[Colloquium] Reminder: Balkir/MS Presentation/Feb 16, 2010

[Margaret Jaffey]

This is reminder about Atilla Soner Balkir's MS Presentation tomorrow.

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Date:  Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Time:  10:00 AM

Place:  Searle 240A

M.S. Candidate:  Atilla Soner Balkir

M.S. Paper Title: Statistical Sentence Chunking with Map Reduce

Abstract:
Extracting concepts and relations within statements across a large
corpus requires multiple steps of related processes: chunking a
sentence into its constituent terms (phrases), semantically
classifying them, and creating new statements by assembling those
phrases using knowledge extraction. We focus on the first step of this
series of processes by the design and evaluation of two novel
algorithms for chunking sentences using probabilistic measures. One
important aspect of this problem is the requirement for parallel
computation methods given scaling up to millions of sentences and
billions of words. A key technical component of the implementation is
the use of Map Reduce for processing large data sets and Big Table for
managing distributed data while providing random, real time read/write
access.

Advisor: Prof. Ian Foster

Login to the Computer Science Department website for details:
 https://www.cs.uchicago.edu/phd/ms_announcements#soner

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