Bill Byrne
November 24th
4:30PM
CSEB Room B17
"Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation with Weighted Finite State Transducers "
Workshops
Opening Remarks
8:30 AM - Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM - Welcome, Frederick Jelinek, CLSP/JHU, Chair WS'08
9:10 AM - Welcome by Andrew Douglas, Vice Dean of Faculty, Whiting School of Engineering
9:15 AM - Remarks from Workshop Sponsors
9:25 AM - Preworkshop Activities, Sanjeev Khudanpur (JHU)
Summary of Goals and Objectives for Teams
9:40 AM - Vocal Aging Explained by Vocal Tract Modeling
10:10 AM - Discussion and Questions
10:20 AM - Robust Speaker Recognition Over Varying Channels
10:50 AM - Discussion and Questions
11:00 AM - Break
11:10 AM - Multilingual Spoken Term Detection: Finding and Testing New Pronunciations
11:40 AM - Discussion and Questions
11:50 AM - Adjourn and proceed to Shaffer 100 for an Introduction to the WS08 Laboratory
Administrative and Technical Workshop Information
12:00 AM - Administrative Information and WS05 Staff Introductions, Monique Folk (CLSP/JHU)
12:15 AM - Computing Infrastructure and System Staff Introduction, Justin Martin (CLSP/JHU)
12:45 PM - Lunch (on your own)
01:30 PM - Team Meetings