
Herman Kamper
@hermankamper

⭐️🎊🎉Big congrats to the 2 Winners of the Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year, handed by Jimmy Wales yesterday at #WikiWorkshop2021!! 👇


The giant leaps in language technology — and who's left behind 🌏 Really enjoyed watching this TED talk by kalikabali who eloquently summarizes the progress and challenges (bridging the language barrier) for current NLP. ted.com/talks/kalika_b…


EdinburghNLP at #eacl2021 best paper awards: Congrats to Yevgen Matusevych, Sharon Goldwater and alums Herman Kamper, Christos Christodoulopoulos for two Honourable Mentions, and alum Sebastian Riedel (@[email protected]) for Best Short Paper! 2021.eacl.org/best-paper/


AI and ML students across Africa, this one is for you 🌍. Do you want to take your research to the next level 🚀? Applications are now open for DeepMind Scholarships at Stellenbosch University (MSc and PhD) 🎓! mlai.sun.ac.za/dms Stellenbosch University @DeepMind


Just a few days left to apply for an ML/AI DeepMind Scholarships at Stellenbosch University (MSc and PhD)! mlai.sun.ac.za/dms Stellenbosch University @DeepMind

It's @INTERSPEECH2021 next week, so it's exactly a year since my tutorial at INTERSPEECH 2020 "Speech 101 - what everyone working on spoken language processing needs to know about spoken language". If anyone missed it (or needs a refresh), it's all here: staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/R.K.Moo…


A few highlights from Noah A. Smith's talk at insights-workshop.github.io: Noah A. Smith: NLP research and practice ask fundamentally different questions /1





Really proud of Arnu Pretorius on being awarded the Deep Learning Indaba 2023 Kambule Doctoral Award for his PhD studies at CompSci @ Maties ! Congratulations to the winners of the other awards as well! deeplearningindaba.com/blog/2023/08/a…

arxiv.org/abs/2403.13922 Check out Leanne's (github.com/LeanneNortje) paper on mutual exclusivity bias in speech-vision models (with Herman Kamper and Dan Oneață) - now accepted to TACL!


📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, June 5th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Herman Kamper (Herman Kamper) 📖 Topic: "Voice conversion and the geometry of self-supervised speech representations" 🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)
