1. Midterm Presentation (Please select your topic from the following list)

• Convex Optimization: paper1 (Hongbin)

• Neural Networks: paper2

• Graphical Models: paper3 (Ossama)

• Latent Dirichlet Allocation: paper4 (Ameeta)

• Conditional Random Field: paper5, paper6

The midterm presentation is tentatively scheduled from 10am to 1pm on Feb 28 at CSEB2002. As a result, the class on Feb 16 is cancelled. Each person presents the above selected topic in 35-40 minutes and leaves 5 minutes for Q&A.

2. Final Presentation: (Please select your topic from the following list or let me know any other topic you may be interested in.)

• Discriminative Training of HMMs: paper7, paper8 (Ossama)

• Bayesian Learning of HMMs: paper9, paper10 (Hongbin)

• Latent Semantic Analysis for Language Model: paper11

• Speech Understanding: paper12

• Statistical Machine Translation: paper13 (Ameeta)

• Weighted Finite State Transducer Optimization for Speech and Language Processing: paper14

The final presentation is tentatively scheduled from 10am to 1pm on April 5 April 12 at CSEB2002. As a result, the classes on Mar 27 and 29 are cancelled. Each person presents the above selected topic in 35-40 minutes and leaves 5 minutes for Q&A.