HLTCOE researchers and affiliates from the Center for Language and Speech Processing are organizing portions of the CHIME7 challenge, taking place from February to August 2023, in coordination with the Interspeech 2023 conference. This one-day workshop will bring together researchers from the fields of speech enhancement, speech and speaker recognition, computational hearing, and machine learning […]
The Human Language Technology Center of Excellence and the Center for Language and Speech Processing will host two events in 2023 for the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition (NACLO). NACLO (the North American Computational Linguistics Open competition) is a contest for U.S. and Canadian pre-university students in which contestants solve compelling puzzles in linguistics […]
The HLTCOE is delighted to welcome Dr. Zachary Lubberts as our newest research scientist. Dr. Lubberts, jointly appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Math and Statistics at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, is an applied mathematician best known for his work on wavelet analysis and graph analytic techniques. His research […]
On August 15, 2021 Dr. Reno Kriz was appointed to the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence as Research Scientist. Reno comes to us from the Computer Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied under Chris Callison-Burch and Marianna Apidianaki. Reno’s dissertation investigated generation- and retrieval-based techniques for text simplification. At the […]
HLTCOE affiliated researcher Vince Lyzinski was recently promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park. The HLTCOE extends our congratulations to Vince on this recognition of the strength of his research on advanced methods of graph analysis. Read the official announcement here.
HLTCOE Senior Research Scientist Dawn Lawrie was honored this month with an appointment as Associate Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Whiting School of Engineering. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Lawrie on this recognition of her research in cross-lingual information retrieval and related topics.
As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, the HLTCOE recently became a member of the National GEM Fellowship program. This program provides graduate engineering scholarships to candidate students from under-represented groups. As part of their educational scholarships, GEM fellows participate in internships with their sponsors. By joining GEM, the HLTCOE becomes part of […]
A team of speech researchers from the HLTCOE won this year’s best paper award at the Odyssey 2020 conference, the premiere international academic / industry conference for speaker and language recognition. The team consisted of Dr. Daniel Garcia-Romero, Dr. Greg Sell, and Dr. Alan McCree. They were selected for this honor for their paper entitled […]
The HLTCOE is pleased to announce that Dr. David Hunter, former chair of the Statistics Department at Pennsylvania State University, will join us this year as a visiting fellow. During his fellowship Dr. Hunter hopes to explore the statistical properties of deep learning models as they’re applied to speech and text processing problems by collaborating […]
A team from JHU in May 2020 took first place in a machine translation (MT) competition sponsored by Duolingo, the world’s leading language-learning platform. Led by HLTCOE staff researcher Matt Post and JHU Ph.D. student Huda Khayrallah (CLSP), and spear-headed by COE intern Jake Bremerman (masters student at the University of Maryland, College Park), their […]
