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.
To view video of the conference webcast, click the following links:
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
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10:00 - 10:45 AM
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Eduard Hovy (USC) Research Associate Professor of Computer Science Director of the Human Language Technology Group at ISI Text Annotation to Enable Automated Processing Media: PowerPoint |
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10:45 - 11:30 AM
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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 Joint Inference of Video and Text Media: PowerPoint 1 | PowerPoint 2 |
11:30 - 12:15 PM
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Gordon Phillips (USC) Professor of Finance and Business Economics Marshall School of Business Computational Linguistics in Finance and Economics Media: PowerPoint |
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12:15 - 1:30 PM
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Lunch & Talk
Francis Steen (UCLA) Associate Professor, Communication Studies Director of the Communication Studies Archive |
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1:30 - 2:15 PM
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Richard Leahy (USC)
Brainstorm Group Professor, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Radiology Mapping Brain Structure, Function and Connectivity with MRI, MEG and EEG |
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2:15 - 3:00 PM
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Timothy Tangherlini (UCLA)
Professor, The Scandinavian Section and Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures Experiments in Narrative and Computing Media: PowerPoint |
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3:00 - 4:00 PM
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Shrikanth Narayanan (USC)
Professor, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics and Psychology Enriched Spoken Language Processing and Human Behavioral Informatics Media: PowerPoint |
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4:00 - 4:30 PM
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General Discussion & Refreshments
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4:30 - 5:00 PM
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Adjournment & Van Ride Back To UCLA
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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
