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CLSP students win Best Student Paper Award at Interspeech 2018

September 6, 2018

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 […]

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In another attack on Western society, Russian trolls sow doubt about vaccines, CS’ Mark Dredze, Los Angeles Times

August 28, 2018

The Los Angeles Times reports on recently published findings that a large percentage of tweets devoted to the vaccination issue have been from bots or Russian trolls. Mark Dredze, the John C. Malone Associate Professor of Computer Science and one of the paper’s co-authors, is quoted in the article. Read more at Los Angeles Times […]

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Russian trolls and Twitter bots article garners widespread attention

August 27, 2018

With the publication of the research study Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate, in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), the conversation about the influence Russian trolls have over the political and social discourse in this country once again made front-page news. Researchers studied tweets related to vaccinations during the […]

CLSP alum’s company, Kitt.AI, is acquired by Baidu

July 5, 2017

In 2014, CLSP alums Xuchen Yao and Guoguo Chen founded Kitt.AI. Kitt.AI built and powered chatbots and voice based applications that can be used on multiple devices. The Seattle-based company recently announced it’s acquisition by Baidu. Baidu is a Chinese website and search engine, similar to Google. Xuchen Yao remarked on the acquisition with a blog post he published […]

Attendees at the Third Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop

CLSP Readies for the 2017 Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop

June 27, 2017

Starting on July 3rd, the 2017 Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop will begin at the Carnegie Mellon University Language Technologies Institute in Pittsburgh, PA. As part of the of the Johns Hopkins University CLSP summer workshop series, the program will consist of a two-week summer school and a six-week workshop. Researchers and students attend the workshop […]

Johns Hopkins professor to co-chair International Circuits and Systems symposium in Baltimore

May 30, 2017

Ralph Etienne-Cummings
Ralph Etienne-Cummings, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is serving as co-chair of an international conference, the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.

Voice technology education at Johns Hopkins gets a boost from Amazon

March 2, 2017

Amazon has selected Johns Hopkins University among the first four schools to receive support from the Alexa Fund Fellowship, a new program designed to encourage advances in voice communication between people and machines.

Call for proposals for the 2017 summer workshop

October 21, 2016

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2016 summer workshop concludes with final presentations

August 5, 2016

During the six-week workshop, attendees collaborated to design a system to monitor neurodegenerative diseases over the phone, detect risk and monitor mental health through posts on social media, and build a speech recognition system from untranscribed data.

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July 5, 2016

KITT.AI, a new Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup whose founders include two Whiting School alumni, has landed funding from Founders’ Co-Op, Amazon’s Alexa Fund, and Madrona Venture Group.

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CLSP students win Best Student Paper Award at Interspeech 2018

WSE In The News
In another attack on Western society, Russian trolls sow doubt about vaccines, CS’ Mark Dredze, Los Angeles Times

Russian trolls and Twitter bots article garners widespread attention

CLSP alum’s company, Kitt.AI, is acquired by Baidu

CLSP Readies for the 2017 Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop

Johns Hopkins professor to co-chair International Circuits and Systems symposium in Baltimore

Voice technology education at Johns Hopkins gets a boost from Amazon

Call for proposals for the 2017 summer workshop

2016 summer workshop concludes with final presentations

JHU Engineering: Making Conversation Easier

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WSE In The News In another attack on Western society, Russian trolls sow doubt about vaccines, CS’ Mark Dredze, Los Angeles Times

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In another attack on Western society, Russian trolls sow doubt about vaccines, CS’ Mark Dredze, Los Angeles Times