View Seminar Video Abstract Generative linguistics studies the variation across languages and the laws (or universals) that limit cross-linguistic variation. The OCP-Place constraint, which is violated by sequences of consonants that have different tokens of[…]
Abstract Within the machine learning and data mining communities, there has been a growing interest in learning structured models from input data that is itself structured or semi-structured. Graph identification refers to methods that transform[…]
Abstract For the last quarter century (measured in person years), the KnowItAll project has investigated information extraction at Web scale. If successful, this effort will begin to address the long-standing “Knowledge Acquisition Bottleneck” in Artificial[…]
Abstract Vector-based models of word meaning have become increasingly popular in natural language processing and cognitive science. The appeal of these models lies in their ability to represent meaning simply by using distributional information under[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract From the perspective of a linguist, today’s vast archives of digital text and speech, along with new analysis techniques from language engineering, look like a wonderful new scientific instrument, a modern[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract The parallels between language change and biological changes were noted by none other than Darwin himself. However, the development of a mathematical foundation for evolution has not taken place in the[…]
Abstract When the number of sources exceeds the number of microphones, acoustic source separation is an underconstrained problem that must rely on additional constraints for solution. In a single-channel environment the expected behavior of the[…]
