In the colloquium series of The Department of Language and Speech speakers from companies and academic institutions are invited to present their work. Each month two speakers talk about a subject that is related to the field of language and speech technology. The colloquium takes place from 10:45 to 12:15 on the campus of the University of Nijmegen. All people interested are kindly invited! For further information on the colloquia please contact one of the members of the colloquium committee:
Louis ten Bosch
Olga van Herwijnen
Suzan Verberne
We are currently working on the colloquium series of 2007. Please check this page regularly for updates on speakers and topics.
| 1st Speaker (10:45h) | 2nd Speaker (11:30h) | |
| February 7th: Building: Thomas van Aquinostraat Room: TvA 2.03.05 | CATCH: Continuous Access To Cultural Heritage | |
| Roeland Ordelman en Willemijn Heeren (UTwente)
Choral - Access to Oral History: Speech Retrieval for Historical Audio Collections |
Véronique Malaisé (VU)
CHOICE: Charting the Information Landscape Employing Context Information |
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| March 7th: Building: Spinoza Room: A 01.54 | Music and Perception | |
| Rens Bod (UvA)
Statistical Learning of Music and Language |
Steffen Pauws (Philips Research)
Simpler, sooner and closer than you think: everyday use of content-based retrieval of music |
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| April 4th: Building: Erasmusgebouw Room: E 2.55 | Applications and resources for small languages | |
| Theo van den Heuvel (Polderland)
Proofing the other languages |
Johan Ros, Onno Crasborn en Inge Zwitserlood (RU)
The corpus of Dutch sign language |
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| May 9th: Building: Thomas van Aquinostraat Room: 1.0.09 | Biometrics | |
| Raymond Veldhuis (UTwente)
Biometrics: A special pattern-recognition problem |
Peter van Hengel (Sound Intelligence BV)
Sigard: a system for detection of aggression and fear |
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| June 6th: Building: Gymnasion Room: GN 6 | Learning | |
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Hugo Van hamme (KU Leuven)
ACORNS: Acquisition of Communication and Recognition Skills |
Hedderik van Rijn (RUG)
Learning in ACT-R: Cognition meeting Language and vice versa |
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