Invited Talk: Recognition and Understanding of Meetings

Welcoming Message to the JIRSS

It is a great honor to be invited to contribute to the first issue of the Journal of the Iranian Statistical Society. May the Journal and those associated with it have great success in attaining its goals and in furthering the progress of statistical science. While there has been worldwide recognition of the important role that statistics and statisticians play in producing progress in science ...

Invited Talk: Named Entity Recognition: Different Approaches

The talk deals with different approaches used for Named Entity recognition and how they are used in developing a robust Named Entity Recognizer. The talk includes the development of tagset for NER and manual annotation of text.

Joint Inference for Natural Language Processing

of the Invited Talk In recent decades, researchers in natural language processing have made great progress on welldefined subproblems such as part-of-speech tagging, phrase chunking, syntactic parsing, named-entity recognition, coreference and semantic-role labeling. Better models, features, and learning algorithms have allowed systems to perform many of these tasks with 90% accuracy or better....

Expressive Probability Models for Speech Recognition and Understanding

The paper is a brief summary of an invited talk given at the ASRU 99 conference. The principal points are as follows: first, that the expressive power of the probabilitymodels available for use in speech recognition and understanding has expanded significantly; second, that using expressive models such as dynamic Bayesian networks can result in improved learning rates and recognition results; a...

Invited Talk: Spoken Language Understanding: The Research/Industry Chasm