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An NSF Workshop: Language Engineering for Students 
and Professionals Integrating Research and Education
 
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New Information(Updated Last, 8/11/98) 
Friday 8/21/98
10:00 am WS98 Steering Committee Meeting
Highlights
There will be 5 guest lectures scheduled during the six weeks at 10:30 AM 
on 7/15, 7/22, 7/29, 8/5, 8/12 
Workshop Review and Summary Presentations are scheduled for 
8/19 and 8/20. 
The presentations are scheduled to begin at 9:00am each day. 
Final schedule TBA. 
Preliminary Two Weeks of WS 98
First Week of WS98
Monday 7/13/98 
WS98 Opening Day
The Opening Day Program will begin at 9:00 am in Arellano Theater, Levering Hall. 

4:00 pm WS98 Steering Committee Meeting, Barton Hall 320 
Frederick Jelinek, John Bridle, Jan Hajic, Vassilis Digalakis, 
Tom Crystal, Joe Picone, Kimberly Petropoulos, George Doddington
Tuesday 7/14/98 

Schedule TBA 
Wednesday 7/15/98
10:30 am WS 98 Lecture, Lari Karttunen 
Title: Core Natural Language Processing Technology Applicable to Multiple Languages 
Place: Arellano Theater, Levering Hall 

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

1:00 pm WS98 Informal Seminar, Michael Schuster (ATR Interpreting 
Telecommunications Research Laboratories) 
Title: A Little Introduction into Neural Networks for Supervised  
Learning from Examples 
Place: Barton 117 

2:00 pm Project Briefing: Dynamic Segmental Models of Speech  
Coarticulation, John Bridle and Li Deng
Thursday 7/16/98
7:00 pm Group Dinner, New No Da Ji, 25th & Charles
Friday 7/17/98
Schedule TBA
Second Week ofWS 98
Monday 7/20/98
4:00 pm WS98 Steering Committee Meeting, Barton Hall 320 
Frederick Jelinek, John Bridle, Jan Hajic, Vassilis Digalakis, 
Tom Crystal, Joe Picone, Kimberly Petropoulos, George Doddington
Tuesday 7/21/98
Schedule TBA
Wednesday 7/22/98
9:00 am WS98 Team Research Update, Vassilis Digalakis (Team Leader, Adaptation), Ashvin Kannan (Adaptation Team Member)  
Place: Barton Hall 117 

10:30 am WS98 Guest Lecture, Chin Lee 
Title: A Detection Approach to Speech Recognition and Understanding  
Place: Arellano Theater, Levering Hall 

12:00 pm Group Lunch 
Place: Barton Hall, ground floor lounge 
 
Thursday 7/23/98
12:15 pm WS98 Undergraduate Brown Bag Lunch 
Place:   CLSP Conference Room, 3rd Floor
7:00 pm Group Dinner 
Place: Mughal Garden
Friday 7/24/98
Schedule TBA
Third Week of WS98
Monday 7/27/98
Schedule TBA
Tuesday 7/28/98
10:00 am WS98 Steering Committee Meeting, Barton Hall 320 
Frederick Jelinek, John Bridle, Jan Hajic, Vassilis Digalakis, 
Tom Crystal, Joe Picone, Kimberly Petropoulos, George Doddington 

5:00 pm Cocktail Party hosted by the Department of Electrical and 
computer Engineering
Wednesday 7/29/98
10:30 am WS98 Guest Lecture, Tony Bell 
Title:  Source Separation and Learning Non-orthogonal Bases for Signals 
          Using Independent Component Analysis. 
Place: Arellano Theater, Levering Hall 

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

1:00 pm WS98 Team Research Update, Jan Hajic (Team Leader, NLP), Michael Collins (NLP) 
Place: Barton Hall 117 

2:00 pm WS98 Informal Seminar, Michael Schuster 
Title: (Bidirectional Recurrent) Neural Networks for Speech Recognition  
Place: Barton Hall 117 
Thursday 7/30/98
12:15 pm WS98 Undergraduate Brown Bag Lunch 
Place: CLSP Conference Room, 3rd Floor
7:00 pm Group Dinner 
Place: Ikaros (Greek Food!), 4805 Eastern Avenue
Friday 7/31/98
3:00 pm Cake!
Fourth Week ofWS 98
Monday 8/3/98
Schedule TBA
Tuesday 8/4/98
10:00 am WS98 Steering Committee Meeting, Barton Hall 320 
Frederick Jelinek, John Bridle, Jan Hajic, Vassilis Digalakis, 
Tom Crystal, Joe Picone, Kimberly Petropoulos, George Doddington
Wednesday 8/5/98
10:30 am WS98 Guest Lecture, John Lafferty 
Title:  Probabilistic Models for Clustering Natural Language Data  
Place: The Great Hall, Levering Hall 

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

1:00 pm WS98 Team Research Update, Jan Hajic (Team Leader, NLP), 
Eric Brill (NLP), Michael Collins (NLP) 
Place: Barton Hall 117 

2:00 pm WS98 Informal Seminar, Jan Hajic (Team Leader, NLP) 
Title: Using Exponential Models for Tagging Inflective Languages  
Place: Barton Hall 117 
 
Thursday 8/6/98
12:15 pm WS98 Undergraduate Brown Bag Lunch 
Place:  CLSP Conference Room, 3rd Floor
7:00 pm Group Dinner 
Place: Bo Brook's Crab House, 5414 Belair Road
Friday 8/7/98
2:00 pm WS98 Steering Committee Meeting, Barton Hall 320 
Frederick Jelinek, John Bridle, Jan Hajic, Vassilis Digalakis, 
Tom Crystal, Joe Picone, Kimberly Petropoulos, George Doddington
Fifth Week of WS98 
Monday 8/10/98
Schedule TBA
Tuesday 8/11/98
Schedule TBA
Wednesday 8/12/98
10:30 am WS98 Guest Lecture, Mark Gales (IBM) 
Title:  Constrained Estimation of Hidden Markov Models 
Place: Arellano Theater, Levering Hall 

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

1:00pm WS98 Team Research Update, 
Vassilis Digalakis (Team Leader, Adaptation), 
John McDonough (Adaptation), Heather Collier (Adaptation), 
Adrian Corduneanu (Adaptation), Sanjeev Khudanpur (Adaptation)
John Bridle (Team Co-Leader, Dynamic), Hywel Richards (Dynamic) 
Li Deng (Team Co-Leader, Dynamic), 
Place: Barton Hall 117 
Thursday 8/13/98 
10:00 am WS98 Steering Committee Meeting, Barton Hall 320 
Frederick Jelinek, John Bridle, Jan Hajic, Vassilis Digalakis, 
Tom Crystal, Joe Picone, Kimberly Petropoulos, George Doddington
7:00 pm Group Dinner 
Place: The Blue Nile, 2101 North Charles
Friday 8/14/98
12:15 pm WS98 Undergraduate Brown Bag Lunch 
Place:  CLSP Conference Room, 3rd Floor
Final Week of WS98
Monday 8/17/98
9:00 am WS98 Steering Committee Meeting, Barton Hall 320 
Frederick Jelinek, John Bridle, Jan Hajic, Vassilis Digalakis, 
Tom Crystal, Joe Picone, Kimberly Petropoulos, George Doddington
Tuesday 8/18/98
Schedule TBA
Review & Summmary Presentations Part I
Wednesday 8/19/98
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Review &Summmary Presentations Part II
Thursday 8/20/98 
Arellano Theater, Levering Hall 

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Friday 8/21/98
10:00 am WS98 Steering Committee Meeting, Barton Hall 320 
Frederick Jelinek, John Bridle, Jan Hajic, Vassilis Digalakis, 
Tom Crystal, Joe Picone, Kimberly Petropoulos, George Doddington 

12:00 pm Final group lunch and town meeting. 
Place: WS98 Basement Lounge 
 

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