Speech Day, May 5, 2009

		Illinois Speech Day May 5, 2009 TTI-Chicago, Rooms 526/530 6045 S. Kenwood Ave., Chicago Parking information Contact: Karen Livescu, klivescu at uchicago.edu UIUC contact: Mark Hasegawa-Johnson Northwestern contact: Janet Pierrehumbert UC contact: Partha Niyogi Speech Day will be a day-long meeting consisting of presentations and discussion on the theme of computational models of speech. Presenters will be faculty, postdocs, and students at U. Chicago, Northwestern, UIUC, and TTI-C. Presentations will include completed and ongoing work, with the goal of fostering interaction among the sites.

Schedule (see also complete list of attendees)

10:30-11:00 coffee etc.

11:00-11:45 Partha Niyogi & Aren Jansen, UC (Point process models for speech recognition)

11:45-12:15 Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, UIUC (Machine Learning in Acoustic Signal Processing)

12:15-12:35 Arthur Kantor, UIUC (Mistake driven pronunciation units for large-vocabulary ASR)

12:35-1:05 Steve Levinson, UIUC (Automatic Language Acquisition by Autonomous Robot)

1:05-2:00 lunch (catered)

2:00-2:30 Jacob Eisenstein, UIUC (Unsupervised Learning of Discourse Structure in Speech and Gesture)

2:30-2:50 Karen Livescu, TTI-C (Multi-view learning of speech feature spaces)

2:50-3:20 Dan Margoliash, UC (Animal models of vocal learning)

3:20-3:50 Steve Small, UC (Neurobiological data on speech perception)

3:50-4:30 coffee break/posters:

Sarah Borys, UIUC (TBD)
Chi Hu and Riya Singh, UIUC (Chinese ASR for Second-language Fluency)
Jui-Ting Huang, UIUC (Learning from unlabeled speech for acoustic and prosodic modeling)
Boon Pang Lim, UIUC (Automatic recognition of whispered speech)
Panying Rong, UIUC (The effect of articulatory placement on acoustic characteristics of vowel nasalization based on vocal tract modeling)
Louis Terry, NU (Audio-visual speech recognition)

4:30-5:00 Matt Goldrick, NU (A neural network framework for unifying grammatical and psycholinguistic accounts of speech errors)

5:00-5:30 Janet Pierrehumbert, NU (Modeling language dynamics: social, morphological, and phonetic issues)

5:30-6:00 Robert Daland, NU (Phonotactics and the acquisition of word segmentation and word learning)

6:30- dinner downtown