Dr. Jennifer Gibbs discusses her research related to online dating and virtual team building. She addresses the issues multi-cultural teams encounter when collaborating virtually, as well as the ways that people portray their optimal self on their online dating profiles. Dr. Gibbs earned her PhD...
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...
