about me Hal Daumé III
about me cv + bio publications research teaching students software photos calendar contact me links		I am Hal Daume III, an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the U of Utah. My research is in machine learning (primarily Bayesian methods and structured prediction), natural language processing and computational biology. More thoughts on these fields are on my 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: Artificial Intelligence, CS5300/6300 (Spring 2009) Machine Learning, CS5350/6350 (Fall 2008) Topics in ML: Graphical Models, CS7941 (Fall 2008) Topics in ML: Multitask Learning, CS7941 (Summer 2008) Machine Learning, CS5350/6350 (Spring 2008) Topics in ML: Kernel Methods, CS7941 (Spring 2008) Applications of Natural Language Processing, CS5964/6964 (Fall 2007) Students: Prospective students: Read this and email me after taking machine learning and/or NLP about potential research. Current students: Arvind Agarwal (PhD), Scott Alfeld (MS), Amit Goyal (PhD), Piyush Rai (PhD). Upcoming conferences: (bold = plan to attend): Location Due Date Notification Conference Dates COLING 08 Manchester Past Past 18-22 Aug 08 KDD 08 Las Vegas Past Past 24-27 Aug 08 EMNLP 08 Honolulu Past Past 25-27 Oct 08 CIKM 08 Napa Past Past 26-30 Oct 08 NIPS 08 Vancouver Past TBA 08-13 Dec 08 SODA 09 New York Past TBA 04-06 Jan 09 EACL 09 Athens 10 Oct 09 19 Dec 09 30 Mar-03 Apr 09 AISTATS 09 Florida 05 Nov 08 TBA 16-19 Apr 09 RECOMB 09 Tuscon 06 Oct 08 18 Dec 08 18-21 May 09 NAACL-HLT 09 Boulder TBA TBA 31 May-05 Jun 09 ICML 09 Montreal TBA TBA 15-19 Jun 09 COLT 09 Montreal TBA TBA 20-23 Jun 09 SIGIR 09 Boston TBA TBA 19-23 Jun 09 CVPR 09 Florida TBA TBA 19-26 Jun 09 ISMB 09 Stockholm TBA TBA 27 Jun-02 Jul 09 KDD 09 Paris TBA TBA 28 Jun-01 Jul 09 UAI 09 TBA TBA TBA 28 Jun-01 Jul 09 IJCAI 09 Pasadena TBA TBA 11-17 Jul 09 ACL 09 Singapore 22 Feb 09 12 Apr 09 02-07 Aug 09 ICCV 09 Beijing 10 Mar 09 TBA 27 Sep-04 Oct 09
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