My Talks

	Learning User Preferences. Thesis Defense. December 12, 2006. 50 minutes.
	Using Term Informativeness for Named Entity Detection. SIGIR-05. August 17, 2005. 25 minutes.
	Fast Maximum Margin Matrix Factorization for Collaborative Prediction. ICML-05. August 10, 2005. 18 minutes.
	Understanding Informal Communication. Student Seminar. December 6, 2004. 40 minutes.
	A Hybrid Model for Co-reference Resolution. Student Workshop on Information Retrieval and Language. November 9, 2004. 20 minutes.
	Learning with Text. 9.520 Lecture. March 31, 2004. 80 minutes.
	Tackling the Poor Assumptions of Naive Bayes Text Classifiers. Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning. August 22, 2003. 20 minutes.
	Text Classification. 9.520 Lecture. April 9, 2003. 80 minutes.
	Automatic Feature Induction for Text Classification. The Spam Conference. January 17, 2003. 20 minutes.
	A Continuum Between Discriminant and Model-Based Classifiers. MIT Student Oxygen Workshop. July 17, 2002. 20 minutes. Best presentation award.
	Text Classification. 9.520 Lecture. April 24, 2002. 80 minutes.