I was originally going to get an MS in databases at UPenn. However, I took a course in NLP taught by Aravind Joshi, Bonnie Webber, and Barbara Grosz, who was visiting Penn that term. I thought it was the coolest topic I’d ever encountered and decided to come back and get a PhD in NLP. Luckily for me, Penn was very open to people coming from different backgrounds (mine being a PhD in 16th century Mexican history) and thought this was an advantage rather than a limitation.
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Welcome to the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee's Newsletter!
This issue features the next installment of our regular column, "Getting to Know Your Fellow Researchers", highlighting Douglas O'Shaughnessy, who is a Professor at INRS-Télécommunications (University of Quebec) in Montreal, Canada and the author of the textbook Speech Communications: Human and Machine (IEEE Press, 2000). He has contributed immensely to the IEEE society for a number of years now.
Lecture Date: November 17, 2017
Chapter: France
Chapter Chair: William Puech
Topic: Data Fusion through Matrix and Tensor Decompositions:
Diversity, Identifiability, and Interpretability