http://vimeo.com/35032712 View Seminar Video Abstract The first part of this talk explains why non-local context-sensitive interactions cause standard techniques for learning probabilistic grammars to be inconsistent, and motivates the more general log-linear (aka MaxEnt) models[…]
http://vimeo.com/31118861 View Seminar Video Abstract The Pen Computing Group at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center has developed ThinkScribe, a writing tablet whose “smart paper” medium enables writers to save all their handwritten notes and[…]
http://vimeo.com/59811601 View Seminar Video Abstract Cross-language information retrieval is the retrieval of documents in one language that are relevant to a query in another language. The Hopkins Automated Information Retriever for Combing Unstructured Text (HAIRCUT)[…]
http://vimeo.com/45924336 View Seminar Video Abstract Multi-stream automatic speech recognition (ASR) extends the standard hidden Markov model (HMM) based approach by assuming that the speech signal is processed by different (independent) “experts”, each expert focusing on[…]
http://vimeo.com/37839407 View Seminar Video Abstract The rapidity with which children acquire language is one of the mysteries of human cognition. A widely held view is that children master language by means of a language-specific learning[…]
http://vimeo.com/32812501 View Seminar Video Abstract In 1988, Pinker and Prince published an extensive commentary on Rumelhart and McClelland’s connectionist learning simulation for English past tenses. The review initiated a competition between rival psycholinguistic accounts of[…]
