Center for Language & Speech Processing(CLSP), JHU Courses

NLP for Related Languages

Explore NLP techniques for leveraging language relatedness to improve technologies for low-resource languages across phonology, morphosyntax, acoustics, and phylogenetics.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The World Is Worth How Many APIs? A Thought Experiment

Explore a thought experiment on the number of APIs needed for versatile AI agents in physical environments, using wikiHow tutorials to induce and analyze a rich action space.

• YouTube
• 12 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Generic Knowledge: Acquisition and Representation

Explore AI approaches to acquiring general world knowledge for language understanding and commonsense reasoning, including text-based methods and challenges in formalizing generalities.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 25 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Using Language Models for Instruction-Based Information Retrieval

Explore instruction-based information retrieval using language models. Learn about Promptriever, a new retriever showing significant gains in instruction following and promptability.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Takeaways from the SCALE 2024 Workshop on Video-based Event Retrieval

Explore multilingual event-centric video retrieval techniques, focusing on non-professional content. Learn about dataset creation, modality-specific improvements, and key findings in text extraction and fusion.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

End-to-End Neural Speaker Diarization with Non-Autoregressive Attractors

Explore end-to-end neural speaker diarization with non-autoregressive attractors, improving robustness for real-life scenarios and handling variable speaker numbers in recordings.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Efficient Speech Processing

Explore cutting-edge research in speech recognition, generation, and privacy. Learn about self-training algorithms, error correction models, joint text-to-speech modeling, and privacy-preserving techniques in speech processing.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Extension is All You Need - But Sometimes Good Intentions Help Too

Explore innovative approaches to language extension and their impact on linguistic analysis, with insights on balancing intentions and outcomes.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• On-Demand
• Free Video

OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Open Language Models

Explore OLMo, an open-source language model initiative, and its impact on accelerating research in natural language processing and machine learning.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

A Feature-Based Model of Human Lexical Access - 2004

Explore a feature-based model of human lexical access, delving into the intricacies of language processing and speech recognition.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Towards Meaning: The Tectogrammatical Sentence Representation - 2001

Explore tectogrammatical sentence representation, a linguistic approach for analyzing sentence structure and meaning, presented by Jan Hajic in 2001.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Declarative Programming via a Relational Algebra - PhD Defense

Explore declarative programming through relational algebra in this PhD defense presentation, delving into advanced concepts and research findings.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

An Information State Approach to Collaborative Reference

Explore collaborative reference in dialogue systems using information state approaches. Gain insights into language processing and communication dynamics.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Acoustic Scene Analysis, Complex Modulations, and a New Form of Filtering - 2008

Explore acoustic scene analysis, complex modulations, and innovative filtering techniques for separating overlapping sound sources in noisy environments.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

An Implementation of Sub-Space Model Based Automatic Speech Recognition - 2009

Explore advanced speech recognition techniques using sub-space models in this in-depth implementation guide from Johns Hopkins University's CLSP.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video