All lectures will be held in the Computational Science and Engineering Building, room B17. All labs will be held in Shaffer Hall, room 100/101.

The morning lectures are open to the public. We request that you inform us at least one day in advance if you plan to attend.

Participation in the afternoon laboratories may be limited by the number of available workstations, and attendance is by permission only; contact us if interested.

Monday, June 23, 2008

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15 Welcome (Sanjeev Khudanpur and Monique Folk)
9:15-10:15 Probabilities and Language Models (Jason Eisner)
10:30-12:00 Hidden Markov Models (Jason Eisner)
1:00-1:30 Computer Set-up Time
1:30-5:00 Laboratory: Competitive Grammar Writing (David A. Smith)

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

MACHINE LEARNING

8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-12:00 Laboratory: Statistical Pattern Recognition (Carey Priebe)
1:30-3:00 ML Lecture I (Patrick Haffner)
3:30-5:00 ML Lecture II (Srinivas Bangalore)

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

AUDITORY / SPEECH PERCEPTION

8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:20 Neurobiology of Hearing (Mounya Elhilali)
10:40-12:00 Engineering Applications Using Biologically-Inspired Models of Hearing (Andreas Andreou)
1:00-1:30 Computer Set-up Time
1:30-5:00 Laboratory: Auditory/Speech Perception (Nima Mesgarani)

Thursday, June 26, 2008

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:20 IR Lecture I (Jim Mayfield)
10:40-12:00 IR Lecture II (David Yarowsky)
1:00-1:30 Computer Set-up Time
1:30-5:00 IR Laboratory (Gina Levow)

Friday, June 27, 2008

MACHINE TRANSLATION

8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:20 MT Lecture I (Stephan Vogel)
10:40-12:00 MT Lecture II (Philip Resnik)
1:00-1:30 Computer Set-up Time
1:30-5:00 MT Laboratory (Chris Callison-Burch)

Monday, June 30, 2008

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION

8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:20 ASR Lecture I (Eric Fosler-Lussier)
10:40-12:00 ASR Lecture II (Dimitra Vergyri)
1:00-1:30 Computer Set-up Time
1:30-5:00 ASR Laboratory (Damianos Karakos)

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

VOCAL TRACT MODELING AND VOCAL AGING

8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:20 VT Lecture I (Elmar Noeth)
10:40-12:00 VT Lecture II (Elmar Noeth)
1:00-1:30 Computer Set-up Time
1:30-5:00 VT Laboratory (Elmar Noeth)

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

ROBUST SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION

8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:20 RSID Lecture I (Doug Reynolds)
10:40-12:00 RSID Lecture II (Lukas Burget)
1:00-1:30 Computer Set-up Time
1:30-5:00 RSID Laboratory (Lukas Burget)

Thursday, July 3, 2008

MULTILINGUAL SPOKEN TERM DETECTION

8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:20 MSTD Lecture I (Richard Sproat)
10:40-12:00 MSTD Lecture II (Kevin Knight)
1:00-4:30 MSTD Laboratory (Richard Sproat)
4:30-5:00 Valedictory Social (Monique Folk) – Location: Barton 117