AIML: Schedule

Official inquiries about AIML should be directed to Rodrigo de Salvo Braz (braz@uiuc.edu).
Last update: 09/07/2004

SCHEDULE FALL 2004	Date	Speaker	Topic	Links
	09/16/04	Rodrigo de Salvo Braz	Hierarchical topic models and the nested Chinese restaurant process. D. Blei, T. Griffiths, M. Jordan, and J. Tenenbaum In S. Thrun, L. Saul, and B. Scholkopf, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 16, Cambridge, MA, 2004. MIT Press.	PDF PPT
	09/23/04	Jakob Metzler	Web-Scale Information Extraction in KnowItAll (Preliminary Results), by Etzioni et al.	PDF KnowItAll web page
	09/30/04	Xin Li	Integrating Constraints and Metric Learning in Semi-Supervised Clustering. Mikhail Bilenko, Sugato Basu, Raymond J. Mooney. ICML 2004.	PDF Slides
	10/07/04	Matt Drees	An Improved Error Model for Noisy Channel Spelling Correction, Eric Brill, Robert C. Moore	PDF
	10/14/04	Steve Hanneke	Markov Logic: A Unifying Framework for Statistical Relational Learning, Pedro Domingos and Matthew Richardson.	PDF Longer version Author's thesis
	10/21/04	Wen-tau Yih	General talk on CRF models.
	10/28/04	Adam Klivans	Learning Intersections of Halfspaces
	11/04/04	Lise Getoor at 3:15pm	Link Mining	Home page
	11/11/04	John Langford	Reductions for Machine Learning
	11/18/04	Dav Zimak	J. Platt's Sequential Minimal Optimization (SMO)	SMO page
	12/02/04	Dragomir Radev at 3pm	Social network analysis of text
	12/09/04	Michael Connor	PageRank on Semantic Networks, with Application to Word Sense Disambiguation, by Rada Mihalcea, Paul Tarau, Elizabeth Figa	PS