The Center for Language and Speech Processing

FALL 1996 SEMINAR SERIES

All talks will be held on Tuesdays (unless otherwise noted) from 4:30-6:00pm in Room 100 Shaffer Hall on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus.

***Please note that this is a different location from last year. Shaffer Hall is located directly across the lower quad from Barton Hall, the building where CLSP is located. Shaffer is also next to Maryland Hall, the former site of the Seminar Series. Please call or email if you need further directions ***

Refreshments will be served at 4.15pm. All entries listed as TBA: To Be Announced.

For more information on the Seminar Series, please send your inquiries to seminar@cspjhu.ece.jhu.edu or call at 410-516-4237.

September 24
Lenore Cowen
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Approximate Distance Clustering
click here for abstract

October 1

Joshua Goodman
Harvard University, Department of Computer Science
The Right Parser for the Problem
click here for abstract

October 8

Sadaoki Furui
Furui Research Laboratory, NTT Human Interface Laboratories
Recent Topics in Speech Recognition Research at NTT Laboratories
click here for abstract

October 15

Bill Labov
University of Pennsylvania
Cognitive Consequences of Linguistic Change in Progress
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October 22

Jim Glass
MIT
Phones, Anti-Phones, and Diphones: A Probabilistic Framework for Feature-Based Speech Recognition
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October 29

NO SEMINAR

November 5

Richard Sproat
Speech Synthesis Research Department, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
A Finite-State Model of Multilingual Text Analysis for Text-to-Speech Synthesis
click here for abstract

November 12

Peter Jusczyk
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Psychology
How English-learners begin to segment fluent speech
click here for abstract

November 19

Alan Biermann
Duke University
Goal-Oriented Multimedia Dialogue with Variable Initiative
click here for abstract

November 26

Dana Boatman
Dept of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
The role of cortical mechanisms in human speech perception
click here for abstract

December 3

Emmanuel Roche
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory
Finite-State Transducer Decomposition for Natural Language Parsing
click here for abstract

December 10

Bonnie Dorr
University of Maryland
Acquisition of Lexicons from Online Resources
click here for abstract

This page created and maintained by Elizabeth Latham (last updated 12 December 1996)