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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.  
            <p>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
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'''Past events:'''
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'''Past events:'''  


On ''July 29th, 2011''<br/>
On ''July 29th, 2011''<br> [[Ramón Astudillo]] presented [[Towards Environmentally Robust Speech Applications]] <!--[[Image:MEskenazi.jpg||right|75px]]--> On ''June 28th, 2011'' <br> Maxine Eskenazi led an informal discussion on crowdsourcing.
[[Ramón Astudillo]] presented [[Towards Environmentally Robust Speech Applications]]


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On ''June 28th, 2011'' <br/>
Maxine Eskenazi led an informal discussion on crowdsourcing.


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'''Participation in Conferences:'''


'''Participation in Conferences:'''
On ''July 27-31''<br> [[Ana Cristina Mendes]], [[Alberto Abad]] and Annamaria Pompili attended EMNLP 2011: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.


On ''July 27-31''<br/>
On ''July 16-22''<br> [[Luísa Coheur]] attended the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, in Barcelona, Spain
[[Ana Cristina Mendes]], [[Alberto Abad]] and Annamaria Pompili attended EMNLP 2011: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.


On ''July 16-22''<br/>
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[[Luísa Coheur]] attended the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, in Barcelona, Spain


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'''[http://lxmls.it.pt/Home.html 1st Lisbon Machine Learning School - "Learning For the Web"]'''<br> LxMLS 2011 took place July 20-25 at Instituto Superior Técnico, a leading Engineering and Science school in Portugal. It is organized jointly by IST, the Instituto de Telecomunicações and the Spoken Language Systems Lab - L2F of INESC-ID.


'''Outstanding Paper Award''' - Nuno Homem and [[João Paulo Carvalho]] received the outstanding paper award at the 30th Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS 2011) with the paper ''Authorship Identification and Author Fingerprints''. <!-- <br/>[[Image:Tipo-passe-imt.png|right|80px]]--> '''IEEE Fellow - [[Isabel Trancoso|Prof. Isabel Trancoso]]''' The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, appointed Prof. Isabel Trancoso as a Fellow of this prestigious institution.


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'''Gender Sub-Challenge Prize''' - The INESC-ID gender detection system won the international evaluation that was promoted in the scope of InterSpeech 2010. <!--[[Opportunities|'''Open Research Position''' in project Aria]]
--> '''[[Opportunities|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. <!--'''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. --> <!--[[Ph.D. Program CMU-PORTUGAL in the area of Language and Information Technologies|'''Ph.D. Program CMU-PORTUGAL''' in the area of Language and Information Technologies]] - Deadline: December 15th, 2010 -->  


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On ''June 27-29, 2011'' <br/>
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L²F received the visit of [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~max/ Prof. Maxine Eskenazi] from the Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University [http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/ (CMU/LTI)]
|link=[http://www.voiceinteraction.pt/ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]
 
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'''[http://www.voiceinteraction.pt 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 '''[http://www.tecnovoz.pt TECNOVOZ]''' project (ADI/PRIME/03/165 - 2006/2008).  
'''[http://lxmls.it.pt/Home.html 1st Lisbon Machine Learning School - "Learning For the Web"]'''<br/>
LxMLS 2011 took place July 20-25 at Instituto Superior Técnico, a leading Engineering and Science school in Portugal. It is organized jointly by IST, the Instituto de Telecomunicações and the Spoken Language Systems Lab - L2F of
INESC-ID.


'''Outstanding Paper Award''' - Nuno Homem and [[João Paulo Carvalho]] received the outstanding paper award at the 30th Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS 2011) with the paper ''Authorship Identification and Author Fingerprints''.
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'''IEEE Fellow - [[Isabel Trancoso|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.
 
<!--[[Opportunities|'''Open Research Position''' in project Aria]]
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'''[[Opportunities|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.
 
<!--'''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. -->
 
<!--[[Ph.D. Program CMU-PORTUGAL in the area of Language and Information Technologies|'''Ph.D. Program CMU-PORTUGAL''' in the area of Language and Information Technologies]] - Deadline: December 15th, 2010 -->
 
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'''[http://www.voiceinteraction.pt 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 '''[http://www.tecnovoz.pt TECNOVOZ]''' project (ADI/PRIME/03/165 - 2006/2008).
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Revision as of 16:12, 5 August 2011

L²F - INESC ID Lisboa
Events
What's New...

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 events:

On July 29th, 2011
Ramón Astudillo presented Towards Environmentally Robust Speech Applications On June 28th, 2011
Maxine Eskenazi led an informal discussion on crowdsourcing.


Participation in Conferences:

On July 27-31
Ana Cristina Mendes, Alberto Abad and Annamaria Pompili attended EMNLP 2011: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

On July 16-22
Luísa Coheur attended the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, in Barcelona, Spain



1st Lisbon Machine Learning School - "Learning For the Web"
LxMLS 2011 took place July 20-25 at Instituto Superior Técnico, a leading Engineering and Science school in Portugal. It is organized jointly by IST, the Instituto de Telecomunicações and the Spoken Language Systems Lab - L2F of INESC-ID.

Outstanding Paper Award - Nuno Homem and João Paulo Carvalho received the outstanding paper award at the 30th Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS 2011) with the paper Authorship Identification and Author Fingerprints. 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.




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).



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