Current News and Events: Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

 December 

3^rd
Title: Cortical Modeling of Auditory Processing Disorders
Presenter:Dana Boatman
Affiliation(s): Departments of Neurology and Otolaryngology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

 November 

19^th
Title: Customizing MT Systems
Presenter:Remi Zajac
Affiliation(s): Systran

12^th
Title: Arabic Vowel Restoration
Presenter:John Henderson
Affiliation(s): MITRE

5^th
Title: AI and the Impending Revolution in Brain Sciences
Presenter:Tom Mitchell
Affiliation(s): Carnegie Mellon University

 October 

29^th
Title: Learning Energy-Based Models of High-Dimensional Data
Presenter:Geoffrey Hinton
Affiliation(s): University of Toronto
Presentation Slides: HTM

22^nd
Title: Evolution of Cooperative Problem Solving in an Artificial Economy
Presenter:Eric B. Baum
Affiliation(s): NEC Research

15^th
Title: Improving Statistical Parsers Using Cross-Corpus Data
Presenter:Xiaoqiang Luo
Affiliation(s): IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Presentation Slides: PPT

8^th
Title: Cellular Cooperation in Cochlear Mechanics
Presenter:George Zweig
Affiliation(s): Los Alamos National Laboratory

1^st
Title: Dynamic Programming based Search and Segmentation Algorithms for Statistical Machine Translation
Presenter:Christoph Tillman
Affiliation(s): IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

 September 

24^th
Title: Natural Language Parsing: Graphs, the A* Algorithm, and Modularity
Presenter:Christopher Manning
Affiliation(s): Stanford University

12^th
Title: Modern Electret Microphones and Their Applications
Presenter:James West
Affiliation(s): The Johns Hopkins University

 April 

30^th
Title: Modeling Shape: Computer Vision Meets The Euler Equation
Presenter:David Mumford
Affiliation(s): Brown University

23^rd
Title: The Silicon Cochlea: From Biology to Bionics
Presenter:Rahul Sarpeshkar
Affiliation(s): Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Presentation Slides: PPT

16^th
Title: Identifying minimalist languages from dependency structures
Presenter:Ed Stabler
Affiliation(s): UCLA Dept. of Linguistics
Presentation Slides: PDF

9^th
Title: Alpino: Wide-coverage Computational Analysis of Dutch
Presenter:Gertjan van Noord
Affiliation(s): University of Groningen
Presentation Slides: PDF

2^nd
Title: Emergent Properties of Speech and Language as Social Activities
Presenter:Mark Liberman
Affiliation(s): Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
Presentation Slides: PPT

 March 

28^th
Title: Recognition and Organization of Speech and Audio: A program and some projects
Presenter:Dan Ellis
Affiliation(s): Shaffer 101, 4:30-6 PM
Presentation Slides: PDF

28^th
Title: Recognition and Organization of Speech and Audio: A program and some projects
Presenter:Dan Ellis
Affiliation(s): Shaffer 101, 4:30-6 PM
Presentation Slides: PDF

12^th
Title: Data-driven discriminative features for HMM-based ASR
Presenter:Hynek Hermansky
Affiliation(s): Oregon Graduate Institute

1^st
Title: Event Extraction: Learning from Corpora
Presenter:Ralph Grishman
Affiliation(s): New York University

1^st
Title: Event Extraction: Learning from Corpora
Presenter:Ralph Grishman
Affiliation(s): New York University

 February 

19^th
Title: Modeling Inverse Covariance Matrices by Basis Expansion
Presenter:Dr. Peder A. Olsen
Affiliation(s): IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

12^th
Title: Toward Improved Dialect Modeling
Presenter:Malcah Yaeger-Dror
Affiliation(s): University of Arizona, Cognitive Science

5^th
Title: Rules and Analogy in Word Learning and Change
Presenter:Charles Yang
Affiliation(s): Yale University - Dept. of Linguistics
Presentation Slides: PDF

 January 

29^th
Title: The Shoah Foundations digital archive: A 180 Tera-Byte database for teaching tolerance
Presenter:Sam Gustman
Affiliation(s): Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation