<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style=""><div class="m_8609159779071745624gmail-m_6134020100149053573gmail-m_-2053129909387779305gmail-m_-4421783803009889794gmail-m_1235227957090907765gmail-m_767208242022040581gmail-m_4176080224522608772gmail-gE m_8609159779071745624gmail-m_6134020100149053573gmail-m_-2053129909387779305gmail-m_-4421783803009889794gmail-m_1235227957090907765gmail-m_767208242022040581gmail-m_4176080224522608772gmail-iv m_8609159779071745624gmail-m_6134020100149053573gmail-m_-2053129909387779305gmail-m_-4421783803009889794gmail-m_1235227957090907765gmail-m_767208242022040581gmail-m_4176080224522608772gmail-gt" style="padding:10px 0px 3px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style=""><b style="">When: </b> Monday, September 24th at 11:00 am</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Where: </b>TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Who: </b>Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</font></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style=""><br></font></div></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Title:</b> Getting Computers to Understand Descriptions of Everyday Events<br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Abstract:</b> Much of the research in my group has been focused on trying to get computers to understand language that describes everyday scenes and events. In this talk, I will give an overview of this work, ranging from image description and text-to-image grounding to semantic inference, and I will discuss the challenges involved in getting computers to perform these seemingly simple tasks.</font></div><div><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Bio:</b> Julia Hockenmaier is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has won an NSF CAREER award and the IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize 2018, which is awarded to an outstanding paper published in JAIR in the preceding five calendar years. 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Marre</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Administrative Assistant</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Room 517</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">p:(773) 834-1757</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">f: (773) 357-6970</font></i></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 3:37 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="m_8609159779071745624m_6134020100149053573gmail-m_-2053129909387779305gmail-m_-4421783803009889794gmail-m_1235227957090907765gmail-m_767208242022040581gmail-m_4176080224522608772gmail-gE m_8609159779071745624m_6134020100149053573gmail-m_-2053129909387779305gmail-m_-4421783803009889794gmail-m_1235227957090907765gmail-m_767208242022040581gmail-m_4176080224522608772gmail-iv m_8609159779071745624m_6134020100149053573gmail-m_-2053129909387779305gmail-m_-4421783803009889794gmail-m_1235227957090907765gmail-m_767208242022040581gmail-m_4176080224522608772gmail-gt" style="padding:10px 0px 3px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">When: </span></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> Monday, September 24th at 11:00 am<span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Where: </span></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526<span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Who: </b>Julia Hockenmaier</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<span></span></span></font></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Title:</b> <span> TBA</span><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div><br></div><div><b>Abstract:</b><span> TBA</span></div><div><br><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Host: </b> <a href="mailto:klivescu@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Karen Livescu</a></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font 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