NL Seminar- The Things I Learned While Doing Research in the Commercial World

When:: Friday, January 25, 2013, 03:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where:: 11th Floor Conf. Room (#1135)
Speaker:: Daniel Marcu
Description:: Abstract:
When asked, as a PhD student, what I wanted to do when I grow up, I had one and only one answer: academic-oriented, natural language processing research. During the last decade, I have learned though to also appreciate the research opportunities in the commercial world. In this talk, I will compare several academic and commercial research models and ground the comparison in examples derived from my own experience while working as a researcher for USC, Language Weaver, and SDL