I gave my inaugural lecture for becoming a professor on Tuesday. (Link below.) With so many unexpected messages of encouragement and well wishes, it felt like my birthday! Thanks to everyone who's been part of this journey. I am truly blessed.
youtube.com/live/gDfy_n5IbFo…
Herman Kamper retweeted
📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group!
📅 Thursday, June 5th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST
🎙 Speaker: Herman Kamper (@HermanKamper)
📖 Topic: "Voice conversion and the geometry of self-supervised speech representations"
🔗 Details: (poonehmousavi.github.io/rg)
Choose your own adventure: Some thoughts on research kamperh.com/2025/05/16/resea…
Herman Kamper retweeted
arxiv.org/abs/2403.13922
Check out Leanne's (github.com/LeanneNortje) paper on mutual exclusivity bias in speech-vision models (with @HermanKamper and @DanOneata) - now accepted to TACL!
Herman Kamper retweeted
Really proud of @ArnuPretorius on being awarded the @DeepIndaba 2023 Kambule Doctoral Award for his PhD studies at @MatiesCompSci ! Congratulations to the winners of the other awards as well! deeplearningindaba.com/blog/…
Hierarchical Global Style Tokens - A Practical Introduction rf5.github.io/2022/10/18/hgs…
Lecture notes and some videos for the new Natural Language Processing course at Stellenbosch: kamperh.com/nlp817/
Herman Kamper retweeted
A few highlights from @nlpnoah's talk at insights-workshop.github.io:
@nlpnoah: NLP research and practice ask fundamentally different questions
/1
Herman Kamper retweeted
🚨 Excited to release a "living" version of the OPEN and interactive textbook "Theoretical Modeling for Cognitive Science and Psychology", by @MarkBlokpoel and myself. Check it out! And share widely. computationalcognitivescienc… 1/n 🧵👇
Herman Kamper retweeted
It's @INTERSPEECH2021 next week, so it's exactly a year since my tutorial at @interspeech20 "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/peop…
Just a few days left to apply for an ML/AI DeepMind Scholarships at Stellenbosch University (MSc and PhD)! mlai.sun.ac.za/dms
@StellenboschUni @DeepMind
Some videos introducing dynamic time warping (DTW): youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
Herman Kamper retweeted
IT'S HERE.
Nowhere Generation is out now.
found.ee/RA_Nowhere
Herman Kamper retweeted
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
@StellenboschUni @DeepMind
Herman Kamper retweeted
EdinburghNLP at #eacl2021 best paper awards: Congrats to @Yevgen_M, Sharon Goldwater and alums @HermanKamper, @c_christodoulop for two Honourable Mentions, and alum @riedelcastro for Best Short Paper! 2021.eacl.org/best-paper/
My first time making video lectures: Yet another introduction to machine learning.Videos, slides, practicals: kamperh.com/data414/
Herman Kamper retweeted
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_bali_th…
