News about CLAIR

• 2006: Workshop on Graph-based methods in NLP HLT-NAACL 2006
• 2006: Tutorial on Graph-based methods in NLP and IR at HLT-NAACL 2006
• 2006: Special Section on AI and the Web at AAAI 2006
• 2006: The National Center for Integrative Bioinformatics
• July 2006: Gosnell Award
• July 2006: Gosnell Award
• April 25, 2006: Talk by Irina Matveeva (U-Chicago), 12:30 PM
• March 24, 2006: Talk by David Lewis.
• February 10, 2006: Talk by Chengxiang Zhai (UIUC). 1:30 PM, title TBA
• February 10, 2006: Talk by Jiawei Han (UIUC). 2:45 PM, title TBA
• December 2005: Students display course projects in natural language processing
• November 2005: Professors study changes in legislative speech
• October 2005: Radev elected Secretary of the ACL
• October 12, 2005: New NIH Center on Bioinformatics
• June 28, 2005: Talk by Michael Jordan (at ACL) (11AM-noon, Rackham Auditorium)
• June 26, 2005: Talk by Justine Cassell (at ACL) (9-10AM, Rackham Auditorium)
• June 15, 2005: ACL Conference to Focus on Advances in Natural Language Processing
• April 22, 2005: Story in TRN Magazine about LexRank + lexrank demo
• April 12, 2005: Talk by Stuart Shieber.
• April 8, 2005: (Second) Talk by Partha Niyogi.
• April 7, 2005: Talk by Partha Niyogi.
• April 6, 2005: Talk by Fil Menczer.
• April 1, 2005: Talk by Phil Resnik.
• 2005: ACL 2005 in Ann Arbor
• 2005: Webgraph Reading Group
• Fall, 2004: Web Graph reading group. Also, the Web graph bibliography
• October 29, 2004: Postdoc opening in Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing.
• October 29, 2004: Faculty positions at SI,EECS.
• October 29, 2004: Talk by Noam Chomsky.
• October 28, 2004: Talk by Doug Oard.
• October 22, 2004: Talk by Chris Brew.
• October 1, 2004: Talk by Joyce Chai.
• October 1, 2004: Zhu Zhang's thesis proposal.
• September 1, 2004: ACL 2005 will be held in Ann Arbor..
• September 17, 2004: Bryan Pardo's thesis defense.
• April 12, 2004: UROP mentoring award. Also here.
• March 27, 2004: Third Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph (WAW 2004) at FOCS, October 2004, Rome, Italy
• March 27, 2004: Washington Post article "Merchants Find Problems With Google". The same story in other publications: San Jose Mercury News, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Miami Herald, Las Vegas Sun
• 2004: Reading Group in Natural Language Processing
• December 22, 2003: LDC releases SummBank
• November 21, 2003: Additions to MEAD
• November 21, 2003: CLAIR awarded new grants
• September, 2003: Natural Language Processing Reading Group
• October 16, 2002: EECS News blurb
• July 9, 2002: Demo of NewsInEssence at ACL 2002
• 2002: Seminar in Computation, Language, and Information
• 2002: ACL 2002 Workshop on Teaching NLP/CL
• 2002: ACL 2002 Workshop on Text Summarization
• 2002: DUC 2002
• NewsInEssence in the news:
  Michigan Daily, Wired.com , Wired.com (Spanish), U of M news, U of M SI feature, MI technews, Il Ducato, The Hindu online, La Stampa, Informazione senza Frontiere, Il Giornale di Vicenza mirrored
• February 28, 2002: Meadeval released
• November 21, 2001: The MEAD summarizer released (Beta)
• May 21, 2001: Feature about research at SI
• March 29, 2001: Report for the NSF IDM Meeting
• March 20, 2001: Demo of NewsInEssence at HLT 2001
• 2001: DUC 2001
• Dec. 18, 2000: The Document Understanding Conference
• Dec. 15, 2000: The Johns Hopkins summer workshop on Language and Speech Processing will include a research group on Automatic Summarization of Multiple Multilingual Documents
• Oct. 16, 2000: Michigan University Record article on the ITR awards
• Sept. 13, 2000: NSF award "ITR/IM Information Fusion Across Multiple Text Sources: A Common Theory"
• July 19, 2000: TRN Magazine about some of the work that I did at IBM (project headed by John Prager).
• 2000: ACL 2000 Theme Session: Text Summarization
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