[nl-uiuc] Upcoming talk at the AIIS seminar (this Thursday).

[Alexandre Klementiev]

Dear students,

Student meeting with Jacob has been rescheduled to 4pm today (3/5), room
3401 SC.

Sorry for such a short notice,
Alex.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Alexandre Klementiev <klementi at uiuc.edu>
wrote:

> Dear faculty and students,
>
> Jacob Eisenstein, who has been offered a 2008 Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow
> appointment, will give a talk (details below) at the AIIS seminar this
> Thursday.  Student meeting with Jacob is scheduled for 2:30pm on March 6th
> in 3403 SC.
>
> Thank you,
>  Alex
>
> Title: * Giving Discourse Processing a Hand: Gesture cues for Discourse
> Structure *
> Speaker: * **Jacob Eisenstein, MIT*
>  Date: Mar. 6th, 4:00pm
> Location: Siebel 3405
>
> Abstract:
>
> Computers cannot fully understand spoken language without access to the
> wide range of modalities that accompany speech. My research addresses the
> particularly expressive modality of hand gesture, and focuses on building
> structured statistical models at the intersection of speech, vision, and
> meaning. While individual gestures may be idiosyncratic and thus difficult
> to interpret, we can still leverage gesture to improve language
> understanding by identifying patterns between gestures, and hypothesizing
> similar patterns in the meaning of the associated speech. I will describe
> successful applications of this idea to resolve ambiguous noun phrases,
> improve topic segmentation, and create keyframe summaries of spoken
> language.
>
> Bio:
>
> Jacob Eisenstein is in the final year of his PhD studies at MIT,
> supervised by Regina Barzilay and Randall Davis.  His research interests
> include statistical natural language processing, multimodal interaction, and
> applications of computer vision.
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