The Proteus Project

715 Broadway, 7th floor,
New York, NY
10003, USA
Tel:+1(212)998-3497
or +1(212)998-3003
Fax:+1(212)995-4123

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The New York City NLP Forum

Mailing list | Directions | Activities | Participants | Contact

There are hundreds of talented people around New York City who pursue research in Natural Language Processing and related fields. At least once a month, the Proteus Project at New York University invites them for discussion of influential papers, feedback on work in progress, and/or general exchange of ideas. Our facilities and central location are ideal for hosting such meetings. No reservations necessary -- you can just show up.

If you'd like to present some new research (completed or in progress) at the Forum, please send an abstract to the Forum co-ordinator (melamed at cs dot nyu dot edu). We also welcome suggestions for papers to read or topics to discuss.

Mailing List:

The activities of the forum are announced on the NYCNLP mailing list. Anybody can sign on to the list at http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/nycnlp.

Directions:

For general directions to NYU, go to http://www.nyu.edu/infocenter/directions-g.html. The nearest subway stops to the Institute are Bleecker Street on the 6 train, B-way/Lafayette on the F/S train, and 8th Street on the Q/W/N/R train. The Courant Institute is in Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer Street, on the SW corner of Mercer and W. 4th streets. It is building #46 on the map you can see here: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~melamed/ws-campus.pdf. Our meetings usually but not always take place in the 13th Floor Lounge. Once inside Weaver Hall, you can simply take the elevator to the 13th floor, to get to the Lounge.

Activities:

Future meetings are announced on our mailing list (see above). For the most up-to-date information, you can browse the list's archives, but only after you sign up. Below is a partial list of our past activities.

Date	Topic
March 2	Discriminative Sentence Compression with Conditional Random Fields Tadashi Nomoto, National Institute of Japanese Literature, Tokyo Details: time, place, abstract, etc.
February 23	Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation Qun Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences Details: time, place, abstract, etc.
February 2	Document mining using things and strings Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania Details: time, place, abstract, etc.
January 2007	on vacation!
December	on hiatus for NIPS
November 10	A Computational Linguist on Wall Street Christer Samuelsson, ChoiceMaker Inc. Details: time, place, abstract, etc. here are the slides
October 27	Crash Course on Character Encodings Yusuke Shinyama, NYU Details: time, place, abstract, etc. here are the slides
September 15	Textual Entailment: Framework, Learning and Applications Idan Szpektor, Bar Ilan University, Israel Details: time, place, abstract, etc.
September 12	What did the totalitarian language in the former socialistic Czechoslovakia look like? Věra Schmiedtová, Charles University, Prague Details: time, place, abstract, etc.
August	on hiatus for AMTA
July	on hiatus for ACL/COLING
June 16	Language-independent methods for enriching monolingual corpora Christian Biemann, University of Leipzig Details: time, place, abstract, etc.
June 2	Advances in Descriminative Parsing Joseph Turian, NYU Details: time, place, abstract, etc.
June 2	Re-Ranking Algorithms for Name Tagging Heng Ji, NYU Details: time, place, abstract, etc.
April 14	Disambiguation of Rich Arabic Morphological Analyses Nizar Habash, Columbia University Details: time, place, abstract, etc.
March 31	The NYU Proteus Project Ralph Grishman, Dan Melamed, Satoshi Sekine, New York University Details: time, place, abstract, etc.
February 10	Tutorial on Machine Learning for Information Extraction Heng Ji, New York University Details: time, place, abstract, etc.
January 13	What we did last summer: Report on the 2005 JHU workshop on Statistical Machine Translation by Parsing I. Dan Melamed, New York University Details: time, place, abstract, etc.
2005	See all activities in 2005
2004	See all activities in 2004
2003	See all activities in 2003
2002	See all activities in 2002
2001	See all activities in 2001

Participants:

Here are some of the institutions whose researchers take part in our forum:

Research and Educational Institutions: City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, City College of New York, Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory, Columbia University, Hofstra University, Hunter College, Monmouth University, Montclair State University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New York University, Polytechnic University, Princeton University, Queens College, Rutgers University, State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz, Stony Brook University, Syracuse University, University at Albany, University at Buffalo, University of Pennsylvania, Villanova University

Companies: Alias-I, AskJeeves.com, AT&T, Avaya, Choicemaker, Dealtime.com, ETS, GE, Goldman Sachs, Google, IBM, Inform Technologies, Lehman Brothers, Lucent/Bell Laboratories, Mnemonic, NEC, Pearson Knowledge Technologies, Renaissance Technologies, Semantic Data Systems, Siemens, Standard and Poor's, TextWise, Two Sigma Investments, Union Bank of Switzerland

Contact:

For more information, please feel free to call Dan Melamed at 212-998-3003, or email melamed at cs dot nyu dot edu.