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

这位PI和她的学生正在探索在蒙特克莱尔州立大学建立一个语言和语音处理研究小组的可能性，作为一个场所，让教职员工和学生聚集他们的跨学科优势，分享想法，合作研究主题，并讨论艺术的现状。在语言学、计算机科学、心理学、传播科学和障碍、政治学、人类学、数学、生物学以及管理和信息系统等领域，学生们正在进行由经验丰富的教师设计和管理的多学科项目，学生们正在获得宝贵的研究经验。研究目标是1)通过计算建模和实验性多学科研究相结合来学习语言理解、产生、习得和表现，2)创建和评估自动分析多种语言的广泛语音、文本和文档图像数据的技术，以及3)了解智能表现的方面，如感知、语言处理、规划、解决问题、推理和学习，就这些技能背后的计算过程和可能实例化它们的计算机制而言。该小组将通过让学生接触非课堂师生互动、学术与行业、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，提供丰富的教育体验。该项目旨在通过定期的小组报告、研究讨论和提交会议文章，增加从事计算机研究的妇女、少数族裔和学生的数量，提高参与学生的口头和书面交流和知识传播技能。

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.