The Center for Language and Speech Processing

Fall 1998 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.  Please call or email if you need further directions or click on the link below. 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.


October 6 1998

Siegfried (Jimmy) Kunzmann
IBM Speech Systems - Germany
Speech Technologies at IBM Europe

October 13 1998

John C. Trueswell
Dept. of Psychology and Institute for Research in Cognitive Science,
University of Pennsylvania
Using Eye Movements to Study On-Line Sentence Processing in Children:  Finding the Kindergarten-Path Effect

October 20 1998

Harry Printz
 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Fast Computation of Maximum Entropy / Minimum Divergence Feature Gain

October 27 1998

Michael Picheny
 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
"What Drives Advances in Speech Recognition?" or "There's No Data Like More Data"

November 3 1998

Xiaoqin Wang, Ph.D.
Biomedical Engineering, JHU School of Medicine
Species-specific Communication Sounds and Their Cortical Representations in a Vocal Primate

November 10 1998

Phil Resnick
The University of Maryland
The Web and the Word:  Alternative Sources for Bilingual Text

November 17 1998

Donca Steriade
UCLA Linguistics Department
On Syllable-based Phonotactics and the Source of Syllabic Intuitions

November 24 1998

No Seminar - Thanksgiving Week

December 1 1998

James R. Sawusch
SUNY at Buffalo, Department of Psychology
Influences of the Mental Lexicon on the Perception of Speech

December 8 1998

Steve Young
Cambridge University, Engineering Department
United Kingdom &
Entropic Limited, United Kingdom
Transcribing and Retrieving Broadcast News


This page created and maintained by Gabriel Giordani (last updated 24 November 1998)