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[nl-uiuc] speech & language technology lunch, Thursday, 12-1, Beckman garden

From: Mark Hasegawa-Johnson <jhasegaw AT gmail.com>
To: "Margaret M. Fleck" <mfleck AT cs.uiuc.edu>
Cc: "Roth, Dan" <danr AT uiuc.edu>, Julia Hockenmaier <juliahr AT cis.upenn.edu>, kktae AT uiuc.edu, "Zhai, Chengxiang" <czhai AT cs.uiuc.edu>, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson <jhasegaw AT gmail.com>, jscole AT uiuc.edu, prosody AT cs.uiuc.edu, nl-uiuc AT cs.uiuc.edu, sborys AT uiuc.edu, Jont Allen <jontalle AT uiuc.edu>, iozbek AT uiuc.edu, "lobdell AT uiuc.edu" <lobdell AT uiuc.edu>, hsharma AT uiuc.edu, Jui-Ting Huang <jhuang29 AT uiuc.edu>, 'Arthur kantor' <akantor AT uiuc.edu>, "Poole, Marshall Scott" <mspoole AT uiuc.edu>, Heejin Kim <hkim17 AT uiuc.edu>, "Pena-Mora, Feniosky A" <feniosky AT uiuc.edu>
Subject: [nl-uiuc] speech & language technology lunch, Thursday, 12-1, Beckman garden
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:58:55 -0500
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Hello everyone,

Mark, Julia and Margaret are going to meet Thursday, from noon to 1pm in the Beckman garden, for a second monthly "Speech and Language Technology lunch." We would like to invite all of the rest of you to join us...

WHO: Faculty and students interested in speech and language technology

WHY:

(1) Make speculative long-term plans w.r.t. a fall graduate seminar series for speech and language technology student presentations.

(2) Talk about fun research topics such as (1) which linguistic categories are distributed according to PDFs with a defined variance (Gaussian, Laplacian, multinomial, etc), and which are distributed according to PDFs with undefined variance (Cauchy, Zipf, etc)? (2) are human languages really different in any meaningful way, after all? In order to know all of the ways in which languages can vary, do you need data from 2 languages, 30, 500, 7000, or more than 7000? (3) How long will we have to wait until English splits into a few dozen distinct languages, thus providing us with more data points for analysis?

(3) Drink lemonade or Riesling (Mark will bring one of each). Eat lunch (bring your own).

(4) Enjoy sunshine.

WHERE: Beckman garden

WHEN: Thursday, June 26, 2008, 12:00 noon

[nl-uiuc] speech & language technology lunch, Thursday, 12-1, Beckman garden, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, 06/23/2008
- Re: [nl-uiuc] speech & language technology lunch, Thursday, 12-1, Beckman garden, Jennifer Cole, 06/23/2008