Workshop ’99 Language Engineering for Students and Professionals Integrating Research and Education – Tape 1 of 4
October 27, 2015
Events
Near-Synonymy, Lexical Choice, and the Structure of Lexical Knowledge – Graeme Hirst and Philip Edmonds (University of Toronto)
October 27, 2015
When:
April 13, 1999 all-day
Abstract Plesionyms, or near-synonyms, are words, that, within or across languages, are almost synonyms—but not quite. Some examples: “forest”, “woods”, German “Wald”; “fib”, “lie”, “misrepresentation”. Near-synonyms may differ in one or more of the following:[…]
Three Renaissance puzzles with a cryptographic flavor – Jim Reeds (AT&T Research Labs)
October 27, 2015
When:
April 6, 1999 all-day
Abstract The late 15th century Voynich manuscript is written in an unknown cipher script that has resisted all attempts at reading for 80 years. But maybe it’s really not a cipher at all but a[…]
Information Capacity of a Biophysical Model of Early Blowfly Vision – Pamela Abshire (Johns Hopkins University)
October 27, 2015
When:
March 30, 1999 all-day
Abstract We seek to gain better understanding of sensory information processing in physical systems both natural and engineered. For an information processing system the statistics of the input, the details of the algorithm, and the[…]
User Interface Design for Content-Based Audio Retrieval – Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland)
October 27, 2015
When:
March 23, 1999 all-day
Abstract It is becoming increasingly easy to acquire and maintain large audio collections, and audio search techniques that incorporate speech recognition technology are evolving rapidly. Less is known, however, about the strategies that users will[…]
Image Understanding, Deformable Templates, and Information Theory – Michael Miller (Johns Hopkins University)
October 27, 2015
When:
February 16, 1999 all-day
Abstract We examine image understanding from the classical source-channel point of view of statistical communications. The space of images corresponding to the source is a Grenander deformable template, an orbit under the group action of[…]
Principles, Practice, and Impact of Multimodal Interaction – Philip R. Cohen (Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology)
October 27, 2015
When:
February 9, 1999 all-day
Abstract A new generation of systems is emerging in which the user is able to employ natural communication modalities, including speech and pen-based gesture, in addition to the usual graphical user interface technologies. Multimodal systems[…]
