From lucyliu at mydiscoverytour.ca Sat Jun 5 11:41:26 2010 From: lucyliu at mydiscoverytour.ca (Cannetic Travel Ltd.) Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:41:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Amazing price for china trip Message-ID: <4c0a7026.1437720a.7fb7.ffffc508@mx.google.com> Invitation Of China Educational Trips-Summer 2010 Presented by Sino-North America International Educational Program Dear Principals and Educators: On behalf of the Sino-North America International Educational Program organizing committee, I am pleased to invite you and your fellow teachers to the China Educational Trip-Summer 2010 which will be starting from July to August. This program is one of the best platforms between China and North America. This trip is sponsored by the Organizing Committee of the Chinese Education Bureaus, Hangzhou Youth & Children Development Center, Air China, China Eastern Airlines and Hainan Airlines. Only $999* - an 8 days trip to Beijing or a 9 days trip to Shanghai. This special summer offer for all Educators and school support staffs other cities also available: Hangzhou/Suzhou/Guilin/Xi?an (the price includes international round-trip airfare, 4/5 star accommodations, English speaking tour guides, air-conditioned coach within cities, domestic flights in China, and meals as specified). We have 6 different tour packages specialized for educators this summer: (For more information, please visit our website at www.mydiscoverytour.ca) This will be an amazing opportunity to learn the Chinese culture, interact with the local educators and students, and of course, explore the amazing sights of China. You are welcome to bring your family members, friends and students. School support staffs are also welcome! However, there are some restrictions and conditions for non educators. Please feel free to let us know if you have any questions or if you need more information about the program and the trip. We will be more than happy to help you. We look forward to hearing from you soon. Thank you and regards! *The $999 price is based on Vancouver (YVR), Seattle (SEA) departures. Other departure cities add-on airfares are available based on seat availability upon request. Tax does not include. Connie Fang Project manager Lucy Liu Project manager Christine Liu Project manger Sino-North America Educational Program My discovery tour ? division of Cannetic Travel Ltd. Telephone: (604)304-5950 Facsimile: (778)297-5105 Toll Free: 1-877-665-6688 (Canada) 1-888-279-9902 (USA) www.mydiscoverytour.ca www.cannetic.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/pipermail/ir-series/attachments/20100605/b3c321d2/attachment-0001.html From jelsas at cs.cmu.edu Mon Jun 7 07:57:14 2010 From: jelsas at cs.cmu.edu (Jonathan Elsas) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 07:57:14 -0400 Subject: IR series talk this THURSDAY -- Lee Jensen (Ancestry.com) Message-ID: Hello -- Please join us for our an IR series talk this Thursday. Speaker: Lee Jensen (Ancestry.com) Date/Time: Thursday, June 10, 2010, noon Place: GHC 6115 Title: Exploiting Sequential Relationships for Familial Classification Lunch will be provided by Yahoo! Abstract: Information hidden in sequences of related data provides a significant exploitable source for information extraction. In this work we demonstrate techniques for increasing the signal of classifications from sequences of dependent data. This includes using algorithms, as well as generating features, that take advantage of the sequence oriented nature of the data. The efficacy of these techniques is evaluated with the classification of familial relationships within United States census data. The census data proves an interesting corpus for this work because of the highly sequential nature of the instances, and the explicit classification relationship between one instance and an instance previously found in the sequence. From jelsas at cs.cmu.edu Thu Jun 10 09:21:45 2010 From: jelsas at cs.cmu.edu (Jonathan Elsas) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:21:45 -0400 Subject: Fwd: IR series talk this THURSDAY -- Lee Jensen (Ancestry.com) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Reminder -- talk today. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jonathan Elsas Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:57 AM Subject: IR series talk this THURSDAY -- Lee Jensen (Ancestry.com) To: ir-series at cs.cmu.edu, lti-students at cs.cmu.edu Hello -- Please join us for our an IR series talk this Thursday. Speaker: Lee Jensen (Ancestry.com) Date/Time: Thursday, June 10, 2010, noon Place: GHC 6115 Title: Exploiting Sequential Relationships for Familial Classification Lunch will be provided by Yahoo! Abstract: Information hidden in sequences of related data provides a significant exploitable source for information extraction. In this work we demonstrate techniques for increasing the signal of classifications from sequences of dependent data. This includes using algorithms, as well as generating features, that take advantage of the sequence oriented nature of the data. The efficacy of these techniques is evaluated with the classification of familial relationships within United States census data. The census data proves an interesting corpus for this work because of the highly sequential nature of the instances, and the explicit classification relationship between one instance and an instance previously found in the sequence.