Moderators

• Gregory Abowd (abowd@cc.gatech.edu)
• Chris Atkeson (cga@cc.gatech.edu)
• Irfan Essa (irfan@cc.gatech.edu)

General information

This quarter, we will be concentrating on statistical approaches to natural language. For a brief introduction to the topic, check out the discussion in the latter half of the March 10 FCE Seminar from last quarter.

Topics and Papers

• April 9 & 16: HMMs: Chapter 6, Theory and Implementation of Hidden Markov Models, in Fundamentals of Speech Recognition, by Lawrence Rabiner and Biing-Hwang Juang.
• April 23: Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) (also known as Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA)). This is an interesting numeric technique to figure out what a document is about. The paper to read is: Deerwester, S., Dumais, S. T., Landauer, T. K., Furnas, G. W. and Harshman, R. A. (1990) "Indexing by latent semantic analysis." Journal of the Society for Information Science, 41(6), 391-407. Available from: http://superbook.bellcore.com/~std/LSI.papers.html
  Relevant web pages you could look at include:
  • http://superbook.bellcore.com/~std/LSI.html
  • http://lsa.colorado.edu/
  • http://www.cs.utk.edu/~lsi/
  • http://www.research.microsoft.com/dtas/sdumais/default.htm

General Information

Readings will either be included on this page as links or will be made available during the Tuesday seminar the prior week.

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