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

Attendees (* = presenter):

Jont Allen?, UIUC

Sarah Borys, UIUC (*)

Matthew Carlson, UC

Jennifer Cole?, UIUC

Robert Daland, Northwestern (* Phonotactics and the acquisition of word segmentation and word learning)

Jacob Eisenstein, UIUC (* Unsupervised Learning of Discourse Structure in Speech and Gesture)

Margaret Fleck, UIUC

Matt Goldrick, Northwestern (* A neural network framework for unifying grammatical and psycholinguistic accounts of speech errors)

John Goldsmith, UC

Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, UIUC (* Machine Learning in Acoustic Signal Processing)

Chi Hu, UIUC (* Chinese ASR for Second-language Fluency)

Jui-Ting Huang, UIUC (* Learning from unlabeled speech for acoustic and prosodic modeling)

Fatima Husain, UIUC

Aren Jansen, UC (* Point process models for speech recognition)

Arthur Kantor, UIUC (* Mistake driven pronunciation units for large-vocabulary ASR)

James Kirby, UC

Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern

Steve Levinson, UIUC (* Automatic Language Acquisition by Autonomous Robot)

Boon Pang Lim, UIUC (* Automatic recognition of whispered speech)

Karen Livescu, TTI-C (* Multi-view learning of speech feature spaces)

Dan Margoliash, UC (* Animal models of vocal learning)

David McAllester, TTI-C

Partha Niyogi, UC (* Point process models for speech recognition)

Janet Pierrehumbert, Northwestern (* Modeling language dynamics: social, morphological, and phonetic issues)

Sravana Reddy, UC

Jason Riggle?, UC

Panying Rong, UIUC (* The effect of articulatory placement on acoustic characteristics of vowel nasalization based on vocal tract modeling)

Riya Singh, UIUC (* Chinese ASR for Second-language Fluency)

Steven Small, UC (* Neurobiological data on speech perception)

Louis Terry, Northwestern (* Audio-visual speech recognition)

Siwei Wang, UC

Sonjia Waxmonsky, UC

Alan Yu, UC