The Center for Language and Speech Processing

FALL 1997 SEMINAR SERIES

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. Shaffer Hall is located directly across the lower quad from Barton Hall, the building where CLSP is located.

Refreshments will be served at 4.15pm.

All entries listed as TBA: To Be Announced.

Directions to the Center and Parking Information


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


Sept 30 1997

David Lewis
AT&T Labs - Research

Uncertainty Sampling for Supervised Learning: A Logarithmic Lunch?
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Oct 7 1997
Robert Frank
Department of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University

TITLE: Resolving Ambiguities in Sentence Processing with Domination and Command
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Oct 14 1997
Fil Alleva
Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation

TITLE: The Contribution of Search to Automatic Speech Recognition
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Oct 21 1997
Michael Phillips
Applied Language Technologies

TITLE: Building Telephone-Based Speech Recognition Applications
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Oct 29 1997 in Shaffer 303
**NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND LOCATION: WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29, 1997**
Shaffer 303

Yariv Ephraim
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University

TITLE: On Second Order Statistics and Linear Estimation of Cepstral Coefficients
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Nov 4 1997

NO SEMINAR, LVCSR Workshop

Nov 11 1997
Paul Luce
Department of Psychology, SUNY, Buffalo

TITLE: Phonotactics and spoken word recognition
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Nov 18 1997
**THIS SEMINAR WILL BEGIN AT 4:15pm on 11/18/97**
Jerome R. Bellegarda
Apple Technology Group, Apple Computer, Inc.

Exploiting Both Local and Global Constraints for Multi-Span Statistical Language Modeling
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Nov 25 1997 CANCELLED. This seminar will be rescheduled for the Spring 1998 Series.
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel
Speech Communication Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT

TITLE: The role of prosodic structure in speech production planning
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Dec 2 1997
Mukund Padmanabhan
IBM TJ Watson Research Center

TITLE: Two Topics in Automatic Speech Recognition
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