foNETiks
A network newsletter
for the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
April 2001
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Editors:
Linda Shockey, University of Reading, UK <[log in to unmask]>
Gerry Docherty, University of Newcastle, UK <[log in to unmask]>
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
(New ones marked **)
(date of first appearance follows)
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2 - 3 April 2001. Workshop on Innovation in Speech Processing (WISP2001).
Stratford on Avon, UK. http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/wisp-2001/ (09/00)
5 - 7 April 2001. PTLC2001: The second meeting of the Phonetics Teaching
and Learning Conference. Royal Holloway College, University of London.
[log in to unmask]; http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/ptlc.htm
(08/00)
5 - 7 April 2001. LAGB Spring Meeting. University of Leeds.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/linguistics/events.htm (03/01)
** 6 - 7 April 2001. International Congress: The voice as a cultural
asset. University of Studies in Tuscia (Viterbo), Italy.
http://193.205.145.174/Presentazione/FramePres.html; [log in to unmask];
[log in to unmask] (04/01)
9 - 11 April 2001. Hands-Free Speech Communication. An ISCA Tutorial and
Research Workshop. Kyoto Japan. http://www.slt.atr.co.jp/hsc2001/ (08/00)
** 7 - 11 May 2001. ICASSP'2001 - International Conference on Acoustics,
Speech, and Signal Processing. Salt Lake City, USA.
http://www.icassp2001.org/ (04/01)
18 - 20 May 2001. TAPS 2001: Workshop on Typology of African Prosodic
Systems, University of Bielefeld, Germany (01/01)
30 May - 1 June 2001. 3rd International Phonology Meeting of the GDR 1954.
Nantes, France. [log in to unmask] (03/01)
** 2 - 7 June 2001. Language Technologies 2001: 2nd Meeting of the North
American Chapter of the ACL. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html (04/01)
4 - 8 June 2001. 141st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
Chicago, Illinois. http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html; [log in to unmask] (12/00)
3 - 16 June 2001. 4th International Speech Motor Conference. Nijmegen,
Netherlands. http://www.nici.kun.nl/speechmotconf/ (09/00)
18 - 22 June 2001. ORAGE 2001: ORAlity and GEstuality. Aix-en-Provence,
France. http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~gevoix/ORAGE2001;
[log in to unmask] (08/00)
18 - 22 June 2001. 2001, A Speaker Odyssey - The Speaker Recognition
Workshop. An ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop. Anogia, Crete, Greece.
http://www.odyssey.westhost.com/ (08/00)
21 - 23 June 2001. TENNET XII. Montreal, Canada.
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/tennet
30 June - 2 July 2001. Forensic Linguistics Ten years On - What Future?
University of Malta. http://home.um.edu.mt/litru/IAFL%20main.htm/ (02/01)
5 - 6 July 2001. Prosody in Processing (PiP). The Utrecht Institute of
Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University.
http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/conferences/pip/ (12/00)
6 - 7 July 2001. Fifth Computational Natural Language Learning Workshop.
Toulouse, France. http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2001/ (03/01)
** 6 - 7 July 2001. Workshop on Evaluation for Language and Dialogue
Systems, ACL/EACL 2001. Toulouse, France.
http://www.limsi.fr/TLP/CLASS/eacl01.html (04/01)
(See below under 'Conferences, Workshops & Meetings' for further
information.)
9 - 11 July 2001. The Neurological Basis of Language. Gronigen.
[log in to unmask]" target="_blank">http:[log in to unmask] (02/01)
** 13 - 17 July 2001. 2nd Workshop on Attitude, Personality and Emotions
in User-Adapted Interaction, in conjunction with User Modelling 2001.
Sonthofen, Germany. http://aos2.uniba.it:8080/ws-um01.html;
[log in to unmask] (04/01)
19 - 21 July 2001. 3rd UK Language Variation Conference. University of
York, UK. (11/00, 02/01)
30 July - 1 August 2001. Eurolan'01 Workshop On Multi-Layer Corpus-Based
Analysis. Iasi, Romania. http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/Eurolan01-ws.html
(03/01)
12 - 16 August 2001. 5th International Congress of Voice Teachers (ICVT):
Voice and Identity - Singing the Music of the World. Helsinki, Finland.
http://www.siba.fi/5ICVT/ (12/00)
23 - 26 August 2001. PEVOC IV: 4th Pan European Voice Conference.
Stockholm, Sweden. http://www.speech.kth.se/voice/pevoc4/ (12/00)
29 - 30 August 2001. Adaptation methods in Automatic Speech Recognition.
An ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop. Sophia Antipolis, France.
http://www.eurecom.fr/ITRW/ (12/00)
29 - 31 August 2001. DiSS'01: Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech. An ISCA
Tutorial and Research Workshop. University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/DISS-01/ (12/00)
** 29 August - 1 September 2001. 4th ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop
on Speech Synthesis. Perthshire, Scotland. http://www.ssw4.org;
[log in to unmask] (04/01)
(See below under 'Conferences, Workshops & Meetings' for further
information.)
3 - 7 September 2001. EUROSPEECH2001 - 7th European Conference on Speech
Communication and Technology. Aalborg, Denmark. http://eurospeech2001.org
(04/00)
10 - 13 September 2001, TSD 2001, International Conference on Text,
Speech, Dialogue, Zelezna Ruda, Czech Republic.
http://www-kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2001 (02/01)
13 - 15 September 2001. 2nd International Workshop on Models and Analysis
of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications. Firenze, Italy.
http://www.die.unifi.it/Conferences/maveba2001/home.htm (12/00)
** 14 -18 September 2001. Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis.
University of Birmingham, UK. [log in to unmask] (04/01)
(See below under 'Conferences, Workshops & Meetings' for further
information.)
3 - 5 October 2001. 2001 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal
Processing. Cannes, France. http://mmsp01.eurecom.fr/ (08/00)
7 - 10 October 2001. XXVII Deutscher Romanistentag, Muenchen.
[log in to unmask] (10/00)
** 11 - 13 October 2001. Conference on the Phonetics-Phonology Interface.
Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany.
http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/; [log in to unmask] (04/01)
(See below under 'Conferences, Workshops & Meetings' for further
information.)
11 - 14 October 2001. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 30. Raleigh, North
Carolina. http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/nwav;
[log in to unmask] (03/01)
** 22 - 24 October 2001. Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding.
Molly Pitcher Inn, Red Bank, NJ.
http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/conferences/prosody/ (04/01)
(See below under 'Conferences, Workshops & Meetings' for further
information.)
3 - 7 December 2001. 142nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html; [log in to unmask]
(12/00)
** 9 - 13 December 2001. ASRU'01: 2001 IEEE International Workshop on
Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding. Madonna di Campiglio
(Trento), Italy. http://asru01.itc.it/; [log in to unmask] (04/01)
(See below under 'Conferences, Workshops & Meetings' for further
information.)
3 - 7 June 2002. 143rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html; [log in to unmask]
(12/00)
** 21 - 24 October 2002. ICSLP'2002 - 7th International Conference on
Spoken Language Processing. Denver, USA.
http://cslr.colorado.edu/icslp2002/ (04/01)
2 - 6 December 2002. Joint Meeting: 144nd Meeting of the Acoustical
Society of America, 3rd Iberoamerican Congress of Acoustics and 9th
Mexican Congress on Acoustics. Cancun, Mexico.
http://asa.aip.org/cancun.html (12/00)
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CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS & MEETINGS
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Call for Papers
Workshop on Evaluation for Language and Dialogue Systems
ACL/EACL 2001
Toulouse, France
July 6-7, 2001
WORKSHOP GOALS
The aim of this two day workshop is to identify and to synthesize current
needs for language-technology evaluation. The first day of the workshop
will focus on one of the most challenging current issues in language
engineering: the evaluation of dialogue systems and models. The second day
will extend the discussion to address the problem of evaluation in
language engineering more broadly and on more theoretical grounds.
The space of possible dialogues is enormous, even for limited domains like
travel information servers. The generalization of evaluation methodologies
across different application domains and languages is an open problem.
Review of published evaluations of dialogue models and systems suggests
that usability techniques are the standard method. Dialogue-based systems
are often evaluated in terms of standard, objective usability metrics,
such as task-completion time and number of user actions. In the past,
researchers have proposed and debated theory-based methods for modifying
and testing the underlying dialogue model, but the most widely used method
of evaluation is usability testing, although more precise and empirical
methods for evaluating the effectiveness of dialogue models have been
proposed. For task-based interaction, typical measures of effectiveness
are time-to-completion and task outcome, but the evaluation should focus
on user satisfaction rather than on arbitrary effectiveness measurements.
Indeed, the problems faced in current approaches to measurement of
effectiveness dialogue models and systems include:
Direct measures are unhelpful because efficient performance on the nominal
task may not represent the most effective interaction
Indirect measures usually rely on judgment and are vulnerable to weak
relationships between the inputs and outputs
Subjective measures are unreliable and domain-specific
For its first day, the workshop organizers solicit papers on these issues,
with particular emphasis on methods that go beyond usability testing to
address the underlying dialogue model. Representative questions to be
addressed include:
o How do we deal with the combinatorial explosion of dialogue states?
o How can satisfaction be measured with respect to underlying dialogue
models?
o Are there useful direct measures of dialogue properties that do not
depend on task efficiency?
o What is the role of agent-based simulation in evaluation of dialogue
models?
Of course, the problems faced in evaluating dialogue and system models are
found in other domains of language engineering, even for non-interactive
processes such as part-of-speech tagging, parsing, semantic
disambiguation, information extraction, speech transcription, and audio
document indexing. So the issue of evaluation can be viewed at a more
generic level, raising fundamental, theoretical questions such as:
o What are the interest and benefits of evaluation for language
engineering?
o Do we really need these specific methodologies, since a form of
evaluation should always be present in any scientific investigation?
o If evaluation is needed in language engineering, is it the case for all
domains?
o What form should it take? Technology evaluation (task-oriented in
laboratory environment) or field/user Evaluation (complete systems in
real-life conditions)?
We have seen before that the evaluation of dialogue models is still
unsolved, but for domains where metrics already exists, are they
satisfactory and sufficient? How can we take into account or abstract from
the subjective factor introduced by human operators in the process? Do
similarity measures and standards offer appropriate answers to this
problem? Most of the efforts focus on evaluating process, but what about
the issue of language resources evaluation?
For its second day of work, the workshop organizers solicit papers on
these issues, with the intent to address the problem of evaluation both
from a broader perspective (including novel applications domains for
evaluation, new metrics for known tasks and resource evaluation) and a
more theoretical point of view (including formal theory of evaluation and
infrastructural needs of language engineering).
NOTE: People who would like to submit a paper on lexical semantic
disambiguation evaluation should consider the parallel workshop, on July
5-6, for the closure of the SENSEVAL-2 evaluation campaign.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
The organization of each of the two days of the workshop will reflect the
workshop's two main themes. Each day will begin with a session of
presentations of selected papers and follow with panel discussions to
synthesize and develop possible methodologies from additional selected
workshop papers.
WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION
The workshop seeks participation from people involved or interested in the
problem of evaluation in language processing and the research and
industrial communities that study and implement dialogue models for
natural-language interaction systems.
The first part of the workshop will specifically draw on the
natural-language interaction community, for instance like the one
developing at the confluence of SIGdial and SIGCHI, which will find in
this workshop anatmosphere more flavored by computational-linguistics
related issues (see, for example, the First SIGdial Workshop on Discourse
and Dialogue).
The second part of the workshop is intended to provide a forum for a
broader audience more in the spirit of the one that attended the LREC'2000
Satellite Workshop on Evaluation (see http://www.limsi.fr/TLP/CLASS), in
particular offering an opportunity to people involved in language
engineering evaluation (e.g ., the CLASS audience) in the context of
national or transnational projects or programs, both in Europe and abroad.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Paper submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings
and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly
recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files
tailored for this year's conference. They are available from the
ACL-2001program committee Web site at http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/.
Papers should be submitted electronically, as either a LaTeX, Word or
PDFfile to either:
Patrick Paroubek, [log in to unmask]
Karen Ward, [log in to unmask]
TIMETABLE OF IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for workshop paper submissions: April 6, 2001
Deadline for notification of workshop paper acceptance: April 27, 2001
Deadline for camera-ready workshop papers: May 16, 2001
Workshop date: July 6-7, 2001
WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
David G. Novick, UTEP [log in to unmask]http://www.cs.utep.edu/novick
Joseph Mariani, Limsi - CNRS
[log in to unmask]http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/mariani
Candy Kamm, AT&T Labs
[log in to unmask]http://www.research.att.com/info/cak
Patrick Paroubek, Limsi - CNRS
[log in to unmask]http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/pap
Nils Dahlbdck, Linkvping University
[log in to unmask]http://www.ida.liu.se/~nilda/
Frankie James, NASA Ames Research Center
[log in to unmask]http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/frankie/
Karen Ward, UTEP, [log in to unmask]http://www.cs.utep.edu/kward
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Additional information on the workshop, including accepted papers and the
workshop schedule, will be made available as needed at
http://www.limsi.fr/TLP/CLASS/eacl01.html
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Dear colleague(s),
The 4th ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis will take
place this year in Scotland from August 29th to September 1st.
Please consult: http://www.ssw4.org for further information.
One recurrent theme of this workshop is evaluation. Last time in Jenolan,
Australia, an on-site evaluation of tts systems was initiated. One
conclusion of this courageous initiative was that we clearly need more
fundamental research and experience on the comparative evaluation of the
intelligibility of natural and synthetic speech and the cognitive load
induced by these various tasks.
Very few papers on speech synthesis evaluation were presented at the
second LREC conference held in Athens last spring. Should this be
interpreted as a lack of activity in this field? Is speech synthesis not
mature enough to afford complex evaluation procedures? We should take the
occasion of this 4th ISCA workshop to brainstorm about this issue and we
hope that all researchers that have been active in this field during the
last decade will come to Scotland to promote new evaluation procedures,
share experience from other fields of speech research including, for
example, speech enhancement or speech coding.
As papers are the prime input of a workshop, we have decided to solicit
contributions: on behalf of the scientific committee, I invite you to
submit a paper related to evaluation.
Full and final paper submission deadline April 27, 2001
On the basis of your input, we will hopefully be in a position of
organizing a special session and a round-table on evaluation that will
elicit international cooperation and initiatives.
Keep me informed if you intend to show up!
See you in Perthshire!
Gerard Bailly
ICP - Grenoble
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Gerard Bailly ([log in to unmask])
Charg de Recherches CNRS
Institut de la Communication Parlee, URA CNRS 368
INPG/Universite Stendhal
46, av. Felix Viallet. 38031 GRENOBLE CEDEX. FRANCE
Tel: 4 76 57 47 11 Fax: 4 76 57 47 10
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From elsewhere : prefixed by 33
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Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis
September 14th-18th 2001
Following the success of the 2000 Summer School in Forensic Linguistic
Analysis held at Cambridge University, UK, we are pleased to announce
details of the Summer School 2001,to be hosted this year by the University
of Birmingham, UK.
If you or any of your colleagues or students are interested in attending
the summer school, please contact me to register your interest and to
obtain further details and an application form, as indicated below.
Best wishes
Janet Cotterill
SUMMER SCHOOL IN FORENSIC LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS 2001
14th - 18th September 2001
Tutors:
Professor Malcolm Coulthard (University of Birmingham)
Dr Janet Cotterill (Cardiff University)
Mr Tom Davis (University of Birmingham)
Dr Peter French (J P French Associates Ltd)
Mrs Sonia Russell (Freelance Legal Interpreter)
Course Outline:
Days 1 and 2: Forensic Linguistics and Courtroom Interaction (Professor
Malcolm Coulthard and Dr Janet Cotterill)
Day 3: Forensic Linguistics and Courtroom Interaction (Professor Malcolm
Coulthard and Dr Janet Cotterill)
Days 4 and 5: Other Specialisations (see below for details)
On days 4 and 5, the following three specialist areas will be offered:
Introduction to Forensic Handwriting Analysis (Mr Tom Davis)
Introduction to Interpreting in a Forensic Context (Mrs Sonia Russell)
Introduction to Forensic Phonetics (Dr Peter French)
Enrolment Packages (Please note - places on all packages are limited and
will be allocated on a first come, first served basis):
Package 1:
Five-day Introduction to Forensic Linguistics with Specialisations (Days
1-5)
Dates: September 14th-18th
Tuition Fee: GBP245
Package 2:
Four-day Introduction to Forensic Linguistics with Specialisations (Days
1-3 + 4 OR 5)
Dates: September 14th-18th
Tuition Fee: GBP200
Package 3:
Three-day Introduction to Forensic Linguistics (Days 1-3 OR 3-5)
Dates: September 14th-18th
Tuition Fee: GBP155
Package 4:
Two-day Specialisations (Selected from Days 3, 4 and 5)
Dates: September 16th-18th
Tuition Fee: GBP110
Individual Days: It is also possible to attend individual days of the
course at a cost of GBP60 per day. Please indicate which day of the
programme you are interested in.
Accommodation: All of the enrolment packages are available on a
residential or non-residential basis. Single room University accommodation
is available at a cost of GBP35 per night (including bed, breakfast and
lunch), with hotel accommodation also available on request.
Applications: Applicants for the Summer School should initially register
their interest by sending an email or fax to the following address,
stating which package they are interested in, and (where appropriate)
which of the specialisations they wish to study.
Attn: Dr Janet Cotterill
Fax: +44 (0)2920 874242
Email: [log in to unmask]
General enquiries about any aspect of the course may also be directed to
this address.
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CONFERENCE ON THE PHONETICS-PHONOLOGY INTERFACE
11-13 October 2001
Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany
CALL FOR PAPERS
In recent years there has been increased interest among phonologists and
phoneticians in incorporating phonetic explanations in phonological
analyses and in conducting experimental work within theframework of
"laboratory phonology". The goal of this conference is to discuss the
relation between phonetics and phonology from a broad perspective. We
welcome papers focussing on both the overall status of phonetic
(articulatory as well as perceptual) explanations in phonological theory
and also specific laboratory studies.
Invited speakers who have agreed to participate are:
Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam)
Edward Flemming (Stanford University)
Carlos Gussenhoven (University of Nijmegen)
Ian Maddieson (University of California at Berkeley)
Janet Pierrehumbert (Northwestern University)
In addition to these speakers there will be slots for 15-20 papers. While
abstracts are invited on papers dealing with any aspect of the
phonetics-phonology interface of particular interest are papers dealing
with the following topics:
1. The phonetic basis for phonological elements (features, segments,
syllables, sonority, stress)
2. The phonetic basis for typological generalizations (contrasts,
inventories) and diachronic change
3. The relationship between phonological and phonetic representations
4. The role of perception in phonology
Papers will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes discussion. Deadline for
submission of abstracts is 15 July 2001. There will be no conference fees.
Please send two hard copies of a 1 page abstract (one anonymous, one
camera ready with name and affiliation) as well as an e-mail copy as an
attachment to:
CPPI organizers
Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Jaegerstr. 10-11
10117 Berlin
Germany
The CPPI organizers:
Laura J. Downing
Susanne Fuchs
T. A. Hall
Silke Hamann
Bernd Pompino-Marschall
Marzena Rochon
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Fax: +49-30-20192-402
The ZAS website (to include the CPPI program in August) can be found at
http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/
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Advance Notice and Call for Participation
ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on:
Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding
The Molly Pitcher Inn, Red Bank NJ
October 22-24, 2001
Aims:
While there is a long tradition of experimentation with the use of
prosodic information in speech recognition, these experiments have been
largely unsuccessful from the point of view of improving transcription
accuracy. However, more recently, there have been renewed and more
successful efforts to find ways of incorporating prosodic information into
a wider variety of ASR-related tasks, such as identifying speech acts,
locating 'important' words and phrases, improving rejection accuracy,
finding topic segment boundaries, locating and processing disfluencies,
identifying user corrections in dialogue, identifying speakers and
languages, detecting speaker emotions, and so on. Real and experimental
applications to spoken dialogue systems and audio browsing and retrieval
systems have done much to fuel this interest. For all of these research
and application areas, the collection of appropriate corpora and the
development of useful prosodic labeling schemes for them have been
critical.
This workshop will focus on new ways to use prosodic information to
enhance speech recognition/understanding and supporting tasks. Papers on
speech technologies and their applications involving any aspect of prosody
in recognition and understanding are encouraged.
We especially encourage papers on prosody in:
language modeling
acoustic modeling
lexicon design
confidence modeling (e.g. improving rejection)
identifying speech acts
analyzing user corrections
identifying disfluencies
topic and discourse segmentation
speaker identification
identifying speaker emotions
prosodic labeling conventions and corpus collection
improving spoken dialogue systems
Abstracts of no more than 800 words in length should be submitted
electronically by April 13. For questions about or problems with
electronic submission, send email to [log in to unmask]
Important Dates:
Submissions due: April 13, 2001
Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2001
Deadline for Early Registration: June 15, 2001
Deadline for Regular Registration: July 15, 2001
Deadline for Final Papers: September 1, 2001
Workshop: October 22-24, 2001
Workshop Location:
The Molly Pitcher Inn (http://www.mollypitcher.com) is a waterfront inn,
located on the Navasink River in Red Bank NJ, part of the New Jersey Shore
region. It is convenient to boating and beaches, with good public
transportation to New York City and convenient to Newark Airport.
Accommodation and Registration Fees:
TBA
Proceedings:
Workshop proceedings will be available upon registration at the conference
center and subsequently on the workshop web site.
Language:
The official language of the workshop will be English.
ISCA The International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) is a
non-profit organization for promoting Speech Communication Science and
Technology internationally.
For membership and other information, please contact the ISCA secretariat
at:
c/o Institut fuer Communikationsforschung und Phonetik
Universitaet Bonn
Poppelsdorfer Allee 47
D-53115 Bonn, Germany
Tel: (+49) 228-735638
Fax: (+49) 228-735639
Email: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://www.isca-speech.org
This workshop is endorsed by SIGdial (www.sigdial.org), the ACL Special
Interest Group on Discourse & Dialog.
Organizing Committee
Michiel Bacchiani, AT&T Labs -- Research
Julia Hirschberg, AT&T Labs -- Research
Diane Litman, AT&T Labs -- Research
Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington
International Scientific Committee
James Allen, University of Rochester
Peter Heeman, Oregon Graduate Institute
Allen Gorin, AT&T Labs -- Research
Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan
Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado at Boulder
Gina Levow, University of Maryland at College Park
Elmar Noeth, Erlangen University
Richard Rose, AT&T Labs -- Research
Chilin Shih, Bell Laboratories
Elizabeth Shriberg, SRI International and ICSI
Andreas Stolcke, SRI International and ICSI
Marc Swerts, IPO and CNTS
Paul Taylor, Edinburgh University
Colin Wightman, MSUS
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Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2001
The workshop, sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, will be
held at Golf Hotel, Madonna di Campiglio (Trento), Italy, in December
9-13, 2001. The workshop will focus on recent advances and new paradigms
and systems for automatic speech recognition and understanding.
The following topics are of particular interest:
- Wireless ASR, Distributed Speech Recognition and Hands-Free Interaction
- ASR Robustness: Feature Extraction, Acoustic Modeling and Adaptation
- Broadcast News, Digital Archives and Audio-Video Information Retrieval
- Large Vocabulary: Language Modeling and Speech Understanding
- Multilinguality and Speech - to - Speech Translation
- Dialogue systems: Voice Agents, Applications and Field Trials
Attendance will be limited (about 180 participants) with priority given to
those who submit written technical contributions.
In cooperation with ISCA (the International Speech Communication
Association), the workshop will allocate a limited number of student
grants to qualified applicants. The conditions and procedure for grant
application can be found at http://www.isca-speech.org/grants.html.
For more information, comments and suggestions, please send email to
[log in to unmask]
Important dates
Electronic submission of 4-page full papers August 15, 2001
Super early registration before September 1, 2001
Notification of acceptance October 1, 2001
Advance registration before October 15, 2001
(no on-site registration)
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POSITIONS VACANT
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Computational Linguist
Responsibilities: Increase the naturalness of prosody for multiple
languages produced by IBM's proprietary text-to-speech system. Work in the
development of synthesis for further languages. IBM is a world leader in
statistical methods in linguistics, but our system is also an extensive
implementation of non-linear phonology. This job is an opportunity to
solve the problems of phonology in detail and to test the results.
Requirements: Degree in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics or Computer
Science required; Ph.D. a strong plus. Previous experience with speech
applications desired. Must have strong background in prosody and
phonology. Also we desire a knowledge of other areas of linguistics and
natural language processing, as well as knowledge of any of the following:
Portuguese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, UK English, and Finnish,
Japanese, Mandarin Chinese.
regards,
Phil Gleason, Ph.D.
561-615-4748, T/L 258-4748, Fax 561-615-7005
1555 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd. Ste. 615
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Internet: [log in to unmask]
Div 7G/Dept EJBA
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MSc in Psycholinguistics
at the University of Edinburgh
We announce a new one-year MSc degree in Psycholinguistics, at the
University of Edinburgh. The programme is based in the Department of
Psychology and draws on the world-class expertise in language research at
Edinburgh, principally in the Department of Psychology, the Division of
Informatics (incorporating the School of Cognitive Science), and the
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.
We invite applications from individuals with good honours degrees (or
their non-UK equivalent) in relevant disciplines. Our goal is to provide
students with a comprehensive introduction to research into the psychology
of language, taught by staff who are themselves internationally known
researchers in the field. The programme also provides training in a wide
range of research methods, and will be a valuable precursor to PhD studies
at Edinburgh or elsewhere.
Please visit our website for further information.
http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/Teaching/pg/psycholing.
Dr. Richard Shillcock
Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
Division of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9LW UK
MAIL : [log in to unmask]
VOICE : +44 (131) 650 4425
FAX : +44 (131) 650 6626
www : http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~rcs/
and
Department of Psychology
7 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JZ UK
VOICE : +44 (131) 650 3453
FAX : +44 (131) 650 3461
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BOOKS, JOURNALS, POSTERS
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Announcing...
LANGUAGE AND SPEECH has new Editors:
Tim Bunnell Irene Vogel
A. I. duPont Hospital for Children University of Delaware
We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. We are
trying to reach as broad an audience as possible to let everyone know
about some changes that have occurred-or soon will occur-with LANGUAGE AND
SPEECH.
As some of you may know, the editorship of the Journal underwent a change
last fall. After seven years of outstanding leadership, Ellen Gurman Bard
and D. Robert Ladd elected to hand over the reins of the joint editorship.
In the words of more than one colleague, 'they will be a hard act to
follow.' We will do our best to maintain the high standards they have set
for publication
quality.
With the change in editorship, the Journal is also adopting a new
editorial approach utilizing a group of associate editors covering a wide
range of expertise to serve as action editors. This change, along with new
electronic submission procedures should streamline our review process and
should help to reduce lag times between submission and publication dates.
Please see our web site at the address shown below for more details.
LANGUAGE AND SPEECH will continue to reflect the current trend toward a
multidisciplinary approach to research in Linguistics, Cognitive Science,
and Spoken Language Processing. We welcome your manuscripts of
full-length articles, and suggestions for possible special topic issues.
The new contact information (effective immediately) for the LANGUAGE AND
SPEECH Editorial Office is:
Language and Speech Editorial Office
Research Department
Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
1600 Rockland Road
Wilmington, DE 19803
USA
Phone +1-302-651-6830
Fax +1-302-651-6895
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URI http://www.asel.udel.edu/lgsp
Joint Editors:
H. Timothy Bunnell duPont Hospital for Children
Irene B. Vogel University of Delaware
Associate Editors:
Nick Campbell ATR Spoken Language Translation Res. Labs
John S. Coleman University of Oxford
Anne Cutler Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics
Martine Grice Universitaet des Saarlandes
Christine H. Nakatani Nuance Communications
Elizabeth Shriberg SRI International and ICSI
Marc Swerts IPO, Center for User-System Interaction
Alice Turk University of Edinburgh
Marilyn M. Vihman University of Wales, Bangor
Paul Warren Victoria University of Wellington
Administrative Assistant:
Heidi Altmann University of Delaware
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An Illustrated History Of Speech Technology In Language Learning
The InSTIL SIG of CALICO, EUROCALL and ISCA has undertaken to complete as
soon as possible this year AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SPEECH TECHNOLOGY IN
LANGUAGE LEARNING in the form of an exhibition of 20 large posters to be
shown at EUROCALL 2001, Nijmegen, Holland and EUROSPEECH 2001, Aalborg,
Denmark and on a web site at http://www.language-speech.com/ (cloaked
redirected also from langue-parole.com). For more info. on the InSTIL
SIG, see http://dbs.tay.ac.uk/instil/.
The Exhibition will also be shown in the USA at InSTIL 2002 in Mid-March,
San Diego, California.
A model for what we are doing can be found on the web site for the History
of Computer Assisted Language Learning at http://www.history-of-call.org/
(this project will also be much enhanced this year).
CALL FOR INFORMATION:
If you have made any form of contribution relevant to History of the
Integration of Speech Technology in Language Learning, please give us a
summary with dates, names of people, pictures, etc. If you know someone
who has, please tell us so we can contact them, we have already done much
research but are grateful for information from any source. We will
naturally link up to any organisation of importance in the field including
HLT portals, ELSNET, etc our parent associations, the EduSIG, other SIGs
of ISCA, etc but if you represent an association of some importance to a
sub area of our field, please let us know. This initiative is also linked
to our gathering of information on Resources relevant to InSTIL (the
InSTIL database to be published in 2002).
THE EXHIBITION:
If we have a good enough response, we will include a small number of
artifacts to illustrate this history. If you are in a position to lend
such an artifact, please let us know. We can give you plenty of examples
of hardware, software, courseware or publications artifacts you could
contribute. We would reimburse any expenses you incur.
INDUSTRY SPONSORS:
We were very fortunate last year to enlist the assistance of quite a few
industry sponsors (sometimes just in kind), if you are involved in a field
which impacts on the Integration of Speech Technology in LL and would like
to get involved, please contact Philippe at [log in to unmask]
Best regards and thanking you in anticipation,
Philippe
InSTIL SIG European co-co-ordinator.
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Material for the May 2001 issue of foNETiks should reach us by 27 April
2001.
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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