Language and Computation Day 2009

Here is the provisional programme:

[Coffee will be available from 9:30]

1. 09:45 Udo Kruschwitz Welcome; "Recent activities of the LAC group".
2. 10:00 Doug Arnold & Bill Williams (Essex and BAE Systems) "Analyzing Free Text Segments of Emergency Service Reports".
3. 10:30 Cathal Gurrin (DCU) "Real-world interaction with Human Digital Memories". (More Information)
4. 11:00 [Coffee]
5. 11:15 Mahmoud EL-Haj (Essex) "Harnessing the Power of Mechanical Turk: an Online Workforce"
6. 11:45 Stephen Dignum (Essex) "The AutoAdapt project".
7. 12:15 [Lunch]
8. 13:30 Sonja Eisenbeis (Essex) "Possessive Constructions in Child German: Corpus Data and Elicitation Games" (with Ingrid Sonnenstuhl).
9. 14:00 Deirdre Lungley (Essex) "Explorations in Bootstrapping Guided Search".
10. 14:30 Sharhida Zawani (Essex) "Web Personalization based on Usage Mining".
11. 15:00 [Coffee]
12. 15:15 Adindla Suma (Essex) "Dialogue -Driven Information Retrieval".
13. 15:45 Jenya Kovalchuk "Information Retrieval and Natural Language Engineering for Intelligent Online Recruiting Servicing".
14. 16:15 Chris Fox (Essex) "An Alternative Approach To Deontic Reasoning".

[The Programme will be followed by an evening of ribald celebration and wild excess, or perhaps refined conversation and genteel socializing, in Wivenhoe.]

• Last Year's Language and Computation Day
• Previous Language and Computation Days
• Language and Computation Group
• CL Research Group
• Dept of Computing and Electronic Systems
• Dept of Language and Linguistics

The next Language and Computation Day will be on 1/10/2010.