View Seminar Video Abstract The amount of data available today is a problem not only for humans but also for computer consumers of information. At the same time, bigger is different, and discovering how is[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract Advances in statistical and machine learning approaches to natural-language analysis have yielded a wealth of methods and applications in information retrieval, speech recognition, machine translation, and information extraction. Yet, even as[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract In this talk, I give an overview of recent progress in the fields of speaker and language recognition, with emphasis on our current work at the JHU HLTCOE. After a brief[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract Computational models of language acquisition seek to replicate human linguistic learning capabilities, such as an infant’s ability to identify the relevant sound categories in a language, given similar inputs. In this[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract Social Media (especially Twitter) is widely seen as a source of real-time breaking news. For example, when Osama Bin Laden was killed by US forces the news was first made public[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract The term “bootstrapping” appears frequently in the literature on child language acquisition, but is often defined vaguely (if at all) and can mean different things to different people. In this talk,[…]
View Seminar Video View Presentation Slides 2014 Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop Abstract It is widely assumed that natural language understanding requires a significant amount of general world knowledge, or ‘common sense’. I will first[…]
