Data Mining and Statistical Learning

Fall 2013

All meetings will be held on Fridays between 9:30 am - 11:00 am in CH212.
We will start with Text Mining as one of the themes of Autumn 2013.
Presentation and discussion schedule will be posted as we go along.

• August 23, 2013
  Organizational meeting
  


• August 30, 2013
  Organizational meeting


• September 6, 2013
  Speaker: Adam Zimmerman
  Title: An Introduction to Text Mining [Presentation]
  Chapter 1 from Mining Text Data
  


• September 13, 2013
  Speaker: Andrew Landgraf
  Title: Information Extraction from Text [Presentation]
  Chapter 2 from Mining Text Data


• September 20, 2013
  Speaker: Linchao Chen
  Title: Dimensionality Reduction and Topic Modeling
  Chapter 5 from Mining Text Data
  


• September 27, 2013
  Speaker: Yingle Zhang
  Title: Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
  Chapter 13 from Mining Text Data
  


• October 4, 2013
  Speaker: Louis Shao
  Title: Statistical Language Models Based on Neural Networks (Chapter 2)
  Tomas Mikolov, PhD Thesis (2012)
  


• October 11, 2013
  Speaker: Sungmin Kim
  Title: Latent dirichlet allocation
  David M Blei, Andrew Y Ng, Michael I Jordan, JMLR (2003)
  (NIPS 2001 version)


• October 18, 2013
  Speaker: Sungmin Kim
  Title: Preprocessing of Twitter data for topic modeling
  


• November 8, 2013
  Speaker: Linchao Chen
  Title: Generating Sequences with Recurrent Neural Networks
  Alex Graves (2013)
  


• November 15, 2013
  Speaker: Andrew Landgraf
  Title: Collaborative Filtering for Implicit Feedback Datasets
  Hu, Koren, Volinsky (2008)