[Probcogsci] 2009 Winter Quarter AI Lunch Seminar
Angela J. Yu
ajyu at cogsci.ucsd.edu
Fri Jan 2 14:36:31 PST 2009
Hi Roger,
Is this the same stuff that you presented at NIPS?
What's happening with our probcogsci reading group for the new quarter?
Are you enjoying 2009 so far? :)
Angela
On Jan 2, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Lawrence Saul wrote:
> TIME: 12-1 pm
>
> On Jan 2, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Lawrence Saul wrote:
>
>> DATE: Monday January 05
>>
>> ROOM: EBU3B 4140
>>
>> SPEAKER: Professor Roger Levy, UCSD Linguistics
>>
>> TITLE: Modeling the effects of memory on human online sentence
>> processing with particle filters
>>
>> ABSTRACT: Language comprehension in humans is significantly
>> constrained by memory, yet rapid, highly incremental, and capable
>> of utilizing a wide range of contextual information to resolve
>> ambiguity and form expectations about future input. In contrast,
>> most of the leading psycholinguistic models and fielded algorithms
>> for natural language parsing are non-incremental, have run time
>> superlinear in input length, and/or enforce structural locality
>> constraints on probabilistic dependencies between events. We
>> present a new limited-memory model of sentence comprehension which
>> involves an adaptation of the particle filter, a sequential Monte
>> Carlo method, to the problem of incremental parsing. We show that
>> this model can reproduce classic results in online sentence
>> comprehension, and that it naturally provides the first rational
>> account of an outstanding problem in psycholinguistics, in which
>> the preferred alternative in a syntactic ambiguity seems to grow
>> more attractive over time even in the absence of strong
>> disambiguating information.
>>
>> (Pizza will be served.)
>>
>> =============================================================
>>
>> Full schedule:
>>
>> Jan 05 Roger Levy
>> Modeling the effects of memory on human online sentence processing
>> with particle filters
>>
>> Jan 12 Boris Bobenko
>> Multiple instance learning
>>
>> Jan 19 MLK HOLIDAY
>>
>> Jan 26 Jake Whitehill and Paul Ruvolo
>> Whose vote should count more?
>> Optimal integration of image labels from labelers of unknown
>> expertise
>>
>> Feb 02 To be anounced
>>
>> Feb 09 Evan Ettinger
>> The automatic cameraman project
>>
>> Feb 16 PRESIDENT'S DAY
>>
>> Feb 23 Honghao Shan
>> Soft binary coding
>>
>> Mar 02 Justin Ma
>> Detecting malicious web sites from the features of suspicious URLs
>>
>> Mar 09 Bharath Kumar
>> Embeddings in Hilbert spaces
>>
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