TAMALE

The Text Analysis and MAchine LEarning Group
Hosted by the Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Learning lab
at the University of Ottawa


The TAMALE group organizes a Friday seminar series. Local (and sometimes not-so-local) speakers present their research in Machine Learning and Natural Language related fields. Here is a list of seminars past.


Date Speaker Title
December 06
1999
Fernanda Caropreso
School of Information Technology and Engineering
University of Ottawa
Experiments in Text Categorization with Statistical Phrases
(read the abstract)
December 03
1999
Joel Martin
National Research Council
Design of a Better Question Answering System
(read the abstract)
November 26
1999
Ken Barker
School of Information Technology and Engineering
University of Ottawa
Using Noun Phrase Heads to Extract Keyphrases;
Using Human Heads to Evaluate Keyphrases

(read the abstract)
November 19
1999
Berry Debruijn
School of Information Technology and Engineering
University of Ottawa
Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval
(read the abstract)
November 12
1999
Tom Mitchell
Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Extracting Information from the World Wide Web
(read the abstract)
October 29
1999
Ebenezer Ntienjem Completion of Logic Programs with respect to Negation-As-Finite-Failure
(read the abstract)
October 22
1999
Jérôme Tétrault
School of Information Technology and Engineering
University of Ottawa
Bilingual Text Alignment base on Word Occurrence Information
(read the abstract)
September 10
1999
Heide Brücher
Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik,
RWTH (Aachen University of Technology), GERMANY
Clustering Queries
(read the abstract)
May 14
1999
Rob Holte
School of Information Technology and Engineering
University of Ottawa, Ottawa
A Space-Time Tradeoff for Memory-based Heuristics
(read the abstract)
May 7
1999
Jelber Sayyad-Shirabad
School of Information Technology and Engineering
University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Classifying Software Problem Reports
(read the abstract)
April 30
1999
Joel Martin
Institute for Information Technology,
National Research Council, Ottawa
Which System Configuration is Best?
(read the abstract)
April 23
1999
Messaouda Ouerd
School of Information Technology and Engineering
University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Learning Bayes Belief Networks: Test Data Generation
(read the abstract)
April 16
1999
Jean-François Delannoy
RES International, Ottawa
On Argumentation Analysis
(read the abstract)
April 9
1999
Marek Zaremba
Département d'informatique,
Université du Québec à Hull, Hull
Design of Heterogeneous Intelligent Systems for Concurrent Processing
(read the abstract)
April 2
1999
dark / relâche
March 26
1999
Anantha Mahadevan
School of Business,
Carleton University, Ottawa
Using Data Mining and Logistic Analysis on an E-Commerce Dataset
(read the abstract)
March 19
1999
George Foster
Département d'informatique et recherche opérationnelle,
Université de Montréal, Montréal
(Currently at SITE, Ottawa)
Text Prediction for Translators
(read the abstract)
March 12
1999
Rob Holte
School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Machine Learning with Skewed Class Distributions
(read the abstract)
March 5
1999
Sylvain Létourneau
School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Machine Learning For Prediction of Aircraft Component Failure
(read the abstract)
February 26
1999
dark / relâche
February 19
1999
dark / relâche
February 12
1999
Claire Cardie
Department of Computer Science,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Machine Learning for Information Extraction Systems
(read the abstract)
February 5
1999
Jerome Mathieu
Institute for Information Technology,
National Research Council, Ottawa
Adaptation of a Keyphrase Extractor for Japanese Text
(read the abstract)
January 29
1999
Berry de Bruijn
School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa
An Automated Method for Studying Interactive Systems
(read the abstract)
January 22
1999
Yllias Chali
School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Lexical Chains as an Indicator of the Text Segment Topic
(read the abstract)
January 15
1999
Joel Martin
Institute for Information Technology,
National Research Council, Ottawa
Clustering Documents in Any Language? Clustering Sequences based on Frequent Subsequences
(read the abstract)
January 8
1999
Chris Drummond
School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Symbols, Systematicity and Synergisms
(read the abstract)
January 1
1999
dark / relâche
December 25
1998
dark / relâche
December 18
1998
dark / relâche
December 11
1998
Mario Jarmasz
School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Corpus Linguistics: a paradigm for solving NLP problems
(read the abstract)
December 4
1998
Maurício Amaral de Almeida
Laboratório de Sistemas Integráveis,
Universidade de São Paulo, BRASIL
(Currently at SITE, Ottawa)
Learning (Tree/Rule)-like boolean C++ methods
(read the abstract)
November 27
1998
Johanne Morin
School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Learning Relational Clichés with Contextual Generalization
(read the abstract)
November 20
1998
dark / relâche
November 13
1998
Rob Holte
School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Hierarchical Search using Multiple Abstractions
(read the abstract)
November 6
1998
Messaouda Ouerd
School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Learning in Belief Networks and its Application in Distributed Databases
(read the abstract)
October 30
1998
Ken Barker
School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Identifying Semantic Relationships in Complex Noun Phrases
(read the abstract)
October 23
1998
Stan Matwin
School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Machine Learning - Challenges from Applications
(read the abstract)
October 16
1998
Sam Scott
Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (Cognitive Science),
Carleton University, Ottawa
Forming Better Features for Text Categorization
(read the abstract)
October 9
1998
Paul Rujan
Fachbereich Physik,
University of Oldenburg, GERMANY
Computing the Bayes Perceptron
(read the abstract)
October 2
1998
Rob Holte
School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa
ROC Convex Hulls for Comparing Machine Learning Algorithms
(read the abstract)
September 10
1998
John Zeleznikow
Applied Computing Research Institute,
La Trobe University, AUSTRALIA
Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning in the Legal Domain
(read the abstract)


To be added to the TAMALE mailing list or to schedule a talk, contact Johanne Morin (jmorin@csi.uottawa.ca)

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