Current News and Events: Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

 December 

6^th
Title: Strategies for Coreference from the Perspective of Information Exploitation
Presenter:Breck Baldwin
Affiliation(s): Alias-i, Inc.

 November 

29^th
Title: Prosody in Spoken Language Processing
Presenter: Izhak Shafran
Affiliation(s): Johns Hopkins University
Presentation Slides: PDF 22^nd NO SEMINAR

15^th
Title: Integrative Models of the Cardiac Ventricular Myocyte
Presenter: Raimond Winslow
Affiliation(s): Johns Hopkins University
Presentation Slides: PPT

8^th
Title: Syntactic Models of Alignment
Presenter: Dan Gildea
Affiliation(s): University of Rochester

1^st
Title: Quest for the Essence of Language
Presenter:Steven Greenberg
Affiliation(s): Centre for Applied Hearing Research, Technical Univ of Denmark; Silicon Speech, Santa Venetia, CA, USA

 October 

25^th
Title: On the Parameter Space of Lexicalized Statistical Parsing Models
Presenter: Dan Bikel
Affiliation(s): IBM

20^th
Title: Human-Like Audio Signal Processing
Presenter: David V. Anderson
Affiliation(s): Georgia Institute of Technology **New Date & Time**
Other: New Time - 3:30 Barton 117

11^th
Title: Making Visualization Work
Presenter: Ben Bederson
Affiliation(s): University of Maryland

4^th
Title: Progress in speaker adaptation and acoustic modeling for LVCSR
Presenter:George Saon
Affiliation(s): IBM
Presentation Slides: PDF

 May 

3^rd
Title: Conversational Speech and Language Technologies for Structured Document Generation
Presenter:Juergen Fritsch
Affiliation(s): MModal

 April 

26^th
Title: Machine Translation Performance Evaluation Based on DOD Standards
Presenter: Doug Jones
Affiliation(s): MIT

19^th
Title: New Directions in Robust Automatic Speech Recognition
Presenter: Richard Stern
Affiliation(s): Carnegie Mellon University
Presentation Slides: PDF

12^th
Title: Old and new work in discriminative training of acoustic models
Presenter:Daniel Povey
Affiliation(s): IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Presentation Slides: PDF

5^th
Title: Bipartite Graph Factorization in Static Decoding Graphs with Long-Span Acoustic Context: An Interesting Combinatorial Problem in ASR
Presenter: Geoffrey Zweig
Affiliation(s): IBM TJ Watson Research
Presentation Slides: PDF

 March 

29^th
Title: Translingual Information Processing
Presenter: Salim Roukos
Affiliation(s): IBM TJ Watson Research 22^nd NO SEMINAR - ICASSP Philadelphia, PA 15^th NO SEMINAR - Spring Break

8^th
Title: Interaction: Conjectures, Results, Myths
Presenter: Dina Goldin
Affiliation(s): University of Connecticut
Presentation Slides: PPT

1^st
Title: Multi-Rate and Variable-Rate Accoustic Modeling of Speech at Phone Syllable and Time Scales
Presenter: Ozgur Cetin
Affiliation(s): ICSI/Berkeley
Presentation Slides: PDF

 February 

22^nd
Title: Boundaries to the influence of Animates.
Presenter: Annie Zaenen
Affiliation(s): PARC

15^th
Title: Progress toward the LIFEmeter: Epidemiology meets Speech Recognition
Presenter: Thomas Glass
Affiliation(s): Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Presentation Slides: PPS

8^th
Title: From Phrase-Based MT towards Syntax-Based MT
Presenter: David Chiang
Affiliation(s): University of Maryland
Presentation Slides: PDF

1^st
Title: NLP Research for Commercial Development of Writing Evaluation Capabilities
Presenter: Jill Burstein
Affiliation(s): ETS
Presentation Slides: PPT

 January 

25^th
Title: Reducing Confusions and Ambiguities in Speech Translation
Presenter: Pascale Fung
Affiliation(s): Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Location: Shaffer 3
Presentation Slides: PDF