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 on the campus of the University of Nijmegen. 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
Olga van Herwijnen
Suzan Verberne
We are currently working on the colloquium series of 2007. Please check this page regularly for updates on speakers and topics.
1st Speaker (10:45h) | 2nd Speaker (11:30h) | |
February 7th: Building: Thomas van Aquinostraat Room: TvA 2.03.05 | CATCH: Continuous Access To Cultural Heritage | |
Roeland Ordelman en Willemijn Heeren (UTwente)
Choral - Access to Oral History: Speech Retrieval for Historical Audio Collections |
Véronique Malaisé (VU)
CHOICE: Charting the Information Landscape Employing Context Information |
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March 7th: Building: Spinoza Room: A 01.54 | Music and Perception | |
Rens Bod (UvA)
Statistical Learning of Music and Language |
Steffen Pauws (Philips Research)
Simpler, sooner and closer than you think: everyday use of content-based retrieval of music |
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April 4th: Building: Erasmusgebouw Room: E 2.55 | Applications and resources for small languages | |
Theo van den Heuvel (Polderland)
Proofing the other languages |
Johan Ros, Onno Crasborn en Inge Zwitserlood (RU)
The corpus of Dutch sign language |
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May 9th: Building: Thomas van Aquinostraat Room: 1.0.09 | Biometrics | |
Raymond Veldhuis (UTwente)
Biometrics: A special pattern-recognition problem |
Peter van Hengel (Sound Intelligence BV)
Sigard: a system for detection of aggression and fear |
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June 6th: Building: Gymnasion Room: GN 6 | Learning | |
Hugo Van hamme (KU Leuven)
ACORNS: Acquisition of Communication and Recognition Skills |
Hedderik van Rijn (RUG)
Learning in ACT-R: Cognition meeting Language and vice versa |