Current News and Events
FACULTY NEWS
CLSP faculty member Carey E. Priebe was one of six university professors to be named National Security Science and Engineering Fellows. more information »
2008 WORKSHOP NEWS
The 14th CLSP Summer Workshop on Human Language Technology begins on July 7, 2008. Click here for details. more information »
HLTCOE QUARTERLY TECHNICAL EXCHANGE
The Human Language Technology Center of Excellence is hosting their Quarterly Technical Exchange on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008, from 12 Noon-5 PM. Visit the HLTCOE website for more details.
WELCOME NEW FACULTY
CLSP welcomes Mounya Elhilali, a recent Ph.D. and postdoctoral fellow from the University of Maryland, who became an Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in January 2008. Elhilali's research interests include the study of auditory perception and learning, adaptive plasticity in auditory processing, as well as modeling work that relates neurophysiological findings of auditory processing to various signal processing applications, including assessment of speech intelligibility, computational auditory scene analysis and auditory streaming.
STUDENT NEWS
Jia Cui successfully defended her thesis "Integrating Linguistic and Statistical Knowledge in Language Modeling" on April 22, 2008. Jia is a student of Frederick Jelinek.
Chris White successfully presented his ECE student seminar and thesis proposal "Multilingual Spoken Term Detection" on April 23, 2008. Chris is a student of Sanjeev Khudanpur.
Lambert Mathias successfully defended his thesis "Statistical Machine Translation and Automatic Speech Recognition under Uncertainty" on December 7, 2007. Lambert is a student of William Byrne.
FACULTY NEWS
Sanjeev Khudanpur was promoted to tenured Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering on April 30.