The Center for Language and Speech Processing

SPRING 1997 SEMINAR SERIES

All 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.

Refreshments will be served at 4.15pm.

All entries listed as TBA: To Be Announced.

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

Feb 11 -- RESCHEDULED for April 15, 1997
Ponani S. Gopalakrishnan
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Automatic Transcription of Real World Data
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Feb 18

Stanley Chen
Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Smoothing for Maximum Entropy Models
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Feb 25

Eugene Charniak
Department of Computer Science, Brown University
Statistical Natural Language Parsing, or Doing Well by Doing Dumb
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March 4

David B. Pisoni
Department of Psychology, Indiana University at Bloomington
Effects of Variability on Japanese Learning of English /r/ and /l/
click here for abstract

March 11

Li Deng
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
Statistical speech recognition using a functional model of "hidden" processes in human speech communication
click here for abstract

March 18

NO SEMINAR

March 25

Jan Hajic
Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics Faculty of Mathematics and Physics; Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
The Prague Dependency Treebank
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March 31

Kemal Oflazer
Computer Science at Bilkent University -- Ankara, Turkey
MORPHOLOGICAL DISAMBIGUATION AND TAGGING BY VOTING CONSTRAINTS
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April 8

Frank Soong
Bell Laboratories
Deconvolution of Reverberant Signals
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April 15

Ponani S. Gopalakrishnan
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Automatic Transcription of Real World Data
click here for abstract

April 22

NO SEMINAR

April 29

Michael Kelly
Psychology Department, University of Pennsylvania

A Noun by any other Name? Some Sure don't Sound So Sweet.
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