ACL-08: HLT

46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Tutorial Abstracts

June 15­20, 2008 The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, USA


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Tutorials Chairs: Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA Marilyn Walker, University of Sheffield, UK Eugene Agichtein, Emory University, USA

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Table of Contents

Introduction to Computational Advertising Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifovski and Bo Pang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Building Practical Spoken Dialog Systems Antoine Raux, Brian Langner, Alan W. Black and Maxine Eskenazi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Semi-Supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing John Blitzer and Xiaojin Jerry Zhu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Advanced Online Learning for Natural Language Processing Koby Crammer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Speech Technology: From Research to the Industry of Human-Machine Communication Roberto Pieraccini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Interactive Visualization for Computational Linguistics Christopher Collins, Gerald Penn and Sheelagh Carpendale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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Tutorial Program
Sunday, June 15, 2008 Morning Tutorials 9:00­12:30 Introduction to Computational Advertising Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifovski and Bo Pang Building Practical Spoken Dialog Systems Antoine Raux, Brian Langner, Alan W. Black and Maxine Eskenazi Semi-Supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing John Blitzer and Xiaojin Jerry Zhu Afternoon Tutorials 2:00­5:30 Advanced Online Learning for Natural Language Processing Koby Crammer Speech Technology: From Research to the Industry of Human-Machine Communication Roberto Pieraccini Interactive Visualization for Computational Linguistics Christopher Collins, Gerald Penn and Sheelagh Carpendale

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