The Center for Language and Speech Processing
Fall 1999 Seminar Series

These seminars are open to the public, and a video recording of the seminar is archived in the CLSP library. The talks are held on Tuesdays from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM in Shaffer Hall, Room 100, on the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University (unless otherwise noted).

Shaffer Hall is located directly across the lower quad from Barton Hall, the building where CLSP is located. Click here for directions to CLSP.


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


October
October 5, 1999
Geoffrey Zweig
IBM
Bayesian Networks: Algorithms and Structures for ASR
October 7, 1999
Daniel Marcu
Information Sciences Institute and Department of Computer Science University of Southern California
The Discourse Parsing and Summarization of Free Texts
October 19, 1999
B.H. Juang
Acoustics & Speech Research Department at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Advances and challenges in speech, audio and acoustics processing
for multimedia and human-machine communications



November
November 2, 1999
Andrew Kehler
Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International
Adventures in Learning Discourse Interpretation Strategies for Information Extraction
November 9, 1999
Fernando Pineda
Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory
Saddle-point Methods for Approximate Inference in Bayesian Belief Networks
November 16, 1999
John G. Harris
University of Florida, UF Analog Computation Group
The Ratio Spectrum With Applications to Speech Processing
November 20, 1999
Steve Grossberg
Boston University, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Center for Adaptive Systems
Neural Dynamics of Speech Perception and Word Recognition



December
December 7, 1999
Kevin Munhall
Queen's University, Canada: Department of Psychology
Visual Information Processing in Audiovisual Speech Perception



The Center for Language and Speech Processing
The Johns Hopkins University
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Baltimore, MD 21218
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