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

Towards Fast Autonomous Learners: Advances in Reinforcement Learning - 2015

Explore reinforcement learning for AI agents interacting with humans, focusing on sample efficiency and transfer learning to improve educational tools and decision-making systems.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Instruction Tuning of Large Language Models - Lecture

Explore instruction tuning for large language models, covering its impact on generalization, data generation techniques, and performance evaluation across various NLP tasks.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Multi-Factor Context-Aware Language Modeling - 2018

Explore multi-factor context-aware language modeling techniques for adapting to varied communication contexts, improving efficiency and performance in natural language processing tasks.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Vocal Tract Modeling and Vocal Aging - Part 1

Explore vocal tract modeling and vocal aging concepts in this comprehensive lecture, focusing on key principles and research findings in speech processing.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Zipf's Law Suggests a Three-Pronged Approach to Inclusive Speech Recognition

Explore Zipf's law in speech recognition, from frequent words to OOV challenges. Discover how power-law distributions impact language technologies and inclusive ASR development for diverse communities.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Decoding the Brain to Help Build Machines - 2017

Explore groundbreaking research on the vision-language-motor interface in the human brain and its application to computer systems, including object tracking, robot navigation, and game-playing.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Multi-hop QA, Modeling Events, and Translation in Neural Models

Explore advanced NLP techniques for multi-hop QA, event modeling, and machine translation. Gain insights into repurposing neural models and creating efficient solutions for mobile devices.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Learning Constraint-Based Grammars from Representative Data - 2008

Explore constraint-based grammars for natural language processing, integrating syntax, semantics, and learning. Discover a new grammar formalism for deep language understanding and its applications in knowledge acquisition.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Norms and Exploitations: Mapping Meaning onto Use

Explore Corpus Pattern Analysis to map word meanings to typical contexts, reducing lexical entropy and linking patterns to applications like synonym sets or translations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Ins and Outs of Preposition Semantics - 2017

Explore preposition semantics, their crucial role in linking meaning, and challenges in comprehensive annotation and cross-linguistic analysis. Gain insights into ongoing research and corpus development.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Tutorial on Hidden Markov Models - Part 2

Explore advanced concepts of Hidden Markov Models, including applications and algorithms, in this in-depth continuation of Jason Eisner's tutorial series.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Using Open-Ended Stressor Responses to Predict Depressive Symptoms Across Demographics

Explore the relationship between stressors and depression using language models, analyzing trends across demographic groups and their impact on prediction performance.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Five Short Pieces on Neural Machine Translation of Text and Speech - Lecture

Explore five research contributions in neural machine translation, covering morphologically rich languages, low-resource settings, terminology integration, speech recognition error robustness, and translation length control.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Machine Translation: Automata Theory, Probability, and Linguistics - 2007

Explore machine translation's evolution through automata theory, probability, and linguistics. Delve into tree-based models and their impact on natural language processing.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Syntactic Language Modeling for Machine Translation and Speech-Repair Detection - 2005

Explore syntactic language modeling techniques for improving machine translation and detecting speech repairs in natural language processing.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video