about me Hal Daumé III
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I am Hal Daume III, an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the U of Utah (CV). 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:



Office: MEB 3126
Phone: 801-585-3586
Recent software:

  • HBC to simulate and compile Bayesian models (updated 03 Apr 2008)
  • WhatToSee to find research papers relevant to your interests (updated 09 May 2007)
  • MegaM for training maximum entropy and perceptron models (updated 08 Oct 07)
  • DPSearch for fast DP inference (updated 20 Dec 06)
  • TagChunk for POS tagging, shallow parsing and NER (updated 11 Oct 08)
  • FastDT for training boosted and bagged decision trees (updated 05 Sep 06)

Recent teaching:

   CS 7941    (Fall  2009)
   CS 5350/6350   (Fall  2009)
   CS 7941    (Summer 2009)
   CS 5300/6300   (Spring 2009)
   CS 7941    (Spring 2009)
   CS 5350/6350   (Fall  2008)
   CS 7941    (Fall  2008)
   CS 7941    (Summer 2008)
   CS 5350/6350   (Spring 2008)
   CS 7941    (Spring 2008)
   CS 5964/6964   (Fall  2007)
   CS 7941    (Summer 2008)
   CS 5350/6350   (Spring 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 (BS), Amit Goyal (PhD), Piyush Rai (PhD).

Upcoming conferences: (bold = plan to attend):

LocationDue DateNotificationConference Dates
NIPS 08VancouverPastTBA08-13 Dec 08
SODA 09New YorkPastTBA04-06 Jan 09
EACL 09AthensPastPast30 Mar-03 Apr 09
AISTATS 09FloridaPastPast16-19 Apr 09
RECOMB 09TusconPastPast18-21 May 09
NAACL-HLT 09BoulderPastPast31 May-05 Jun 09
CONLL 09BoulderPast03 Apr 0904-05 Jun 09
ICML 09MontrealPast06 Apr 0915-19 Jun 09
UAI 09MontrealPast13 Apr 0919-21 Jun 09
SIGIR 09BostonPast11 Apr 0919-23 Jun 09
CVPR 09FloridaPastTBA19-26 Jun 09
COLT 09MontrealPast24 Apr 0920-23 Jun 09
ISMB 09StockholmPast27 Mar 0927 Jun-02 Jul 09
KDD 09ParisPast10 Apr 0928 Jun-01 Jul 09
IJCAI 09PasadenaPast31 Mar 0911-17 Jul 09
ACL 09SingaporePast12 Apr 0902-07 Aug 09
EMNLP 09Singapore01 May 0901 Jun 0906-07 Aug 09
ICCV 09BeijingPastTBA27 Sep-04 Oct 09
PSB 10Hawaii13 July 0909 Oct 0904-08 Jan 10
COLING 10Beijing19 Apr 1028 May 1023-27 Aug 10

quick links
   nlp blog
   searn
   nlp/ml meeting
   ml (cs5350)
   ai (cs5300)
   anlp (cs5964)
   mlrg (cs7941)
   algo (cs7936)
   whattosee
   thesis
   jmlr
   haskell tutorial
conferences
   nips 08
   soda 09
   eacl 09
   aistats 09
   recomb 09
   naacl-hlt 09
   conll 09
   icml 09
   uai 09
   sigir 09
   cvpr 09
   colt 09
   ismb 09
   kdd 09
   ijcai 09
   acl 09
   emnlp 09
   iccv 09
   psb 10
   coling 10
last updated on twenty seven june, two thousand nine; contact me AT hal3 DOT name