The 10th Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology
June 10th to August 2nd, 2024
Each summer, the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) organizes and hosts multidisciplinary teams of more than 50 international researchers engaged in an intensive 8-week workshop on speech and language technologies. These workshops have had deep and widespread impact on the Human Language Technology (HLT) community, and have nurtured its interactions with related research communities, including computer vision.
Started at Rutgers University in 1993 and relocated to CLSP in 1995, the workshops were renamed the Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop in Speech and Language Technology (JSALT) in 2014, after CLSP’s founding Director. JSALT 2014 was held at Charles University in Prague to honor Jelinek’s contributions to the Czech HLT community. Subsequently, the workshops have alternated between CLSP and various partner institutions, including the University of Washington (Seattle), Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh), École de Technologie Supérieure (Montreal), and Le Mans Université (Le Mans).
This year, JSALT 2024 will be held at CLSP from June 10 to August 2, 2024.
Each workshop team spends 6-8 weeks in residence, tackling challenging problems or exploring new techniques. Preparations begin in the preceding fall and continue with multiple team meetings in the spring, to lay the groundwork for an intensive summer effort.
These workshops have led to several breakthroughs in HLT, and influenced subsequent research and practice through publications, software, and data resources. For many workshop participants, the biggest benefit is the interaction with other researchers, fostering new and lasting collaborations.
The workshops have trained hundreds of specialists in HLT over the years by providing rich immersive research experiences for undergraduate and graduate students, enabling cross-disciplinary learning, and education through guest lectures, seminars, and team research updates.
Workshop topics are selected through an unusual Interactive Peer Review. Initial 1-page proposals are solicited in the preceding fall. Authors of promising ideas and their peers are invited to a weekend retreat to present, debate, and interactively refine the proposals, which are then evaluated via ranked choice voting. The top proposals become JSALT team projects.
The workshop begins with a 2-week summer school covering a range of topics in HLT, featuring invited lecturers and hands-on lab exercises for student participants and other attendees. The subsequent 6-week research marathon begins with Opening Presentations, describing each team’s plans and preparations, and ends with comprehensive Closing Presentations, detailing their activities, findings, and next steps.
The JSALT 2024 Program:
- Summer School Schedule
- Opening Day Presentation Schedule
- Plenary Lectures by Invited Speakers
- Closing Day Presentation Schedule
Research Groups:
- AI-Curated Democratic Discourse
- Sign LLM, Large Sign Language Model
- Evaluating LLM Performance in Research Astronomy
- Universal Audio Generation
General Information:
Important Dates:
Call for proposals deadline: October 9th, 2023Proposal screening results: October 13th, 2023Peer-review meeting in Baltimore, MD: November 10-12th, 2023- Undergrad applications: February 5th – March 4th, 2024
- Recommendation Letter: March 15th, 2024
- Summer workshop: June 10th – August 2nd, 2024
Photo Album:
Scroll through the pictures below to catch us having fun outside the workshop!
