Faculty Spotlight: Department Chair Daniel Mosse' and Professor Diane Litman
Chairman Daniel Mosse' and Professor Diane Litman participated in the IBM Watson Symposium on March 30, 2011. This day-long symposium included a series of discussions with Pitt and CMU experts in technology, healthcare, and law. Chairman Mosse' made welcoming remarks at the IBM Symposium event titled "Deep Dive Into Deep QA and Natural Language Technology." Diane Litman was a panelist in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) forum, along with David Ferucci, PI of the deepQA/Watson Project for IBM; and Eric Nyberg, professor in CMU's Language Technology Institute. The symposium ended with the IBM Watson Presentation, Demonstration and Q&A Panel with a Jeopardy! challenge between Pitt student team, CMU student team, and Watson.
You can find more information about Dr. Litman's research on her personal web page.
News articles:
- Pitt Chronicle (March 28, 2011)
- Post Gazette(March 31, 2011)
- Converge Magazine (April 4, 2011)
- University of Pittsburgh Mediasite NLP & Watson panel discussion
- IBM Communications interview with Diane Litman





