Computer Science professor Jason Eisner has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics for “significant contributions to probabilistic models and algorithms for finding linguistic structure, especially lexicalized syntax and morphology.” Established in 2011, the ACL Fellows program recognizes members whose “contributions to the field have been most extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical […]
Mark Dredze, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been appointed as a John C. Malone Associate Professor. The John C. Malone Associate Professorship was endowed through the generosity of John C. Malone ’64, ’69 to support outstanding Whiting School faculty members within the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare. Mark develops new methods […]
Three CLSP students took home the award for Best Student Paper at this year’s Interspeech conference. The paper, Multi-Modal Data Augmentation for End-to-End ASR, was written by Adithya Renduchintala, Shuoyang Ding, Matthew Wiesner, and associate research professor, Shinji Watanabe. Interspeech is the world’s largest conference on the science and technology of spoken language technology. This year’s conference […]
At the recent GPU Technology Conference, held in San Jose, California, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang stated that Kaldi had become “the most popular framework for speech recognition”. And was “now optimized for GPUs”. Kaldi, a toolkit for speech recognition, was created in 2009 at a Johns Hopkins University workshop titled “Low Development Cost, High Quality Speech […]
This year’s Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies will be held in New Orleans, Louisianna. CLSP is proud to participate in the premiere Natural Language Processing (NLP) conference in North America. CLSP students, postdocs, and faculty have an amazing 13 papers at this year’s main conference. […]
Johns Hopkins University’s annual celebration of engineers’ contributions to society begins today and runs through Friday, Feb. 23 on the Homewood campus.
Mark Dredze, associate professor of computer science, is profiled by Baltimore Style as one of three Baltimore influencers targeting unique ways to stop the nationwide crisis of gun violence.
