Center for Language and Speech Processing

Alan Yuille and Rama Chellappa added as members of CLSP

CLSP director Hynek Hermansky views the additions as being “a major enhancement to JHU’s efforts in establishing a top Artificial Intelligence lab in Baltimore.”

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Alan Yuille and Rama Chellappa added as members of CLSP

Paper that asks the right questions earns Shijie Wu and Mark Dredze a Best Long Paper Award

A paper co-written by Shijie Wu, a PhD candidate in the Center for Language and Speech Processing, and Department of…

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Piotr Żelasko paper featured in ACL newsletter

A paper by Center for Language and Speech Processing assistant research scientist Piotr Żelasko was featured in the September edition…

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Najim Dehak receives award for excellence in teaching

Najim Dehak, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently received the Whiting School of Engineering’s…

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Upcoming Seminars

Oct
23
Fri
12:00 pm Zhizheng Wu (Facebook) “Audio De... @ via Zoom
Zhizheng Wu (Facebook) “Audio De... @ via Zoom
Oct 23 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Abstract Deep learning has been successfully applied to solve various complex problems. However, deep learning algorithms have also been employed to create deepfakes (e.g. fake audios, images and videos) for misleading information. Deepfakes are increasingly[...]
Oct
26
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12:00 pm Judy Hoffman (Georgia Tech) “Und... @ via Zoom
Judy Hoffman (Georgia Tech) “Und... @ via Zoom
Oct 26 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Abstract As visual recognition models are developed across diverse applications, we need the ability to reliably deploy our systems in a variety of environments. At the same time, visual models tend to be trained and[...]
Oct
30
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12:00 pm Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing R... @ via Zoom
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing R... @ via Zoom
Oct 30 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Abstract Given the recent proliferation of disinformation online, there has been growing research interest in automatically debunking rumors, false claims, and “fake news”. A number of fact-checking initiatives have been launched so far, both manual[...]
Nov
9
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12:00 pm Tuomas Viertanen (Tampere Univer... @ via Zoom
Tuomas Viertanen (Tampere Univer... @ via Zoom
Nov 9 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Abstract Computational analysis of sound scenes has emerged in the last years as a prominent research area that has several applications, but also different several different engineering tasks to be solved. This presentation give an[...]
Nov
13
Fri
12:00 pm Mirella Lapata (University of Ed... @ via Zoom
Mirella Lapata (University of Ed... @ via Zoom
Nov 13 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Abstract Movie analysis is an umbrella term for many tasks aiming to automatically interpret, extract, and summarize the content of a movie. Potential applications include generating shorter versions of scripts to help with the decision[...]
Nov
20
Fri
12:00 pm Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University) “... @ via Zoom
Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University) “... @ via Zoom
Nov 20 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Abstract Never before was it so easy to write a powerful NLP system, never before did it have such a potential impact. However, these systems are now increasingly used in applications they were not intended[...]
Nov
30
Mon
12:00 pm Iryna Gurevych (Technische Unive... @ via Zoom
Iryna Gurevych (Technische Unive... @ via Zoom
Nov 30 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Abstract People love to argue. In recent years, Artificial Intelligence has achieved great advances in modelling natural language argumentation. While analysing and creating arguments is a highly complex (and enjoyable!) task at which even humans are[...]
Dec
7
Mon
12:00 pm Boqing Gong (Google) “Towards Vi... @ via Zoom
Boqing Gong (Google) “Towards Vi... @ via Zoom
Dec 7 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Abstract Fueling deep learning models with big, curated datasets can yield unprecedented results for recognizing objects, scenes, human activities, and attributes. However, as we continue to advance the boundary of visual recognition and the number[...]
Dec
9
Wed
12:00 pm Kira Radinsky (Technion) @ via Zoom
Kira Radinsky (Technion) @ via Zoom
Dec 9 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
 

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