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 Resources 3.1 Data 4 Bibliography 5 PSST group members only

News

Meetings

This term (Fall 2009) we meet in 4068 JFSB (Linguistics Conference Room) on Fridays from Noon - 1. Meetings are open to all who are interested.

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

Upcoming Presentations

• AAAL 2010 -- AAAL site

Recent Conference Presentations, Posters and Papers

• SLRF 2009 -- SLRF site
• LASSO 2009 -- LASSO site
• LACUS 2009 -- LACUS site
• 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

• NAACL HLT 2010
  • Full paper submission deadline: 1 December 2009
  • Notification of Acceptance: 14 January 2010
  • Conference in Los Angeles; June 2 – 4, 2010

• ACL 2010
  • Full paper submission deadline: 15 February 2010
  • Notification of Acceptance: TBA
  • Conference in Uppsala, Sweden, July 11 – 16, 2010

• COLING 2010
  • Full paper submission deadline: 19 April 2010
  • Notification of Acceptance: 28 May 2010
  • Conference in Beijing, China; Aug 23 - 27, 2010

• Computational Linguistics Conferences

• Previous Deadlines

People

Faculty

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

Students

• Jerry McGhee

• Ben Millard

• Meghan Eckerson

• Hito Matsushita

• Ross Hendrickson

• Carl Christensen

• Malena Weitze

• Billy Wilson

• Matt LeGare

• Julie Morgan

Alumni

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

Resources

• Provo, Utah BYU Department of Linguistics

• Glossary of Terms

• Related Group: BYU NL-Soar Research Group

• Related Group: BYU CS NLP lab

• Related Group: BYU Analogical Modeling Research Group

• Related: French Canadian URL's

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)).

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, send Dr. Lonsdale an email saying who you are, and asking to be added to the group list. You will then be emailed a username and password to give you reading and editing rights to the private area of our wiki.