Current News and Events: Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

 December 

4^th
Title: Only connect! Two explorations in using graphs for IR and NLP
Presenter: Lillian Lee
Affiliation(s): Cornell
Location: Computational Science & Engineering Building Room B17

 November 

27^th
Title: Elements of inference
Presenter:Tommi Jaakkola
Affiliation(s): MIT
Location: Computational Science & Engineering Building Room B17

13^th
Title: When Will Computers Understand Shakespeare?
Presenter: Jerry Hobbs
Affiliation(s): University of Southern California
Location: Computational Science & Engineering Building Room B17

6^th
Title: Developing Efficient Models of Intrinsic Speech Variability
Presenter: Richard Rose
Affiliation(s): McGill University
Location: Computational Science & Engineering Building Room B17

 October 

30^th
Title: Maximum Entropy and Species Distribution Modeling
Presenter:Rob Schapire
Affiliation(s): Princeton
Location: Computational Science & Engineering Building Room B17

23^rd
Title: Modelling human syntax by means of probabilistic dependency grammars
Presenter: Matthias Buch-Kromann
Affiliation(s): Center for Computational Modelling of Language, Department of Computational Linguistics, Copenhagen Business School
Location: Computational Science and Engineering Building, Room B17

16^th
Title: OpenFst: a General and Efficient Weighted Finite-State Transducer Library
Presenter: Michael Riley
Affiliation(s): Google
Location: Computational Science & Engineering Building Room B17

9^th
Title: New Methods to Capture and Exploit Multiscale Speech Dynamics: From Mathematical Models to Forensic Tools
Presenter: Patrick Wolfe
Affiliation(s): Statistics and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL), Harvard University
Location: Computational Science & Engineering Building Room B17

2^nd
Title: Detecting Deceptive Speech
Presenter: Julia Hirschberg
Affiliation(s): Columbia University
Location: Computational Science & Engineering Building Room B17

 September 

27^th
Title: Structural Alignment for Finite-State Syntactic Processing
Presenter:Brian Roark
Affiliation(s): OGI School of Science and Engineering at OHSU

18^th
Title: Transcribing Speech for Language Processing
Presenter:Mari Ostendorf
Affiliation(s): University of Washington

 July 

25^th
Title: Generalized Principal Components Analysis
Presenter: Rene Vidal
Affiliation(s): Center for Imaging Sciences, JHU

 May 

10^th
Title: A MULTINOMIAL VIEW OF SIGNAL SPECTRA FOR LATENT-VARIABLE ANALYSES
Presenter: Bhiksha Raj
Affiliation(s): MERL Research Lab
Location: Barton 117 @ 4pm -- This is an ECE seminar.

8^th
Title: Machine Translation = Automata Theory + Probability + Linguistics
Presenter: Kevin Knight
Affiliation(s): USC/Information Sciences Institute

3^rd
Title: Should Airplanes Flap Wings?
(Should machine processing of sensory data take inspiration from nature?)
Presenter: Hynek Hermansky
Affiliation(s): IDIAP Research Institute
Location: Barton 117 @ 4pm -- This is an ECE seminar.

1^st
Title: Factoring Speech into Linguistic Features
Presenter: Karen Livescu
Affiliation(s): Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 April  24^th NO SEMINAR

17^th
Title: Protein folding and parsing
Presenter: Julia Hockenmaier
Affiliation(s): University of Pennsylvania 10^th NO SEMINAR 3^rd NO SEMINAR

 March 

27^th
Title: A synthesis of logical reasoning and word learning abilities in children and adults
Presenter: Justin Halberda
Affiliation(s): Johns Hopkins University

20^th
Title: Complexity Metrics for Surface Structure Parsing
Presenter: John Hale
Affiliation(s): Michigan State University 13^th NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK

6^th
Title: The Real Time News Analysis (RTNA) Project
Presenter:Joan E. Forester
Affiliation(s): U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Presentation Slides: PDF

 February 

27^th
Title: Spoken Document Retrieval and Browsing
Presenter: Ciprian Chelba
Affiliation(s): Google Inc.
Presentation Slides: PDF

20^th
Title: Exploiting Sparsity and Structure in Parametric and Nonparametric Estimation
Presenter: John Lafferty
Affiliation(s): Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Hodson 110 1pm - 2pm (refreshments @ 12:30)
Other: This is a joint seminar with the JHU Center for Imaging Science (http://cis.jhu.edu/)

13^th
Title: Diffusion Kernels on Graphs
Presenter: Bruno Jedynak
Affiliation(s): Johns Hopkins University (CIS)
Presentation Slides: PDF

6^th
Title: Latent factor models for relational data and social networks
Presenter: Peter Hoff
Affiliation(s): University of Washington
Presentation Slides: PDF

 January 

31^st
Title: Learning and exploiting statistical dependencies in networks
Presenter: David Jensen
Affiliation(s): University of Massachusetts Amherst