Conference:
A Meeting of the Minds:
Computational Social Science

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
USC Law Faculty Lounge (Room 433)

 

USC Gould School of Law
University of Southern California
699 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90089
Driving Directions


If you wish to attend, RSVP to Christopher Schnieders at cschnieders@law.usc.edu.

For parking information, please call (213) 740-5714.


Communication is essential to the study of any social activity. Computational approaches to the study of communication in social interaction seem to offer new vistas for the acquisition and analysis of vast ranges of multimodal communication data—speech, text, gesture, graphic and diagrammatic presentation, narrations, music, sound—from many different communities.

This workshop assesses strategies and tactics for the development of a computational social science of communication, with special emphasis on the computational methods being developed at USC and UCLA.

Webcast URL:
http://lawmedia.usc.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=16ac0b5e7f73484a9abfc0205c2d886a

 

May 15th, 2012 Schedule & Presenters

10:00 - 10:45 AM


Eduard Hovy (USC)
Research Associate Professor of Computer Science
Director of the Human Language Technology Group at ISI

10:45 - 11:30 AM


Kewei Tu and Song-Chun Zhu (UCLA)
Postdoc, Statistics, and Professor, Statistics and Computer Science
Director of the Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning, and Art

11:30 - 12:15 PM


Gordon Phillips (USC)
Professor of Finance and Business Economics
Marshall School of Business

12:15 - 1:30 PM

Lunch & Talk

Francis Steen (UCLA)
Associate Professor, Communication Studies
Director of the Communication Studies Archive

1:30 - 2:15 PM

Richard Leahy (USC)
Brainstorm Group
Professor, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Radiology

2:15 - 3:00 PM

Timothy Tangherlini (UCLA)
Professor, The Scandinavian Section and Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures

3:00 - 4:00 PM

Shrikanth Narayanan (USC)
Professor, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics and Psychology

4:00 - 4:30 PM

General Discussion & Refreshments

4:30 - 5:00 PM

Adjournment & Van Ride Back To UCLA

 

Via Scopia:
Mark Turner (Link)
Anders Hougaard, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark, VISL lab working on constraint grammar parsers etc. (Link)

Hosted By:
Mathew D. McCubbins (USC)
Provost Professor of Business, Law and Political Economy
Marshall School of Business, Gould School of Law, and Department of Political Science

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