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<div class="" style="font-family: PTSerif-Regular;">Daan van Esch (Google linguist and machine learning researcher) will be presenting on language technology at the University of Queensland next Monday, 19th June.</div>


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<div class="" style="font-family: PTSerif-Regular;">Daan’s presentation will cover an overview of best practises for working with data for developing good speech and language models, current language technologies including fonts and virtual keyboards, speech


 recognition systems, and modelling acoustics and pronunciation. The presentation will be filmed and published via the CoEDL website after the event.</div>


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<div class="" style="font-family: PTSerif-Regular;">This is a general session, open to anyone who is interested in language technology. Please share this with people you think might be interested in attending. <span class="">Bring a friend!</span></div>


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<div class="" style="font-family: PTSerif-Regular;"><b class="">Date</b></div>


<div class="" style="font-family: PTSerif-Regular;">Monday 19th June from 11am—4pm</div>


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<div class=""><b class="">Location</b></div>


<div class="">Room 209 in Building 78 (General Purpose South)</div>


<div class="">University of Queensland</div>


<div class="">St Lucia, Brisbane</div>


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<div class="" style="font-family: PTSerif-Regular;">Supported by the <span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;">Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language </span><a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au" class="" style="font-family: Calibri;">www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au</a></div>


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