Tutorials
Here are the most recent tutorials I presented.
Predicting structures in NLP: Constrained Conditional Models
Venue: NAACL 2012
Date: June 3, 2012
This tutorial deals with theory and practice of constrained conditional models and covers modeling structured prediction problems as integer linear programs, and different inference and learning options.
Here are the slides.
Incorporating Machine Learning in your application: Text classification
Venue: 2012 Data Sciences Summer Institute
Date: May 23, 2012
This tutorial is a hands-on introduction to text classification. It shows how Learning Based Java can be used to quickly build a spam detector, an automatic email labeler and a sentiment detection system.
You can access the slides and code here.
Introduction to Edison
Venue: CS410: Text Information Systems (Spring ‘12), Guest lecture
Date: April 17, 2012
This tutorial introduces the Edison API (see software page) for building an NLP application in Java. In the class, it followed Mark Sammons’ introduction to the Curator. Here are the slides.