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JSALT Summer Workshop comes to CMU

The 2017 edition of annual Jelinek Memorial Workshop on Speech and Language Technology will be hosted by the LTI.

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Bhiksha Raj Named IEEE Fellow

LTI Associate Professor Bhiksha Raj has been named to the 2017 class of IEEE fellows.

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LTI Student Fields Best Automatic System in TREC LiveQA Evaluation

For the second consecutive year, Carnegie Mellon came out on top in the LiveQA evaluation – an exercise that requires question-answering (QA) software to respond to real-time questions received by the Yahoo! Answers website – at the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2016).

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The Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon educates the leaders of tomorrow and performs groundbreaking research in the areas of Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Information Extraction, Summarization & Question Answering, Information Retrieval, Text Mining & Analytics, Knowledge Representation, Reasoning & Acquisition, Language Technologies for Education, Machine Learning, Machine Translation, Multimodal Computing and Interaction, Speech Processing, and Spoken Interfaces & Dialogue Processing.

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JSALT Summer Workshop comes to CMU

The 2017 Annual Jelinek Memorial Workshop on Speech and Language Technology will be held at Carnegie Mellon University Language Technologies Institute in Pittsburgh, PA.A continuation of the Johns Hopkins University CLSP summer workshop series from 1995-2016, JSALT brings notable researchers and students together to collaborate on selected research topics for six weeks, following a...

MCDS Student Part of Hackathon Winning Team

When Facebook launched its Live video service last year, the social media giant's 1.5 billion global users began living their lives as if they had TV cameras in their back pockets. A team of Carnegie Mellon University students and alumni recently harnessed the power of the Live system to take first place in the 2016 Facebook Global Hackathon.Over the course of 24 hours in November,...

LTI Prof. Rosenfeld Contributes to CMU Flu Forecasting Team

Computer scientists and statisticians at Carnegie Mellon University are using both artificial intelligence and the wisdom of crowds to guide their efforts in forecasting 2016-2017 flu activity. Past experience suggests it remains an open question as to which is better at predicting the disease's spread week by week.The Delphi research group, uniting faculty and students from CMU's machine...

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Feb 16

LTI PhD Thesis Proposal: Proactive Transfer Learning

2:00 PM - 6501 Gates & Hillman Centers

Feb 17

LTI Colloquium "Modeling Continuous Human Artifacts: Music, Prosody, and Shakespeare"

2:30 PM - 2315 Doherty Hall

Feb 21

LTI Open House 2017

(All day) - Gates & Hillman Centers

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