Meeting Agenda

Date:	December 4th, 2008
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Alex Pytel

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Kate- thanks!

Coffee hour this week:

Richard?

Coffee hour next week:

Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	December 11th	December 18th	January 7th
Location:	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 10:30
Chair:	Jamie Ruiz	Ryan Stedman	Martin Talbot
Technical Presentation:	Alex Pytel	Jamie Ruiz	Ryan Stedman

4. Technical Presentation

Terry Park

Title : Collocation Preferences Abstract: Collocation preferences represent the commonly used expressions, idioms, and word pairings of a language. Because collocation preferences arise from consensus usage, rather than a set of well-defined rules, they must be learned on a case-by-case basis, making them particularly challenging for non-native speakers of a language. AwkChecker is an assistive tool to help non-native speakers detect and correct collocation errors in their writing. Besides its technological aspects, there are many challenges in precisely evaluating such tool since it is difficult to directly access user's writing process. In this talk, I will briefly describe the tool and the underlying technology and then present our evaluation plans of AwkChecker, why it is challenging and how it can be done.

5. Discussion Items

• CGL meeting next term: ICR Board Room DC 1331 - Wed 1:30 - 2:30 (projector reserved) Room not available : Jan 21.

6. Action Items

• Lab meeting next term
• Xmas Party Dec 12
• Chair: Zhang => Park
  Presentation: Zhang => Mann

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup