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PhD Defense: Bryan Wilkinson, Identifying and Ordering Scalar Adjectives using Lexical Substitution
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Identifying and Ordering Scalar Adjectives using Lexical Substitution Bryan Wilkinson 1:00pm Friday, 18 August 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC Lexical semantics provides many important resources in natural language processing, despite the recent preferences for distributional methods. In this dissertation we investigate an under-represented lexical relationship, that of scalarity. We define sclarity as it…
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talk: Sarit Kraus on Computer Agents that Interact Proficiently with People, Noon Fri 8/4
Computer Agents that Interact Proficiently with People Prof. Sarit Kraus Deptartment of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, 52900 Israel 12:00-1:00pm Friday, 4 August 2017, ITE ITE 217B, UMBC Automated agents that interact proficiently with people can be useful in supporting, training or replacing people in complex tasks. The inclusion of people presents novel problems…
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Baltimore Sun highlights UMBC programs that prepare students for high-demand careers
Baltimore Sun highlights UMBC programs that prepare students for high-demand careers The latest special section on education in The Baltimore Sun highlights several UMBC programs that prepare students to succeed in careers in rapidly growing and already high-demand industries. The Sun highlights how the flexibility of these programs makes them particularly accessible and…
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UMBC PhD candidate Kavita Krishnaswamy gets Google & Microsoft awards for robotics research
UMBC Ph.D. candidate Kavita Krishnaswamy receives Google and Microsoft awards for robotics research Kavita Krishnaswamy ’07, computer science and mathematics, Ph.D. ’18, computer science, has been named both a 2017 Microsoft Fellow and recipient of the Google Lime Scholarship. These prestigious honors recognize emerging scholars in computing who are dedicated to increasing diversity…
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UMBC’s Prof. Cynthia Matuszek receives NSF award for robot language acquisition
Professor Cynthia Matuszek has received a research award from the National Science Foundation to improve human-robot interactions by enabling them to understand the world from natural language in order to take instructions and learn about their environment naturally and intuitively. The two-year award, Joint Models of Language and Context for Robotic Language Acquisition, will support…
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PhD Defense: The Lightweight Virtual File System
Dissertation Defense The Lightweight Virtual File System Navid Golpayegani 10:00-12:00 Thursday, 20 July 2017, ITE 325, UMBC A data center today is responsible for safely managing big data volumes and balancing the complex needs between data producers and consumers. This balance often involves reconciling the needs of easy access and rapid retrieval in ways…
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PhD defense: Deep Representation of Lyrical Style and Semantics for Music Recommendation
Dissertation Defense Deep Representation of Lyrical Style and Semantics for Music Recommendation Abhay L. Kashyap 11:00-1:00 Thursday, 20 July 2017, ITE 346 In the age of music streaming, the need for effective recommendations is important for music discovery and a personalized user experience. Collaborative filtering based recommenders suffer from popularity bias and cold-start which is…
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PhD Proposal: Analysis of Irregular Event Sequences using Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning & Visualization
Analysis of Irregular Event Sequences using Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and Visualization Filip Dabek 11:00-1:00 Thursday 13 July 2017, ITE 346, UMBC History is nothing but a catalogued series of events organized into data. Amazon, the largest online retailer in the world, processes over 2,000 orders per minute. Orders come from customers on a recurring…
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Meet the Staff: Alex Hart
Name: Alex Hart Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Maryland, College Park Hometown: Baltimore, MD (Go O’s and Ravens!) Current role: As an Accountant I, Alex provides business services support to the CSEE department in the areas of contracts and grants/projects, which includes account monitoring, financial reporting, projections, reconciliations, etc. She…
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UMBC computer scientists explain how AI can help translate legalese before online users click “agree”
Every day, people interact with large amounts of text online, including legal documents they might quickly skim and sign without full, careful review. In an article recently published in The Conversation, Karuna Joshi, research associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering, and Tim Finin, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, explain how…