Fwd: IR series talk this THURSDAY -- Lee Jensen (Ancestry.com)

[Jonathan Elsas]

Reminder -- talk today.


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From: Jonathan Elsas <jelsas at cs.cmu.edu>
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.