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07 th October 2011, R. 3.405

10 th Language and Computation Day Celebrating 10 years of excellence in research, teaching and social drinking. 07 th October 2011, R. 3.405. 2001-2011 : key events in the science and IT history. 2001 Wikipedia is founded; publication of the human genome sequence

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07 th October 2011, R. 3.405

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  1. 10th Language and Computation DayCelebrating 10 years of excellence in research, teaching and social drinking • 07th October 2011, R. 3.405

  2. 2001-2011 : key events in the science and IT history • 2001 Wikipedia is founded; publication of the human genome sequence • 2002 Online Marketing Optimisation; Creative Commons • 2003 MySpace & Skype founded; 1st Meeting of the World Summit of the Information Society • 2004 Flickr & Facebook founded; image manipulation in scientific publications; Google Print Project; Web 2.0 • 2005 Google Earth launch; YouTube founded; Amazon Mechanical Turk; 7/7 London bombings results in the adoption of user-generated content by mainstreat media (BBC) • 2006 Crowdsourcing; Twitter is founded; Wikileaks is founded • 2007 IBM begins development of the Watson QA system; First 1TB hard disk; iPhone; Amazon Kindle; MacBook Aire • 2008 Android powered phone; Google Flu Trends; Europeana • 2009 Google Earth with historical imagery; Wolfram/Alpha; Bing; Google announces real-time search; Google Goggles for Android • 2010 the Never-ending Language Learning system (NELL), Carnegie Mellon Uni; ipad; Google Twitter replay; Google instant search • 2011 Google art Project; IBM’s Watson defeats humans @ Jeopardy

  3. Past Seminars 2003/04 : The Acquisition of Lexical and Ontological Knowledge. 2004/05 : Language and Computation Seminar: Underspecification and Incrementality in Semantic Processing. 2005/06 : Empirical Methods in NLP. 2007/08 : NLP using Prolog and Perl (Nugues’ book) 2008/09 : We went through various papers in ACL 2008, and members presented details of their current research 2009/10 : R workshop 2010/11 : Probabilistic graphical Models and Bayesian Methods (Koller’s Book)

  4. What is the Language and Computation Group? • Interdisciplinary group of researchers from different departments (Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Language and Linguistics, UK Data Archive, Mathematics, Philosophy) • Use computational methods to study language • Staff and students • New members welcome!

  5. Who are we? • School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering: Massimo Poesio, Udo Kruschwitz, Chris Fox, Maria Fasli, Jon Chamberlain, Dyaa Al-Bakour, Jenya Kovalchuk, Deirdre Lungley, Suma Adindla, Sharhida Saad, Mahmoud El-Haj, Richard Sutcliffe (Limerick) • Language and Linguistics: Doug Arnold, Sonja Eisenbeiss, Louisa Sadler, Bob Borsley • Data Archive: Lorna Balkan, Louise Corti, Kakia Chatsiou • Mathematical Sciences: Olivia Sanchez-Graillet ... and more

  6. Notable alumni members • CSEE: Mijail Alexandrov-Kabadjov, Mohammed AL-Hadded, Abdulrahman Almuhareb, Hala Al-Bakour, Ron Artstein, Carolina Bailey, Stephen Dignum, Abduelbaset Goweder, Jeff Reynolds • LingLang: Elina Andrikou, Maria Flouraki, Yasuhiro Kawata, Evita Linardaki, Voula Gotsoulia, Miriam Urgelles-Coll, Aline Villavincencio

  7. What do we do? • Research: a weekly research/reading seminar, annual flatlands meeting, annual Language and Computation Day • Teaching: MA in Computational Linguistics, NLE course in CES • Drinking: weekly pub nights, weekly lunch meetings

  8. Research – notable past projects • Analyzing Free Text Segments of Emergency Service Reports (BAE Systems, LingLang), 2009-2010 • Anawiki / Phrasedetectives • Intelligent Mail Server (a KTP project with CSEE & AWS, Ipswich) • Development of a career path framework (CSEE&Jobserve) • Learning Disabilities Data and Information Infrastructure Project (ESRC) • Markup-Based Knowledge Extraction Project (EPSRC) • Anaphora Resolution and Underspecification (EPSRC) • Essex Gateway to Arabic Resources (Essex)

  9. Research Projects - ongoing • CareerPath KTP project (JobServe Ltd., Essex), 2009-2011 • AutoAdapt: EPSRC project (Essex, RGU Aberdeen & Open University): Automatic Adaptation of Knowledge Structures for Assisted Information Seeking, 2008-2011

  10. PhD students • Suma AdindlaDialogue-driven intranet search • Sharhida SaadWeb Usage Mining, adaptive Web sites • Mahmoud El-HajArabic text summarization • John Chamberlain • Deirdre Lungley • Dyaa Al-Bakour • Azhar Alhindi Text summarization • Antai Roseline Sentiment Analysis • Adindla Suma Intranet search • and others…

  11. Events to come • Search Solutions 2011 • TREC Session Track 2012 • European Conference in Information Retrieval 2012 • Any upcoming events?

  12. Recent Publications • Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (Chris) • Experimenting with Automatic Text Summarization for Arabic (Mahmoud, Udo, Chris) • An LFG analysis of Modern Greek Relative Clauses (Kakia) • And others 

  13. Evening Dinner!

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