Calendar of Events
Week 1, Week 2, Week
3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6
New Information(last updated 13 September 1996)
This is the complete claendar from WS96, there will be no further
changes.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- There are four WS96 Team Updates scheduled during the six
weeks: 7/24, 7/31, 8/7, 8/14. All Team Updates begin at 10:00am.
- There are five guest lectures
scheduled during the six weeks: 7/17, 7/24, 7/31, 8/7, 8/14. All Guest
Lectures begin at 3:00pm.
- Workshop Review and Summary
Presentations are scheduled
for 8/21 and 8/22. The presentations are scheduled to begin at 9:00am each
day. Final schedule TBA.
Mon. 7/15/96 WS96 Opening Day
The Opening Day Program will begin at
9:00
am in Arellano Theather,
Levering Hall.
12:00pm WS 96 Group Lunch
PLACE: Barton Hall Ground Floor Lounge
Tues. 7/16/96:
Schedule TBA.
Wed. 7/17/96:
9:00 am WS 96 Steering Committee Meeting
Fred Jelinek, Jordan Cohen (abs),
Mari Ostendorf, Andreas Stolcke, Mitch Weintraub, Lin Chase, Tom
Crystal, and Kimberly Shiring
3:00 pm WS96 Guest Lecture, Stephanie Seneff TOPIC: ANGIE: A
Common Framework for Morphological, Phonological, and Graphemic
Constraints for Speech Recognition Click here for the abstract PLACE:
Schaffer 303 (Schaffer Hall is located directly across the quad from
Barton Hall) Thurs. 7/18/96:
7:30pm WS96 Group Dinner at
The Bombay Grill (Meet in Barton 123 lab at
7:00pm)
Fri. 7/19/96:
2:30 pm WS96 Participant "Town Meeting"
Barton Hall 117
Mon. 7/22/96:
Schedule TBA.
Tues.
7/23/96:
Schedule TBA.
Wed. 7/24/96:
9:00 am WS 96 Steering Committee Meeting
Fred Jelinek, Jordan Cohen, Mari Ostendorf, Andreas Stolcke, Mitch
Weintraub, Lin Chase, Tom Crystal, and Kimberly Shiring
10:00am WS96 Team Updates
PLACE: Arellano Theater, Levering Hall
12:00pm WS96 Group Lunch
PLACE: Barton Hall Ground Floor Lounge
3:00 pm WS96 Guest Lecture, Mike Riley, AT&T
TOPIC: Statistical Modeling of Pronunciation Variation
PLACE: Arellano Theater, Levering Hall
Click here for abstract
Thurs. 7/25/96:
WS96 Group Dinner @ New No Da Ji
2501 N. Charles Street
7:30 pm (Meet in Barton 123 @ 7:15pm)
Fri. 7/26/96:
10:00 am Talk given by Christophe Ris
"The Capabilities and Use of the STRUT Toolkit"
Barton Hall 117
Mon. 7/29/96:
Schedule TBA.
Tues. 7/30/96:
Schedule TBA.
Wed. 7/31/96:
9:00 am WS 96 Steering Committee Meeting
Fred Jelinek, Jordan Cohen, Mari Ostendorf, Andreas Stolcke, Mitch
Weintraub, Lin Chase, Tom Crystal, and Kimberly Shiring
10:00am WS96 Team Updates
PLACE: Shaffer 1
12:00pm WS96 Group Lunch
PLACE: Barton Hall Ground Floor Lounge
3:00 pm WS96 Guest Lecture, Michael Collins, UPenn
TITLE: "A New Statistical Parser Based on Bigram Lexical Dependencies"
Click here for abstract
PLACE: Arellano Theater, Levering Hall
Thurs. 8/1/96:
WS96 Group Dinner @ Bertha's
734 S. Broadway (Fells Point)
9:00 pm (Meet in Barton 123 @ 8:30pm)
Fri. 8/2/96:
Schedule TBA.
Mon. 8/5/96:
Schedule TBA.
Tues. 8/6/96:
4:00 pm Talk by Jordan Cohen et al.
Barton Hall 117
Wed. 8/7/96:
9:00 am WS96 Steering Committee Meeting:
Fred Jelinek, Jordan Cohen, Mari Ostendorf, Andreas Stolcke, Mitch
Weintraub, Lin Chase, Tom
Crystal, and Kimberly Shiring
10:00am WS96 Team Updates
PLACE: Arellano Theater, Levering Hall
12:00pm WS96 Group Lunch
PLACE: Barton Hall Ground Floor Lounge
3:00 pm WS96 Guest Lecture, Richard Lippman, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
TOPIC: Speech Recognition by Humans and Machines
Click here for the abstract
PLACE: Arellano Theater, Levering Hall
Thurs. 8/8/96:
Schedule TBA.
Fri. 8/9/96:
Schedule TBA.
Mon. 8/12/96:
4:00 pm Talk by Sam Roweis
117 Barton Hall
Initial Experiments in Articulatory Speech Recognition
Tues. 8/13/96:
Schedule TBA.
Wed. 8/14/96:
9:00 am WS96 Steering Committee Meeting:
Fred Jelinek, Jordan Cohen, Mari Ostendorf, Andreas Stolcke, Mitch
Weintraub, Tom Crystal, and Kimberly Shiring
10:00am WS96 Team Updates
PLACE: Arellano Theater, Levering Hall
12:00pm WS96 Group Lunch
PLACE: Barton Hall Ground Floor Lounge
3:00 pm WS96 Guest Lecture, Steve Greenberg, Dept. of Linguistics, UC
Berkeley and ICSI
TOPIC: Switchboard Transcription Project
PLACE: Arellano Theater, Levering Hall
Thurs. 8/15/96:
Schedule TBA.
Fri. 8/16/96:
Schedule TBA.
Mon. 8/19/96:
Schedule TBA.
Tues. 8/20/96
9:00 am WS96 Steering Committee Meeting:
Fred Jelinek, Jordan Cohen (abs), Mari Ostendorf, Andreas Stolcke,
Mitch Weintraub, Tom Crystal, and Kimberly Shiring
Wed. 8/21/96
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WS96 WORKSHOP REVIEW and SUMMARY PRESENTATIONS: Part I
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Arellano Theater, Levering Hall
9:00-9:15 am Introduction to Part I, Frederick Jelinek (CLSP/JHU)
9:15-10:45 am Team: Speech Data Modeling
Team Leader: Jordan Cohen (IDA)
10:45-11:15 am Coffee Break
11:15-12:00pm Discussion and Questions
12:00-2:00pm BREAK
2:00pm-3:30pm Team: Non-Local Dependency Language Modeling
Team Leader: Andreas Stolcke (SRI)
3:30-4:00pm Coffee Break
4:00pm-4:45pm Discussion and Questions
Thurs. 8/22/96
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WS96 WORKSHOP REVIEW and SUMMARY PRESENTATIONS: Part II
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Arellano Theater, Levering Hall
9:00-9:15 am Introduction to Part II, Frederick Jelinek (CLSP/JHU)
9:15-10:45 am Team: Automatic Learning of Word Pronunciation from
Data
Team Leader: Mitch Weintraub (SRI)
10:45-11:15 am Coffee Break
11:15-12:00 am Discussion and Questions
12:00-2:00pm BREAK
2:00pm-3:30pm Team: Hidden Speaking Mode Group
Team Leader: Mari Ostendorf (BU)
3:30-4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00pm-4:45pm Discussion and Questions
4:45-5:15 pm Summary, Frederick Jelinek (CLSP/JHU)
5:15-5:45 pm Discussion and Questions
5:45pm-6:00 pm Comments, Charles Wayne (DoD)
Fri. 8/23/96
10:00 am Meeting of the Awards Committee
Herb Gish (BBN), Jack Godfrey (TI), Cal Olano (DoD),
Barbara Peskin (Dragon), Salim Roukos (IBM)
Barton Hall 320 Conference Room
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