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

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

Temporal Primitives in Auditory Cognition and Speech Perception - 2008

Explore temporal primitives in auditory cognition and speech perception. Discover how cortical oscillations and phase-locking contribute to internal representations of speech input and auditory cognition.

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

An Overview of Deep Learning Frameworks and Introduction to PyTorch

Explore deep learning frameworks, focusing on PyTorch. Learn about research workflows, data processing, and model building from Facebook AI researcher Soumith Chintala.

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

Probabilistic Methods for Classification - 2009

Explore probabilistic methods for classification, covering supervised learning, estimation, and advanced models like Naive Bayes, Maximum Entropy, and Conditional Random Fields.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Binary and Multiclass Calibration in Speaker and Language Recognition

Explore probabilistic classification calibration in speaker and language recognition, focusing on cross-entropy's role in optimizing classifier performance across diverse applications.

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

The Inadequacy of the Mode in Neural Machine Translation

Explore neural machine translation's limitations, focusing on mode-seeking search issues and advocating for decision rules that consider entire probability distributions in sequence generation.

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

Turning Probabilistic Reasoning into Programming - 2003

Explore IBAL, a general-purpose probabilistic modeling language encompassing various representation methods for reasoning under uncertainty.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Neural Dynamics of Attentive Object Recognition and Scene Understanding

Explore neural models of visual understanding, including object recognition, scene classification, and decision-making. Discover how the brain processes complex visual information across cortical streams.

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

Auditory Attention: From Saliency to Models to Applications - 2017

Explore auditory attention models and applications, from saliency to speech recognition, using implicit signals like eye gaze and face pose to enhance human-machine interactions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Inducing Synchronous Grammars for Machine Translation

Explore probabilistic machine learning for machine translation, focusing on inducing synchronous grammars to capture latent structure between divergent languages like Chinese and English.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Recognizing Sound Events - 2019

Explore deep neural networks for sound classification, covering speech, music, and environmental sounds. Learn about AudioSet ontology and applications in bioacoustics and cross-modal learning.

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

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Evaluations (and Keep Worrying)

Explore the benefits and challenges of coordinated evaluations in NLP research, focusing on recent work in low-resource languages and semantic parsing.

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

NLP Representations from a Perspective of Human Cognition

Explore NLP representations through human cognition lens. Compare information sensitivity in NLP systems to human language processing stages. Examine compositional meaning and predictive brain responses.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video