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foNETiks
a Network Newsletter
for the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
December 1999
Editors:
Linda Shockey, University of Reading, U.K.
Gerry Docherty, Newcastle University, U.K.
Paul Foulkes, Leeds University, U.K.
Lisa Lim, National University of Singapore
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THE EDITORS WISH ALL READERS
A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
(new ones marked **)
(date of first appearance follows)
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12 - 15 December 1999. ASRU'99: 1999 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech
Recognition and Understanding. Keystone, Colorado.
http://asru99.research.att.com/asru99_index.shtml (06/99)
7 - 8 January 2000. 2000 Conference on Pidgin and Creole Languages.
Chicago. [log in to unmask] (08/99)
** 14 January 2000. Institute of Acoustics (IoA) Speech Group One-Day
Meeting on Speech Production and Automatic Speech Recognition.
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of
Birmingham. [log in to unmask];
http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/russellm/meetings/ioa_meeting.htm
(12/99) (See below under Conferences for more information.)
1 - 3 March 2000. The Word in Phonology. German Society of Linguistics,
Marburg, Germany. [log in to unmask] (06/99)
2 - 24 March 2000. Declarative Analysis of the Syllable, University of
Nantes. [log in to unmask] (09/99)
** 11 March 2000. Informal Workshop on Declarative Phonology. Universite
de Nantes, France. [log in to unmask] (12/99) (See
below under Conferences for more information.)
3 - 6 April 2000. The Evolution of Language. Ecole Nationale Superieure
des Telecommunications, Paris, France. [log in to unmask];
http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/ (08/99)
12 - 14 April 2000. RIAO2000 (Recherche d'Informations Assistee par
Ordinateur = Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval)
International Conference: Content-Based Multimedia Information
Access. Paris, France. [log in to unmask];
http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO (08/99)
** 28 - 30 April 2000. First North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC).
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. [log in to unmask];
[log in to unmask];
http://modlang-hale.concordia.ca/naphc.html (12/99) (See below
under Conferences for more information.)
** 29-30 April 2000. CLAW 2000: 3rd International Workshop on Controlled
Language Applications. Seattle, Washington. (Pre-conference
Workshop in conjunction with the joint meeting of the ANLP/NACLA
conferences (see entry below).
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/claw2000 (12/99)
** 29 April - 3 May 2000. Language Technology Joint Conference: 6th
Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP) Conference and the 1st
Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (NAACL). Seattle, Washington.
[log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask];
www.aclweb.org (12/99)
1 - 4 May 2000. 5th Speech Production Seminar: Models and Data. Kloster
Seeon, Bavaria, Germany. Email: [log in to unmask];
http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/~sps5 (08/99)
** 10 - 12 May 2000. SNLP 2000: The Fourth Symposium on Natural Language
Processing 2000. Chiangmai, Thailand.
www.nectec.or.th//sll//snlp2000; www.cpe.eng.kmutt.ac.th/~snlp
(12/99) (See below under Conferences for more information.)
29 - 31 May 2000. Spoken Word Access Processes (SWAP). Jonkerbosch
Conference Centre. Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
http://www.mpi.nl/world/swap (08/99)
31 May - 2 June 2000. LREC2000: The 2nd International Conference on
Language Resources and Evaluation. Athens, Greece.
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html (08/99)
** 12 - 16 June 2000. First International Natural Language Generation
Conference (INLG'2000). Mitzpe Ramon, Israel.
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~nlg2000/main.html (12/99) (See below
under Conferences for more information.)
15 - 17 June 2000. TENNET (Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology)
meeting, Montreal, Canada. http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/tennet
[log in to unmask] (09/99).
** 27 - 30 June 2000. EIS'2000: Second International ICSC Symposium on
Engineering of Intelligent Systems. University of Paisley,
Scotland, U.K. http://www.icsc.ab.ca/eis2000.htm (12/99)
29 June - 1 July 2000. LabPhon7. Max Planck Institute/University of
Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [log in to unmask];
http://www.let.kun.nl/labphon7/ (02/99)
29 June - 1 July 2000. ICLaVE 1 (Barcelona 2000): First International
Conference on Language Variation in Europe. Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. e-mail: [log in to unmask]
(08/99)
** 3 - 5 July 2000. Third Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation.
Bellagio, Italy. [log in to unmask];
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio2000/
(12/99) (See below under Conferences for more information.)
** 10 July - 18 August 2000. Summer workshop on Language Technology. Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws2000/proposal.html (12/99) (See below
under Conferences for more information.)
** 23 - 27 July 2000. TISLR7: 7th Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign
Language Research. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/hil/sign-lang/tislr7/ (12/99) (See below
under Conferences for more information.)
16 - 19 August 2000. VIIIth meeting of the International Clinical
Phonetics and Linguistics Asociation. John MacIntyre Centre,
Edinburgh, Scotland. http://sls.qmced.ac.uk/ICPLA2000/index.htm
(07/99)
5 - 7 September 2000. ISCA Workshop on Speech and Emotion.
Northern Ireland (venue tba).
http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/isca/index.htm (11/99)
** 13-16 September 2000. The Third International Workshop on Text, Speech
and Dialogue (TSD 2000). Brno, Czech Republic. [log in to unmask];
http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/ (12/99) (See below under
Conferences for more information.)
** 9 - 12 November 2000. Meeting of the Language and Social Interaction
Division of the National Communication Association. Seattle, WA.
[log in to unmask];
http://www.natcom.org/convention/2000/call2000.html (12/99) (See
below under Conferences for more information.)
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CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS & MEETINGS
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IoA Speech Group One Day Meeting - Announcement and Call for Papers
Institute of Acoustics Speech Group One-Day Meeting on
SPEECH PRODUCTION AND AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION
Friday January 14th, 2000
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering,
The University of Birmingham
http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/russellm/meetings/ioa_meeting.htm
For over a decade statistical methods, and in particular Hidden Markov
Models (HMMs), have dominated research in automatic speech recognition.
This has led to impressive progress in terms of accuracy and vocabulary
size And also to the emergence of the current generation of commercial
large vocabulary dictation systems. One of the consequences of the
mathematical simplicity of HMMs is that they assume a direct relationship
between the symbolic, phonetic description of speech and the 'raw'
acoustic speech data. Although mainstream research continues to focus on
HMMs, a number of new approaches to speech pattern modelling have been
proposed which, implicitly or explicitly, attempt to include a
production-based representation of speech which regulates the relationship
between the symbolic and acoustic descriptions. In principle, this
production-based representation provides a superior domain for modelling
speech dynamics and characterising speaker differences. The purpose of
this one day meeting is to provide a forum for discussing related research
in speech production and automatic speech recognition. The meeting will
include four invited presentations, two each covering relevant areas of
speech science and speech recognition research. Provisional details of
these presentations are given on the meeting website. The remainder of the
meeting will be devoted to short papers describing work in the areas of
speech production and speech recognition research. There will be no charge
for the meeting, but there will be a small charge for lunch. If you would
like to offer a paper please contact the organiser by 20th December 1999.
Martin Russell
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 121 414 3093
Fax: +44 (0) 121 414 4291
email: [log in to unmask]
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DECLARATIVE PHONOLOGY INFORMAL WORKSHOP
Dear All,
An informal workshop in Declarative Phonology is to be held on March 11
2000 at Universite de Nantes (France) in collaboration with the AAI group
(Acoustique, Acquisition et Interpretation).
Being an informal meeting, no grant was available for transportation and
accommodation (though some crash place may be arranged but probably not
for everyone). The AAI group will take care of coffee/tea breaks but lunch
will be at the participant's charge. There will be no registration fee.
Propositions, in English or French, are solicited for 40 minutes
presentations (including 15 min of discussion) in any aspect of
Declarative Phonology. The deadline for 1 page abstracts (references and
graphs can be put on no more than one extra page) is December 20 1999.
Abstracts can be submitted either by e-mail (in the body of the message
for text only abstract or as .ps or .pdf files attached to the message) or
by mail at the following address:
e-mail:
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Surface:
Alain Theriault
Departement de Linguistique et de traduction
Faculte des arts et des sciences
Universite de Montreal
C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville
Montreal, Qc, Canada
H3C 3J7
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Call for papers
First North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC)
The Linguistics Program at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec will
host the First North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC) from April
28-30th, 2000. We are founding this conference in association with a
number of Canadian Universities in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto and we
expect the conference to be held every other year on a rotation among
these, and perhaps other, institutions in North America.
The Concordia Linguistics Students Association will be hosting a talk by
Morris Halle of MIT on the evening of Thursday, April 27th, so conference
participants will want to arrive early enough to attend this special
event.
Abstract submission is invited on any area of theoretical phonology,
although, in recognition of the ten-year anniversary of the publication of
Inkelas and Zec's "Phonology-Syntax Connection", we especially hope to
have submissions on phonology above the word level. Graduate students are
encouraged to submit abstracts.
Abstract length is not limited--complete papers may be submitted for
evaluation. Papers may be submitted and presented in French or English.
We are pleased to announce that the following phonologists have all
accepted invitations to the conference:
Abigail Cohn (Cornell)
Sharon Inkelas (Berkeley)
Glyne Piggott (McGill)
Keren Rice (Toronto)
Donca Steriade (UCLA)
Accepted papers will be allotted 40 minutes, including discussion time.
Papers not accepted as talks will be considered for the Poster Sessions.
Please indicate in your message if you do NOT want to be considered for a
poster presentation.
Abstracts must be submitted electronically to
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Deadline for receipt of abstracts is December 15, 1999. Registration
information will be provided after the announcement of the program in
January.
Preferred formats in decreasing order are pdf, ps, plain text, WORD (Mac
or Windows), WordPerfect (Mac or Windows). Word and Wordperfect users
should use no other phonetics fonts than SIL Doulos (available at
http://www.sil.org ). If you make a ps file under Windows or Mac, please
verify its integrity before sending it.
Further information will be available at
http://modlang-hale.concordia.ca/naphc.html
Organizers
Mark Hale & Charles Reiss
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SNLP 2000
Extended Call for Papers
The Fourth Symposium on Natural Language Processing 2000
May 10-12, 2000
Chiangmai, Thailand
www.nectec.or.th//sll//snlp2000
www.cpe.eng.kmutt.ac.th/~snlp
The Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP) is an international
conference held biannually since 1993 with the cooperative effort of a
number of universities in Thailand. The purpose of SNLP is to promote
research in natural language processing by bringing together researchers
and practitioners in the field to exchange ideas and present results on
machine translation, information retrieval and speech processing
technology.
Host
King Mongkut\'s University of Technology, Thonburi, Thailand
Cooperative Hosts
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand
Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada
Topics
SNLP 2000 welcomes submissions of original papers in all areas of
Natural Language Processing. The papers to be addressed include, but are
not limited to:
-Machine Translation -Corpus Analysis
-Parsing -Lexical Acquisition
-Lexicon -Disambiguation
-Bilingual Alignment -Information Retrieval
-Multilingual Information Processing -Interface & Multimedia
-Speech Processing -Pattern Recognition
-Applied NLP Systems -Human Processing of Language
and
Speech
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit four hard copies of each extended summary
with a cover page. The extended summary should be between 4-6 pages
including figures and references. A cover page must contain the title of
the paper, author name(s) with affiliations, plus contact information
including mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail for the author to
whom correspondence should be sent. Papers that violate these requirements
are subject to rejection without undergoing the appropriate review
process. The program committee will identify a set of representative
papers for submission, after the appropriate revision and formatting, to a
special issue of the Computational Intelligence Journal.
Your submissions should be made by postal mail to one of the following
persons:
Prof. Nick Cercone
Department of Computer Science
William Davis Comp. Research Center
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
Tel: (519)888-4567 ext.3292 Fax: (519)885-1208
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Prof. Vilas Wuwongse
Computer Science and Information Program
Asian Institute of Technology
P.O. Box 4 Khlongluang Prathumthanee,
Bangkok 10210, Thailand
Tel: (662)5245704 Fax: (662)5245721
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Assoc. Prof. Booncharoen Sirinaovakul
Artificial Intelligence Center
King Mongkut\'s University of Technology Thonburi
Bangkok 10140, Thailand
Tel. (662) 470-9088, Fax. (662) 872-5050
E-mail : [log in to unmask]
Important Dates
Submission Deadline December 3, 1999
Notification of Acceptance January 29, 2000
Camera Ready Paper Due March 29, 2000
Further Information
For more information please contact:
Assoc. Prof. Booncharoen Sirinaovakul
Artificial Intelligence Center,
King Mongkut\'s University of Technology Thonburi
Bangkok 10140, Thailand
Tel. (662) 470-9088, Fax. (662) 872-5050
E-mail : [log in to unmask]
Or
Prof. Nick Cercone
Department of Computer Science
William Davis Comp. Research Center
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
Tel: (519)888-4567 ext.3292 Fax: (519)885-1208
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Call For Papers
The First International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG'2000)
will be held June 13 to 16, 2000 in Mitzpe Ramon, Israel. This conference
continues in the tradition of the nine biennial workshops on natural
language generation that have been held from 1980 to 1998. INLG'2000 will
offer the opportunity to a larger audience to participate in the main
meeting of researchers in the field. For the general sessions,
substantial, original, and unpublished contributions to natural language
generation are solicited. A separate track will be offered for Student
Papers. Submissions for all tracks are due by 30 January 2000. The
INLG'2000 program committee invites papers describing original research on
the following topics:
Generation and summarization
Multimodal and multimedia generation
Multilingual generation
Concept to speech, models of intonation
Strategic generation for text and dialogue
Text planning, discourse models, argumentation strategies, content
selection and organization
Tactical generation, formalisms and models of grammar, sentence
aggregation, lexical choice
Architecture of generators
Knowledge acquisition and resources for generation and summarization
User-customized generation and summarization
Psychological modelling of discourse production
Learning methods for generation
Evaluation methodologies for generation and summarization
Applications of: generation, concept-to-speech, information
extraction, information retrieval techniques to summarization,
report generation, explanation.
The conference will be organized in three tracks:
1.Main session
2.Student session
3.Special session on evaluation in generation
We plan to hold all presentations in the plenary hall with no parallel
tracks. The special session on evaluation will be held the day before the
main session, on Monday 12 June 2000. A paper accepted for presentation at
INLG'2000 must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with
publicly available proceedings. Submission to other conferences should be
indicated on the paper. Submission to the main session should describe
completed work. Submission to the student session should describe work in
progress. Submission to the evaluation session should describe statements
on methodology, reports on actual evaluation work and proposals for
evaluation benchmarks.
Dates
16 January 2000: Papers submission deadline
30 March 2000: Notification of acceptance
7 May 2000: Final copy due for all contributions
12 June 2000: Special Session on Evaluation in NLG, Mitzpe Ramon
13-16 June: INLG'2000 Conference, Mitzpe Ramon
Submission Instructions
Submissions must use the ACL latex style aclsub-style (see sample
document, sample-sub-tex, and sample biography sample-sub-bib) or
Microsoft Word style ACL-submission.doc (both available from the
conference web page) and may be no more than 3,200 words in total length,
exclusive of title page and references. The title page should include the
following. It should be sent in a separate e-mail message from the body of
the paper itself, and appear on the paper itself as well:
Title
Session: main, student or evaluation
Authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses
Programme Committee
Michael Elhadad, Ben Gurion University, Israel (Chair)
Stephan Buseman, DFKI, Germany
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada
James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA
Inderjeet Mani, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Kathy McCoy, University of Delaware, USA
David McDonald, Gensym Corp, USA
Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan, USA
Jacques Robin, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Donia Scott, University of Brighton, UK
Manfred Stede, Technical University, Berlin, Germany
Matthew Stone, Rutgers University, USA
Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia
Student Session
Irene Langkilde, University of South California - ISI
Charles Brendan Callaway, North Carolina State University
James Shaw, Columbia University
Special Session on Evaluation
For additional information, please contact:
Inderjeet Mani, The MITRE Corporation
Software Demo
Proposals for software or project demonstrations are invited. Proposals
should indicate the type of hardware that would be required if the
proposal is accepted.
Equipment Availability
Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a slide projector, a
data projector (Barco) which will display from laptops, and a VHS (PAL)
videocassette recorder. NTSC format may be available; if you anticipate
needing NTSC, please note this information in your proposal. Requests for
other presentation equipment will be considered by the local organizers;
requests for special equipment should be directed to the local organizers
no later than May 15, 2000.
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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
THIRD WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION
Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy
3-5 July, 2000
The Workshops on Human-Computer Conversation in Bellagio, Italy, took
place in 1997 and 1998, as small groups of experts from industry and
academia met to discuss this pressing question for the future of Language
Engineering, not as an academic question only, but chiefly to bring
forward for discussion computer demonstrations and activities within
company laboratories that were not being published or discussed. The
Workshops were highly successful in these aims and we now wish to widen
participation and add distinguished speakers, as well as introducing more
theoretical topics, though without losing the practical emphasis. The
theme of interactivity is now a key one in Human Language Technology under
the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme. The Bellagio site
remains one of the finest in the world, and it promoted excellent and
intimate discussions in 1997 and 1998.
All details, previous program, program committee, accomodation and travel
are on the web site:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio2000/
Invited speakers include (one has not yet accepted):
Dr B Alabisio, Microsoft, US
Dr J Hutchens, UWA, Australia
Professor G Leech, University of Lancaster, UK
Dr M Moens, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dr U Reithinger, DFKI-Saarbruecken, DE
Dr T Strzalkowski, General Electric, US
Professor D Traum, University of Maryland, US
Timetable:
Contributions are invited on any aspect of human-computer
conversation. Two page abstracts should be sent by paper
or email to Gillian Callaghan at the address at the bottom:
Deadline for submission: 8 April 2000
Notice of acceptance: 8 May 2000
Camera ready paper due: 8 June 2000
The European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) and SIGDIAL
have endorsed the meeting and endorsement has been sought from ELSNET and
support from the European Commission.
Informal inquiries to:
Yorick Wilks
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
211 Portobello St.,
Sheffield S1 4DP
UK
phone: (44) 114 282 5561
fax: (44) 114 278 0972
email: [log in to unmask]
www: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick
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Summer workshop on Language Technology.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 10 July - 18 August 2000.
http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws2000/proposal.html
The 6-week workshop at Johns Hopkins University on language engineering
brings together teams of leading professionals and students to advance the
state of the art. The professionals would normally be university
professors and industrial and governmental researchers working in widely
dispersed locations. The graduate students will be familiar with the field
and will be selected in accordance with their demonstrated performance.
The undergraduates will be entering seniors who are new to the field and
who have shown outstanding academic promise. They will be selected through
a national search. Undergraduate participation began in 1998 with the
intent of broadening the appeal of language engineering amongst students
considering graduate studies.
Proposals for research projects are being solicited from a wide range of
academic and government institutions, as well as from industry. All
proposals will be reviewed by an independent panel. Those chosen will be
presented at the Airlie conference to which both presenters and leading
researchers will be invited. Out of these presentations and the discussion
which will follow, the four research topics for WS00 will emerge.
The primary goal of the workshop is to establish research directions and
educate students in language technology. Additional expected benefits of
the workshop are the recruitment of students into language engineering
research; the creation, collection, and dissemination of tools and data
for language engineering research; and the establishment of fruitful and
long-lasting collaborations.
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TISLR7 - 7th Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research
Amsterdam, July 23rd - July 27th 2000
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Due to some problems with the preparation of the conference web site, we
are not sure that we have reached all interested researchers. We have
therefore decided to extend the abstract deadline to December 1st.
Further information not listed below is available from a temporary web
site, at: http://www.leidenuniv.nl/hil/sign-lang/tislr7/
On behalf of the organizers,
Onno Crasborn
GENERAL INFORMATION
A Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research is organised
every two years. In 1996 it was held in Montreal, in 1998 in Gallaudet and
in 2000 it will be organised in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The
organisation of the Seventh TISLR is a joint effort of people from
different institutions and universities in The Netherlands. The Scientific
Committee consists of people from both inside and outside The Netherlands.
CONFERENCE THEME
The theme of this conference is Crosslinguistic insights: how similar are
sign languages? Research in the past has often focused on the similarities
and differences between sign and spoken languages. However, over the years
international research has produced a wealth of information about
individual sign languages. Especially as this will be the first time that
TISLR is organised in Europe, it seems to be an appropriate point at which
to begin looking at the similarities and differences among sign languages.
We will focus on the conference theme in the workshops. Therefore, we
would like to encourage researchers from different universities and
research institutes to submit a joint abstract for a workshop comparing
data from different sign languages.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit abstracts on any aspect of research and
theory about sign language, including linguistic structure, language
acquisition, language contact and bilingualism, variation, discourse
analysis, poetics and metaphor, psycholinguistic and neuropsychological
processing, language assessment, research methodology and language
attitudes.
Presentation modes will be:
20 minute presentations, followed by 10 minutes of discussion
poster presentations
60 minute workshop presentations
Workshops should be geared toward issues related to the conference theme,
and consist of 3 to 4 presentations introduced by a "workshop moderator".
The moderator is asked to send in all abstracts for the workshop at the
same time.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Abstracts should be written in English with a maximum of 300 words. Please
send six hard copies of an anonymous abstract together with a cover page
including the title of the abstract, full name, address, and email
address, to:
Conference Office
University of Amsterdam
Spui 21
NL-1012 WX Amsterdam
The Netherlands
At the same time, also submit a digital version with both abstract and
personal information, either on diskette to the above address, or by email
to:
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The digital text should be sent in WordPerfect 5.1, Word 6.0, or ASCII
format without any layout, font size 12 pnt.
Please indicate clearly whether you are submitting the abstract for a
paper
presentation, a workshop, or a poster presentation.
NOTIFICATION
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by January 1999.
Accepted authors will have to submit a full paper for the interpreters by
May 15th, 2000.
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TSD 2000 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
The Third International Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
(TSD 2000), Brno, Czech Republic, 13-16 September 2000
TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in
both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block
countries and their Western colleagues. Being held in Czech Republic, the
cost of attending is very reasonable. Proceedings of TSD form a book
(currently published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence series).
TOPICS
Topics of the TSD 2000 workshop will include (but are not limited to):
text corpora and tagging;
transcription problems in spoken corpora;
sense disambiguation;
links between text and speech oriented systems;
parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts;
multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems;
information retrieval and text/topic summarization;
speech modeling;
speech segmentation;
speech recognition;
text-to-speech synthesis;
dialogue systems;
development of dialogue strategies;
prosody in dialogues;
user modeling;
knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems;
assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue;
applied systems and software.
Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jelinek Frederick, USA (general chair)
Hermansky Hynek, USA (executive chair)
Baudoin Genevieve, France
Cermak Frantisek, Czech Rep.
Ferencz Attila, Romania
Hajicova Eva, Czech Rep.
Hanks Patrick, GB
Kilgariff Adam, GB
Kopecek Ivan, Czech Rep.
Kucera Pavel, Czech Rep.
Matousek Vaclav, Czech Rep.
Moon Rosamund, GB
Noeth Elmar, Germany
Norling-Christensen Ole, Denmark
Pala Karel, Czech Rep.
Pavesic Nikola, Slovenia
Petkevic Vladimir, Czech Rep.
Psutka Josef, Czech Rep.
Schukat-Talamazzini E.G., Germany
Skrelin Pavel, Russia
Vintsiuk Taras, Ukraine
Wilks Yorick, GB
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Bartek Ludek
Batusek Robert
Gaura Pavel
Horak Ales
Komarkova Dana (secretary)
Kopecek Ivan (co-chair)
Matousek Vaclav
Nygryn Pavel
Pala Karel (co-chair)
Sedlacek Radek
Smrz Pavel
Sojka Petr
Staudek Jan
Veber Marek
Zackova Eva
Zizka Jan
FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP
TSD 2000 is an international workshop with a limited number of
participants and priority given to the active participants. The workshop
program will include oral presentations and poster/demonstration sessions
with time for discussions of the issues raised. Social events including a
trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal
interactions.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors should submit extended abstracts not exceeding 1000 words by March
10, 2000 to the e-mail address:
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Submission must also include the author(s) name, affiliation, address,
telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address. Acceptance of the
submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. Papers have to follow the
Springer-Verlag instructions for the authors for Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series. The instructions can be found at the www
address: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
IMPORTANT DATES
Preliminary registration and deadline for submission of extended
abstracts: March 10, 2000
Notification of acceptance sent to the authors: April 30, 2000
Final papers (camera ready) and registration: May 30, 2000
Workshop date: September 13-16, 2000
The contributions to the workshop will be published in proceedings that
will be made available to participants at the time of the workshop. The
proceedings of the last TSD workshop were published by Springer-Verlag in
the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and we anticipate the
same format for TSD 2000.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language is English.
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the workshop should be addressed to:
Dana Komarkova
TSD 2000 c/o Faculty of Informatics
Masaryk University
Botanick=E1 68a
CZ-602 00 Brno
Czech Republic
telephone: ++420 5 41 512 359
fax: ++420 5 41 212 568
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
The official TSD 2000 homepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/
VENUE
Brno, Czech Republic
Brno is the capital of the region known as Moravia which is placed in the
south-east part of the Czech Republic, and the second largest town in the
Czech Republic (with population about half a million). It had been a
king's town since 1347 and with its six Universities it forms a cultural
centre of the region.
Brno can be reached easily by direct trains from=20 Prague (200 km) or
Vienna (130 km).
For those participants with some little extra time, some nearby places may
also be of interest.=20
The local ones include: Brno castle now called Spilberk, Veveri castle,
Old and New City halls, the Augustine monastery with St. Thomas church and
crypt of Moravian margraves, church of St. James, bishops church of St.
Peter & Paul, Cartesian monastery in Kralovo Pole, famous villa Tugendhadt
designed by Mies van der Rohe and other important buildings of between war
Czech architecture.
For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha
Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of Battle of three emperors (Napoleon,
Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - battle by Austerlitz), chateau of
Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn castle, Buchlov castle, Lednice chateau,
Buchlovice chateau, Letovice chateau, Mikulov with one of greatest Jewish
cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the list of UNESCO and many
others are all within an easy reach.
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Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication
Association
NCA meets in Seattle, WA, Nov. November 9 - 12, 2000. The Language and
Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association
solicits competitive papers and panel proposals concerning the utilization
of speech, language, or gesture in human communication including studies
of discourse processes, face-to-face interaction, communication
competence, speech act theory, cognitive processing, and conversation
analytic, ethnographic, ethnomethodological, and sociolinguistic work.
Paper abstracts will be accepted, but completed papers are preferred.
Papers which are authored solely by students who have not completed the
Ph.D. are eligible for a student award and should be identified by writing
"Student" in the upper right corner of the title page. Deadline: February
1, 2000. For more information check the web site:
http://www.natcom.org/convention/2000/call2000.html
Madeline M. Maxwell
Dept of Communication Studies
Univ. of Texas
Austin, TX 78712
ph. 512-471-1954
fax 512-471-3504
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POSITIONS VACANT & RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
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Programmer/Analyst
The Phonology Laboratory of the Department of Linguistics, University of
California, Berkeley, seeks to hire a programmer/analyst.
POSITION DESCRIPTION: Supervise and coordinate the operation of the
heterogeneous computer system and other technical resources of the
Phonology Laboratory; design and supervise development of
software/hardware for conducting speech perception and production
experiments and for the analysis of speech sounds; develop and program
instructional software for Linguistics curricula; plan and document
strategies for efficient analysis of large speech and phonological
databases; assist faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars in the
conduct of speech research.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: expertise in speech acoustics and perception;
comprehensive knowledge of DSP; experience with digital audio; UNIX,
(incl. shell scripting and X-windows); ESPS Waves+, MATLAB, RCS
programming; Windows 95/98 and Mac-OS; networking for multiplatform
computers (Macintosh, IBM-compatible PCs, and Sun workstations);
familiarity with Sun, Macintosh, and PC hardware desirable. Must possess
exceptional communication and pedagogical skills, be well organized,
energetic and committed to undergraduate/graduate education. Sufficient
scientific ability to assist in writing grant proposals and to collaborate
with faculty and students in their research and to co-author research
publications with them.
The Phonology Laboratory is a facility of the Department of Linguistics
and is dedicated to research and teaching in phonetics and phonology.
Areas of emphasis are speech production, esp., speech aerodynamics, speech
perception, phonetic and phonological universals, phonetic studies of
particular languages, and psycholinguistic studies of phonology. The
principal faculty associated with the lab are John Ohala and Ian
Maddieson.
The University of California is an equal opportunity employer.
Applications from non-U.S. citizens are welcome but a pre-condition for
employment would be having a permit for employment in the U.S.
APPOINTMENT CONDITIONS: Continuing, 12-month, full-time position.
SALARY RANGE: US $56,900 - $105,300, commensurate with experience and
qualifications.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: Until the position is filled
STARTING DATE: Immediately / Negotiable
APPLICATON PROCEDURE: Send letter of intent and CV (hard copy and/or
e-mail), including the names and addresses of three references [do not
solicit letters of recommendation until requested by us] to BOTH of the
addresses below. In the letter cite the job number: 11-112-10/CP and the
job title "Programmer/Analyst IV".
John Ohala
Director
Phonology Laboratory
Department of Linguistics
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
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AND:
University of California, Berkeley
Employment Services
76 University Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-3540
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Further details available at:
http://hrweb.berkeley.edu:80/joblist/complist.htm
and
http://hrweb.berkeley.edu:80/JOBS/apply.htm
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The Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield,
is seeking an individual (or individuals) to teach in the areas of
Practical Phonetics; Acoustic and Experimental Phonetics; Phonetic and
Phonological Theory, in the Spring Semester 2000 (February - June).
Expertise in these areas in normal speech and/or with a clinical/
pathological focus would be welcome. Up to twelve hours per week of
timetabled contact hours would be available, together with marking. The
teaching would be to undergraduate and taught Masters students. Some
support would be available from academic staff in the department and
current course materials could be provided if required.
Dr Sara Howard
Lecturer in Clinical Phonetics
Department of Human Communication Sciences
University of Sheffield
31 Claremont Crescent
Sheffield, S10 2TA
UK
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Phone: (+44) (0)114 222 2448/ 222 2000
Fax: (+44) (0)114 273 0547
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Linguistics Tenure Track Position
The Linguistics Department at the University of Manitoba invites
applications for a full-time tenure-track appointment at the rank of
Assistant Professor beginning July 1, 2000, subject to budgetary approval.
Salary will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. The
2000-2001 salary range for this position is $42,524 - $50,000. A large
proportion of our undergraduate majors are preparing for graduate study
and careers in speech-language pathology. We are looking for an individual
to teach courses relevant to the needs of this population, as well as to
complement the existing teaching and research strengths of the Department.
Teaching duties will include courses in the anatomy and physiology of
speech, neurolinguistics, communication disorders, and one or more core
areas of linguistics. The ability to teach courses in language acquisition
and/or instrumental phonetics will be an asset.
The successful candidate will have an active research program in an area
of linguistics related to the teaching duties, such as psycholinguistics,
neurolinguistics, phonetics or clinical linguistics, and will be expected
to supervise MA and PhD students in their area of specialization.
A doctoral degree in linguistics or a closely related discipline must be
completed by the time of appointment.
The University of Manitoba encourages applications from qualified women
and men, including members of visible minorities, Aboriginal peoples, and
persons with disabilities. In accordance with Canada immigration
requirements, priority consideration will be given to Canadian citizens
and permanent residents.
Further details may be requested by e-mail ([log in to unmask]) or
fax (204-474-7671). Applications (including curriculum vitae, offprints,
preprints, etc.) and three letters of reference must be sent to reach the
Department by January 21, 2000, and should be addressed to:
L. MacDonald,
Head Linguistics Department
University of Manitoba
521 Fletcher Argue Building
15 Chancellor's Circle
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T 5V5
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Faculte des Arts et des Sciences
UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL
TENURE-TRACK POSITION IN LINGUISTICS
The Department of Linguistics and Translation of the Universite de
Montreal invites applications for a tenure-track position in phonetics.
FUNCTIONS
The person filling the position will be required to teach phonetics at
both the undergraduate and graduate levels, to supervise M.A. and Ph.D.
students, and to be responsible for the phonetics laboratory. S/he will
also be expected to be active in research and publication. CAPACITY TO
TEACH COURSES IN FRENCH IS REQUIRED.
QUALIFICATIONS
Ph.D. Linguistics or equivalent with specialization in phonetics. Ph.D.
should be in hand or defended by the time of appointment (June 1, 2000).
Teaching experience and quality research and publications are expected.
SALARY AND BENEFITS
The Universite de Montreal offers competitive salaries and a full array
of fringe benefits.
DATE OF APPOINTMENT
June 1, 2000
Candidates should send resumes, the names of three referees, and copies of
recent publications to:
Dr. Richard Patry
Dpartement de linguistique et de traduction
Universit de Montral
C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville
Montral (Qubec)
H3C 3J7
CLOSING DATE
January 28, 2000
In agreement with Canadian government immigration regulations, preference
is given to Canadian citizens and landed immigrants. The University is an
equal opportunity employer and accords women equal access to the workplace
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PHONETIC TOPOGRAPHICS
Phonetic Topographics is an independent joint venture between Tele Atlas
and FLV Fund. It is the first European company to provide access to speech
technology and geographical data. The company's focus is on making
phonetic transcriptions of geographical data provided by Tele Atlas'
intelligent maps in various alphabets. The aim is to sell these
transcriptions to enable customers to develop real-world applications
based on various speech technology systems. The primary markets will be
car navigation, telecoms, internet-mapping and GIS. The company is backed
by the European leader in digital maps, Tele Atlas, and has a strategic
relationship with Lernout&Hauspie.
We are currently looking for 6 lexicographers for French, English and
German.
Job description:
You will be part of a team responsible for creating, updating and
maintaining phonetic transcriptions. This is part of the company's aim to
become the market leader in the production, maintenance and sales of these
phonetic transcriptions for speech-enabled databases which are to be
applied in the areas of car navigation, GIS and telecoms.
Your tasks will include creating, updating and maintaining phonetic
transcriptions
* Reporting on the production process and the improvements to the
Production Manager and later to the Chief Lexicographer
* Reporting on the estimation of the production capacity to the Production
Manager and later to the Chief Lexicographer
Requirements:
* Education:
Preferably a higher degree in languages. A linguistics degree would be an
asset.
* Experience:
Candidates should be able to demonstrate a strong interest in computer
studies and/or speech technology
* Technical skills:
Experience of working in a database environment and able to use the
specific software programs
* Personal skills:
Candidates should have well-developed interpersonal skills, good
communication skills, be able to work in a team-building environment. They
should be enthusiastically and pro-actively inclined, result-driven, able
to work in a concentrated manner and deliver quality work.
* Languages:
Phonetic Topographics is looking for 6 lexicographers: 2 for French, 2 for
German and 2 for UK English. For these we need people with perfect spoken
knowledge in those languages. Basic knowledge of Dutch would be an asset.
These positions are full-time, starting the very latest 1 January 2000,
earlier if possible and are all based in Flanders Language Valley in
Ieper, Belgium.
For further information, please contact Danny Balcaen, Director, Phonetic
Topographics, Flanders Language Valley 48, 8900 Ieper (Belgium).
Tel: +32 (0)57 230 340. Fax: +32 (0)57 230 186.
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Speech R&D, Languages Group
Job Code: AL095
Summary:
This position is part of the ongoing global expansion of Nuance. You will
create and maintain the Nuance recognition and verification engines in
multiple languages.
Responsibilities:
Tracking data from deployments.
Training, testing and releasing new acoustic models.
Developing pronunciation models and dictionaries.
Interfacing with Sales department and customers.
Some opportunity for language-specific R&D work.
Required:
Specialization in speech recognition, verification or text-to-speech
Fluent in C or C++
Scripting language (e.g. Perl)
Unix
Ideal:
Linguistics
Multilingual
Project Management
Education:
M.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
M.A. or higher in Linguistics with specialization in phonetics, phonology
or computational linguistics
To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to [log in to unmask] or
fax in the USA to +(650) 847-7979.
Brion Wikes, Staffing Specialist
Nuance Communications (USA)
Direct Phone: 650-847-7799
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Material for the January 2000 issue of foNETiks should reach the
editors by 26 December 1999.
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Lisa Lim
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Assistant Professor
Department of English Language & Literature
National University of Singapore tel +65 8746037
Block AS5, 7 Arts Link fax +65 7732981
Singapore 117570 e-mail [log in to unmask]
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