Save the dates: the NLP Colloquium Series is scheduled for the upcoming semester!

We are excited to announce the lineup for the third year of our Joint CSE/IST Colloquium Series in Natural Language Processing! 🎉

• October 5: Robert Frank (Ph.D. U. Penn, 1992).
• Frank is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Yale University. His research interests include syntax, psycholinguistics & neurolinguistics, language acquisition, computational & mathematical linguistics.

• October 19: Carolyn Penstein Rosé (Ph.D. CMU, 1997).
• Rosé is a Professor in the Language Technologies Institute and Human-Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Her research program is focused on better understanding the social and pragmatic nature of conversation, and using this understanding to build computational systems that can improve the efficacy of conversation between people, and between people and computers. Her research integrates and extends approaches from computational discourse analysis and text mining, conversational agents, and computer-supported collaborative learning.

• November 2: Srinivas Bangalore (Ph.D. U. Penn, 1997).
• Bangalore is the Director of AI Research at Interactions Corporation, and before that, a Principal Research Scientist at AT&T Labs--Research (1997-2014). He has made significant contributions to  many areas of natural  language processing  including Spoken Language Translation, Multimodal  Understanding,  Language Generation and Question-Answering. He has  co-edited three books  on Supertagging, Natural Language Generation, and Language Translation, and holds over 100 patents in these areas.

The Colloquium Series will be held in Westgate Building, The Cybertorium, on Fridays at 2 PM. More information will be posted 🔜