University of Washington
Department of Electrical Engineering

SSLI-LAB : Signal, Speech, and Language Interpretation Seminar Series

Fall Quarter, 2007
10:30-11:30, RM EEB-403 EEB Bldg (unless otherwise specified)

2 October 2007 (EEB-403, 10:30-11:30AM)
Computing in SSLI Lab
-- Lee Damon, Dustin Hillard, Jeff Bilmes

9 October 2007 (EEB-403, 10:30-11:30AM)
What I Did On My Summer Internship...
-- Mei Yang, System Combination of Machine Translation
-- Alex Marin, Speech Mining for Call Center Analytics
-- Anna Margolis, Topic ID Experiments on the Fisher Corpus
-- Kevin Duh, Machine Learning for Computer Systems

16 October 2007 (EEB-403, 10:30AM-12:00PM) Two Talks!
Structural Alignment for Finite-State Syntactic Processing
-- Brian Roark, Oregon Graduate Institute, OHSU
Prosody and PCFGs with Latent Annotations
-- Izhak Shafran, Oregon Graduate Institute, OHSU

23 October 2007 (EEB-403, 10:30AM-11:30PM)
SSLI Lab Web pages
-- Facilitators: Kevin Duh, Alex Marin

30 October 2007 (EEB-403, 10:30AM-11:30PM)
Functional Bregman divergence, Bayesian estimation of distributions, and completely lazy learning
-- Maya Gupta, UW EE

6 November 2007 (EEB-403, 10:30AM-11:30PM)
Sensing and Modeling Face-to-face Social Behavior
-- Danny Wyatt, UW CSE

13 November 2007 (EEB-403, 10:30AM-11:30PM)
Empirical Properties of Multilingual Phoneme-to-Word Transduction
-- Geoff Zweig

20 November 2007 (EEB-403, 10:30AM-11:30PM)
A Structural Approach to Multi-User Interference Suppression
-- Ananya Sen Gupta, Microsoft

27 November 2007 (EEB-403, 10:30AM-11:30PM)
Implicit User-adaptive System Engagement in Speech, Pen and Multimodal Interfaces
-- Sharon Oviatt, Incaa Designs

4 December 2007 (EEB-403, 10:30AM-12:00PM)
ASRU Practice Talks
-- Andrei Alexandrescu, Graph-Based Learning for Phonetic Classification
-- Scott Otterson, Efficient Use of Overlap Information in Speaker Diarization
-- Chris Bartels, Use of Syllable Nuclei Locations to Improve ASR
-- Hui Lin, OOV Detection by Joint Word/Phone Lattice Alignment