Beyond Short Units
16-19 April 2008; Naples, ItalyThis is the 3rd S2S workshop.
Using non segmental units and top-down models in speech recognition in humans and machines
The event will have a double identity: both a workshop and a doctoral school. The workshop is planned to be a succession of debates and tutorials held by invited speakers in which phoneticians and phonologists, psycholinguists and speech engineers compare their opinions on these themes.
Workshop themes:
- Fine Phonetic Detail
- ASR based on “long” segments
- Alternative ASR acoustic models
- Non segmental features for ASR
- Multi-modal speech representation and analysis
- Choosing the best analysis unit for speech processing
- Time, duration and tempo: common clocks between the listener and the speaker
- Constraints, interactions and relations between phonetics and “higher” linguistic levels in spoken language
- Spoken language grammar
- Language Modelling for ASR
Invited speakers (confirmed):
- G. Coro, Milano, IT
- P. Cosi, Padova, IT
- U. Frauenfelder, Geneva, CH
- S. Hawkins, Cambridge, UK
- J. Local, York, UK
- R. Moore, Sheffield, UK
- L. ten Bosch, Nijmegen, NL
- M. Voghera, Salerno, IT
- J. Volin, Prague, CZ
- L. White, Bristol, UK
The workshop is mainly directed to S2S members but a limited number (about 20) of contributions (posters) will be accepted from any other interested researcher.
S2S members (with a preference for fellows) can also contribute to the poster session.
Those who intend to contribute to the workshop with a poster on one of the above cited themes should send an abstract (minimum two A4 pages) to:
s2snaples@gmail.com
not later than 29th February 2008, acceptation will be notified within 10th March 2008.
The same e-mail address can be used for any further questions.
Further details about travel and accommodation etc can be found at http://s2snaples.fisica.unina.it/
