This week: Julia Hirschberg and Trace Foundation lectures

This week is just packed with linguistics goodness: Julia Hirschberg will be speaking this Friday, 3/26, and there is a series of lectures at the Trace Foundation downtown, starting on Friday and continuing on Saturday. First, Professor Hirschberg’s lecture: Friday, 3/26 3pm Hamilton 709 Knowing When to Speak: Turn Management in Spoken Dialogue Systems Julia [...]

Overview

Dear linguists, Here’s wishing you a delightful spring break, wherever you’re going (or staying)! For your reading pleasure, here’s an overview of upcoming events: March 26-27: The Trace Foundation: “Minority Languages in Today’s Global Society: Perspectives on Language Standardization.” The lecture will focus on Tibetan, Kurdish, and Hungarian. March 26: Professor Julia Hirschberg, Computer Science [...]

Upcoming Events

Friday, 11/13/09 7:30 pm Dinner at the Columbia Cottage. Join us for food and conversation – all are welcome! RSVP on Facebook. Friday, 11/20/09 3 pm (location TBA) A computational linguistics/natural language processing presentation by Nizar Habash of the Center for Computational Learning Systems: Automatic Diacritization of Arabic Text Arabic is written without certain orthographic [...]

New course!

In the Fall 2009 semester, the Computer Science department will be offering a new course on speech processing. CS 6998: Topics in Speech Processing: Computational Approaches to Emotional Speech This course introduces students to research on emotional speech. We will explore state-of-the-art work on recognizing and producing classic emotions automatically. Emotions such as anger, happiness, [...]

Computer Science courses

For the more technologically inclined, these classes might be a lot of fun: *COMS W4705x Natural Language Processing* Lect: 3. 3 pts. Prerequisites: COMS W3133, or W3134 , or W3139 , or the instructor’s permission. Computational approaches to natural language generation and understanding. Recommended preparation: some previous or concurrent exposure to AI or Machine Learning. [...]