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

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Sequential Decision Making Tasks with Natural Language Interaction

Explore deep reinforcement learning applications in natural language tasks, focusing on querying ambiguous texts and navigating 3D mazes with unseen instructions using hierarchical architectures.

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

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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• Free Video