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Professors Teach Computers Ancient Language

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Computers may seem like cold, data-processing machines, but in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Applied Machine Learning (AML) Labs, Eric Ringger, Kevin Seppi, and their students are pioneering budget-conscious technology that is connecting linguists and Syriac scholars across the globe to facilitate the understanding of early forms of Christianity in the Near East.

“Our project is innovative because it’s one of the first real applications of active learning to text annotation,” Ringger said of the technology. “It’s been done elsewhere, but it’s been kept in-house, and not to the degree we’re doing it.   We’re trying to help others by sharing the tools and the technology. I’d love for people to never do text annotation again from the beginning of the corpus to the end. It will transform the way people do scholarship in Syriac.”

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Grandmother Graduates from BYU with Her Fourth Degree: a Master’s Degree in Computer Science

Charla Woodbury

Charla Woodbury is not your ordinary graduate.  Not only is she the grandmother of 13, but she also just completed the requirements for her fourth degree:  a master’s in computer science.

Genealogy and math always interested Woodbury.  It was not, however, until the 1980s that computer science interested her.  Throughout her career Woodbury worked as an application programmer, a business systems analyst, systems librarian, a genealogist and an IT manager.

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Friday, July 30, 2010

New CS Course: CS 453 Fundamentals of Information Retrieval

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Course Title:  Fundamentals of Information Retrieval
Textbook:  Search Engines:  Information Retrieval in Practice
Instructor:  Dennis Ng
Credits:  3
Time:  Mon, Wed 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
**CS 360 is NOT a prerequisite.

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Brian Price's PhD Dissertation Defense

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Brian Price will defend his PhD Dissertation on Monday, August 9th at 10:00 a.m. in 1170 TMCB.  The title of his dissertation is: "Interactive Object Selection and Matting for Video and Images." Please click more for an abstract of his work.  Brian's advisor is Dr. Bryan Morse.

All are encouraged to attend!

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Oliver Nina's MS Thesis Defense

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Oliver Nina will defend his MS thesis on Wednesday, August 4th at 1:00 p.m. in 3365 TMCB (CS Conference Room).  The title of his thesis is: "Text Segmentation of Historical Degraded Handwritten Documents." Please click more for an abstract of his work.  Oliver's advisor is Dr. Bryan Morse.

All are encouraged to attend!

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Kenneth Sundberg's PhD Dissertation Defense

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Kenneth Sundberg will defend his PhD Dissertation on Wednesday, August 4th at 11:00 a.m. in B037 JFSB.  The title of his dissertation is: "Partition Based Phylogenetic Search." Please click more for an abstract of his work.  Kenneth's advisor is Dr. Mark Clement.

All are encouraged to attend!

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