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Colloquium: Will Styler – Using Transparent Machine Learning to study Human Speech

Haines Hall A25

Using Transparent Machine Learning to study Human Speech   Machine learning, the use of nuanced computer models to analyze and predict data, has a long history in speech recognition and natural language processing, but has largely been limited to more applied, engineering tasks.  This talk will describe two more research-focused applications of transparent machine learning...

Phonology Seminar: Claire Moore-Cantwell “Cognitive load impairs access to the phonological grammar”

Hayes/Keating residence; Please contact Bruce if you need directions; bhayes@humnet.ucla.edu

Abstract: I present results from two wug-tests of parts of the English stress system, which yield quite different patterns of productivity.  One experiment was a typical wug-test while the other involved a concurrent memory task. While the typical wug-test yielded probabilistic behavior matching statistical details of the English lexicon, when the memory task was introduced...