Colloquia of 2009

In the colloquium series of The Language and Speech unit 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:

Daphne Theijssen
Eric Sanders
Jort Gemmeke
Nelleke Oostdijk

We are currently working on the colloquium series of 2009. Please check this page regularly for updates on speakers and topics.

  1st Speaker (10:45h) 2nd Speaker (11:30h)
February 4th:
Building: TVA 1
Room: 1 0 09
Speaker Recognition and Diarization
David van Leeuwen (RU/TNO)
Speaker Recognition
Marijn Huijbregts (UT)
Speaker Diarization
March 4th:
Building: TVA 2
Room: 2 03 05
Digital Data Preservation
Marc Kemps-Snijders (MPI)
CLARIN A Pan-European Research Infrastructure Project
Rene van Horik & Dirk Roorda (DANS)
MIXED: Migration to Intermediate XML for Electronic Data
April 1st:
Building: Erasmus
Room: 1.17
Information Retrieval
Wessel Kraaij (RU)
Applying statistical language models for semantic document annotation
Martha Larson (TUD)
Plumbing the Podosphere: Providing users with access to spoken audio on the web
May 13th:
Building: Erasmus
Room: 1.10
Challenges in AI
Pim Haselager (RU)
The role of computational models in understanding intelligence
Ralph Niels (RU)
Allograph-based automatic writer identification
June 3rd:
Building: Erasmus
Room: 1.10
Social Adaptive Behaviour
Ellen de Bruijn (RU)
Social adaptive behaviour: a neurocognitive approach

Colloquia of previous years