RI:EAGER: A Montclair Group in Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Language and Speech Processing: An Exploration

PI和她的学生正在探索在蒙特克莱尔州立大学建立语言和语音处理研究小组的可能性，作为教师和学生汇集跨学科优势的场所，分享想法，就研究课题进行合作，并讨论艺术的现状。由语言学、计算机科学、心理学、传播科学与障碍、政治学、人类学、数学、生物学、管理与信息系统等领域经验丰富的教师设计和管理的多学科项目，为学生提供了宝贵的研究经验。研究目标是：1)通过计算建模和实验多学科研究相结合，研究语言理解、产生、获取和表示；2)创建和评估技术，以自动分析多种语言的广泛语音、文本和文档图像数据；3)理解智能性能的感知、语言处理、规划、问题解决、推理和学习等方面。在作为这些技能基础的计算过程和可能实例化它们的计算机制方面。该小组将通过让学生接触非课堂师生互动、学术与产业、多学科研究互动以及获得最先进语言技术实践经验的机会，为学生提供丰富的教育体验。此计划旨在透过定期的小组报告、研究讨论及提交会议文章，增加参与电脑研究的女性、少数族裔及学生的人数，提高参与学生的口头及书面沟通及知识传播能力。

The PI together with her students are exploring the possibility of establishing a research group in Language and Speech Processing at Montclair State University as a venue for faculty and students to bring together their cross-disciplinary strengths, share ideas, collaborate on research topics, and discuss the current state of the arts. Students are acquiring valuable research experiences rooted in on-going multi-disciplinary projects designed and managed by experienced faculty in the fields of Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Political Science, Anthropology, Mathematics, Biology, and Management and Information Systems.The research objectives are to 1) study language comprehension, production, acquisition, and representation through a combination of computational modeling and experimental multidisciplinary studies, 2) create and evaluate technology to automatically analyze a wide range of speech, text, and document image data in multiple languages, and 3) understand such aspects of intelligent performance as perception, language processing, planning, problem solving, reasoning, and learning, in terms of both the computational processes that underlie these skills and the computational mechanisms that may instantiate them.The group will provide an enriching educational experience by exposing the students to non-classroom faculty-student interactions, academic-industry, multidisciplinary research interaction and the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with state-of-the-art language technology. This project aims to increase the number of women, minorities and students who engage in computing research, improve oral and written communication and knowledge dissemination skills of the participating students through regular group presentations, research discussion and conference article submissions.