Title: Speech and Language Research at MIT CSAIL

Speaker: Victor Zue

From: MIT　 

Time: 3:20 p.m. Nov. 2, 2007

Place: Multifunctional Hall of DSP Building

ABSTRAT:

This talk will start with a brief introduction of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL).  It will then be followed by a more detailed description of projects in the speech and language area, including: MIT Lecture Browser (Glass/Barzilay) Mobile Information Access: Multi-modal natural interactions (Seneff/Glass) Summarization of Reviews from the Web (Barzilay) Language Learning (Seneff).

BIO:

Victor Zue is the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the Director of the Institute's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).  In the early part of his career, Victor conducted research in acoustic phonetics and phonology, codifying the acoustic manifestation of speech sounds and the phonological rules governing the realization of pronunciation in American English. Subsequently, his research interest shifted to the development of spoken language interfaces to make human-computer interactions easier and more natural.  Between 1989 and 2001, he headed the Spoken Language Systems Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, which has pioneered the development of many systems that enable a user to interact with computers using spoken language. Outside of MIT, Victor has consulted for many multinational corporations, and he has served on many planning, advisory, and review committees for the US Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academies of Science and Engineering.  From 1996-1998, he chaired the Information Science and Technology, or ISAT, study group for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Dapartment of Defense, helping the DoD formulate new directions for information technology research.  In 1999, he received the DARPA Sustained Excellence Award.  Victor is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.