Here's what my schedule looks like for the fall:
This morning, I met with


Today, we talked about the GIZA++ software package for statistical MT (and
We also talked about Andy McCallum's e-mail mining paper from IJCAI-2005, and some of the latest advances in social network analysis and collaborative recommendation.
Starting next week, we will have a weekly seminar on statistical approaches to machine translation (MT).
I'm looking at GIZA++, the BLEU calculation codes, a short article by Kevin Knight on teaching statistical MT, and his Statistical MT glossary.
CIS 730 (Introduction to Artificial Intelligence) has about 20 people in it, including several off-campus students - a few more than I expected, but the more, the merrier! As I expected, CIS 732 (Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition) has only 4 people in it (attendance has been: 5 in 1999, 6 in 2001, 5 in 2002, 4 in 2003).
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