Terps take Manhattan with SCiL

The 2nd meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics has posters, tutorials and panel discussions led by Maryland students and alums.

January 3, the 2nd meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics has posters, tutorials and panel discussions led by Maryland students and alums. SCiL is co-located with the Annual Meeting of the LSA, which this year is in New York City.
Tutorials * Allyson Ettinger (*18), Vector space models for syntax and semantics * Kasia Hitczenko and Laurel Perkins, Introduction to Bayesian modeling

Poster Kasia Hitczenko, Reiko Mazuka, Micha Elsner, and Naomi Feldman, Normalization may be ineffective for phonetic category learning.
Panel discussion * Chris Dyer (*10), Allyson Ettinger (*18), Noah Smith ('01), Sam Bowman (NYU), “What should linguists know about Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning?”