From VM Sun Sep 24 20:08:52 2006 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil t nil nil nil nil] ["344" "Sunday" "24" "September" "2006" "20:02:08" "-0400" "Benjamin Han" "bhan@andrew.cmu.edu" "<58542165-4B59-4FC5-B48A-835F4E6CCAA1@andrew.cmu.edu>" "20" "Can computers have an opinion?" "^From:" nil nil "9" nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Return-Path: Received: from chokecherry.srv.cs.cmu.edu (CHOKECHERRY.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.185.41]) by maggie.cs.pitt.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k8P02Ask030527 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:02:10 -0400 (envelope-from bhan@andrew.cmu.edu) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (VPN-5.NET.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.216.5]) by chokecherry.srv.cs.cmu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8P02AWS009841 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:02:10 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <58542165-4B59-4FC5-B48A-835F4E6CCAA1@andrew.cmu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Spam-Score: -1.665/5 BAYES_00 SA-version=3.000002 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 130.49.220.148 From: Benjamin Han To: "Janyce M. Wiebe" Subject: Can computers have an opinion? Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:02:08 -0400 Hi Jan, Just saw this piece on a well-known tech-related blog: http://www.primidi.com/2006/09/24.html#a1632 Sometimes Slashdot et al would pick the stories up within a short period of time. Best, Ben --- Benjamin Han (http://www.BenjaminHan.net) Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University From VM Mon Sep 25 08:37:14 2006 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["388" "Sunday" "24" "September" "2006" "23:45:06" "-0600" "Ellen Riloff" "riloff@cs.utah.edu" nil "16" "[Tenured-faculty] Ellen's work on front page of slashdot now (fwd)" "^From:" nil nil "9" nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Return-Path: Received: from mail-svr1.cs.utah.edu (mail-svr1.cs.utah.edu [155.98.64.241]) by maggie.cs.pitt.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k8P5j9ke027323 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:45:10 -0400 (envelope-from riloff@cs.utah.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail-svr1.cs.utah.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A32B4650080; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:45:08 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mail-svr1.cs.utah.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail-svr1.cs.utah.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13777-09; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:45:06 -0600 (MDT) Received: from thidwick.cs.utah.edu (thidwick.cs.utah.edu [155.98.66.35]) by mail-svr1.cs.utah.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C79AD65007D; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:45:06 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.utah.edu X-Spam-Score: -1.665/5 BAYES_00 SA-version=3.000002 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 130.49.220.148 From: Ellen Riloff To: Janyce Wiebe , Claire Cardie cc: Ellen Riloff Subject: [Tenured-faculty] Ellen's work on front page of slashdot now (fwd) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:45:06 -0600 (MDT) Pete discovered that our DHS award made slashdot! Looks like a rehash of Claire's interview... -ellen ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:16:46 -0600 (MDT) From: Peter Shirley To: profs@cs.utah.edu Subject: [Tenured-faculty] Ellen's work on front page of slashdot now Although you need to follow a link to find her name... Pete From VM Mon Sep 25 19:59:40 2006 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil t nil nil nil nil] ["80" "Monday" "25" "September" "2006" "16:54:02" "-0400" "Eric J. Conlon" "ejc14@cs.pitt.edu" "" "5" "Slashdot article" "^From:" nil nil "9" nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Return-Path: Received: from hermosa.cs.pitt.edu (hermosa.cs.pitt.edu [130.49.222.50]) by maggie.cs.pitt.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k8PKs3D1008698 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:54:03 -0400 (envelope-from ejc14@cs.pitt.edu) Received: from hermosa.cs.pitt.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hermosa.cs.pitt.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8PKs2rl004488 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:54:02 -0400 Received: from localhost (ejc14@localhost) by hermosa.cs.pitt.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id k8PKs2DY004484 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:54:02 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: hermosa.cs.pitt.edu: ejc14 owned process doing -bs Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Score: -101.148/5 BAYES_00,FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,USER_IN_WHITELIST SA-version=3.000002 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 130.49.220.148 From: "Eric J. Conlon" To: wiebe@cs.pitt.edu Subject: Slashdot article Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:54:02 -0400 (EDT) http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/09/25/0111231.shtml Needs plenty of salt! - Eric From VM Mon Sep 25 20:33:26 2006 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["40" "Monday" "25" "September" "2006" "20:27:21" "-0400" "Janyce M. Wiebe" "wiebe@cs.pitt.edu" nil "2" "blog" "^From:" nil nil "9" nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Return-Path: Received: from maggie.cs.pitt.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by maggie.cs.pitt.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k8Q0RM3l028351 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:27:22 -0400 (envelope-from wiebe@cs.pitt.edu) Received: (from defang@localhost) by maggie.cs.pitt.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id k8Q0RMRs028345 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:27:22 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: maggie.cs.pitt.edu: defang set sender to using -f Received: from las-cruces.cs.pitt.edu (las-cruces.cs.pitt.edu [130.49.222.90]) by maggie.cs.pitt.edu (envelope-sender ) (MIMEDefang) with ESMTP id k8Q0RM7H028339; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:27:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from las-cruces.cs.pitt.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by las-cruces.cs.pitt.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8Q0RM8R029003; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:27:22 -0400 Received: (from wiebe@localhost) by las-cruces.cs.pitt.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id k8Q0RLXC028999; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:27:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17688.29673.927636.570026@las-cruces.cs.pitt.edu> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under Emacs 21.2.1 X-Spam-Score: -99.131/5 BAYES_00,DOMAIN_RATIO,USER_IN_WHITELIST SA-version=3.000002 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 130.49.220.148 From: "Janyce M. Wiebe" To: wiebe@cs.pitt.edu Cc: wiebe@cs.pitt.edu Subject: blog Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:27:21 -0400 http://www.primidi.com/2006/09/24.html From VM Wed Sep 27 13:48:06 2006 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil t nil nil nil nil] ["1660" "Wednesday" "27" "September" "2006" "13:58:40" "-0400" "Chapman, Wendy" "chapman@cbmi.pitt.edu" "<09D04633DAED5F489FFEB6A0EAF22C1602C8FB0E@pikachu.health.pitt.edu>" "38" "FW: Natural Language Processing for State Security " "^From:" nil nil "9" nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Return-Path: Received: from cbmiexchange.health.pitt.edu (pikachu.health.pitt.edu [130.49.206.135]) by maggie.cs.pitt.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k8RHiQEu018775 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:44:26 -0400 (envelope-from chapman@cbmi.pitt.edu) Received: by pikachu.health.pitt.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:58:41 -0400 Message-ID: <09D04633DAED5F489FFEB6A0EAF22C1602C8FB0E@pikachu.health.pitt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: -1.665/5 BAYES_00 SA-version=3.000002 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 130.49.220.148 From: "Chapman, Wendy" To: "'Janyce M. Wiebe'" Subject: FW: Natural Language Processing for State Security Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:58:40 -0400 One of my dental collaborators sent me these links to news stories about your grant. Great job! It is neat that the work is getting so much press. Wendy -----Original Message----- From: Heiko Spallek [mailto:heiko@spallek.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:49 AM To: Chapman, Wendy Cc: Schleyer, Titus; Yuhaniak, Jeannie Subject: Natural Language Processing for State Security +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Natural Language Processing for State Security | | from the your-ipod-can-tell-what-you-mean dept. | | posted by Zonk on Sunday September 24, @21:39 (Security) | | http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/25/0111231 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ [0]Roland Piquepaille writes "Obviously, computers can't have an opinion. What computers are very good at, though, is scanning through text to deduct human opinions from factual information. This branch of natural-language processing (NLP) is called 'information extraction' and is used for [1]sorting facts and opinions for Homeland Security. Right now, a consortium of three universities is for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which doesn't have enough in-house expertise in NLP. Read more for [2]additional references and a diagram showing how information extraction is used." Discuss this story at: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=06/09/25/0111231 Links: 0. http://www.primidi.com/ 1. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/cuns-sfa092206.php 2. http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=364 From VM Wed Sep 27 13:54:00 2006 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil t nil nil nil nil] ["123" "Wednesday" "27" "September" "2006" "13:48:22" "-0400" "Jason Kessler" "jason.kessler@gmail.com" "" "3" "Matthew Hurst's blog entry on your subjectivity papers" "^From:" nil nil "9" nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Return-Path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.180]) by maggie.cs.pitt.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k8RHmNrL019991 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:48:24 -0400 (envelope-from jason.kessler@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c31so322266pyd for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:48:23 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=jC4AGxBNAfh3I36dE2xwKV2GcJhdF7v90BehN+BbkRg/FvB3rLn9HaTT84G43Tqd1UJjM5S441bzD/jeR1OXi1u20CvsKQQv5nMALiPV6fqiwqP0GiY2SxVfiOlfayNWH2HO6pM44AlHmOVZeXnhYZRDIKXYdmMb59w3xuBVHWA= Received: by 10.35.52.18 with SMTP id e18mr1288285pyk; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:48:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.93.6 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:48:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Score: -1.614/5 BAYES_00,RCVD_BY_IP SA-version=3.000002 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 130.49.220.148 From: "Jason Kessler" To: "Janyce M. Wiebe" Cc: "Swapna Somasundaran" Subject: Matthew Hurst's blog entry on your subjectivity papers Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:48:22 -0400 It appears he hasn't read the annotation manual... http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2006/09/subjectivity_in.html From VM Fri Sep 22 10:02:39 2006 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["89" "Friday" "22" "September" "2006" "10:01:04" "-0400" "Janyce M. Wiebe" "wiebe@cs.pitt.edu" nil "2" "get this article at home" "^From:" nil nil "9" nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Return-Path: Received: from las-cruces.cs.pitt.edu (las-cruces.cs.pitt.edu [130.49.222.90]) by maggie.cs.pitt.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k8ME15to029796 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:01:06 -0400 (envelope-from wiebe@cs.pitt.edu) Received: from las-cruces.cs.pitt.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by las-cruces.cs.pitt.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8ME148R011966 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:01:04 -0400 Received: (from wiebe@localhost) by las-cruces.cs.pitt.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id k8ME14K6011962; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:01:04 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17683.60576.789962.811034@las-cruces.cs.pitt.edu> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under Emacs 21.2.1 X-Spam-Score: -101.665/5 BAYES_00,USER_IN_WHITELIST SA-version=3.000002 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 130.49.220.148 From: "Janyce M. Wiebe" To: wiebe@cs.pitt.edu Subject: get this article at home Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:01:04 -0400 http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB115861587981966670-lMyQjAxMDE2NTE4OTYxMTk1Wj.html From VM Thu Oct 5 09:46:31 2006 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil t nil nil nil nil] ["349" "Thursday" "5" "October" "2006" "11:23:20" "+0200" "Michael Strube" "strube@eml-research.de" "<17700.53000.594708.665989@progressio.eml.org>" "13" "congratulations" "^From:" nil nil "10" nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Return-Path: Received: from ktaemail01.villa-bosch.de (ktaemail01.villa-bosch.de [212.126.215.61]) by maggie.cs.pitt.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k959NOeQ020339 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 05:23:25 -0400 (envelope-from Michael.Strube@eml-r.villa-bosch.de) Received: from progressio.eml.org ([212.126.215.62] RDNS failed) by ktaemail01.villa-bosch.de with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:21:56 +0200 Received: from strube by progressio.eml.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GVPRp-00028h-00 for ; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:23:21 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17700.53000.594708.665989@progressio.eml.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Reply-To: strube@eml-research.de X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Oct 2006 09:21:56.0031 (UTC) FILETIME=[B3A80CF0:01C6E85F] X-Spam-Score: -1.665/5 BAYES_00 SA-version=3.000002 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 130.49.220.148 From: Michael Strube To: wiebe@cs.pitt.edu Subject: congratulations Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:23:20 +0200 Janyce, our PR guy sent me a link to a story which appeared in the online version of the most prestigous German news journal ("Der Spiegel"): http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,440877,00.html Though you are not mentioned in the article, I believe that you are behind the thing. So, congratulation to that success! Best, Michael