I’m one hour away from my presentation. Here are my powerpoint slides (with perhaps too verbose of attached speaker notes, because I’m like that). While I hoped to have more actual statistical results for my talk, lack of both time and enough annotation data kept me from that. Will definitely have it by the time […]
Category Archives: research
Modeling Second Language Learner Speech
03-Dec-04A week from now I’m giving a talk on creating a language model for second-language-learner speech (basically, my PhD research up to this point, and what will eventually become my thesis). Information: Speaker: Nick Mote Date: 10 Dec 04 Time: 3:00pm – 4:30pm Location: Information Sciences Institute (Marina Del Rey, California) Abstract: ISI’s Tactical Language […]
Time Enough For Research
06-Nov-04Just realized I’ve been spending alltogether too much time in my PhD research doing software development, and not enough time doing actual research. So, as of now I’m going to spend a self-enforced 15% of my time doing actual research-type stuff, keeping abreast of current literature in the field, etc (and hopefully blogging it here […]
trying to blog my research : Mary Wood from University of Manchester just gave a talk on “A Human-Computer Collaborative Approach to Computer Aided Assessment“. Abstract: The ABC (Assess by Computer) system has been developed and used in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester for formative and (principally) summative assessment at […]
Python?
28-Oct-04It’s time for the Big Code Port. Moving away from Java and into something else more easily linked in with our existing project (UnrealScript and Python). Options were C,C++,Python,C#. C++ is an old standby, but Python shows intriguing promise. The downside is I don’t know it yet, but the upside is that it’s one of […]
TactLang on LanguageHat
10-Jul-04National newspapers et. al. are one thing, but I must admit it was a little more fun for me to see the Tactical Language project mentioned on LanguageHat. The coments down below the main article were a grim reminder to the ethical problems that one faces in Computer Science and Linguistics. It’s funny: I remember […]
My PhD project has been getting quite a bit of news coverage lately. Right place at the right time, I guess: ISI press release ”Tomorrow’s Soldiers” on Slate Magazine “Talking Up a Good Game” on ABC News’ FutureTech A USC news article “Virtual Camp Trains Soldiers in Arabic, and More” on the New York Times
InSTIL 2004
02-Jun-04June 17-19, Venice, Italy. Presenting a couple papers (and a poster) on Computer Assisted Language Learning–my current academic research into modelling the kinds of mistakes that an American will make as he learns Levantine Arabic. Files: InSTIL ASR paper (Mote et. al, 2004) InSTIL general paper (Johnson et. al, 2004) InSTIL ASR poster Here’s the […]