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Events for July 24, 2015

• Jul

  24

  Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, and Engineering Talk

  Fri, Jul 24, 2015

  Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission

  Receptions & Special Events

  
  

  This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process, a student led walking tour of campus, and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. During the engineering session we will discuss the curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on projects, entrepreneurial support programs, and other aspects of the engineering school. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process, and financial aid.
  
  Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please make sure to check availability and register online for the session you wish to attend. Also, remember to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!

  Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office

  Audiences: Prospective Undergrads and Families

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• Jul

  24

  NL Seminar- Dialogue focus tracking for zero pronoun resolution

  Fri, Jul 24, 2015 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

  Information Sciences Institute

  Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

  
  

  Speaker: Sudha Rao, Univ of Maryland / USC ISI Intern
  
  Talk Title: Dialogue focus tracking for zero pronoun resolution
  
  Series: Natural Language Seminar
  
  Abstract: We take a novel approach to zero pronoun resolution in Chinese: our model explicitly tracks the flow of focus in a discourse. Our approach, which generalizes to deictic references, is not reliant on the presence of overt noun phrase antecedents to resolve to, and allows us to address the large percentage of -non-anaphoric- pronouns filtered out in other approaches. We furthermore train our model using readily available parallel Chinese/English corpora, allowing for training without hand-annotated data. Our results demonstrate improvements on two test sets, as well as the usefulness of linguistically motivated features.
  
  
  Biography: I am a PhD student from University of Maryland, College Park working under Prof. Hal Daume III and Prof. Philip Resnik. My recent project on "Dialogue focus tracking for zero pronoun resolution" appeared at NAACL 2015. At ISI, I am working with Prof. Daniel Marcu and Prof. Kevin Knight on application of Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) to biology literature. Specifically we will be developing techniques for constructing text level AMRs from sentence level AMRs and then assess its impact on reading-against-a-model molecular biology tasks. In my spare time, I enjoy singing, dancing and watching movies.
  
  Host: Nima Pourdamghani and Kevin Knight
  
  More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
  
  

  Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 6th Flr Conf Rm # 689, Marina Del Rey

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Peter Zamar

  Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/