View Seminar Video Abstract Can we create a system that can learn to understand political speeches well enough to determine the speakers’ viewpoints? Can we improve information retrieval by using link analysis, as is famously[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract Most engineering and science problems involve modeling. We need inference calculations to draw predictions from the models or to estimate them from available measurements. In many cases the inference calculations can[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract In this talk I will examine problems encountered in coming to some kind of understanding of one sonnet by Shakespeare (his 64th), ask what it would take to solve these problems[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract There are a variety of modeling techniques used in automatic speech recognition that have been developed with the goal of representing potential sources of intrinsic speech variability in a low dimensional[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract Modeling the geographic distribution of a plant or animal species is a critical problem in conservation biology: to save a threatened species, one first needs to know where it prefers to[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract Probabilistic dependency grammars have played an important role in computational linguistics since they were introduced by Collins (1996) and Eisner (1996). In most computational formulations of dependency grammar, a dependency grammar[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract We describe OpenFst, an open-source library for weighted finite-state transducers (WFSTs). OpenFst consists of a C++ template library with efficient WFST representations and over twenty-five operations for constructing, combining, optimizing, and[…]
