[Colloquium] REMINDER! Talks at TTIC: Hal Daume lll, University of Maryland
Dawn Ellis
dellis at ttic.edu
Thu Jan 16 08:53:23 CST 2014
When: Friday, January 17th at 10am
Where: TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room #526
Who: Hal Daume lll, Univ of Maryland
Title: Predicting Linguistic Structures Accurately and Efficiently
Abstract:
Many classic problems in natural language processing can be cast as
building mapping from a complex input (e.g., a sequence of words) to a
complex output (e.g., a syntax tree or semantic graph). This task is
challenging both because language is ambiguous (learning difficulties) and
represented with discrete combinatorial structures (computational
difficulties). Often these are at odds: the features you want to add to
decrease learning difficulties cause nontrivial additional structure
yielding worse computational difficulties.
I will begin by discussing algorithms that side-step the issue of
combinatorial blowup and aim to predict an output structure directly. I
will then present approaches that explicitly learn to trade-off accuracy
and efficiency, applied to a variety of linguistic phenomena. Moreover, I
will show that in some cases, we can actually obtain a model that is faster
and more accurate by exploiting smarter learning algorithms.
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Host: David McAllester, mcallester at ttic.edu
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*Dawn Ellis*
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773-834-1757
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TTIC
6045 S. Kenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL. 60637
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