Current News and Events: Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

 December 

5^th
Title: Semantic Information Processing of Spoken Language
Presenter:Allen Gorin
Affiliation(s): TBA

5^th
Title: Semantic Information Processing of Spoken Language
Presenter:Allen Gorin
Affiliation(s): TBA

 November 

28^th
Title: What makes information accessible during or after narrative comprehension?
Presenter:Tom Trabasso
Affiliation(s): Department of Psychology, University of Chicago

14^th
Title: The Open Mind Initiative:
An internet based distributed framework for developing "intelligent" systems
Presenter:David G. Stork
Affiliation(s): Ricoh Silicon Valley
Presentation Slides: PDF

14^th
Title: The Open Mind Initiative:
An internet based distributed framework for developing "intelligent" systems
Presenter:David G. Stork
Affiliation(s): Ricoh Silicon Valley
Presentation Slides: PDF

7^th
Title: Information Extraction: What has Worked, What hasnt, and What has Promise for the Future
Presenter:Ralph Weischedel
Affiliation(s): BBN Technologies
Presentation Slides: PPT

6^th
Title: Non-Stationary Multi-Stream Processing Towards Robust and Adaptive Speech Recognition
Presenter: Hervé Bourlard
Affiliation(s): TBA
Presentation Slides: PDF

6^th
Title: Non-Stationary Multi-Stream Processing Towards Robust and Adaptive Speech Recognition
Presenter: Hervé Bourlard
Affiliation(s): TBA
Presentation Slides: PDF

 October 

31^st
Title: Artificial Language Learning and Language Acquisition
Presenter:Rebecca Gomez
Affiliation(s): Department of Psychology, JHU

24^th
Title: A Phonologists View of the Past Tense Controversy
Presenter:Bruce Hayes
Affiliation(s): Department of Linguistics, UCLA

24^th
Title: A Phonologists View of the Past Tense Controversy
Presenter:Bruce Hayes
Affiliation(s): Department of Linguistics, UCLA

17^th
Title: The Hedgehog and the Fox: Language Technology and the Knowledge of Language
Presenter:Fernando Pereira
Affiliation(s): WhizBang! Labs -- Research
Presentation Slides: PDF

17^th
Title: The Hedgehog and the Fox: Language Technology and the Knowledge of Language
Presenter:Fernando Pereira
Affiliation(s): WhizBang! Labs -- Research
Presentation Slides: PDF

10^th
Title: Technology and System Development at SpeechWorks International
Presenter:Mike Phillips
Affiliation(s): SpeechWorks
Presentation Slides: PPT

3^rd
Title: Perceptual Requirements for Organizing and Analyzing Speech
or
Perceiving a Message (and a Messenger) in the Time-varying Tones
Presenter:Robert E. Remez
Affiliation(s): Department of Psychology
Barnard College, Columbia University

 September 

26^th
Title: Efficient Coding of Natural Sounds
Presenter:Michael S. Lewicki
Affiliation(s): Department of Computer Science & Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Carnegie Mellon University

 April 

25^th
Title: Discriminative Classification with Incomplete Data
Presenter:Dr. Tommi S. Jaakkola
Affiliation(s): MIT AI Lab

25^th
Title: Discriminative Classification with Incomplete Data
Presenter:Dr. Tommi S. Jaakkola
Affiliation(s): MIT AI Lab

18^th
Title: Sense Tagging the Penn TreeBank
Presenter:Dr. Martha Stone Palmer
Affiliation(s): Computer & Information Science Department and
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science

11^th
Title: Towards a Computational Model of Human Speech Recognition
Presenter:Dr. Partha Niyogi
Affiliation(s): TBA

7^th
Title: Causes and Consequences of Word Structure
Presenter:Janet Pierrehumbert
Affiliation(s): TBA

 March 

29^th
Title: What if computers do to memory what they have done to arithmetic?
Presenter:Michael Lesk
Affiliation(s): Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering
National Science Foundation

29^th
Title: What if computers do to memory what they have done to arithmetic?
Presenter:Michael Lesk
Affiliation(s): Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering
National Science Foundation

14^th
Title: Engineering, Science and Scholarship in Linguistics
Presenter:Dr. Mark Liberman
Affiliation(s): TBA

14^th
Title: Engineering, Science and Scholarship in Linguistics
Presenter:Dr. Mark Liberman
Affiliation(s): TBA

7^th
Title: A problem in speech recognition research with examples from astronomy
Presenter:Jordan Cohen
Affiliation(s): TBA

7^th
Title: A problem in speech recognition research with examples from astronomy
Presenter:Jordan Cohen
Affiliation(s): TBA

 February 

29^th
Title: Context-sensitivity and stochastic unification-based grammars
Presenter:Mark Johnson
Affiliation(s): TBA

29^th
Title: Context-sensitivity and stochastic unification-based grammars
Presenter:Mark Johnson
Affiliation(s): TBA

22^nd
Title: Putting Pen to Smart Paper
Presenter:Dr. Jayashree Subrahmonia
Affiliation(s): Manager, Pen Technologies
IBM T J Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

15^th
Title: The HAIRCUT System for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Presenter:Dr. James Mayfield
Affiliation(s): TBA

15^th
Title: The HAIRCUT System for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Presenter:Dr. James Mayfield
Affiliation(s): TBA

1^st
Title: Information and Decision Theory Explain
Why There are Neural Pulse Trains
Presenter:Dr. Toby Berger
Affiliation(s): TBA

1^st
Title: Information and Decision Theory Explain
Why There are Neural Pulse Trains
Presenter:Dr. Toby Berger
Affiliation(s): TBA