Amanda Stent will give a talk entitled "InteractiveX:
Generating multimedia summaries of spatio-temporal data sets"
Date: October 1, 2012
Time: 2:30pm
Location: ETS, Anrig Hall, Room P-016 (directions | campus map)
VISITORS TO ETS: Please contact Joel Tetreault (jtetreault at ETS dot org) for security and arrival information.
ABSTRACT:
Organizations and individuals increasingly have to deal with
large to very large data sets that include spatio-temporal information,
such as network traffic data, credit card records, wildlife tracking
data, exam scores by time and place, and even data from social media
such as twitter. We have access to sophisticated statistical and
visualization tools for analyzing these data sets. However, the
output from these tools is frequently only understandable by experts --
and even experts can start to suffer from information overload. We
have designed a system, interactiveX, that guides users to understand the
meaning of large spatio-temporal data sets through automatic creation of
interactive multimedia explanations that combine text, graphics and the
results of data analysis. In this talk, we will first outline the
challenges of this task. We will then present the architecture of
our system, demonstrate some user interfaces to our system, and describe
some recent research results from this work.
BIO:
Dr. Amanda Stent works on spoken dialog, natural
language generation and assistive technology. She is currently a
Principal Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs - Research in Florham Park, NJ and was
previously an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at
Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY. She holds a PhD in
computer science from the University of Rochester. She has authored
over 70 papers on natural language processing and holds several patents.
She is VP of the ACL/ISCA Special Interest Group on Discourse and
Dialog and one of the rotating editors of the journal Dialogue and
Discourse.