CUED Speech Group Seminars

Audio-Visual Learning: Challenges and New Approaches

This talk will be on zoom

Dr Jie Pu, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Revitalising Kanyen’kéha (Mohawk)

Various.

Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 17:30-19:00

Chaucer Club

How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention

Mariam Aly (Columbia University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Training for Deployment: Methods for Small and Efficient NLP

Alexander Rush, Cornell Tech.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP

Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 21 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Distribution-Free Nonparametric Inference Based on Optimal Transport: Efficiency Lower Bounds and Rank-Kernel Tests

Bhaswar Bhattacharya, University of Pennsylvania.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 21 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Losing Touch With Your Body: Clinical and Experimentally-Induced States of Body Disownership

Professor Bigna Lenggenhager, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 21 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Long Sequence-to-Sequence Summarization: Efficient Transformer Models & Complementary Techniques

This talk will be on zoom.

Potsawee Manakul, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Carving the world into useful task representations

Yael Niv (Princeton University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

How do stylistic features “work” in news texts about a violent event that took place abroad? A cross-cultural case study.

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/UqMEAFyne44WyZCP6

Ashley Riggs (Université de Genève).

Online.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpretability in NLP: Moving Beyond Vision

Note unusual time

Shuoyang Ding (Johns Hopkins University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 28 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk

David Duvenaud, University of Toronto.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 28 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Rina Foygel Barber, University of Chicago.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 28 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

TBA

Karim Jerbi, PhD, Canada Research Chair (CRC) University of Montreal.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 28 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Statistical Finite Elements

Mark Girolami (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Identity construction and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile statuses: What does our status say about us?

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/Pv8gjUQsuMiyWnUMA

Carmen Maíz Arévalo (Universidad Complutense Madrid).

Online.

Thursday 03 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Note unusual time

Philip Resnik (University of Maryland).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 04 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Modulation Of Attention By Ascending Projections

Dr, Tomás Ossandón, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 04 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Pseudo-Points and State-Space Gaussian Processes

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 11:00-12:30

Chaucer Club

A computational approach to understanding motivational symptoms in depression

Jonathan Roiser (UCL).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 10 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

TBC

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/vCtCxURPtUbranv57

Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 10 June 2021, 17:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Challenges in evaluating natural language generation systems

Note unusual time

Mohit Iyyer (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 11 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk

Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09.

Friday 11 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Next-generation atlases of the human brain – how relevant for cognitive research?

Katrin Amunts (Dusseldorf University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Translating the Deaf Self: Translanguaging, interpreting & identities of deaf signers at work

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/PnyrnLjX4NAKnRMBA

Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NMT Analysis: The Trade-Off Between Source and Target, and (a Bit of) the Training Process

Elena Voita (University of Edinburgh).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 18 June 2021, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Duncan, Imperial College .

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 18 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Automatic Speech Recognition in a State-of-Flux

Ralf Schlüter, RWTH Aachen.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 22 June 2021, 12:00-13:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Low-resource expressive text-to-speech using data augmentation

Dr Thomas Merritt, Amazon.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tuesday 29 June 2021, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Jean-Pascal Pfister

Jean-Pascal Pfister, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 02 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk

Ferenc Huszár,, University of Cambridge.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09.

Friday 09 July 2021, 16:00-17:00