JSALT: Summer School and Getting Oriented

Every year, Johns Hopkins University holds the Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop (about page here). This human language technologies (HLT) workshop has taken place almost every year since the mid-90s. This year, 2019, is the sixth year that it’s held in honor of  Frederick Jelinek.  It’s abbreviated JSALT – which, I have to say, doesn’t make much sense to me. Jelinek Summer Annual (workshop) on Language Technologies is the best I can come up with to reconcile the full name and the abbreviation.

This year, it is held in Montreal. I couldn’t imagine a better place to spend the summer. It’s usually at a university in the U.S., but this year it’s held at École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS). One of the organizers did his Ph.D. at ETS and took advantage of his contacts there to make JSALT happen in Montreal. Last December, the Hopkins organizers accepted proposals from professors all over the world who had an idea for a research direction during the workshop. The five following projects were selected:

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