Language and Interaction Resesarch [LAIR]

May 4, 2009: Congratulations to Matt for passing his comprehensive exam!
Feb 25, 2009: Shaolin succesfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Incorporating Non-verbal Modalities in Spoken Language Understanding or Multimodal Conversational Systems". Congratulations Shaolin!
Jan 12, 2009: Welcome Rui Fang to the LAIR group.
Dec 19, 2008: Congratulations to Chen for passing his comprehensive exam.
Sept 1, 2008: LAIR group has started a new project funded by National Science Foundation. This project will conduct exploratory investigation on the role of multimodality in machine translation during multi-party conversation. This is a collaborative project with Dr. Katrin Kirchhoff at University of Washington.
Aug 11, 2008: Data from the eye-gaze study are now available for download.
Jun 12, 2008: Congratulations to Zahar for passing his comprehensive exam.
May 11, 2008: MSU successfully hosted MCLC 2008 during May 10-11. The program included eighteen presentations on a wide range of topics related to computational linguistics, natural language processing, and language driven human computer interaction.
Mar 12, 2008: Congratulations to Tyler for passing his qualifying exam.
Mar 3, 2008: MCLC 2008 to be held at MSU in May.
Feb 25, 2008: Congratulations to Shaolin for passing his comprehensive exam.