AERFAISS’08 is arranged as a one-week intensive course including a series of comprehensive tutorials presented by leading experts in the field, along with practice sessions and open discussion forums.             TUTORIALS An abstract of the tutorials can be downloaded here. "Statistical models and algorithms for speech and language technologies" by Dr. Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen, Germany) "Multi-modal interaction involving speech and language technologies" by Dr. Alex Waibel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) "Applying unsupervised learning in creating language models for information retrieval and machine translation" by Dr. Timo Honkela (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) "Speech production models for automatic speech recognition" by Dr. Richard Rose (McGill University, Canada) "Phrase-Based and Factored Statistical Machine Translation" by Dr. Philipp Koehn (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) "Computer assisted transcription of speech and text images" by Dr. Enrique Vidal (Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Technical University of Valencia, Spain) "Interactive machine translation" by Dr. Francisco Casacuberta (Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Technical University of Valencia, Spain) PRACTICES The practice sessions will be given by local teachers and PhD students working on PR&NLP following the general directives of the experts. In brief, the programmed sessions are the following ones but a detailed schedule can be downloaded here. "Computer Assisted Transcription of Text Images using HTK toolkit" by Dr. Alejandro Héctor Toselli (Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Technical University of Valencia, Spain) "Applying Morfessor for unsupervised morphology induction" by Víctor Guijarrubia (University of the Basque Country, Spain) "Training translation models and decoding with Moses" by Germán Sanchis-Trilles (Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Technical University of Valencia, Spain) TIMETABLE http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ahwhttp://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/~pkoehnhttp://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/web/Staff/ney/index.htmlhttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ahw/http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/~pkoehn/http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/web/Staff/ney/index.htmlhttp://www.iti.upv.es/groups/prhlthttp://www.cis.hut.fi/tho/cv.shtmlhttp://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~rrose1/http://web.iti.upv.es/~evidal/http://web.iti.upv.es/~fcn/http://www.cis.hut.fi/tho/cv.shtmlhttp://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~rrose1/Program_files/abstracts_and_TOCs_1to3.pdfProgram_files/abstracts_and_TOCs_practices.pdfshapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_9shapeimage_2_link_10shapeimage_2_link_11shapeimage_2_link_12shapeimage_2_link_13shapeimage_2_link_14
Schedule
AERFAISS’08 Bilbao, June 23-28, 2008
 
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