Current News and Events: Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

 May 

6^th
Title: Recent Innovations in Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Automatic Speech Recognition
Presenter:Chris Bartels
Affiliation(s): University of Washington

 April 

29^th
Title: Forest-based Search Algorithms in Parsing and Machine Translation
Presenter:Liang Huang
Affiliation(s): University of Pennsylvania

22^nd
Title: Toward Automatic Temporal Interpretation of Texts
Presenter:Graham Katz
Affiliation(s): Georgetown

15^th
Title: Searching Efficiently for Solutions in Large-Scale NLP Application
Presenter: Daniel Marcu
Affiliation(s): Language Weaver / ISI

8^th
Title: AXOMs: Asynchronous Cascaded Self-organizing Maps for Language Learning
Presenter:Vito Pirrelli
Affiliation(s): CNR

1^st
Title: Two Algorithms for Learning Sparse Representations
Presenter: Tong Zhang
Affiliation(s): Rutgers

 March 

25^th
Title: Exploiting the Power of Search Engines for Real-Time Concept Association Tasks
Presenter:Peter Anick
Affiliation(s): Yahoo
Other: NOTE: This is a joint CS-CLSP seminar, and it will therefore be held at 10:30am rather than CLSP's normal time of 4:30pm.

18^th
Title: Spring Break
Presenter:No Speaker
Affiliation(s): TBA

11^th
Title: Seminar rescheduled because of quarterly CoE meeting
Presenter:No Speaker
Affiliation(s): TBA

4^th
Title: Finding Acoustic Regularities in Speech: From Words to Segments
Presenter: Jim Glass
Affiliation(s): MIT

 February 

26^th
Title: Learning Constraint-Based Grammars from Representative Data
Presenter: Smaranda Muresan
Affiliation(s): UMD

19^th
Title: Prominence in conversational speech: pitch accent, contrast and givenness
Presenter: Ani Nenkova
Affiliation(s): University of Pennsylvania

12^th
Title: Combining outputs from multiple machine translation systems
Presenter: Antti-Veikko Rosti
Affiliation(s): BBN

5^th
Title: Recent Advances in Audio Information Retrieval
Presenter:Bhuvana Ramabhadran
Affiliation(s): IBM