[CSENews] [Fwd: CSE Colloquium Friday, April 24: Andrew S. Gordon]

[Teresa Isela VanderSloot]

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Subject: 	CSE Colloquium Friday, April 24: Andrew S. Gordon
Date: 	Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:40:56 -0400
From: 	glasskim <glasskim at cse.msu.edu>
To: 	eng_all at egr.msu.edu



  Using Millions of Weblog Stories as a Knowledge Base


    Spring 2009 CSE Colloquium Series <http://www.cse.msu.edu/?Pg=143&Col=2>


      Andrew S. Gordon <http://people.ict.usc.edu/%7Egordon/>

Institute for Creative Technologies
University of Southern California

Friday, April 24
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
3540 Engineering Building 
<http://www.maps.msu.edu/interactive/index.php?location=eb> 

Host: Joyce Chai <http://www.cse.msu.edu/%7Ejchai/>


      Abstract

The rise of Internet weblogs has opened a new channel for the sharing of 
personal stories of everyday experiences. Many of the stories in weblogs 
focus on the mundane: another day at the office, a bicycle trip with a 
friend, an argument with spouse, or a weekend spent doing household 
tasks. However, the remarkable scale of storytelling on the web creates 
new opportunities for tackling problems that require broad coverage over 
all of the facets of everyday life. In this talk I will describe our 
research on the collection and analysis of personal stories in Internet 
weblogs on a massive scale. I'll describe our work in creating corpora 
of millions of personal stories using statistical text classification 
techniques. I'll discuss the difficulties in analyzing the text of 
weblog stories, particularly with respect to the causal and temporal 
relationships between sentences and clauses. I'll outline a research 
agenda for using weblog stories as a knowledge base for automated 
reasoning about everyday events, and present a prototype technology that 
takes the form of a text-based interactive storytelling application.


      Biography

Andrew Gordon is a Research Scientist and Research Associate Professor 
at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative 
Technologies. He is the author of the 2004 book, Strategy 
Representation: An Analysis of Planning Knowledge. He received his Ph.D. 
in Computer Science from Northwestern University in 1999.

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Kimberly Glass Thompson
Technical Writer
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Michigan State University
3115 Engineering Building
East Lansing, MI 48824

Phone: (517) 432-3308
Fax: (517) 432-1061
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~glasskim


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Teresa Isela VanderSloot, M.S.A.
Academic Specialist/Advisor
Computer Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
Michigan State University
3201 Engineering Building
East Lansing, MI 48824-1226
Phone: (517) 353-5455
Fax: (517) 432-1061
www.cse.msu.edu/~iselava1

Schedule an appointment:https://ntweb11.ais.msu.edu/aas/
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