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

Text Geolocation and Dating: Light-Weight Language Grounding - 2012

Explore geolocation and dating of texts to identify latitude-longitude pairs and time periods related to documents. Learn about computational models of word meaning beyond standard word vectors.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Better Science Through Better Bayesian Computation - 2015

Explore Bayesian computation for data analysis in science and engineering. Learn about Bayesian optimization and scalable Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques for improved hypothesis testing and decision-making.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Top-Down Auditory Processing and Why Yahoo Cares - 2008

Explore top-down auditory processing, its importance in noisy environments, and applications in internet data analysis. Gain insights from visual and auditory perception examples.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Feature Rich Models for Discourse Signaling - 2018

Explore computational models for discourse relations using rich annotations beyond text, including syntactic and semantic information, to capture complex discourse structures.

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

Automated Support to Scaffold Students' Short- and Long-form STEM Writing

Explore automated analysis of student writing for STEM education, covering short answers and long-form essays. Learn about methods for formative assessment and scaffolding reasoning skills.

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

Automatic Speech Recognition - 2009

Explore automatic speech recognition techniques and advancements with expert Brian Kingsbury in this comprehensive lecture from Johns Hopkins University's CLSP.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Revisiting Assumptions in Natural Language Reasoning

Explore natural language reasoning systems, including defeasible inference, partial-input baselines, and social stereotypes. Gain insights into computational semantics and common-sense reasoning challenges in NLP.

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

Text Dependencies: Information Cascades, Translations and Multi-Input Attention - 2018

Explore text dependencies in information cascades, translations, and multi-input attention. Learn methods for inferring and exploiting dependency structures to improve various NLP tasks.

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

Speech Synthesis and Voice Conversion: Machine Learning Can Mimic Anyone's Voice

Explore cutting-edge voice conversion techniques, their potential, and limitations. Learn about speech synthesis advancements and resources for expressive voice conversion research.

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

Learning and Mining in Large-Scale Time Series Data - 2015

Explore machine learning approaches for analyzing large-scale time series and spatio-temporal data, with applications in healthcare and climate modeling.

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

Exploiting Sparsity and Structure in Parametric and Nonparametric Estimation - 2007

Explore advanced techniques in sparse estimation for graphical models and nonparametric regression, including l1 regularization and derivative regularization for high-dimensional data analysis.

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

Personalized Speech Enhancement: Data- and Resource-Efficient Machine Learning

Explore data-efficient machine learning techniques for personalized speech enhancement, focusing on modularized models and self-supervised learning to achieve user-specific improvements with minimal data.

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

Practical Linguistically Motivated Parsing

Explore linguistically motivated parsing techniques with Stephen Clark, focusing on practical applications and advanced methodologies in natural language processing.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Improving Conversational Interactions through Visually Situated Context

Explore how visual context enhances conversational AI accuracy. Learn about augmentation strategies, grounding techniques, and recent advancements in language models for more effective human-machine interactions.

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

NLP Beyond the Top-100 Languages

Explore NLP for low-resource languages, addressing challenges in handling unseen languages and working with endangered language communities. Gain insights on multilingual evaluation beyond common languages.

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