{"id":1311,"date":"2017-09-28T14:14:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T12:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/?page_id=1311"},"modified":"2017-09-28T14:14:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T12:14:58","slug":"machine-language-acquisition-and-why-speech-technology-needs-more-linguists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/machine-language-acquisition-and-why-speech-technology-needs-more-linguists\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine Language Acquisition, and Why Speech Technology Needs More Linguists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Roksolana Mykhaylyk, Harvard University, Amazon<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>October 6,\u00a0E-0105 14.15-16.00<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Topic: Machine Language Acquisition, and Why Speech Technology Needs More Linguists.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Abstract:<\/div>\n<div>It is hard to imagine our life before the advent of speech technology.\u00a0 We now take for granted getting directions from the GPS voice in our cars, searching for information by talking to our smartphones, or communicating with personal smart home assistants.\u00a0This presentation will focus on the role of linguistic and language knowledge in Natural Language Understanding, Automated Speech Recognition, and Text-to-Speech product development. As an example, I will demonstrate how Google Translate and Amazon Echo are able to &#8220;speak&#8221; and explain in the most basic terms how machines \u201clearn\u201d various languages.\u00a0I will also suggest some ways through which linguists can enter the IT job market.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roksolana Mykhaylyk, Harvard University, Amazon October 6,\u00a0E-0105 14.15-16.00 Topic: Machine Language Acquisition, and Why Speech Technology Needs More Linguists. Abstract: It is hard to imagine our life before the advent of speech technology.\u00a0 We now take for granted getting directions from the GPS voice in our cars, searching for information by talking to our smartphones, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/machine-language-acquisition-and-why-speech-technology-needs-more-linguists\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1311","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1311\/revisions\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}