Calendar of Events

Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6


New Information(last updated 13 September 1996)


HIGHLIGHTS:


First Week of WS 96

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


Second Week of WS96

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


Third Week of WS96

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.


Fourth Week of WS96

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.


Fifth Week of WS96

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.


FINAL WEEK OF WS96

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
******************************************************
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
******************************************************
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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