Monday 6/29/98

9:00 am Welcome and Introduction to ASR (Fred Jelinek) 
Place: Barton 225 

10:30 am Break 

11:00 am Introduction to ASR -- Cont'd (Fred) 

12:30 pm Lunch Break 

1:30 pm Administrative Info (Kimberly Petropoulos) 
Place: Barton 123 

2:00 pm Lab Tour and System Info (Jacob Laderman + Joe Picone) 

3:30 pm Break 

4:00 pm Speech Signal Processing Laboratory (Joe Picone)  
Place: Barton 123 

6:00 pm Break 

7:00 pm Group Dinner (self paid) 

Tuesday 6/30/98

10:30 am Break 

11:00 am Intro to ASR -- Cont'd (Fred Jelinek) 

12:30 pm Lunch Break 

1:30 pm Speech Signal Processing Lab -- Cont'd (Joe Picone)  
Place: Barton 114 

3:00 pm Guest Lecture (Luigi Burzio - JHU/Cog Sci.) 
Title: Word-to-Word Relations and English Vowel Length 
Click Here for Abstract 
Place: Barton 117 

4:00 pm Speech Signal Processing Lab -- Cont'd (Joe Picone)

Wednesday 7/1/98

10:30 am Break 

11:00 am Intro to Info Theory -- Cont'd (Sanjeev Khudanpur) 

12:30 pm Lunch Break  

1:30 pm Introduction to Decision Trees (Sanjeev Khudanpur) 
Place: Barton 114 

3:00 pm Break/Free Time, 

4:00 pm Introduction to Language and Pron. Modeling  
(Sanjeev Khudanpur) 
Place: Barton 114

Thursday 7/2/98

10:30 am Break 

11:00 am Intro to Acoustic Modeling -- Cont'd (Bill Byrne) 

12:30 pm Lunch Break 

1:30 pm Speech Signal Processing Lab -- Cont'd (Joe Picone)  
Place: Barton 123 
or 
1:30 pm Free time for *International Students* to handle administrative matters 

3:00 pm Guest Lecture (Mari Ostendorf, BU) 
Title: Simplifying Assumptions: A Look at Statistical Dependence in 
Automatic Speech Recognition 
Click Here for Abstract 
Place: Barton 117 

4:00 pm Speech Signal Processing Lab -- Cont'd (Joe Picone)  
Place: Barton 123

Monday 7/6/98

10:30 am Break 

11:00 am Intro to NLP -- Cont'd (Eric) 

12:30 pm Lunch Break 

1:30 pm NLP-via-Perl Laboratory (Eric) 
Place: Barton 123 

3:00 pm Guest Lecture (David Yarowsky - JHU) 
Title: Lexical Ambiguity Resolution and Approaches to Lexical Classification 
*Abstract TBA* 
Place: Shaffer 2 

4:00 pm NLP-via-Perl Lab -- Cont'd (Eric)

Tuesday 7/7/98

10:30 am Break 

11:00 am SWBD Assay Effort -- Cont'd (George) 

12:30 pm Lunch Break 

1:30 pm Workshop Group Tutorial (Team Leaders) 
Place: Barton 123 

3:00 pm Guest Lecture (Michael Picheny - IBM) 
***Cancelled Due to Illness*** 
Title: What Drives Advances in Speech Recognition? or There's No Data Like More Data   
Place: Shaffer 2 

4:00 pm Group Tutorial -- Cont'd (Team Leaders)

Wednesday 7/8/98

10:30 am Break 

11:00 am SWBD Assay Effort -- Cont'd (George) 

12:30 pm Lunch Break 

1:30 pm Group Tutorial -- Cont'd (Team Leaders) 
Place: Barton 123 

2:00 pm Guest Lecture (Murray Sachs - JHU) 
Title: Introduction to Speech Encoding in the Brain 
*Abstract TBA* 
Place: Shaffer 2 

4:00 pm Group Tutorial -- Cont'd (Team Leaders)

Thursday 7/9/98

10:30 am Break 

11:00 am Core NLP Technologies (Jan Hajic) 
Place: Barton 225 

12:30 pm Lunch Break 

1:30 pm Group Tutorial -- Cont'd (Team Leaders) 
Place: Barton 123 

3:00 pm Guest Lecture (Peter Jusczyk - JHU/Psychology) 
Title: The Discovery of Spoken Language 
*Abstract TBA* 
Place: Shaffer 2 

4:00 pm Group Tutorial -- Cont'd (Team Leaders) 

6:00 pm Break 

7:00 pm Group Dinner (self paid)

Friday 7/10/98

10:30 am Break 

11:00 am SWBD Assay Effort -- Cont'd (George) 

12:30 pm Lunch Break 

1:30 pm Group Tutorial -- Cont'd (Team Leaders) 

3:00 pm Guest Lecture (Paul Bamberg, Dragon Systems) 
Title: The World's Simplest Triphone-based HMM Recognizer 
Click Here for Abstract 

4:00 pm Group Tutorial -- Cont'd (Team Leaders)

The Center for Language and Speech Processing

Johns Hopkins University