Sociology Department Colloquium: Dan Jurafsky

Please join us for a colloquium being given by Dan Jurafsky, Professor of Linguistics and of Computer Science at Stanford University.

"Computational Linguistics for Extracting Social Meaning from Everyday Text"

The words and speech we use richly reflect all sorts of lovely social variables.    In this talk I'll summarize work from our lab on using computational linguistic techniques to automatically extract social meaning from everyday language, including restaurant reviews and menus, transcripts of romantic dates, questions on the web, and academic articles.