[Colloquium] Talk by Paul Cohen, University of Southern California, on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - REMINDER

[Nita Yack]

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE - BROWN BAG TALK

Date:	Thursday, January 17, 2008

Time:	12:00 p.m.

Place:	Ryerson 251, 1100 E. 58th St.

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Speaker: Paul Cohen
From:  University of Southern California

Web page: http://www.isi.edu/~cohen



Title: World Learning and Education Informatics, Two Applications of  
Data Mining


Abstract: The first part of this talk will review progress on our  
Robot Baby project, the goal of which is to have robots and softbots  
learn word meanings automatically by associating words with aspects of  
scenes. All our experiments involve parallel corpora of sentences and  
formal representations of scenes, and unsupervised data mining  
algorithms to find structure in the scenes that might be associated  
with occurrences of words. Recently, our Wubble World project has  
demonstrated that large sentence-scene corpora can be extracted from  
transcripts of children playing online games. The second half of the  
talk is about web-based educational technology, particularly  
intelligent tutoring systems and modeling students' engagement and  
learning statistically on the basis of their overt problem-solving  
behavior. As more students use online educational technology, there  
will be great opportunities for educational data mining and challenges  
for Education Informatics.


Host: “Stuart A. Kurtz”

*There will be refreshments in Ryerson 255 prior to the talk.*

Persons who need assistance should call 773-702-6614


Nita

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Nita Yack
Departmental Administrator
Computer Science Department
1100 E. 58th Street - Room 151
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-6019
(773) 702-8487 FAX

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their  
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