Spoken Language Systems Lab

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INESC ID's Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (L²F - Laboratório de sistemas de Língua Falada) was created in January 2001, bringing together several research groups which could potentially add relevant contributions to the area of computational processing of spoken language for Portuguese.		Past seminars: On December 3rd, 2010 Liliana Inverno presented Vernáculo de Angola – Estado actual de conhecimento e perspectivas de investigação futura On November 26th, 2010 Luís Marujo presented Text Simplification - State of Art Participation in Conferences: On December 2-3, 2010 Luísa Coheur, Tiago Luís and Wang Ling will attend the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2010), in Maison de la Chimie- Paris (France) On December 12-15, 2010 José David Lopes will attend the IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (IEEE SLT 2010), in Berkeley, California, U.S.A.		IEEE Fellow - Prof. Isabel Trancoso The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, appointed Prof. Isabel Trancoso as a Fellow of this prestigious institution. Gender Sub-Challenge Prize - The INESC-ID gender detection system won the international evaluation that was promoted in the scope of InterSpeech 2010. Research Opportunities - The Spoken Language Systems Lab is looking for students interested in pursuing a PhD in Language Technologies. Post-Doc positions are also open. The typical PhD program in our lab is held in cooperation with international Universities (currently with Univ. Rochester, New York University, University of Pennsylvania). Cooperations are being established with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and CMU. Ph.D. Program CMU-PORTUGAL in the area of Language and Information Technologies - Deadline: December 15th, 2010 New Patent - The patent by João Neto and João Miranda on a new method for lexical model / language model composition for automatic speech recognition was recently approved.
Voice Interaction
VoiceInteraction S.A. is a technology based company born in April 2008 as a spin-off from INESC-ID Lisboa. Its primary goal is to develop speech processing technologies. VoiceInteraction team is composed by researchers coming from INESC-ID Lisboa Spoken Language Systems Lab (L2F/INESC-ID) that have worked in the TECNOVOZ project (ADI/PRIME/03/165 - 2006/2008).