Welcome Introduction and Overview Computer Science Research Practicum Fall 2012 Andrew Rosenberg

Welcome Research Practicum in Computer Science Today –Getting to know each other. –Definitions. –Structure of the course. –Expectations. –Policies. 1

Getting to know each other What’s your name? Do you know other students in this class? Expected Graduation date. Plans after Graduation. Experience with Research. –Including independent study courses Experience in Industry –as a developer? or otherwise. What interests you about research in computer science? –Are there specific disciplines or research questions that you are interested in? 2

Current Speech Lab Projects AuToBI –Analyzing intonation. Reciprosody –Web application for sharing linguistic resources BABEL –Keyword Search in Low Resource Languages DEFT –Identifying Novel Facts and handling ambiguity Deception Detection –Can we tell that someone is lying from speech? Active Authentication –Can you confirm a user by their typing behavior? 3

Defining Computer Science What is CS? 4

Defining Computer Science One definition: –The theory and approach to computation, and its applications. 5

Research? 6

Defining Research What makes an activity “research”? How is this different in science, engineering, technology and math? 7

Defining Research Traditional Scientific Process –Making Hypotheses –Testing Hypotheses –Refining Hypotheses Developing, discovering or hypothesizing something never before produced or known. –about computation, or using computation 8

Major Topics Introduction Research Lifecycle Introduction to Natural Language Processing and Speech Statistics and Machine Learning Evaluation Research Proposals Preparing and Delivering Oral Presentations Paper Writing Writing, Maintaining and Distributing Research Code 9

Specific Topics Information Retrieval Speech Recognition Sentiment Analysis Security Applications 10

Structure of the course Course website 11