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

Modeling Human Communication Dynamics - 2016

Explore computational models for analyzing and predicting human communication behaviors, with applications in healthcare, education, business, and social media.

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

Parsing the Web: Large-Scale Syntactic Processing - 2009 Workshop Closing Presentation

Explore large-scale syntactic processing techniques for parsing web content in this comprehensive workshop presentation from CLSP at Johns Hopkins University.

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

Learning Neural Network Hyperparameters for Machine Translation - 2019

Explore neural network hyperparameter optimization for machine translation, focusing on efficient methods to learn parameters during training without extensive grid searches.

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

Understanding Speech in the Face of Competition - Lecture 2008

Explore auditory attention, sound source separation, and speech understanding in complex environments. Learn about object formation, selective attention, and top-down knowledge in speech perception.

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

Style Transfer for Data Augmentation in Sequence Labelling Tasks - September 2022

Explore style transfer for data augmentation in sequence labeling tasks, focusing on named entity recognition in social media. Learn about improving domain adaptation and addressing data scarcity.

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

Deep Active Learning: Enhancing Data Efficiency in Machine Learning - Lecture

Explore deep learning's data efficiency, active learning in NLP, and innovative approaches to enhance learning from human interactions in AI systems.

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

Online Large-Margin Training of Syntactic and Structural Translation Features - 2008

Explore advanced techniques for improving statistical machine translation, including large-margin training, soft syntactic constraints, and structural distortion models. Gain insights into overcoming MERT limitations.

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

Extracting Information from Text into Memory for Knowledge-Intensive Tasks

Explore techniques for extracting and storing information in dedicated memory components to enhance language models' performance on knowledge-intensive tasks requiring factual reasoning.

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

Information and Decision Theory Explain Neural Pulse Trains - Lecture

Explore information and decision theory's application to neural communication, uncovering insights into pulse trains and channel capacity in the peripheral nervous system.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Using Language Strategically in Context - January 2023

Explore strategic language use in NLP systems for improved human interaction. Learn about visually grounded navigation instructions and the CICERO agent for Diplomacy gameplay.

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

Lessons Learned from Generalizing NLP Beyond English

Explore multilingual NLP approaches, including cross-lingual and zero-shot methods, to gain algorithmic and linguistic insights beyond English-centric models.

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

Language as Kluge: The Imperfect Evolution of Human Cognition - 2008

Explore language evolution through the lens of evolutionary inertia, challenging notions of optimal design in human cognition and linguistics. Gain insights into the 'kluge' nature of the mind and language.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NLP Evaluations That We Believe In

Explore rigorous NLP evaluations, including ORB and contrast sets, to better assess language understanding and model capabilities beyond superficial benchmarks.

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

Deep Learning and Reasoning - 2018

Explore integrating logical reasoning with neural systems using TensorLog, a probabilistic first-order logic system for scalable symbolic reasoning and neural learning in AI tasks.

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

Audio Deepfake Detection - An Overview and its Challenges

Explore audio deepfake detection techniques, challenges, and state-of-the-art voice generation algorithms. Gain insights into research efforts and future directions in combating misleading audio content.

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