2011
CSE Seminar Talk, Dr. Rudzicz, "First, we shape our tools: How to build a better speech recognizer", Concordia University, Montréal
Submitted by rene on Mon, 2011-11-21 09:421. Abstract
In this talk I briefly survey some of my previous research and then even more briefly extrapolate as to future extensions of this work.
I will talk about improving Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for speakers with speech disabilities by incorporating knowledge of their speech production. This involves the acquisition of the TORGO database of disabled articulation which demonstrates several consistent behaviours among speakers, including predictable pronunciation errors. Articulatory data are then used to train augmented ASR systems that model the statistical relationships between the vocal tract and its acoustic effluence. I show that dynamic Bayesian networks augmented with instantaneous articulatory variables outperform even discriminative alternatives. This leads to work that incorporates a more rigid theory of speech production, i.e., task-dynamics, that models the high-level and long-term aspects of speech production. For this task, I devised an algorithm for estimating articulatory positions given only acoustics that significantly outperforms the former state-of-the-art.
Finally, I present ongoing work into the transformation of disabled speech signals in order to make them more intelligible to human listener and I conclude with some thoughts as to possible paths we may now take.
Semantic Software Lab at CASCON 2011: Text Mining with Eclipse @ Technology Showcase
Submitted by rene on Sat, 2011-11-05 16:30
At CASCON 2011, we'll be demoing our Eclipse plug-in for the Semantic Assistants architecture during the daily Technology Showcase session [1].
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Third Canadian Semantic Web Symposium (CSWS 2011)
Submitted by witte on Tue, 2011-05-10 03:59The 3rd Canadian Semantic Web Symposium (CSWS2011)
The Third Canadian Semantic Web Symposium, will be held in the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (Aug 5, 2011).
As a follow-up to the previous symposium, CSWS 2011 aims at bringing together Canadian and international researchers in semantic technologies and knowledge management to discuss about various issues related to the Semantic Web.
CfP: Third Canadian Semantic Web Symposium (CSWS 2011)
Submitted by witte on Tue, 2011-05-10 03:55CALL FOR PAPER – CSWS2011: Third Canadian Semantic Web Symposium 2011
http://csws2011.uwaterloo.ca/
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
August 5, 2011
Paper Submission
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=cswws11
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Important dates:
Submission Deadline: June 20th, 2011
Acceptance Notification: July 15th, 2011
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CfP: 3rd Conference on Semantic Technology and Knowledge Engineering (STAKE 2011)
Submitted by witte on Sun, 2011-02-20 08:38Call for Papers (Extended Deadline)
The STAKE 2011 Program Committee invites submission of papers for the 3rd Semantic Technology and Knowledge Engineering Conference (STAKE). The purpose of the conference is to promote scientific interchange among practitioners of applied Semantic Technology and Knowledge Engineering. The conference is hosted by MIMOS BERHAD and Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) and will be co-located with the 3rd Malaysian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MJCAI2011) at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2011), Stanford University, CA, USA
Submitted by witte on Tue, 2011-02-15 12:28Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
September 18-21, 2011
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
http://www.ieee-icsc.org/
Semantic Computing addresses technologies that facilitate the derivation of semantics from content and connecting semantics into knowledge, where “content” may be anything such as video, audio, text, conversation, process, program, device, behavior, etc.
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011), Ottawa, Canada
Submitted by witte on Thu, 2010-12-30 14:44Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011)
June 13-17, 2011 - Ottawa, Canada
http://www.jcdl2011.org
Hosted by the University of Ottawa
Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB, and IEEE-CS TCDL
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011) Short Paper Deadline
Submitted by witte on Thu, 2010-12-30 14:36Extended Call for Papers
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011)
June 13-17, 2011 - Ottawa, Canada
http://www.jcdl2011.org
Hosted by the University of Ottawa
Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB, and IEEE-CS TCDL
Extended Call for Papers
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Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011) Full Paper Deadline (Extended)
Submitted by witte on Thu, 2010-12-30 14:34Extended Call for Papers
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011)
June 13-17, 2011 - Ottawa, Canada
http://www.jcdl2011.org
Hosted by the University of Ottawa
Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB, and IEEE-CS TCDL
Extended Call for Papers
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Text Summarization Workshop at Canadian AI (TS11)
Submitted by rene on Tue, 2010-12-14 09:14TS11 at Canadian AI
https://sites.google.com/site/ts11canai/
Automatic text summarization (TS) has been a matter of active research for over a decade now. Doing TS really well would require insights from statistics, machine learning, linguistics and cognitive science, to name a few. Despite a great deal of research effort, state-of-the-art TS systems achieve summary quality much lower than even untrained human summarizers. There is room for improvement and much interesting work to do.
