• “A Sociological Analysis of Hospice Care in the United States,” Eighth Annual Alpha Kappa Delta Sociological Research Symposium, Richmond, VA (February 18)
• “Techniques of Direct and Cross Examination,” Continuing Legal Education Lecture, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York, NY (December 14)
• “Cross Examining the Physician in Medical Malpractice and Product Liability Cases,” workshop on trial techniques given by the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, New York, NY (March 18)
• “The Conversation Analytic Approach to the study of Courtroom Examination,” guest lecturer for a sociolinguistic graduate level class (Professor Lindsey Churchill) at the City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY (April 21)
• “Linguistic Solutions to Patient Compliance Problems,” Rounds and Conferences at the Department of Internal Medicine, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY (June 7)
• “Linguistic Solutions to Patient Compliance Problems,” Department of Medicine, Brookdale Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY (June 8)
• “Linguistic Solutions for Patient Compliance Problems,” house staff conference, Department of Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY (October 14)
• “Improving Communication with the Surgical Patient,” house staff conference, Department of Surgery, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY (November 24)
• Testimony at Public Hearing on Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) and the future of Medicare. Hearing conducted by The Advisory Council on Social Security, Washington, DC (January 17)
• “Linguistics in Medicine,” house staff conference, Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC (January 19)
• “Linguistic Solutions to Problems in History-Taking,” house staff lecture, Department of Medicine, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY (February 24)
• “Linguistic Technology in Computerized Medical Interviewing,” Continuing Medical Education Seminar (1 CME credit), Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine - New England Medical Center, Boston, MA (April 25)
• “History-Taking,” special lecture, Department of Medicine, Brookdale Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY (July 8)
• “Medical Interviewing as a Collaborative Event,” Eighth International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, Boston, MA (August 8)
• “Discourse Patterns of Patients and Physicians in the Rheumatology Out-patient Clinic,” Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Downstate Medical Center of the State University of New York, Brooklyn, NY (December 27)
• “Linguistic Technology,” Continuing Medical Education Seminar for Primary Care faculty members, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (February 9)
• “Improving the Quality of Health Care,” WELV 1370 AM, Ellenville, NY (Ulster County) (August 6)
• “Discourse Analysis: An Overview” The Nashville Linguistic Circle and University Lectures Committee, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (October 16)
• “Kinesiology and Verbal Communication,” International Seminar on Cross Cultural Communication, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (October 17)
• “Linguistic Solutions to Problems in History-Taking,” Continuing Medical Education Lecture, Medical Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (October 18)
• “Conversation Analytic Approach to Medical History-Taking,” Continuing Medical Education Lecture, Grand Rounds, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY (October 26)
• “How To Get Your Doctor To Listen to You” Canyon Ranch Spa, Tucson, AZ (November 18)
• “Improving Medical History-Taking Skills,” Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO (November 19)
• “How to Give a Better Medical History,” TV6 Talk Show (local cable channel 47), Ellenville, NY (Ulster County) (February 14)
• “Linguistic Screening for Radiology Dictation,” Department of Radiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO (March 27)
• “Bridging the Communication Gap between Doctors and Patients,” Pawling Health Manor, New Hyde Park, NY (May 8)
• “How to Describe Medical Symptoms to Your Physician?” Pawling Health Manor, New Hyde Park, NY (May 10)
• “Cross Examining the Medical Witness,” Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Idaho Trial Lawyers Association, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho (June 1)
• “The Special Problems of Interviewing for Broadcast Investigations,” panel discussion with John Stossel (ABC News 20/20) and Mark Nykanen, (NBC Nightly News), Investigative Reporters and Editors, 10th Annual National Conference, Chicago, IL (June 21)
• “Linguistic Techniques for the Courtroom,” Continuing Legal Education Lecture, General Jurisdiction Course, The National Judicial College, Reno, NV (July 22)
• “Questioning the Expert Witness,” Continuing Legal Education Lecture, The National Judicial College, Reno, NV (July 25)
• “Linguistic Techniques for the Courtroom,” Trial Advocacy Training Course for 2nd year law students, University of Idaho College of Law, Moscow, Idaho (August 17)
• “Eliciting Expert Testimony,” Trial Advocacy Training Course for 2nd year law students, University of Idaho College of Law, Moscow, Idaho (August 18)
• “Doctor-Patient Communication,” Part I, New Age Health Farm, Neversink, NY (October 13)
• “Doctor-Patient Communication,” Part II, New Age Health Farm, Neversink, NY (October 14)
• “How To Cross Examine the Medical Expert Witness” guest lecturer at a trial techniques course (Professor Ivan Schneider) at Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY (November 19)
• “Using Linguistic Techniques for More Effective Interviewing,” guest lecturer at Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism (Prof. Melvin Mencher's class), New York, NY (December 9)
• Presentation on the use of linguistic analysis to prepare questions for cross examination to litigation attorneys at Weil, Gottschal, and Manges, New York, NY (January 27)
• “Interviewing the Orthopedic Patient,” house staff lecture, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA (June 16)
• “Developing a Linguistic Instrument for Lie Detection,” Office of Research and Development, Central Intelligence Agency, Langley, VA (March 2)
• “Why Linguistics is Important for the Design of a Non Fictional HAL?” SpeechTEK 2001 (October 26)
• “Sequence Package Analysis: A Data Mining Tool to Speed Up Wiretap Analysis” AVIOS (Applied Voice Input/Output Society) (May 10)
• “Advanced Natural Language Understanding” (moderator of panel), SpeechTEK 2002 International Exposition and Educational Conference (October 30)
• “Sequence Package Analysis: A New Natural Language Intelligence Method for Speeding Up Wiretap Analysis” Second Annual Research Symposium of Human Language Technology Research Institute, University of Texas, Dallas (March 11)
• “Filling the Global Communications Gap” (panelist at Plenary session). Accelerating Global Understanding, Annual Meeting of the General Assembly of the LISA Forum USA, Washington, D.C. (December 9)
• “Building Standards for Global Speech Applications” (workshop panelist). Accelerating Global Understanding, Annual Meeting of the General Assembly of the LISA Forum USA, Washington, D.C. (December 10)
• “Sequence Package Analysis: A New Natural Language Understanding Method for Performing Data Mining of Help-Line Calls and Doctor-Patient Interviews” Presentation at the 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science, ICEIS 2004, University of Portugal (April 13)
• “Sequence Package Analysis: a New NLU Method for Improving Speech Capabilities in Spoken Language Understanding Systems” AT&T, VoiceTone Project (May 24)
• “Mining for What’s Missing: How to Find What is not in the Speech Application’s Vocabulary” SpeechTEK 2004 (September 15)
• “Using a New Method of Natural Language Intelligence for Performing Wiretap Analysis” Policy Sciences Center Annual Institute at Yale Law School (October 23)
• “Medical Informatics: A Realistic Look at How IT Can Improve Delivery of Health Care in a Global World” Moderator of technical panel presentation at the Information Technology: New Generations Conference, ITNG 2008, Las Vegas, NV (April 9)
• “Hands-On: An Interactive Display” Amy Neustein, editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Speech Technology, is one of the moderators of the speech analytics session at the SpeechTEK 2010 conference, New York, New York (August 2-4, 2010)
• “Sequence Package Analysis: A New Speaker Biometric for Performing Speaker Verification of Terror Suspects in Stressed Environments” Plenary speaker at the Information Assurance and Security conference organized by Mir Labs, IAS 2010, Atlanta, GA (August 23-25)
• “Sequence Package Analysis and Soft Computing: Introducing a new hybrid method to adjust to the fluid and changing nature of human speech” Keynote plenary speaker at the International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, SOCO 2011, Salamanca, Spain (April 6) (view the accompanying PowerPoint presentation here, or pdf version here)
• “Sequence Package Analysis and Natural Language Understanding” Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ (May 11)
• “Money Speaks: The Market Power of Speech Recognition” Speaker at iBreakfast conference on voice recognition, Fordham Lincoln Center, New York, NY (February 29) (for Amy Neustein’s bio posted on the event site, click here)
• At a Mobile Voice Conference, Amy Neustein and Judith Markowitz distributed information about Machine Talk: The Next Generation of Natural Language Processing and Speech Technology, co-edited by them, to be published by Springer in 2013, San Francisco, CA (March 12-14) (click here to view an explanatory flyer distributed at the event)
• “Sequence Package Analysis: The Role of Cognitive Science in Natural Language Processing” Keynote speaker at NLPCS 2012: 9th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science, University of Wroclaw, School of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland (June 28) (click here to view the accompanying PowerPoint presentation)
• At the Mobile Voice Conference held in San Francisco, CA, Amy Neustein moderated a program on mobile personal assistants and gave a presentation titled “The ‘In Touch’ Personal Assistant: Next Generation Emotionally Intelligent Mobile Devices” (April 15-16) (click here to view the accompanying PowerPoint presentation)
• At the OWASP APPSEC USA conference held in New York City at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, Amy Neustein served on the “Privacy or Security: Can We Have Both” panel and as a speaker at the “Healthcare Security Forum” (November 20) (click here to view the link to the conference program)
• Amy Neustein delivered a presentation on “Sequence Package Analysis and Sentimetrics” at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium, New York City (March 5) (click here for information about the symposium; click here to view the PowerPoint presentation from the conference site)
• Amy Neustein moderated a panel discussing “Disruptive Technologies in the Big Data Ecosystem” (October 21, 4:30-5:30 p.m.) (click here for the panel moderated by Amy Neustein at 4:30 p.m., listed under the code TRD 16); Amy Neustein was also a panelist on the keynote panel addressing “Women in Data Centers” (October 22, 8:00-9:00 a.m.) (click here for the 8:00 a.m. keynote panel, listed under the code LDR 7). Both presentations were at the Data Center World Orlando Conference (Orlando, Florida, October 19-22)
• Amy Neustein gave a presentation on “Salvaging Search: Using Sequence Package Analysis to Help Search Engines Better Adapt to User Search Requests” at the “Science of Semiotics Web” Meetup Mashup, New York City (April 18), sponsored by the Information Architecture Meetup and the Semiotics Web Meetup. (Click here for information about the Meetup Mashup symposium, and click here to view the PowerPoint presentation)
• Amy Neustein presented a webinar entitled “Using Sequence Package Analysis to Detect Terrorism and Sedition,” sponsored by BrightTalk (April 22, 12:00 p.m.) (click here to access the webinar)
• Amy Neustein gave the intro talk on “A New Conversational Query Language (C-QL) for the ‘Emotionally Intelligent’ Smartphone” at the Future of Technology Transfer lecture series at Price Waterhouse Coopers, sponsored by the Women in Machine Learning and Data Science and the Semiotics Web meetup (May 14th, 6 pm) (click here to access the presentation)
• Amy Neustein delivered a keynote address (“How Mobility Drives Natural Language Technology: Present and Future Tools and Capabilities”) at the Mobile Voice Conference in San Jose, California (April 12); click here for the conference program, and scroll down to Tuesday, April 12th (8:00 a.m.) to find the speech. (Pictured: Amy Neustein, with friend and colleague Bathsheba Malsheen, relaxes at the end of the conference)
• Before her keynote address at the Mobile Voice Conference (see above), Amy Neustein was interviewed about the current status of Natural Language Processing (April 2016)
• Amy Neustein was invited by the Program Director of the Masters in Science in Health Informatics at Hofstra University to give a Webinar (via ZoomConference) to his graduate students: “Native Front-End User Interface for Health Portals: Designing a ‘Smart’ Native-Driven Patient-Intake Form for the Electronic Health Record,” (April 18, 9:15 p.m.)
• Amy Neustein was invited as first speaker at the Technology Transfer Days conference at Microsoft Building, 11 Times Square, New York City, and spoke on “Mobile Medical User Interface: Electronic Health Records, Medical Imaging, Real-Time Data, Robotics, Sensor Networks, and the IoT” (April 26)
• Amy Neustein delivered a Special Keynote Address at the Shavuot 5777 Conference, Hudson Valley Resort and Spa, Kerhonkson, New York, titled “From Family Court Reformer to Visionary Entrepreneur: Making Lives Better for the Everyday User” (May 31)
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