Natural language research announcements

[Yonatan Bisk <bisk1 AT illinois.edu>]

The following is a reminder that the Midwest Speech and Language Days start today.  The first talk is in 20min in Beckman 5602.

The full schedule is posted below.

Thanks

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Friday, May 2

9:00-10:00    Breakfast provided, Beckman Atrium
10:00-11:15:    Oral Session: Phonetics and Psychoacoustics, Beckman 5602

• 10:00-10:25: High-Resolution, Full-Vocal-Tract 4D Realtime Speech Imaging
  Maojing Fu, Bo Zhao, Christopher Carignan, Ryan K. Shosted, Jamie L. Perry, David P. Kuehn, Zhi-Pei Liang, and Bradley P. Sutton
• 10:25-10:50: Computational modeling of tone in Iu Mien: An inductive approach for field linguists
  Ryan Shosted, Di Wu, and Marissa Goldrich
• 10:50-11:15: Unsupervised learning of multiple phonetic cues in speech
  Joseph C. Toscano

11:15-12:30    Oral Session: Statistical Approaches to the Lexicon Beckman 5602

• 11:15-11:40: Tailoring Continuous Word Representations for Syntactic Dependency Parsing
  Mohit Bansal, Kevin Gimpel and Karen Livescu
• 11:40-12:05: Reconciling Inconsistency in Encoded Morphological Distinctions in an Artificial Language
  R. Alexander Schumacher, Janet Pierrehumbert, and Patrick LaShell
• 12:05-12:30: Revisiting Word Neighborhoods for ASR
  Preethi Jyothi and Karen Livescu

12:30-1:30    Lunch provided, Beckman Atrium
1:30-3:00    Poster session Beckman 5602

Posters should be landscape format, up to 4 feet tall by 5 feet wide.

• Extracting Embedded Causality Using Structural Information
  Chen Li and Roxana Girju
• Sparsifying HMMs with a Renyi Entropy Prior
  Sujeeth Bharadwaj and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
• Supervised Learning of Epistemic Modality
  Rania Al-Sabbagh, Roxana Girju and Jana Diesner
• Learning Morphological Categories
  Samantha Heidenreich and Janet Pierrehumbert
• Optimizing Reliability of Crowdsourced Data
  Amelia Kimball
• Modeling Brazilian Portugese Truncation
  Mike Pham, Jackson Lee, and Bruna da Costa Moreira
• Child-directed Mental State Verbs
  Paul Sandels, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Micha Elsner
• Spectral Differences in alveolar fricatives in Levantine Arabic
  Zainab Hermes and Ryan Shosted
• Learning Turkish from English: Transfer Learning for Cross-Lingual Speech Recognition
  Amit Das and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
• Intensity, Duration, F0, and the Perception of Focal Prominence
  Tim Mahrt and Jennifer Cole
• Neural network features for speech recognition via deep canonical correlation analysis
  Weiran Wang, Raman Arora, Bahador Nooraei, and Karen Livescu

3:00-3:30    Coffee Break, Beckman 5602
3:30-4:45    Oral session: Translation and Dialog, Beckman 5602

• 3:30-3:55: Generating and Using Diverse Translations
  Kevin Gimpel
• 3:55-4:20: Machine Translation and Monolingual Postediting
  Lane Schwartz
• 4:20-4:45: Tracking Beliefs and Intentions in Argumentative Dialogues
  Codruta Girlea, Eyal Amir and Roxana Girju

4:45-6:00    Oral session: Grounded Language Acquisition, Beckman 5602

• 4:45-5:10: A Denotational and Distributional Approach to Semantics
  Alice Lai and Julia Hockenmaier
• 5:10-5:35: The Role of Neural Oscillations in Speech Motor Learning
  Ranit Sengupta and Sazzad M. Nasir
• 5:35-6:00: The Roles of Reductionism, Emergence and Functional Equivalence in Speech Comprehension
  Stephen E. Levinson