[IR Series] - Vasudeva Varma -- Friday April 16, 2010, noon - NSH 3002

[Jonathan Elsas]

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.
>
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> 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
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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.
>