WS 97 Calendar of Events

Calendar of Events

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

New Information(last updated 18 August 1997)

HIGHLIGHTS:

There will be 5 guest lectures scheduled during the six weeks at 10:30 AM on 7/16, 7/23, 7/28, 8/6, 8/13
Workshop Review and Summary Presentations are scheduled for 8/20 and 8/21. The presentations are scheduled to begin at 9:00am each day. Final schedule TBA.

First Week of WS 97

Mon. 7/14/97 WS97 Opening Day
The Opening Day Program will begin at 9:00 am in Arellano Theather, Levering Hall.
4:00 pm WS97 Steering Committee Meeting, Barton Hall 320

Frederick Jelinek, George Doddington, Michael Riley, Dan Jurafsky,

Andreas Andreou, Tom Crystal, Joe Picone, Kimberly Shiring

Tues. 7/15/97:
Schedule TBA.

Wed. 7/16/97:

10:30 am WS 97 Lecture, Eric Young

TOPIC: Representation of Sound Spectra in the

Peripheral Auditory System

Click here for the abstract

PLACE: Arellano Theater, Levering Hall

12:00 pm Group Lunch

PLACE: Barton Hall, ground floor lounge

1:30 pm WS97 Participant Talk.

PLACE: Barton Hall 117

Michael Riley, AT&T Labs

LIBFSM: A Weighted Finite-State Transducer Toolkit

(Michael Riley, Fernando Pereira, Mehryar Mohri)

This talk will give an overview of the AT&T weighted finite-state

transducer library, which has been made available to the JHU Workshop

participants this year. These tools construct, display, combine,

optimize and search weighted FSTs. We have found these tools useful

for representing and manipulating language models, pronunciation

lexicons, word and phone lattices, context-dependency specifications

(including triphonic acoustic models and decision trees),

morphological rules, and text normalization rules.

The talk will concentrate on a concrete, intuitive introduction to the

primitive operations in the library and examples of their use. Those

interested in detailed explanation of the formal language and

algorithmic theory that underlies these operations should consult the

references on http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws97/pronunciation/riley/fsm.html.

Thurs. 7/17/97:

7:30pm Film at BMA

Fri. 7/18/97:
Schedule TBA.

Second Week of WS97

Mon. 7/21/97:

4:00 pm WS97 Steering Committee Meeting, Barton Hall 320

Frederick Jelinek, George Doddington, Michael Riley, Dan Jurafsky,

Andreas Andreou, Tom Crystal, Joe Picone, Kimberly Shiring

Tues. 7/22/97:
7:00 pm Group dinner at a Greek Restaurant

Wed. 7/23/97:

10:30 am WS97 Guest Lecture, Michael I. Jordan

TOPIC: Graphical Models and Variational Approximation

Click here for the abstract

PLACE: Arellano Theater, Levering Hall

12:00 pm Group Lunch

PLACE: Barton Hall, ground floor lounge

1:00 pm WS97 Team Research Update

PLACE: Barton Hall 117

Acoustic Processing/Modeling - TEAM LEADER:Andreas Andreou

Syllable Group - TEAM LEADER: George Doddington

Thurs. 7/24/97:
7:30pm BMA Film Series $5: "Cyclo"

Fri. 7/25/97:

Third Week of WS97

Mon. 7/28/97:

10:30 am Guest Lecture, Vladimir Vapnik

TOPIC: Support Vector Method of Function Estimation

Click here for the abstract

PLACE: Arellano Theater, Levering Hall

12:00 pm Group Lunch

PLACE: Barton Hall, ground floor lounge

1:00 pm WS97 Team Research Update

PLACE: Barton Hall 117

Pronunciation Modeling - TEAM LEADER: Michael Riley

Discourse Language Modeling - TEAM LEADER: Dan Jurafsky

4:00 pm WS97 Steering Committee Meeting, Barton Hall 320

Frederick Jelinek, George Doddington, Michael Riley, Dan Jurafsky,

Andreas Andreou, Tom Crystal, Joe Picone, Kimberly Shiring

Tues. 7/29/97:

3:00 pm Graduate Student Tea with Fred Jelinek

PLACE: Barton 320 Conference Room

7:00 pm Group Dinner

New No Da Ji

2501 N. Charles Street

(meet in Barton 123 @ 6:45)

Wed. 7/30/97:

NOTE: no guest lecture today
Schedule TBA.

Thurs. 7/31/97:
7:30pm BMA Film Series $5: "Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day"

Fri. 8/1/97:
3:00pm Cake!

Fourth Week of WS97

Mon. 8/4/97:

3:00 pm WS97 Steering Committee Meeting, Barton Hall 320

Frederick Jelinek, George Doddington, Michael Riley, Dan Jurafsky,

Andreas Andreou, Tom Crystal, Joe Picone, Kimberly Shiring

4:00 pm Talks by CLSP Members: Paul Smolensky, Cognitive Science

Eric Brill, Computer Science

David Yarowsky, Computer Science

PLEASE NOTE: The WS97 graduate students requested these talks,
but all WS97 participants are welcomed to attend.

Tues. 8/5/97:

7:00 pm Group Dinner

Greenspring Inn Joey Chiu's

10801 Falls Road

Lutherville, MD

Wed. 8/6/97:

10:30 am WS97 Guest Lecture, Kathleen Egan; Anita Kuleman;Melissa Holland

TOPIC: Potential Applications of SR to Language Learning Tools

click here for the abstract

PLACE: Arellano Theater, Levering Hall

12:00 pm Group Lunch, Barton Hall, ground floor lounge

1:00 pm Language Instruction Demonstrations

PLACE: Barton Hall 117

Panel Members announced:

Kathleen Egan, ORD, US Government

Anita Kuleman/DoD, Col. La Rocca/West Point

Melissa Holland/Army Research Lab

Thurs. 8/7/97:
1:00 pm WS97 Team Research Update
Acoustic Processing: Team Leader Andreas Andreou
Syllable: Team Leader George Doddington
Place: Barton Hall 117

7:30pm BMA Film Series (free): "An American in Paris"

Fri. 8/8/97:
Schedule TBA.

Fifth Week of WS97

Mon. 8/11/97:

3:00 pm WS97 Steering Committee Meeting, Barton Hall 320

Frederick Jelinek, George Doddington, Michael Riley, Dan Jurafsky,

Andreas Andreou, Tom Crystal, Joe Picone, Kimberly Shiring

Tues. 8/12/97:
Group Dinner
Bay Cafe 6:30pm

Wed. 8/13/97:

10:30 am WS97 Guest Lecture Bill Labov

TOPIC: The First National Map of the Sound Patterns of American English

click here for the abstract

PLACE: Arellano Theater, Levering Hall

12:00 pm Group Lunch, Barton Hall, ground floor lounge

1:00pm WS97 Informal Seminar
Nagendra Kumar
TOPIC:Heteroscedastic Feature Extraction
PLACE:Barton Hall 117

Thurs. 8/14/97:
B 1:00 pm WS97 Research Updates
1:00-1:45pm Pronunciation Modeling. Team Leader: Mike Riley (AT&T)
1:45-2:30pm Discourse LM. Team Leader Dan Jurafsky (UC, Boulder)
7:30pm BMA Film Series $5: "Crows"

Fri. 8/15/97:
11:00 am WS97 Steering Committee Meeting, Barton Hall 320
Frederick Jelinek, George Doddington, Michael Riley, Dan Jurafsky,
Andreas Andreou, Tom Crystal, Joe Picone, Kimberly Shiring
1:30 pm WS97 Informal Seminar, Bill Bynre (CLSP/JHU)
PLACE: Barton Hall 117
TOPIC: Information Geometry and Some Variations on the EM Algorithm
click here for the abstract