UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE <br> DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
Special Interest Group on Natural language Processing (SIG-NLP)
Discussion Schedule for Fall 2007

Mondays, 2:20pm - 3:20pm
102A Smith Hall




September 17, 2007
Seniz Demir
Effectively Realizing the Intended Message of an Information Graphic
          This is a practice talk for the upcoming RANLP Conference.
September 24, 2007
Jay McCaw
Word Prediction and Communication Rate in AAC
October 1, 2007
Keith Trnka
          Corpus Studies in Word Prediction
This is a practice talk for the upcoming ASSETS Conference.
October 8, 2007
        Mike Bloodgood

        Using Active Learning with Support Vector Machines for Information Extraction   

October 15, 2007 -- No SIG-NLP -- ASSETS Conference

October 22, 2007
         
Dan Blanchard
         
A Probabilistic Model for Cognitively-Feasible Speech Segmentation

October 29, 2007
 
        Peng Wu
         
Decision Tree Induction for Identifying Trends in Line Graphs

November 5, 2007
        Oana Tudor
        
A Statistical Approach to Mining Gene Information from Medline

November 12, 2007
        Paul Heintzelman
        
Definite Descriptions

November 19, 2007
        Rich Burns
         Toward a Computational Modeling of Grouped Bar Chart Tasks
        
November 26, 2007
        Seniz Demir
         Generating Textual Summaries of Bar Charts in SIGHT

December 3, 2007
        Debra Yarrington
         Automatic Text Skimming for Question Answering within Single Documents for People with Visual Impairments



Send questions/comments to mccoy@cis.udel.edu.