Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing

08/11/2016

Throwback: Carolina Parada, PhD '11, and her speech recognition team used hot word detection to create an algorithm to detect sound. The result? OK Google.

As a staff research scientist with Google, Carolina Parada, PHD ’11, is changing the way people interact with their devices. Parada’s speech recognition team recently used hot word detection, also known as keyword spotting, to create an algorithm that detects sound. The result? The popular “OK Googl...

08/10/2016

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08/08/2016

Special thanks to all the workshop participants for making this year memorable!

The closing day presentations for the Third Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop were held from August 4-5, 2016.

08/04/2016

Join us this morning for the closing sessions of our summer workshop!

08:30 AM – Continental Breakfast (Hackerman B17 Foyer) 09:00 AM – Opening Remarks, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Philipp Koehn and David Yarowsky 09:15 AM – Team Presentation: Remote Monitoring of Neuro-degeneration through Speech, Elmar Noeth 10:45 AM – Break 11:00 AM – Team Presentation Continued 11:45 AM –…

08/02/2016

There are some familiar names in these proceedings!

Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) [P16-1000]: Katrin Erk | Noah A. Smith

07/29/2016

How to approach almost any problem.

An average data scientist deals with loads of data daily. Some say over 60-70% time is spent in data cleaning, munging and bringing data to a suitable format such that machine learning models can b…

07/27/2016

July 27: Dr. Rebecca Resnik, founder of Rebecca Resnik and Associates LLC, presented "Transmissions from the Black Box: How Human Emotion Impacts Cognition, Language, and Behavior."

07/26/2016

Update: the presentation from Rebecca Resnik on "Transmissions from the Black Box: How Human Emotion Impacts Cognition, Language, and Behavior" has been rescheduled for Wednesday, July 27, at 10:45 a.m.

Abstract Previously, science conceived of emotions as ‘bugs’ in an otherwise exceptional computational system, the human brain. Recent discoveries from neuroscience reveal that emotions are not ‘bugs’ at all, but integral ‘features’ of human cognition. This talk

07/25/2016

: Mauro Maggioni joined JHU as a Bloomberg Professor earlier this year. His research can help lead to smarter algorithms.

Maggioni, who joins JHU from Duke, becomes 20th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

07/22/2016

“Technology exists to make a positive impact on people’s lives, and to do that, we need to enable better human-machine interaction." - Zhifei Li, PhD '10

Zhifei Li (PhD ’10) believes that computers should be able to see, hear, feel, and move. But, he adds, mostly they need to be able to speak to us and respond intelligently to what we say. “Technology exists to make a positive impact on people’s lives, and to do that, we need to enable better...

07/21/2016

could help us make healthier choices.

One Googler explains how small innovations now are adding up to "smart," health-boosting workplaces of the future.

07/20/2016

Plenary speakers at the Third Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop.