Center for Language and Speech Processing

Mark Dredze appointed the John C. Malone Associate Professorship

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Russian trolls and Twitter bots article garners widespread attention

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Hot Commodities

The company, known as KITT.AI, had drawn global attention for its pioneering work in natural language processing—algorithms that recognize spoken language.

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Modern Day Miners

There’s treasure in all those tweets and Google searches we send out into cyberspace each day, says Mark Dredze.

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CLSP alum’s company, Kitt.AI, is acquired by Baidu

In 2014, CLSP alums Xuchen Yao and Guoguo Chen founded Kitt.AI. Kitt.AI built and powered chatbots and voice based applications that can…

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CLSP publishes 13 papers at this year’s NAACL

This year’s Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies will be held…

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CLSP students win Best Student Paper Award at Interspeech 2018

Three CLSP students took home the award for Best Student Paper at this year’s Interspeech conference. The paper, Multi-Modal Data Augmentation…

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WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS

Upcoming Seminars

Oct
19
Fri
12:00 pm Jon Barker (University of Sheffi... @ Hackerman Hall B17
Jon Barker (University of Sheffi... @ Hackerman Hall B17
Oct 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Abstract The CHiME challenge series has been aiming to advance robust automatic speech recognition technology by promoting research at the interface of speech and language processing, signal processing and machine learning. This talk presents the[...]
Oct
22
Mon
12:00 pm Jennifer Chu-Carroll (Elemental ... @ hackerman Hall B17
Jennifer Chu-Carroll (Elemental ... @ hackerman Hall B17
Oct 22 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Abstract Language understanding has long been a holy grail of Artificial Intelligence, but what exactly constitutes understanding? We argue that while the level of understanding required depends on the task, in many useful NLP applications,[...]
Oct
26
Fri
12:00 pm Tamara Broderick (MIT) “Automate... @ Hackerman Hall B17
Tamara Broderick (MIT) “Automate... @ Hackerman Hall B17
Oct 26 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Abstract The use of Bayesian methods in large-scale data settings is attractive because of the rich hierarchical relationships, uncertainty quantification, and prior specification these methods provide. Many standard Bayesian inference algorithms are often computationally expensive,[...]
Nov
9
Fri
12:00 pm Carolyn Rose (CMU) “Who is the B... @ Hackerman Hall B17
Carolyn Rose (CMU) “Who is the B... @ Hackerman Hall B17
Nov 9 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Abstract This talk reports on over a decade of research where theoretical foundations motivate computational models that produce real world impact in online spaces.  Both the earliest philosophers of language and the most recent researchers[...]
Nov
12
Mon
12:00 pm Chin-Hui Lee (Georgia Tech) “A R... @ Hackerman Hall B17
Chin-Hui Lee (Georgia Tech) “A R... @ Hackerman Hall B17
Nov 12 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Abstract Based on Komogorov’s Superposition Theorem and Universal Approximation Theorem by Cybenko and Barron, any multivariate function can be approximated by a multi-layer perceptron. We therefore cast classical speech pre-processing problems into a regression setting[...]
Nov
16
Fri
12:00 pm David Harrison (Swarthmore College) @ Hackerman Hall B17
David Harrison (Swarthmore College) @ Hackerman Hall B17
Nov 16 @ 12:00 pm – 12:15 pm
 
Nov
19
Mon
12:00 pm James Foulds (UMBC) @ Hackerman Hall B17
James Foulds (UMBC) @ Hackerman Hall B17
Nov 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
 
Nov
26
Mon
12:00 pm Spence Green (Lilt) @ Hackerman Hall B17
Spence Green (Lilt) @ Hackerman Hall B17
Nov 26 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
 
Nov
30
Fri
12:00 pm Yi-Chia Wang (CMU) @ Hackerman Hall B17
Yi-Chia Wang (CMU) @ Hackerman Hall B17
Nov 30 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
 

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