[seminarios-mlpb] Fwd: INESC-ID DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES (June 24th): "Spoken Dialogue Systems: Progress and Challenges", Prof. Steve Young

From: Andre Martins <andre.t.martins@xxxxxxxxx>
To: seminarios-mlpb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:52:01 +0100
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From: Isabel Trancoso <isabel.trancoso@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2013/6/19
Subject: Fwd: INESC-ID DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES (June 24th): "Spoken
Dialogue Systems: Progress and Challenges", Prof. Steve Young
To: Andre Martins <andre.t.martins@xxxxxxxxx>, Miguel Borges de Almeida <
miguelbalmeida@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Carlos Amaral <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxx>


Viva,

Será que poderiam divulgar este anúncio de palestra na vossa lista, por
favor? Espero poder contar convosco. O Steve é do melhor que há na área de
fala e as palestras dele são mesmo a não perder.

Um abraço
--Isabel

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[As minhas desculpas se receberem este mail em duplicado.]

Na próxima 2.a feira, dia 24 de Junho pelas 14h30, no Anfiteatro do
Complexo Interdisciplinar do IST, realiza-se mais um seminário integrado na
INESC ID Distinguished Lecture Series.
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É com enorme prazer que vamos receber o Prof. Steve Young da Universidade
de Cambridge para uma apresentação intitulada:

*Spoken Dialogue Systems: Progress and Challenges*
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*Junto o resumo e a biografia do apresentador cujas palestras a que tenho
assistido são verdadeiramente notáveis.

A sessão é naturalmente aberta a todos os interessados e todos estão desde
já convidados.

Melhores cumprimentos,

--Isabel Trancoso
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[ Abstract ]
The potential advantages of statistical dialogue systems include lower
development cost, increased robustness to noise and the ability to learn
on-line so that performance can continue to improve over time. This talk
will briefly review the basic principles of statistical dialogue systems
including belief tracking and policy representations. Recent developments
at Cambridge in the areas of rapid adaptation and on-line learning using
Gaussian processes will then be described. The talk will conclude with a
discussion of some of the major issues limiting progress.

[ Bio ]
Steve Young received a BA in Electrical Sciences from Cambridge University
in 1973 and a PhD in Speech Processing in 1978. He held lectureships at
both Manchester and Cambridge Universities before being elected to the
Chair of Information Engineering at Cambridge University in 1994. He was a
co-founder and Technical Director of Entropic Ltd from 1995 until 1999 when
the company was taken over by Microsoft. After a short period as an
Architect at Microsoft, he returned full-time to the University in January
2001 where he is now Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor.

His research interests include speech recognition, language modelling,
spoken dialogue and multi-media applications. He is the inventor and
original author of the HTK Toolkit for building hidden Markov model-based
recognition systems (see http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk), and with Phil Woodland,
he developed the HTK large vocabulary speech recognition system which
has figured strongly in DARPA/NIST evaluations since it was first
introduced in the early nineties. More recently he has developed
statistical dialogue systems and pioneered the use of Partially Observable
Markov Decision Processes for modelling them. He also has active research
in voice transformation, emotion generation and HMM synthesis.

He has written and edited books on software engineering and speech
processing, and he has published as author and co-author, more than 250
papers in these areas. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering,
the IEEE, the IET and the Royal Society of Arts. He served as the senior
editor of Computer Speech and Language from 1993 to 2004 and he was Chair
of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee from 2009 to
2011. In 2004, he received an IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical
Achievement Award. He was elected ISCA Fellow in 2008 and he was awarded
the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement in 2010. He is the recipient of
the 2013 Eurasip Individual Technical Achievement Award.
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