From jelsas at cs.cmu.edu  Thu Apr  8 15:48:52 2010
From: jelsas at cs.cmu.edu (Jonathan Elsas)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 15:48:52 -0400
Subject: [IR Series] - Vasudeva Varma -- Friday April 16, 2010, noon - NSH 
	3002
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Hello -- Please join us for our an IR series talk next Friday.

Speaker: Dr. Vasudeva Varma (Institute of Information Technology,
Hyderabad, India)
Date/Time: Friday April 16, 2010, noon
Place: Newell-Simon Hall 3002

Lunch will be provided by Yahoo!

Title: Cross Language Information Access - An Indian Experience

In this talk, I briefly explain the cross language information
retrieval research for Indian languages. There is a national wide
mission mode project on cross language information access sponsored by
Ministry of Communications and Information technology, Government of
India involving ten Universities. I will talk about the major research
issues and a possible roadmap for the CLIR research in Indian setting.
I will also share our experiences with multi-lingual summarization.

Vasudeva Varma is a faculty member at International Institute of
Information Technology, Hyderabad Since 2002. His research interests
include search (information retrieval), information extraction,
information access, knowledge management, cloud computing and software
engineering. He is heading Search and Information Extraction Lab and
Software Engineering Research Lab at IIIT Hyderabad. He is also the
chair of Post Graduate Programs since 2009. He published a book on
Software Architecture (Pearson Education) and over sixty technical
papers in journals and conferences. In 2004, he obtained young
scientist award and grant from Department of Science and Technology,
Government of India, for his proposal on personalized search engines.
In 2007, he was given Research Faculty Award by AOL Labs.

From jelsas at cs.cmu.edu  Fri Apr 16 11:26:42 2010
From: jelsas at cs.cmu.edu (Jonathan Elsas)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:26:42 -0400
Subject: [IR Series] - Vasudeva Varma -- Friday April 16, 2010, noon - NSH 
	3002
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Reminder: IR Series talk today at Noon.  See you there!

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Jonathan Elsas <jelsas at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> FYI -- IR series talk this Friday.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jonathan Elsas <jelsas at cs.cmu.edu>
> Date: Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:48 PM
> Subject: [IR Series] - Vasudeva Varma -- Friday April 16, 2010, noon - NSH 3002
> To: ir-series at cs.cmu.edu
>
>
> Hello -- Please join us for our an IR series talk next Friday.
>
> Speaker: Dr. Vasudeva Varma (Institute of Information Technology,
> Hyderabad, India)
> Date/Time: Friday April 16, 2010, noon
> Place: Newell-Simon Hall 3002
>
> Lunch will be provided by Yahoo!
>
> Title: Cross Language Information Access - An Indian Experience
>
> In this talk, I briefly explain the cross language information
> retrieval research for Indian languages. There is a national wide
> mission mode project on cross language information access sponsored by
> Ministry of Communications and Information technology, Government of
> India involving ten Universities. I will talk about the major research
> issues and a possible roadmap for the CLIR research in Indian setting.
> I will also share our experiences with multi-lingual summarization.
>
> Vasudeva Varma is a faculty member at International Institute of
> Information Technology, Hyderabad Since 2002. His research interests
> include search (information retrieval), information extraction,
> information access, knowledge management, cloud computing and software
> engineering. He is heading Search and Information Extraction Lab and
> Software Engineering Research Lab at IIIT Hyderabad. He is also the
> chair of Post Graduate Programs since 2009. He published a book on
> Software Architecture (Pearson Education) and over sixty technical
> papers in journals and conferences. In 2004, he obtained young
> scientist award and grant from Department of Science and Technology,
> Government of India, for his proposal on personalized search engines.
> In 2007, he was given Research Faculty Award by AOL Labs.
>