From PSST

Welcome to the wiki for the BYU Department of Linguistics' PSST Research Group. Here you will find information about our past, ongoing, and future activities.

PSST is an acronym for "Pedagogical Software and Speech Technology". The principal focus of our group is to explore and expand the use of speech technology in language learning. We work with existing speech technologies, examine pedagogical needs for language learning, and design and develop improved technological tools (including speech applications) for language learning and testing.

Besides this principal focus, our interests have expanded to include such areas as: automatic assessment of oral language proficiency, simultaneous interpreter training, text-based essay scoring, speech interfaces to robots, vocal attractiveness, and using speech recognition in animal communication.

If you are a volunteer grader, follow these links to our grading website and grading FAQS.

Our old project website is now obsolete but most of the content has been carried over to this wiki.

Contents 1 News 1.1 Meetings 1.2 Upcoming Presentations 1.3 Recent Conference Presentations, Posters and Papers 1.4 Upcoming conference deadlines 2 People 2.1 Faculty 2.2 Students 2.3 Alumni 3 Projects 4 Resources 5 Data 6 Bibliography 7 Help 8 PSST group members only

News

Meetings

This term (Winter 2009) we meet in 4186 JFSB (Small English Conference Room) on Fridays from 2-3. Meetings are open to all who are interested.

• Note: We will set a meeting time on a per term / per semester basis

Upcoming Presentations

• We are waiting for decisions on abstracts for LACUS, a paper at INTERSPEECH and the response of the reviewers on two papers for SLRF proceedings.

Recent Conference Presentations, Posters and Papers

• AAAL 2009 -- AAAL site
• CALICO 2009 -- Pre-Conference Workshop Automatic Analysis of Learner Language
• SLRF 2008 -- SLRF Site
• LREC 2008 -- LREC Site
• CALICO 2008 -- Pre-Conference Workshop Automatic Analysis of Learner Language
• College Presentation Fall 2007 -- Part 1 | Part 2

Upcoming conference deadlines

• LACUS 2009 -
  • Abstract submission deadline: February 1st, 2009 (Abstract on Form E Syntax submitted (Weitze, Lonsdale) accepted!)
  • Notification of Acceptance: April 15th, 2009
  • Conference in Claremont CA; August 4-8, 2009

• INTERSPEECH 2009 -
  • Full Paper submission deadline: April 17th, 2009 (Paper submitted (Cook, McGhee, Lonsdale))
  • Notification of Acceptance: June 17th, 2009
  • Conference in Brighton, UK; September 6 - 10, 2009

• AACL 2009
  • Abstract submission deadline: May 1st, 2009
  • Notification of Acceptance: June 1st, 2009
  • Conference in Edmonton Canada; October 8 - 11, 2009

• SLRF 2009
  • Abstract submission deadline: May 1st, 2009 (Abstract submitted (Weitze, McGhee, Graham))
  • Notification of Acceptance: July 1st, 2009
  • Conference in East Lansing, MI; October 29 - November 1, 2009

• SLATE 2009
  • Abstract submission deadline: May 8th, 2009
  • Notification of Acceptance: July 8th, 2009
  • Conference in Warwickshire, England; September 3 - 5, 2009

• LASSO 2009
  • Abstract submission deadline: June 1st, 2009
  • Notification of Acceptance: July 15th, 2009
  • Conference in Provo UT; September 25-26 2009

• AAAL 2010
  • Abstract submission deadline: 15 August 2009
  • Notification of Acceptance: TBA
  • Conference in Atlanta; March 6 - 9, 2010

• LTRC 2010
  • Abstract submission deadline: 30 September 2009
  • Notification of Acceptance: TBA
  • Conference at University of Cambridge; April 12 - 16, 2010

• LREC 2010
  • Abstract submission deadline: TBA
  • Notification of Acceptance: TBA
  • Conference in Valetta, Malta; May 17 - 23, 2010

• Computational Linguistics Conferences

• Previous Deadlines

People

Faculty

• Deryle Lonsdale
• Ray Graham previously
• Dan Dewey
• Troy Cox

Students

• Jerry McGhee

• Aaron Johnson

• Ben Millard

• Meghan Eckerson

• Ross Hendrickson

• Carl Christensen

• Malena Weitze

Alumni

• Dan Rasband
• Casey Kennington
• Ryan Corradini
• Rebecca Rees Madsen
• Aric Bills
• Ben Chatterton
• Cecily Heiner
• Michael Rushforth
• Michael Emonts
• Sharlene Goodliffe
• Tim Richards

Projects

• OGI tasks

• Related: BYU NL-Soar Research Group

• Related: BYU CS NLP lab

• Related: BYU Analogical Modeling Research Group

• Related: French Canadian URL's

Resources

• Provo, Utah BYU Department of Linguistics

• Glossary of Terms

Data

List of corpora available through the BYU Department of Linguistics

Bibliography

Here are links to the various publications (Bibliography:Publications), presentations (Bibliography:Presentations), theses (Bibliography:Theses), and undergraduate research projects (Bibliography:ORCA projects) that our project has produced. In some cases the items listed might duplicate items listed in other project wikis (e.g. the NL-Soar or NLP wiki) where interests and efforts overlap.

Here is a link to others' work on elicited imitation and other related areas (Bibliography:EI_(Public)).

Help

• Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

• http://www.johnmag4u.com/blog/2006/09/27/fix-due-to-an-unidentified-problem-windows-cannot-display-windows-firewall-settings/3/

• MediaWiki FAQ

PSST group members only

This PSST_Group is the private area of the wiki. Only PSST group members can access it.

To get on the group members list, create a username via the options at the top right-hand section of this wiki. Then send Dr. Lonsdale an email saying that you did this, who you are, and asking to be added to the group list. This will give you reading and editing rights to the private area of our group wiki.