Feature Of The Day

(20130527) Enjoy some pictures from John Steinberg's going-away party. It was held at the Dock Street Brewing Company in West Philadelphia. Good luck to John as he heads to the SCALE summer workshop.

(20130516) John Steinberg graduated with his MS. His thesis work can be found here. Ilyana Mushaeva graduated with here MS also. Sung Cho and Vira Oleksyuk graduated with their BS degrees. Enjoy some moments from Temple's 126th graduate ceremony here. All have played an instrumental role in getting ISIP established at Temple and contributed significantly to the department in various administrative capacities.

(20130418) Amir Harati passed his PhD proposal defense today. He is the first ISIP student at Temple University to pass this milestone. View his presentation here. Congratulations to Amir!

(20120222) View the papers we presented at Temple's College of Engineering Research Day here.

(20130216) View our CogSIMA conference poster on keyword search here. There is also a demo of the system available at Keyword Search Demo. This presentation is the first detailed look at predicting the quality of a search term and what factors contribute to poor keyword search performance.

(20130101) View our ICASSP 2013 submission here. This is the basis of Amir Harati's dissertation work on nonparametric Bayesian models for speech recognition.

(20121220) View our paper on keyword search term reliability to be presented at the 2013 IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support.

(20121215) This figure represents a nice overview of ASR learning paradigms. It appeared in a paper by Jim Glass and his colleagues at MIT. See unsupervised learning for more details.

(20120301) Enjoy our demonstration of keyword search term strength.