CLSP Seminar Series
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Spring 2008 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 room B17 of the new Computational Science and Engineering Building on the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University (unless otherwise noted).

The CSEB is located adjacent to Barton Hall.

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

 February 
5th
Title: Recent Advances in Audio Information Retrieval
Presenter:Bhuvana Ramabhadran
Affiliation(s): IBM
12th
Title: Combining outputs from multiple machine translation systems
Presenter: Antti-Veikko Rosti
Affiliation(s): BBN
19th
Title: Prominence in conversational speech: pitch accent, contrast and givenness
Presenter: Ani Nenkova
Affiliation(s): University of Pennsylvania
26th
Title: Learning Constraint-Based Grammars from Representative Data
Presenter: Smaranda Muresan
Affiliation(s): UMD
 March 
4th
Title: Finding Acoustic Regularities in Speech: From Words to Segments
Presenter: Jim Glass
Affiliation(s): MIT
11th
Title: Seminar rescheduled because of quarterly CoE meeting
Presenter:No Speaker
Affiliation(s): TBA
18th
Title: Spring Break
Presenter:No Speaker
Affiliation(s): TBA
25th
Title: Exploiting the Power of Search Engines for Real-Time Concept Association Tasks
Presenter:Peter Anick
Affiliation(s): Yahoo
Other: NOTE: This is a joint CS-CLSP seminar, and it will therefore be held at 10:30am rather than CLSP's normal time of 4:30pm.
 April 
1st
Title: Two Algorithms for Learning Sparse Representations
Presenter: Tong Zhang
Affiliation(s): Rutgers
8th
Title: AXOMs: Asynchronous Cascaded Self-organizing Maps for Language Learning
Presenter:Vito Pirrelli
Affiliation(s): CNR
15th
Title: Searching Efficiently for Solutions in Large-Scale NLP Application
Presenter: Daniel Marcu
Affiliation(s): Language Weaver / ISI
22nd
Title: Toward Automatic Temporal Interpretation of Texts
Presenter:Graham Katz
Affiliation(s): Georgetown
29th
Title: Forest-based Search Algorithms in Parsing and Machine Translation
Presenter:Liang Huang
Affiliation(s): University of Pennsylvania
 May 
6th
Title: Recent Innovations in Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Automatic Speech Recognition
Presenter:Chris Bartels
Affiliation(s): University of Washington




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