Workshop 2007 - Preworkshop Activities

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Workshop 2007 Preworkshop Calendar	Tuesday, May 13, 2008

JHU Summer School on Human Language Technology
Preliminary Schedule

The location for all lectures is Barton 114 and the labs will be in Shaffer 100. Shaffer Hall is Number 26 on the campus map.

Monday July 2: Natural Language Processing (Host: Jason Eisner)

Welcome
08:30 - 09:00 Continental Breakfast
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome and Administrative Information (Sanjeev Khudanpur and Monique Folk)
Lectures
09:15 - 10:30 Introduction to Probabilities (Jason Eisner) - Lecture Slides (.pdf, .pdf)
10:45 - 12:00 Parsing (Eugene Charniak)
Laboratory
01:30 - 05:30 NLP Laboratory (Jason Eisner and TA: Markus Dreyer) - Lab Info
Social Event
06:30 - 08:30 Group Dinner at local restaurant (self paid)

Tuesday July 3: Information Retrieval (Host: David Yarowsky)

Lectures
09:00 - 10:20 IR Lecture I (Jim Mayfield, JHU/APL)
10:40 - 12:00 IR Lecture II (Ellen Voorhees, NIST)
Laboratory
01:30 - 05:00 IR Laboratory (David Yarowsky and TAs: Elliott Drabek and Brock Pytlik)

Wednesday July 4: Independence Day

Thursday July 5: Document Understanding (Host: Jason Eisner)

Lectures
09:00 - 10:20 Information Extraction (Radu Florian)
10:40 - 12:00 Statistical Discourse Processing (Regina Barzilay)
Laboratory
01:30 - 05:00 Information Extraction Laboratory (Radu Florian and TA: Nikesh Garera)

Friday July 6: Machine Learning (Host: Damianos Karakos)

Lectures
09:00 - 10:15 An Introduction to Machine Learning (Laurent Younes)(Slides)
10:30 - 11:45 SVMs and Structured Max-Margin Methods (Ben Taskar) Lecture Slides - (.pdf, .pps)
01:00 - 02:15 Bayesian Networks, Dynamic Bayesian Networks, and Speech Recognition (Karen Livescu)(Slides)
Laboratory
02:30 - 05:30 ML Laboratory (Karen Livescu and TA: Nash Borges)

Monday July 9: Automatic Speech Recognition (Host: Sanjeev Khudanpur)

Lectures
09:00 - 10:20 A Model T Isolated-Word Recognizer (Paul Bamberg)
10:40 - 12:00 Pitch Tracking and Epoch Detection (Paul Bamberg)
01:00 - 02:30 Accoustic Properties of Speech Sounds (James Glass)
03:00 - 04:30 Accoustic Properties of Speech Sounds (continued)

Tuesday July 10: Speech Applications (Host: Sanjeev Khudanpur)

Laboratory (Location: Shaffer 1)
09:00 - 12:30 Multilingual Information Search (Allison Powell, and TAs: Arnab Ghoshal and Haolang Zhou)
Lectures
01:30 - 02:45 Introduction to Dialogue Management and Evaluation (Tim Paek)
03:15 - 04:30 Applications that Work and Sell: The Industry of Spoken Dialog (Roberto Pieraccini, Speech Cycle, Inc.)

Wednesday July 11: Machine Translation (Host: Keith Hall)

Lectures
09:00 - 10:20 An Overview of Statistical MT (Philip Resnik)
10:40 - 12:00 Paraphrasing and Translation (Chris Callison-Burch, JHU)
Laboratory
01:30 - 05:00 MT Laboratory (David Yarowsky and TA: Chris Dyer)

Thursday July 12: Poesio Team Day (Host: David Yarowsky)

Lectures
09:00 - 10:40 Anaphora Resolution (Massimo Poesio)
10:55 - 12:30 Using Lexical and Encylopedic Knowledge for Anaphora Resolution (Massimo Poesio and Simone Ponzetto)
01:40 - 03:00 Entity Disambiguation (Massimo Poesio and Michael Wick, UMass)
Laboratory
02:45 - 05:00 Laboratory (Massimo Poesio and Simone Ponzetto)

Friday July 13: Hermansky Team Day (Host: Sanjeev Khudanpur)

Lectures
09:00 - 10:20 Recovering from Model Inconsistency in Multilingual Speech Recognition (Lukas Burget)
10:40 - 12:00 A Syllable Lattice Based Reading Tracker (Wayne Ward)
Laboratory
01:30 - 05:00 Speech Recognition Laboratory (Petr Schwarz, Pavel Matejka, Chris White and Ariya Rastrow, JHU)

The morning lectures are open to the public. We request that you inform us at least one day in advance if you plan to attend.

Participation in the afternoon laboratories may be limited by the number of available workstations, and attendance is by permission only; contact us if interested.

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JHU Summer School on Human Language TechnologyPreliminary Schedule

JHU Summer School on Human Language Technology
Preliminary Schedule