[Colloquium] Seminar Announcement: Paradigms of evaluation in natural language processing

[Ninfa Mayorga]

Computation Institute-Computational Knowledge Synthesis

Speaker:  Kevin Cohen, PhD, Center for Computational Pharmacology in  
Denver, CO
Date: January 24, 2011
Time: 3:30-5:00 pm
Location: The University of Chicago, Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Ave.,  
Argonne National Lab, TCS/Room 5C2 (5172)

Paradigms of evaluation in natural language processing

Abstract: Natural language processing has evolved a dominant paradigm  
of evaluation in which the standard approach involves calculating  
single metrics or related metrics calculated based on performance on  
naturally occurring bodies of data.  However, traditional structural  
linguistics suggests another paradigm for evaluation, based on  
approaching language processing tools as languages and evaluating tool  
performance on structured bodies of data, including synthetic data.
We will examine ways to implement this paradigm and show how it can  
reveal useful patterns in the performance of systems for biomedical  
language processing.




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