[CL+NLP Lunch] CL-NLP-MT Lunch, Stefan Riezler, May 13 @ noon

[Chris Dyer]

Reminder everyone: this is Tuesday at 12 in 6501. Come welcome our new
visitor, Stefan!


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Chris Dyer <cdyer at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> *Speaker*: Stefan Riezler, Heidelberg University
> (http://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/~riezler/)
> *Date*: Tuesday, May 13, 2014
> *Time*: 12:00 noon
> *Venue*: GHC 6501
>
> *Title: *Theoretical and Practical Grounding in Empirical Computational
> Linguistics
>
> *Abstract*:
> Philosophy of science has pointed out a circularity problem in empirical
> sciences that arises if all known measuring procedures for a quantity of a
> theory presuppose the validity of this theory. We discuss how this problem
> relates to empirical computational linguistics, and define a criterion of
> T-non-theoretical grounding as guidance to avoid such circularities. We
> exemplify how this criterion can be met by crowdsourcing, task-related data
> annotation, or data in the wild. In particular, we illustrate the benefits
> of grounded learning in the area of statistical machine translation, e.g.,
> by grounding machine translation in semantic parsing and in
> cross-lingual information retrieval.
>
> *Bio*: Prof. Stefan Riezler has been appointed full professor and head of
> the chair of Linguistic Informatics at Heidelberg University in 2010, after
> spending a decade in the world’s most renowned industry research labs
> (Xerox PARC, Google). He received his PhD in Computational Linguistics from
> the University of Tübingen in 1998, and then conducted post-doctoral work
> at Brown University in 1999. Prof. Riezler's research focus is on machine
> learning and statistics applied to natural language processing problems,
> especially for the application areas of natural-language based web search
> and statistical machine translation.
>
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