CSEE Colloquium

Identifying and Isolating Text Classification Signals from
Domain and Genre Noise for Sentiment Analysis

Justin Martineau
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

1:00pm Friday 4 November 2011, ITE 227

Justin Martineau will describe the results of his PhD dissertation which he will defend later this month. His dissertation research makes both algorithmic and theoretical contributions to the fields of domain adaption and sentiment analysis. First, it provides algorithms to discover and weight discriminative classification task specific features within a domain. Second, it produces algorithms to score how well these features transfer to a new target domain. Third, it lays out a general theory for the kinds of information and the types of noise they produce that exist in text classification tasks. Finally, the dissertation presents a definition of domain independence and a statistical description of it. The research offers readers a firm theoretical foundation as well as practical algorithms when implementing any of the motivating examples and for future research in the field.

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If at first you don’t succeed…skip the rest of the GOP debates!

That seemed to be Rick Perry’s plan earlier this week. After numerous lackluster performances – credited for putting him behind Mitt Romney and Herman Cain in recent polls – the Texas governor’s campaign wasn’t committing to any more dates.

Now, they’ve changed their tune.

We’ll look at each debate and make an appropriate decision.”

If debates are Perry’s weakness, will he be able to win against an orator like President Obama?

We're celebrating our 20th Anniversary and cordially invite you to join us watch the play, "The Laramie Project". We'll be meeting at the Women's Center and then walking over as a group. (Please see flyer and website below for more information.

When: Thursday, 12/01/11
Time: 3:40pm (Play begins at 4pm)
Where: The Women's Center (Commons, 004)

This is special FREE preview. Please join us!

The Women's Center is excited to partner with the Theatre Department in honor of our 20th Anniversary. Please join us in a free viewing of Laramie Project.

Much like our theme of 100,000 Stories, Laramie Project reflects on the stories of a community impacted by the killing of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man. The play is based on more than 400 interviews with about 100 Laramie residents, as well as journal entries from the members of Tectonic Theater Project, as they reflect on their own reactions to the crime and to the interviews they carried out. Structured as a documentary, it attempts to reenact the events that occurred on that fateful night.

More information to come regarding how you can participate in this event with the Women's Center!

Here's all the details on this performance:
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the members of Tectonic Theatre Project

• Wednesday November 30, 8 p.m.--preview
• Thursday, December 1, 4 p.m.--free to the university community
• Friday, December 2, 8 p.m.--opening night
• Saturday, December 4, 8 p.m.
• Thursday, December 8, 8 p.m.
• Friday December 9, 8 p.m.
• Saturday, December 10, 8 p.m.
• Sunday, December 11, 2 p.m.

The application for the Summer 2012 Department of State Internship Program has been extended to November 7th. Interested qualified students are encouraged to submit their application by the new deadline of Monday, November 7th. Individuals who have already submitted an application will be able to update, edit, and resubmit their application until the new closing date.

All applicants are encouraged to submit their application in advance of the closing date to avoid any complications which may be experienced due to heavy application volume in the final days and hours prior to the announcement closing.

For more details on the internship application process, please download the Student Internship Information Brochure (updated 10/27/2011, 998kb, PDF).

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