Events

CBICA Seminar: Hersh Sagreiya

January 30, 2020
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (CBICA) Seminar   Hersh Sagreiya Department of Radiology University of Pennsylvania   New Frontiers in the Application of Machine Learning to Ultrasound   While there are many applications of traditional machine learning and deep learning to x-rays, CT, and MRI, projects with ultra-sound are comparatively less well explored. […]

ILST Seminar: Taylor Jones

January 31, 2020
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Taylor Jones Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania   Regional Variation in African American English Accents after the Great Migration   Early work on African American English (AAE) described its phonology as remarkably uniform, however nearly five decades after the end of the Great Migration, is this still the case? In order to investigate this, […]

Andrea Beltrama MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania   Imprecision and speaker identity: How social cues affect meaning resolution   Speakers’ descriptions can be associated with a varying margin of imprecision: an actual time of 2:57 could be reported precisely as “2:57″, or less precisely as “3 o’clock” (Lasersohn 1999 i.a.). This variability introduces an element […]