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| Scientific Advisory Council |
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ACORNS has installed a Scientific Advisory Council (SAC), which will meet annually to review the results of the work performed and give advice about the directions of the research to be carried out in the remainder of the project’s lifetime. The members of the SAC are:
| Name | Affiliation | Research field |
| Prof. dr. A. Cutler | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | Perception |
| Prof. dr. P. Fikkert | Radboud University Nijmegen | Child Language and Phonology |
| Prof. dr. T. Svendsen | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Automatic Speech Recognition |
| Prof. W. Daelemans | University of Antwerp | Automatic Learning, Artificial Intelligence |
| Prof. D. van Compernolle | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Automatic Speech Recognition |
| Prof. C. Lee | Georgia Institute of Technology | Automatic Speech Recognition |
| J. Hawkins | Numenta | Neuroscience |
| N. Rougier | INRIA | Neuroscience |
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The first meeting of the Scientific Advisory Council took place in conjunction with the ESF-NWO-ACORNS workshop entitled Models of Language Evolution, Acquisition and Processing, 25-28 November 2007, in the Faculty Club of the Catholic University Leuven.
For a report on this workshop, please go to the workshop page.
Towards the end of the second year of the lifetime of the project two meetings were convened with members of the SAC, one in Nijmegen on 12 November 2008, where Anne Cutler and Paula Fikkert were present, and another one in Syninge (close to Stockholm), where Dirk van Compernolle, Nicolas Rougier and Torbjorn Svendsen were present. Due to the schedules and obligations of the SAC members it was not possible to meet all individuals, let alone at the same time in the same place.
All members of the SAC received a paper that summarizes the research conducted in the first two year, plus a number of concrete questions on which the consortium was seeking advice. The text of this paper can be found here.
The final meeting with the SAC members will be in the fringe of Interspeech-2009, in Brighton, as part of the final workshop on 11 September. Here is the first call for proposals for this workshop.
Last updated: 20 January 2008. Please contact Els den Os with any comments, complaints, or reports of broken links.
