[Probcogsci] Fwd: 2009 Winter Quarter AI Lunch Seminar

[Angela J. Yu]

Roger's giving a talk (see below).

What are we doing for the reading group this quarter?

By the way, I am teaching a class on supervised learning and  
reinforcement learning this quarter if anyone's interested in taking  
it or auditing it:
http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~ajyu/Teaching/Cogs118A_wi09/cogs118A.html

Best wishes,
Angela

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Lawrence Saul <saul at cs.ucsd.edu>
> Date: January 2, 2009 2:33:46 PM PST
> To: ai at cs.ucsd.edu, cosmal at cs.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: 2009 Winter Quarter AI Lunch Seminar
>
> 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
>>