real World Applications
  2004.11.01, 16:00-17:30, LTF

• Alex WAIBEL, Carnegie Mellon University
  Modeling and Facilitating Human Communication
  2004.10.15, 16:00-17:30, LTG

• Abdelwadood MESLEH, HKUST
  An Improved Machine Translation Performance via Parallel Sentence Extraction from Corpora
  2004.10.20, 16:30-17:30, Rm 2578 (HLTC)

• ZHAI Lufeng, HKUST
  Making Spoken Languge Systems---The Integration of Speech Recognition and Natural Language Technologies
  2004.05.19, 12:30-14:00, Rm 2578 (HLTC)

• Harold SOMERS, Manchester University
  Computer-based Support for Patients with Limited English
  2004.03.29, 14:00-15:00, Rm 2578 (HLTC)

• John CHEN, Columbia University
  Automatic Extraction of TAG from a Treebank and its Application to Semantic Parsing
  2004.01.20, 15:00-16:00, Rm 2578 (HLTC)

Past Seminars (partial listing)

• Richard SPROAT, AT&T
  Finite-State Approaches to Text Analysis
  2003.03.25, 15:00-16:30, LTH

• Min-Yen KAN, National University of Singapore
  Automatic Text Summarization as Applied Towards Information Retrieval
  2003.03.21, 16:00-17:00, Rm 2578 (HLTC)

• Frank SOONG, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
  Optimal Clustering of Multivariate Normal Distributions Using K-L Divergence and Its Application to HMM Adaptation
  2003.02.26, 14:30-15:30, Rm 2578 (HLTC)

• Joerg SCHUETZ, Institute for Applied Information Sciences, Saarbruecken
  Multilingual Language Technology at IAI
  1999.09.27, 11:00-12:30, Rm 3464 (Math/CS)

• DONG Zhengdong
  HowNet
  1999.09.20, 15:30-16:30, Rm 3405

• DAI Beiqian, China University of Science and Technology
  Robust Speaker Verification (in Mandarin)
  1999.01.12, 11:00-12:00, Rm 3598

• Tatsuya KAWAHARA, Kyoto University
  Key-Phrase Detection and Verification Approach for Flexible Speech Understanding
  1998.11.27, 14:30-15:30, LTD

• Jean-Pierre CHANOD, Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE)
  Incremental Finite-State Parsing
  1998.11.06, 10:00-12:00, Rm 5501

• Li DENG, University of Waterloo
  A dynamic, feature-based approach to speech modeling and speech recognition
  1998.05.05, 11:00-12:00, Rm 3401

• Karin VERSPOOR, Macquarie University
  Phrasal constructs, the lexicon, and multilingual generation
  1998.02.17, 11:00-12:00, Rm 3464 (Math/CS)

• Christer SAMUELSSON, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
  Extending N-gram Tagging to Word Graphs
  1998.01.19, 11:00-12:00, Rm 3464 (Math/CS)

• Martha PALMER, University of Pennsylvania
  Associating Semantic Features with Intersective Levin Classes
  1997.10.27, 15:30-16:30, LTH

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Last updated: 2007.07.25 Dekai Wu