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Spring 2002 Seminar Series

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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.


 January 
29th Title: The Shoah Foundation's digital archive: A 180 Tera-Byte database for teaching tolerance
Presenter: Sam Gustman
Affiliation(s): Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Presentation Slides: N/A
 February 
5th Title: Rules and Analogy in Word Learning and Change
Presenter: Charles Yang
Affiliation(s): Yale University
Presentation Slides: Adobe PDF
12th Title: Toward Improved Dialect Modeling
Presenter: Malcah Yaeger-Dror
Affiliation(s): University of Arizona
Presentation Slides: MS Powerpoint, 1.5 Mb
19th Title: Modeling Inverse Covariance Matrices by Basis Expansion
Presenter: Dr. Peder A. Olsen
Affiliation(s): IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Presentation Slides: Adobe PDF
26th Title: TBA
Presenter: NO SEMINAR: Rescheduled on Friday, March 1, 10:30 AM
Affiliation(s): TBA
Presentation Slides: N/A
 March 
1st Title: Event Extraction: Learning from Corpora
Presenter: Ralph Grishman
Affiliation(s): New York University
Presentation Slides: N/A
12th Title: Data-driven discriminative features for HMM-based ASR
Presenter: Hynek Hermansky
Affiliation(s): Oregon Graduate Institute
Presentation Slides: N/A
28th Title: Recognition and Organization of Speech and Audio
Presenter: Dan Ellis
Room Change: Shaffer 101, 4:30-6 PM
Affiliation(s): Columbia University
Presentation Slides: Adobe PDF
 April 
2nd Title: Emergent Properties of Speech and Language as Social Activities
Presenter: Mark Liberman
Affiliation(s): Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
Presentation Slides: MS Powerpoint
9th Title: Alpino: Wide-coverage Computational Analysis of Dutch
Presenter: Gertjan van Noord
Affiliation(s): University of Groningen
Presentation Slides: Adobe PDF
16th Title: Identifying minimalist languages from dependency structures
Presenter: Ed Stabler
Affiliation(s): UCLA Dept. of Linguistics
Presentation Slides: Adobe PDF
23rd Title: The Silicon Cochlea: From Biology to Bionics
Presenter: Rahul Sarpeshkar
Affiliation(s): MIT
Presentation Slides: MS Powerpoint
30th INAUGURAL SIMCA COLLOQUIUM
Title: Modeling Shape: Computer Vision Meets the Euler Equation
Presenter: David Mumford
Room Change: Arellano Theater, 4:30-5:30 PM
Reception to precede lecture @ 3:45pm.

Affiliation(s): Brown University
Presentation Slides: N/A


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