Natural Language and Knowledge Representation Research Group

(NLKRRG)

Summer 1997

Demos:

  • Patient Education and Activation System Demo
  • Dictionary Demo (a tool for knowledge acquisition)
  • B2 GUI Demo (under construction)
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    Links:

  • Group Members
  • Summer Schedule for Group Meetings
  • Summer Schedule for Individual Meetings
  • Research Assistantships Available
  • Decision Systems and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Homepage
  • Guide to thesis writing
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    The faculty and students of Natural Language & Knowledge Representation Research Group

    Faculty

  • Susan McRoy , mcroy@cs.uwm.edu
  • Syed Ali , syali@cs.uwm.edu
  • Susan Haller , haller@cs.uwp.edu
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    Students

  • John Bergstrom, johnmb@csd.uwm.edu
  • Subha Bolisetty, subhash@miller.cs.uwm.edu
  • Janet Byers-Dent, janet@miller.cs.uwm.edu
  • Hamed El Afandi, hamed@miller.cs.uwm.edu
  • Laura Menke, laura@tigger.cs.uwm.edu
  • Wendy Miller, wendy@tigger.cs.uwm.edu
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    Alumni

    Scheduled Presentations by Group Members

    Note: This is a preliminary schedule and is subject to refinement or change.

    The group meets every Tuesday at 3pm. Meetings are held currently in EMS E375. (A new location will be announced during renovations of the CAE lab, when the room will be temporarily unavailable.)
    Date 
    Speaker 
    Topic 
    Reading(s)
    May 20 
    Syed Ali
    An Overview of B2 and ANALOG 
    Readings 
    May 27
    Alfredo Liu-Perez
    The Layman Education and Activation Form 
    		   Readings 
      Software 
    June 3
    John Bergstrom
    A Java Implementation of ID3
    		 AI Notes 
    June 10
    Hamed El Afandi
    Applications of Machine Learning to NLP
    		  References 
    June 17
    Laura Menke, Wendy Miller
    Syed Ali
    Building Java Client-Server Interfaces to Lisp Programs
    An Introduction to Information Retrieval
    		  Dictionary Demo 
      IR notes 
    June 24
    Janet Byers-Dent
    Designing Computer Systems to Account for Learning Style
    		  References 
    July 1
    Susan Haller
    An Introduction to Discourse and Text Planning
    July 8
    Leonel Marchan
    An Empirical Evaluation of Speech Understanding Software
    		  Resources 
    July 15
    Laura Menke and 
    Wendy Miller
    Designing a Java Front End to the B2 project
    July 22
    Susan McRoy
    B2: A Multi-Modal Collaborative Tutoring System
    		  Readings 
      Notes 
    July 29
    Subha Bolisetty
    Janet Byers-Dent
    Information Retrieval for Specialized Domains
     
    An Update on the Nutrition Education System (NEST Project)
    Aug 5
    Laura Menke and Wendy Miller
     
    Phiem Ngoc
    In Room E139!!
    Wrapup of the Computing Research Association  Mentoring Project:  Internet based  tools for building and accessing intelligent systems
    IDKS: An Integrated Development Environment  for Bayesian Knowledge-based Model Construction System
    		   

    Ngoc Reading 
    Aug 12
    Summer Vacation
    cancelled

    Thursday meetings

    No meetings from Aug 11 to Sept 5th ---Please send mail about your fall constraints.
     
     

    12:00  John, Next Meeting:  Thursday August 7

    2:00 Janet, Next Meeting: Thursday August 7

    2:30 Subha, Next Meeting: Thursday August 7

    Tuesday meetings

    10:00 Wendy, Next Meeting:  August 5

    10:30 Laura, Next Meeting: August 5

    2:00 Hamed, Next Meeting: August  5