Current News and Events: Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

 October 

30^th
Title: How Important is "Starting Small" in Language Acquisition?
Presenter:David Plaut
Affiliation(s): Carnegie Mellon University
Presentation Slides: PDF

16^th
Title: Inductive Databases and Knowledge Scouts
Presenter:Ryszard S. Michalski
Affiliation(s): TBA
Presentation Slides: PPT

9^th
Title: Spatial Language and Spatial Cognition: The Case of Motion Events
Presenter:Barbara Landau
Affiliation(s): Johns Hopkins University

2^nd
Title: Integrating behavioral, neuroscience, and computational methods in the study of human speech
Presenter:Lynne Bernstein
Affiliation(s): Department of Communication Neuroscience, House Ear Institute

2^nd
Title: Integrating behavioral, neuroscience, and computational methods in the study of human speech
Presenter:Lynne Bernstein
Affiliation(s): Department of Communication Neuroscience, House Ear Institute

 September 

25^th
Title: Time-frequency auditory processing in bat sonar
Presenter:James Simmons
Affiliation(s): Brown University
Presentation Slides: PPT

25^th
Title: Time-frequency auditory processing in bat sonar
Presenter:James Simmons
Affiliation(s): Brown University
Presentation Slides: PPT

18^th
Title: Title to be Announced
Presenter:Kevin Johnson
Affiliation(s): Ohio State University

18^th
Title: Title to be Announced
Presenter:Kevin Johnson
Affiliation(s): Ohio State University

11^th
Title: Predictive clustering: smaller, faster language modeling
Presenter:Joshua Goodman
Affiliation(s): Microsoft Corp.

11^th
Title: Predictive clustering: smaller, faster language modeling
Presenter:Joshua Goodman
Affiliation(s): Microsoft Corp.

11^th
Title: Predictive clustering: smaller, faster language modeling
Presenter:Joshua Goodman
Affiliation(s): Microsoft Corp.

 April 

24^th
Title: Effects of sublexical pattern frequency on production accuracy in young children
Presenter:Mary Beckman
Affiliation(s): Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University

24^th
Title: Effects of sublexical pattern frequency on production accuracy in young children
Presenter:Mary Beckman
Affiliation(s): Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University

17^th
Title: Acoustic-optical Phonetics and Audiovisual Speech Perception
Presenter: Lynne Bernstein, Ph.D.
Affiliation(s): TBA

17^th
Title: Acoustic-optical Phonetics and Audiovisual Speech Perception
Presenter: Lynne Bernstein, Ph.D.
Affiliation(s): TBA

10^th
Title: Deterministic Annealing for Clustering, Compression, Classification, Regression, and Speech Recognition
Presenter: Kenneth Rose
Affiliation(s): Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara

10^th
Title: Deterministic Annealing for Clustering, Compression, Classification, Regression, and Speech Recognition
Presenter: Kenneth Rose
Affiliation(s): Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara

10^th
Title: Deterministic Annealing for Clustering, Compression, Classification, Regression, and Speech Recognition
Presenter: Kenneth Rose
Affiliation(s): Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara

10^th
Title: Deterministic Annealing for Clustering, Compression, Classification, Regression, and Speech Recognition
Presenter: Kenneth Rose
Affiliation(s): Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara

 March 

27^th
Title: Learning Probabilistic and Lexicalized Grammars for Natural Language Processing
Presenter:Rebecca Hwa
Affiliation(s): University of Maryland, College Park

13^th
Title: Latent-Variable Representations for Speech Processing and Research
Presenter: Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan
Affiliation(s): Georgetown Institute for Computational and Cognitive Sciences, Georgetown University Medical Center
Presentation Slides: PDF

6^th
Title: Computational Anatomy: Computing Metrics on Anatomical Shapes
Presenter:Mirza Faisal Beg
Affiliation(s): Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

 February 

27^th
Title: Whats up with pronunciation variation? Why its so hard to model and what to do about it
Presenter:Dan Jurafsky
Affiliation(s): University of Colorado, Boulder
Department of Linguistics, Department of Computer Science, Institute of Cognitive Science, & Center for Spoken Language Research

27^th
Title: Whats up with pronunciation variation? Why its so hard to model and what to do about it
Presenter:Dan Jurafsky
Affiliation(s): University of Colorado, Boulder
Department of Linguistics, Department of Computer Science, Institute of Cognitive Science, & Center for Spoken Language Research

27^th
Title: Whats up with pronunciation variation? Why its so hard to model and what to do about it
Presenter:Dan Jurafsky
Affiliation(s): University of Colorado, Boulder
Department of Linguistics, Department of Computer Science, Institute of Cognitive Science, & Center for Spoken Language Research

27^th
Title: Whats up with pronunciation variation? Why its so hard to model and what to do about it
Presenter:Dan Jurafsky
Affiliation(s): University of Colorado, Boulder
Department of Linguistics, Department of Computer Science, Institute of Cognitive Science, & Center for Spoken Language Research

6^th
Title: Geometric Source Separation:
Merging convolutive source separation with geometric beamforming
Presenter:Lucas Parra
Affiliation(s): Sarnoff Corporation

6^th
Title: Geometric Source Separation:
Merging convolutive source separation with geometric beamforming
Presenter:Lucas Parra
Affiliation(s): Sarnoff Corporation