[CL+NLP Lunch] Tim Baldwin talk: Friday at noon

[Nathan Schneider]

All,

Join us Friday at noon for a talk by a very special visitor. Lunch will be
provided.

Cheers,
Nathan


NLP Lunch <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~nlp-lunch/>
Friday, June 20 at noon
GHC 8102

Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne

*Text Analysis of Social Media Beyond Twitterdome*

Abstract:

Text processing of social media data in NLP has largely centred around
Twitter, with other social media types getting relatively little attention.
In this talk, I will first present an empirical comparison of text sourced
from a range of social media sites (microblogs, comments, user forums,
blogs and Wikipedia), focusing on the relative "noisiness" and diversity of
the linguistic content. I will then discuss the application of discourse
parsing to user forum threads, and incorporation of the results to improve
search quality.

Bio:

Tim Baldwin is a Professor in the Department of Computing and Information
Systems, The University of Melbourne, an Australian Research Council Future
Fellow, and a contributed research staff member of NICTA Victoria. He has
previously held visiting positions at the University of Washington,
University of Tokyo, Saarland University, NTT Communication Science
Laboratories and National Institute of Informatics. His research interests
include text mining of social media, computational lexical semantics,
information extraction and web mining, with a particular interest in the
interface between computational and theoretical linguistics. Current
projects include web user forum mining, text mining of Twitter, and machine
translation evaluation. He is currently Secretary of the Australasian
Language Technology Association and a member of the Executive Committee of
the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, and was recently PC
Chair of EMNLP 2013 and *SEM 2013.

Tim completed a BSc(CS/Maths) and BA(Linguistics/Japanese) at The
University of Melbourne in 1995, and an MEng(CS) and PhD(CS) at the Tokyo
Institute of Technology in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Prior to joining
The University of Melbourne in 2004, he was a Senior Research Engineer at
the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University
(2001-2004).
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