In the colloquium series of The Department of Language and Speech speakers from companies and academic institutions are invited to present their work. Each month two speakers talk about a subject that is related to the field of language and speech technology. The colloquium takes place from 10:45 to 12:15 in the Erasmusgebouw, room 2.55. All people interested are kindly invited! For further information on the colloquia please contact one of the members of the colloquium committee:
Louis ten Bosch
Suzan Verberne
Folkert de Vriend
| 1st Speaker (10:45h) | 2nd Speaker (11:30h) | |
| February 1st: Building: TvA2 Room: 2 00 14 | Human Speech and Cognition | |
| Emiel Krahmer (UvT)
Production and perception of emotions in audiovisual speech |
Armin Kohlrausch (Philips, TU Eindhoven)
How auditory perception knowledge is used in an industrial context: Examples from Philips Research Eindhoven |
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| March 1st: Building: Erasmusgebouw Room: 2.55 | Information Retrieval and Extraction | |
| Toine Bogers (UvT)
Re-Ranking Search Results |
Frank Hofstede (Search Expertise Centrum BV)
Just-In-Time Information Retrieval |
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| April 5th: Building: Erasmusgebouw Room: 2.55 | Speech Pathology | |
| Irma Verdonck-de Leeuw (VU University Medical Center)
Voice and speech outcome in head and neck cancer patients |
Lian Nijland (UMC St Radboud, Medische Psychologie/KNO
Perception in children with speech output disorders |
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| May 10th: Building: Erasmusgebouw Room: 2.55 | Bayesian Networks | |
| Bert Kappen (SNN)
Efficient computation in Bayesian networks |
Ton Broeders (NFI, Universiteit Leiden)
Bayes in the Forensic Arena |
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| June 7th: Building: Erasmusgebouw Room: 2.55 | Language Technology and Resources | |
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Valentin Jijkoun (UvA)
Accessing information in Wikipedia |
Piek Vossen (Irion Technologies, Delft)
Lexical ambiguity within an application perspective |
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