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Spring 2005 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 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 
25th
Title: Reducing Confusions and Ambiguities in Speech Translation
Presenter: Pascale Fung
Affiliation(s): Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Location: Shaffer 3
Presentation Slides: PDF
 February 
1st
Title: NLP Research for Commercial Development of Writing Evaluation Capabilities
Presenter: Jill Burstein
Affiliation(s): ETS
Presentation Slides: PPT
8th
Title: From Phrase-Based MT towards Syntax-Based MT
Presenter: David Chiang
Affiliation(s): University of Maryland
Presentation Slides: PDF
15th
Title: Progress toward the LIFEmeter: Epidemiology meets Speech Recognition
Presenter: Thomas Glass
Affiliation(s): Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Presentation Slides: PPS
22nd
Title: Boundaries to the influence of Animates.
Presenter: Annie Zaenen
Affiliation(s): PARC
 March 
1st
Title: Multi-Rate and Variable-Rate Accoustic Modeling of Speech at Phone Syllable and Time Scales
Presenter: Ozgur Cetin
Affiliation(s): ICSI/Berkeley
Presentation Slides: PDF
8th
Title: Interaction: Conjectures, Results, Myths
Presenter: Dina Goldin
Affiliation(s): University of Connecticut
Presentation Slides: PPT
15th NO SEMINAR - Spring Break
22nd NO SEMINAR - ICASSP Philadelphia, PA
29th
Title: Translingual Information Processing
Presenter: Salim Roukos
Affiliation(s): IBM TJ Watson Research
 April 
5th
Title: Bipartite Graph Factorization in Static Decoding Graphs with Long-Span Acoustic Context: An Interesting Combinatorial Problem in ASR
Presenter: Geoffrey Zweig
Affiliation(s): IBM TJ Watson Research
Presentation Slides: PDF
12th
Title: Old and new work in discriminative training of acoustic models
Presenter:Daniel Povey
Affiliation(s): IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Presentation Slides: PDF
19th
Title: New Directions in Robust Automatic Speech Recognition
Presenter: Richard Stern
Affiliation(s): Carnegie Mellon University
Presentation Slides: PDF
26th
Title: Machine Translation Performance Evaluation Based on DOD Standards
Presenter: Doug Jones
Affiliation(s): MIT
 May 
3rd
Title: Conversational Speech and Language Technologies for Structured Document Generation
Presenter:Juergen Fritsch
Affiliation(s): MModal




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