Student Seminar – Desh Raj
March 20, 2023
When:
March 27, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Events
Student Seminar – Samik Sadhu (JHU) “Importance of Different Temporal Modulations of Speech: A Tale of Two Perspectives”
March 13, 2023
When:
April 3, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Abstract How important are different temporal speech modulations for speech recognition? We answer this question from two complementary perspectives. Firstly, we quantify the amount of phonetic information in the modulation spectrum of speech by computing[…]
Emily Prud’hommeaux (Boston College) “Endangered or Just Under-Resourced? Evaluating ASR Quality and Utility When Data is Scarce”
March 13, 2023
When:
March 31, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Abstract Despite many recent advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR), linguists and language communities engaged in language documentation projects continue to face the obstacle of the “transcription bottleneck”. Researchers in NLP typically do not distinguish between[…]
Student Seminar – Desh Raj
March 13, 2023
When:
March 27, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Alessandra Cervone (Amazon) “Controllable Text Generation for Creative Applications
March 13, 2023
When:
March 17, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Abstract Recent advances in large pretrained language models have unlocked new exciting applications for Natural Language Generation for creative tasks, such as lyrics or humour generation. In this talk we will discuss recent works by[…]
Denise DiPersio (Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania) “Data and Ethics: Where Does the Twain Meet?”
February 27, 2023
When:
March 10, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street
Abstract As data-based technologies proliferate, it is increasingly important for researchers to be aware of their work’s wider impact. Concerns like navigating the IRB and figuring out copyright and licensing issues are still key, but[…]
CLSP Student Seminar – Qinwan Rabbani “Towards Enabling Flexible Communication via an Intracranial Brain-Computer Interface”
February 17, 2023
When:
February 20, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street
Abstract In this talk, I will outline the unique application of speech technologies to brain signals collected from the cortical surface of clinical human subjects speaking isolated utterances, which are to be decoded in real[…]
