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Talk Schedule for Summer School 2007  
  Day Time Topic   Lecturer  
3 Thu 8:00-9:00 Registration      
    9:00-9:45 Introduction to the Summer School Prof N Balakrishnan (Indian Institute of Science)  
          A Kumaran (Microsoft Research India)  
             
    10:00-12:30 Linguistics - I KV Subbarao  
          - Lexicography/Phonology Delhi University  
          - Morphology/Syntax/Semantics    
    2:00-4:00 Linguistics - II KV Subbarao  
          - Deriving Parse Trees Delhi University  
          - Semantic Graphs    
    4:30-6:00 Morphology Lab Introduction Baskaran Sankaran, Raghavendra Udupa & Jagadeesh J  
          - Project Introduciton Microsoft Research India  
          - Tools, Techniques and Data    
             
4 Fri 9:00-12:30 Introduction to NLP and Corpus Linguistics Steven Bird  
          University of Melbourne  
    2:00-5:30 Bayesian Statistics Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay  
          - Bayesian Approaches  Indian Institute of Science  
             
5 Sat 9:00-12:30 Machine Learning Basics - I  Chiranjib Bhattacharyya  
          - Guassian Mixtures/EM Indian Institute of Science  
          - MaxEnt Modelling    
          - Linear Classifiers + SVM    
    2:00-3:30 Machine Learning Basics - II Anita Kannan  
          - Probabilistic Inference Microsoft Research Cambridge  
          - Bayesian Networks    
          - Graphical Models    
    4:00-5:30 Machine Learning Basics - III Amitav Das  
          - Static & Dynamic Methods for Microsoft Research India  
            Pattern Classification (DTW/HMM/etc)    
             
Weekend        
             
7 Mon 9:00-1:00 Graphical Models in NLP Pushpak Bhattacharyya  
          Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay  
    2:00-3:30 Morphological Analysis  Rajat Mohanty  
          - Linguist's perspective Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay  
    3:45-5:30 Morphological Analyzer Lab  Baskaran S & Raghavendra Udupa  
          - Sync-up Microsoft Research India  
             
8 Tue 9:00-12:30 Formal Ontology Adam Pease  
          Articulate Software  
    2:00-5:30 Information Extraction: Extracting Facts from Unstructured Data Nanda Kambhatla  
          IBM TJ Watson Research Centre  
             
9 Wed 9:00-12:30 Developing Scalable, Domain Portable Information Extraction Systems Rohini Srihari  
          University of Buffalo  
    2:00-5:30 Shallow Parsing  Sudeshna Sarkar  
          - POS tagging & Chunking Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur  
             
10 Thur 9:00-12:30 Paraphrasing/Textual Entailment Bill Dolan  
          Microsoft Research  
    2:00-3:30 Shallow Parsing Lab Sudeshna Sarkar  
          Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur  
    4:00-5:30 Information Extraction Lab Rohini Srihari  
          University of Buffalo  
             
11 Fri 9:00-12:30 Multilingual Information Access Carol Peters  
          Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISTI-CNR), Italy  
    2:00-3:00 Cross Language Evaluation Forum  Carol Peters  
          Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISTI-CNR), Italy  
    3:30-5:30 Indian Experience in CLEF Vasudeva Varma  
          International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad  
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