REU Site: Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision

该提案旨在增加被计算机科学研究和高级研究所吸引的美国公民和永久居民本科生的数量。理论和经验机器学习的培训将使参与者能够以创新的方式在最高水平上为无处不在的基于软件的技术做出贡献。该提案还将几乎完全侧重于培训来自研究机会有限的机构、女性和代表性不足的少数族裔的未来计算机科学家。研究经历将鼓励这些学生在未来的职业生涯中成为学术和非学术环境中富有成效的研究人员。计算机视觉通过人脸识别和自动驾驶汽车等应用，在国家安全和交通的未来方面对社会产生了深远的影响。自然语言处理，通过诸如高效的大量语义分析和来自不同来源的文本文档的摘要等应用程序，除了可以被行业利用的许多其他可能性之外，还对国家安全具有影响。这项提议的目的是让那些想要在计算机科学领域追求高级职业的聪明而积极的本科生在他们的职业生涯早期获得积极的研究经验。该提案旨在开发一个REU网站，通过接触大学研究中可用的机会来拓宽参与者的知识视野。学生将参与机器学习技术和利用机器学习的新兴应用的研究项目。感兴趣的应用是在自然语言处理和计算机视觉领域。学生将有机会在实验室环境中综合运用理论阅读、分析和研究。学生将被介绍到主题，并帮助获得深入了解选定的主题，通过介绍演讲。然后，他们将对新问题进行动手研究，进行实验，并通过书面论文和演讲交流他们的结果。REU的学生将在大学环境中与教师导师和研究生一起参与机器学习及其在各种新兴领域的应用研究。这项研究将涉及本科生的前沿研究，他们将编写软件来解决有趣和及时的问题，并撰写论文发表。

The proposal seeks to increase the number of American citizens and permanent resident undergraduates who are attracted to careers in research and advanced studies in Computer Science. Training in theoretical and empirical machine learning will enable participants to contribute to ubiquitous software-based technologies at the highest levels in innovative ways. The proposal will also focus almost exclusively on training future computer scientists from institutions with limited research opportunities, women and under-represented minorities. The research experience will encourage these students to be productive researchers in academic and non-academic environments during their future careers. Computer vision, through applications such as face recognition and autonomous vehicles, has profound implications for society in terms of future of national security and transportation. Natural language processing, through applications such as efficient large volume semantic analysis and summarization of textual documents from disparate sources, also has implications for national security in addition to numerous other possibilities that can be exploited by industry. The objective of this proposal is to expose bright and motivated undergraduates who want to pursue advanced careers in Computer Science to active research experience early in their careers. This proposal seeks to develop an REU site to broaden the intellectual horizon of participants through exposure to opportunities available in university research. Students will be involved in research projects in machine learning techniques and in emerging applications that exploit machine learning. The applications of interest are in the fields of natural language processing and computer vision. Students will have the opportunity to utilize a combination of theoretical reading, analysis, and research within laboratory environments. The students will be introduced to the topics and helped to obtain in-depth understanding of selected topics through introductory presentations. Then, they will perform hands-on research on novel problems, conduct experiments, and communicate their results through written papers and presentations. The REU students will be involved in research in machine learning and its applications in diverse and emergent areas alongside faculty mentors and graduate students in a university environment. The research will involve undergraduate students in cutting-edge research where they will write software to solve interesting and timely problems and write papers for publication.