Nitin Madnani speaking at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University on 11/9/11 Abstract: It may be obvious that building a good statistical machine translation (SMT) system requires a lot of bilingual training data. However, what may not be obvious is that the...
Sharad Goel speaking at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University on 11/16/11 Abstract: With the increasing availability of network and behavioral data---from what we buy, to where we travel, to whom we know---we are now able to observe and quantify social processes...
Gilad Lotan speaking at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University on 1/25/12 Abstract: Being heard isn't so easy in an age when anyone can become a broadcaster. When attention is a scarce commodity, true power lies in understanding how information flows within...
Bo Pang speaking at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University on 9/14/11 Abstract: In this talk, we discuss sentiment analysis and opinion mining of user generated content (e.g., reviews, comments) in a concept-centric context, where we gather and analyze information...
Hilary Mason speaking at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University on 2/29/12 Abstract: More communication than ever before is happening online, and for the first time, much of that data is available to be analyzed. Bitly began as a simple URL shortener and has...
