RWTH AI Colloquium on Speech and Language Processing

Retirement Celebration Sen. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hermann Ney

RWTH Aachen University
Informatik-Zentrum
Entrance: Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße (no number - opposite approx. Nr. 39)
Lecture Hall AH5 and virtually via Zoom
Wednesday, Sep. 07, 2022

In case of participation in-person we kindly ask participants to register informally by email to our secretary.

Preliminary Program:

• 13:30h Opening (Chaired by: Dr. V. Steinbiss)

  • Welcome address:
    • Prof. Dr. A. Krieg (RWTH Vice-Rector for Teaching and Learning)
    • Prof. Dr. C. Honerkamp (Dean RWTH Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Sciences)
    • Prof. G. Lakemeyer, Ph. D. (Spokesperson RWTH CS Department & Board of Directors RWTH AI-Center)

• 14:00-16:00h Session: "Former RWTH Speech & Language Projects"

  • Presentations:
    • "Verbmobil and the Rise of Statistical Machine Translation"
      Dr. F. Och (ex-Google, ex-GRAIL, ex-Facebook)
    • "EuTrans and TransType2: Pioneering Research of Spoken Language and Interactive Machine Translation"
      Prof. Dr. E. Vidal (UP Valencia)
    • "TC-STAR project: Automatic Speech Translation of Real-Life Data"
      Dr. M. Federico (Amazon AI, Palo Alto)
    • "How DARPA's Blue Sky Research Philosophy Shaped Human Language Technologies"
      Prof. Dr. S. Khudanpur (JHU Baltimore)
    • "Selected Contributions from the Quaero Project"
      Prof. F. Yvon, PhD (LISN CNRS, Paris)
    • "Bridges Across the Language Divide: EU-BRIDGE"
      Prof. Dr. A. Waibel (KIT; CMU Pittsburgh)

• 16:00-16:30h Break

• 16:30-18:00h Session: "Former RWTH Speech & Language PhD Students"

  • Presentations:
    • "Speech Recognition at Amazon"(TBC)
      Dr. B. Hoffmeister (Amazon, Aachen & Seattle)
    • "From Quaero Onwards"
      Dr. M. Nussbaum-Thom (Apple, Aachen)
    • "When People Matter: Speech & Language Processing at AppTek with HLTPR@RWTH Traits"
      Dr. E. Matusov (AppTek, Aachen)
    • "Natural Language Processing for e-Commerce: Challenges and Opportunities"
      Dr. S. Khadivi (eBay, Aachen)
    • "Speech Recognition and Decoding at Nuance"
      Dr. D. Nolden (Nuance/Microsoft, Aachen)
    • "RWTH-Alumni in Silicon Valley"
      Dr. M. Nuhn (Google, Zürich)