The LTI Student Research Symposium (SRS) is a one-day series of talks and poster presentations designed both to increase awareness of the diverse aspects of language technologies research conducted by students within the LTI, as well as to introduce incoming LTI students to the work of current students.
One of the talks will be selected for a "Best Presentation Award", which will be announced at the end of the Symposium. The winner of the "Best Presentation Award" will receive a cash prize of $500. Additionally, two Honorable Mentions will be selected, each receiving a cash prize of $100, and a $100 for "Best Poster Award" will also be presented. This year, we have a new track for Software/tools presentation and the best poster in this track will be awarded a "Best Software/Tool Poster" and a cash prize of $100.
An oral presentation in the Symposium fulfills the yearly presentation requirement and the speaking requirement for LTI PhD and MS students. 2012 Winners- Best Presentation Award: Manaal Faruqui ($500)
- Honorable Mentions: Long Qin, Reyyan Yeniterzi ($100 each)
- Best Poster Award: Kenton Murray ($100)
- Best Software Tool Poster: Michael Denkowski ($100)
2012 Program Schedule
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
10:15am - 6:00pm
Wean 5403
| TIME |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
| 10:15AM |
|
Opening Remarks |
| 10:30AM |
Long Qin
|
OOV Word Detection using Hybrid Models with Mixed Types of Fragments
|
| 11:00AM |
Yulia Tsvetkov and Zaid Md Abdul Wahab Sheikh
|
Identification and Modeling Word Fragments in Conversational Speech
|
| 11:30PM |
Zhou Yu
|
Automatic Label Cleaning through Human Action Detection
|
| 12:00PM |
Reyyan Yeniterzi |
Using Explicit and Implicit Behaviors to Find Experts in Intra-Organizational Social Media
|
| 12:30PM |
LUNCH BREAK
|
WEAN Hall 5403
|
1:30PM
|
Manaal Faruqui
|
A model of formal and informal address in English
|
| 2:00PM |
Meghana Kshirsagar |
Techniques to cope with missing data in host-pathogen interaction prediction
|
| 2:30PM |
Vivian Chen |
Two-Layer Mutually Enforced Random Walk for Improved Multi-Party Meeting Summarization
|
| 3:00PM |
COFFEE BREAK / POSTER SESSION |
WEAN Hall Lobby 5th Floor |
| 4:00PM |
Invited Keynote Speaker: Luis Von Ahn
|
Duolingo
|
| 5:00PM |
AWARDS / CLOSING CEREMONY |
|
POSTERS
Kenton Murray "The Semantic Scan Statistic"
Justin Chiu "Explorations in Zero-Resource Spoken Term Detection"
Sujay Kumar Jauhar "Re-Assessing Lexical Simplification Quality from a Practically Motivated Standpoint"
Mohit Kumar "Empirical Comparison of Active Learning Strategies for Handling Temporal Drift"
POSTERS - Software Tools
Michael Denkowski "TransCenter: Web-Based Translation Editing and Tracking"
Sujay Kumar Jauhar "SimpLex V0.1 - Scripts for Streamlining Lexical Simplification Learning"
Alok Parlikar "TestVox: Web Based Listening Tests Framework"
Jonathan Clark "Ducttape: Simple, Replicable Exploration of HyperWorkflows" | 