Computational Linguistics Colloquium

Thursday, October 25, 16:15, Building 17, Seminar Room

Adaptive Multimedia Information Access

Increasing sources and amounts of information challenge users around the globe. Broadcast new sources and newspapers provide society with the vast majority of real-time information. Unfortunately, cost efficiencies and real-time pressures demand that producers, editors and writers select and organize content for stereotypical audiences. In this presentation we will briefly summarize the state of the art in information retrieval, extraction and summarization, then illustrate how language understanding, user modeling, and tailored presentation generation promise to enable automated "Personalcasts on Demand".

Brief Biography:

Mark Maybury received his M.Phil. in Computer Speech and Language Processing (1987) and his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (1991) for his dissertation, "Generating Multisentential Text using Communicative Acts" at Cambridge University. He was awarded an MBA from RPI in 1989. Mark has organised multiple international symposia, given tutorials, and published over fifty technical and tutorial articles in the area of language generation, multimedia presentation, text summarization, and intelligent multimedia information retrieval. Mark has a patent pending (60/065,947) for content based segmentation and presentation of broadcast news. Mark is editor of Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces (AAAI/MIT Press, 1993), Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval (AAAI/MIT Press, 1997) and co-editor of Readings on Intelligent User Interfaces (Morgan Kaufmann Press, 1998), Advances in Text Summarization (MIT Press, 1999) and Readings in Knowledge Management (2001). Mark is Executive Director of MITRE's Information Technology Division and a member of the Board of Directors of the Object Management Group and Treasurer/Secretariat for ACM SIGART.

If you would like to meet with the speaker, please contact Wolfgang Wahlster.