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5/3/2007: 15:00:00—15:50:00 at Glasgow East 117
Maj Eric Forsyth, USAF, will speak in this CS Department Seminar on "Improving Automated Lexical and Syntactic Analysis of Online Chat Dialog."
Abstract: One of the ultimate goals of natural language processing (NLP) systems is attaching meaning to what is being communicated, irrespective of the medium (e.g., written versus spoken) as well as the form (e.g., static documents versus dynamic dialogues). Although much NLP work has been accomplished over the past few years in traditional language domains such as speech and static written text, little has been done in the newer communication domains enabled by the Internet, e.g., online chat and instant messaging. This is in part due to the fact that there are no tagged chat corpora available to the broader research community. The purpose of this research is to build a chat corpus, tagged with lexical (token part-of-speech labels), syntactic (post parse tree), and semantic (post classification) information. Such a corpus can then be used to develop more complex, statistical-based NLP applications that perform tasks such as author profiling, entity identification, and social network analysis.
Biography: Maj Forsyth received the B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1991, and the M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University in 1993. Prior to attending NPS, he has served as an acquisition officer responsible for the development of advanced aerospace weapon systems at the laboratory, product center, and Headquarters U.S. Air Force levels. Upon completion of his degree, he will be assigned to U.S. Special Operations Command Headquarters at MacDill AFB as the Program Element Monitor for the CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. Eric is a student of Professor Craig Martell.
Download the abstract here
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