The Carolyn Baldwin Morrison Lecture Regina Barzilay (MIT) |
“Embracing Language Diversity: Unsupervised Multilingual Learning” For centuries, the deep connection between human languages has fascinated scholars, and driven many important discoveries in linguistics and anthropology. In this talk, I will show that this connection can empower unsupervised methods for language analysis. The key insight is that joint learning from several languages reduces uncertainty about the linguistic structure of each individual language. -- -- -- -- Regina Barzilay is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Her research interests are in natural language processing. She is a recipient of the NSF Career Award, Microsoft Faculty Fellowship, and has been named as one of "Top 35 Innovators Under 35" by Technology Review Magazine. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University in 2003 and spent a year as a postdoc at Cornell University. Regina received her M.S. in 1998 and B.A. in 1992, both from Ben-Gurion University, Israel. |
Computer Science Colloquium Fall 2009
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4:15pm B17 Upson Hall Thursday, October 8, 2009 Refreshments at 3:45pm in the Upson 4th Floor Atrium |
Sponsored by the CU-ADVANCE Center |