This is Betty Turock’s presentation to SC&I and our Ph.D. recruits on March 4, 2011. Betty was the 2011 winner of the Outstanding Alum in the Social and Behavioral Sciences as awarded by the Graduate School. Opening remarks are made by Dean Jorge Schement and Ph.D. Director Craig Scott.
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...
