The Center for Language and Speech Processing

SPRING 1998 SEMINAR SERIES

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. Shaffer Hall is located directly across the lower quad from Barton Hall, the building where CLSP is located.

Refreshments will be served at 4.15pm.

All entries listed as TBA: To Be Announced.

Directions to the Center and Parking Information

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

Feb 3 1998

Allen L. Gorin
AT&T Labs Research
Title: How May I Help You? -- understanding fluently spoken language
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Feb 10 1998


No Seminar -- DARPA Workshop

Feb 17 1998
Larry Yeager
Apple Computer, Inc.
TITLE: Combining Neural Networks and Context-Driven Search
for On-Line, Printed Handwriting Recognition
in the Newton
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Feb 24 1998
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TITLE: The role of prosodic structure in speech production planning
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Mar 3 1998

**NOTE SPECIAL TIME: This seminar starts at 4:15pm**
Yariv Ephraim
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University
TITLE: Robust Speech Processing
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Please note that this seminar is being hosted by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

Mar 10 1998 ***** CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS ******

Claire Cardie, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
TITLE:A Simple, Corpus-Based Method for Finding Base Noun Phrases
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***** rescheduled on Mar 31 ******


Mar 17 1998
No seminar - Spring Break


Mar 24 1998
Louis D. Braida
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TITLE: Audio-Visual Speech Communication
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Mar 31 1998
Claire Cardie, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
TITLE:A Simple, Corpus-Based Method for Finding Base Noun Phrases
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Apr 7 1998


Louis Goldstein
Haskins Laboratory, Yale University
 TITLE: Constraints on the coordination of articulatory gestures
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Apr 14 1998


Raymond J. Mooney
The University of Texas at Austin
TITLE: Relational Learning for Natural Language Parsing and Information Extraction
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Apr 21 1998


Andrej Ljolje
AT&T Labs Research
TITLE: From "Resource Management" to "Call Home" -
A Little Science, a Little Art, and Still a Long Way to Go
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Apr 28 1998

Ananth Sankar
SRI International - Speech Technology And Research (STAR) Laboratory
TITLE:Robust HMM Estimation with Gaussian Merging-Splitting and Transform-based Adaptation
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