about me Hal Daumé III
about me cv + bio publications research teaching software photos calendar contact me links		I am Hal Daume III; my research is in natural language processing and machine learning (in particular, structured prediction and Bayesian methods). More thoughts on these fields are on my natural langauge processing blog. Recent publications: Trading Structure for Features (ICML 2008) Name Transliteration in SMT (ACL 2008) Bayesian Agglomerative Clustering (NIPS 2007) Bayesian Typological Implications (ACL 2007; data) Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaptation (ACL 2007) Search-based Structured Prediction (MLJ, Submitted) Office: MEB 3126 Phone: 801-585-3586 Recent software: HBC to simulate and compile Bayesian models (updated 15 Nov 2007) WhatToSee to find research papers relevant to your interests (updated 09 May 2007) MegaM for training maximum entropy and perceptron models (updated 30 Apr 07) DPSearch for fast DP inference (updated 20 Dec 06) TagChunk for POS tagging, shallow parsing and NER (updated 11 Oct 06) FastDT for training boosted and bagged decision trees (updated 05 Sep 06) Recent teaching: Machine Learning, CS5350/6350 (Spring 2008) Applications of Natural Language Processing, CS5964/6964 (Fall 2007) Prospective students: Email me after taking machine learning and/or NLP about potential research. Upcoming conferences: (bold = plan to attend): Location Due Date Notification Conference Dates SODA 08 San Francisco Past Past 20-22 Jan 08 RECOMB 08 Singapore Past Past 30 Mar-02 Apr 08 ACL 08 Columbus Past Past 15-20 Jun 08 ICML 08 Helsinki Past Past 05-09 Jul 08 UAI 08 Helsinki Past Past 09-12 Jul 08 AAAI 08 Chicago Past Past 13-17 Jul 08 ISMB 08 Toronto Past Past 17-23 Jul 08 SIGIR 08 Singapore Past Past 20-24 Jul 08 COLING 08 Manchester Past Past 18-22 Aug 08 KDD 08 Las Vegas Past 25 May 08 24-27 Aug 08 EMNLP 08 Honolulu 03 Jul 08 21 Aug 08 25-27 Oct 08 CIKM 08 Napa 03 Jun 08 10 Jul 08 26-30 Oct 08 NIPS 08 Vancouver 06 Jun 08 TBA 08-13 Dec 07
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