Corpora: Transcription Workshop COLING-ACL98

BELMORE@vax2.concordia.ca
Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:18:32 -0400 (EDT)

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COLING-ACL 98

The 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
(COLING-98) and the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL-98)

Workshop on

PARTIALLY AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSCRIBING
NATURALLY OCCURRING, CONTINUOUS SPEECH

August 16, 1998 (following ACL/COLING-98)
University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec (Canada)

DESCRIPTION
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The development of robust systems for speech analysis and synthesis
depends crucially on the availability of well-annotated corpora of
naturally occurring, continuous speech. Yet existing speech corpora
are rarely well-annotated. A key to proper annotation is the
availability of partially automated systems for linking selected
portions of a visual display of speech to the corresponding
transcriptions. To be of practical use, such systems must be able to
handle large files of digitized speech and they should permit
transcriptions at different levels of analysis.
This workshop is devoted to the presentation and discussion of
papers and software demonstrations which reflect the current state of
the art. The presentations address the development, use, and
evaluation of such systems.

REGISTRATION
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Registration is now open for this workshop. Registration details can
be found at

http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca

Registration before July 1 is Can$50 (Can$35 students) for
participants of the main conference. Anybody wishing to attend only
this workshop can do so by pre-registering the same way and submitting
a fee of Can$150. Preregistration is strongly advised.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM
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Session 1

9:15-9:30
Opening remarks
Nancy Belmore, Research Professor of Applied Linguistics
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec (Canada)

9:30-10:05
Recognition of Spontaneous Speech (Invited talk)
Peter Stubley, Advisor, Speech and Language Processing Technology,
Nortel Advanced Technology, Montreal, Quebec (Canada)

10:05-10:30
Break

Session 2

10:30-11:05
Towards Multimodal Spoken Language Corpora: Transtool and Synctool
Joachim Nivre, Elisabeth Ahlsen, Jens Allwood, Leif Gronqvist, Jenny
Holm, Dario Lopez-Kasten, Sylvana Sofkova, Kristina Tullgren
Department of Linguistics
Gothenburg University, Gothenburg (Sweden)

11:05-11:40
Speech Annotation by Multi-sensory Recording
Robert Luk
Department of Computing
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, (Hong Kong)

11:40-12:15
How Phone Duration and Segmental Processing Improve Continuous Speech
Signal Labeling
Andre-Obrecht, N. Parlangeau, F. Pellegrino
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
Universite Paul Sabatier - CNRS, Toulouse (France)

12:15-1:15
Lunch

Session 3

1:15-1:50
Grapheme-to-phoneme Transcription Rules for Spanish with Application
to Automatic Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Patrizia Bonaventura, Fabio Giuliani, Juan M. Garrido, Isabel Orten
Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecommunicazioni,Turin (Italy)
and
Departament de Filologia Espanyola, Universitaet Autonoma de Barcelona
(Spain)

1:50-2:25
The Value of Minimal Prosodic Information
Caroline Lyon and Jill Hewitt
Computer Science Department
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Herts. (UK)

2:25-3:00
Taped demonstrations

3:00-3:30
Break

Session 4

3:30-4:00
On-line demonstrations

4:00-5:00
Round table discussion

Workshop Organization
Sabine Bergler.Associate Prof. of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd West
Montreal, QC H3G 1M8
e-mail trans98@cs.concordia.ca

Program Committee
Nancy Belmore, Research Professor of Applied Linguistics, Concordia
University, Montreal (Canada)
Sabine Bergler, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Concordia
University, Montreal (Canada)
John Esling,Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of
Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia (Canada) and Secretary,
International Phonetic Association
Eric Keller, Professor of Computer Science and Director, Laboratoire
informatique de la parole, University of Lausanne, Lausanne
(Switzerland)
Roland Kuhn, Speech Technology Laboratory, Panasonic Technologies,
Inc. Santa Barbara, California (U.S.A.)
Douglas O'Shaughnessy, Professor, Institut national de la recherche
scientifique (INRS)-Telecommunications, Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
Ching Y. Suen, Professor of Computer Science and Director, Centre for
Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, Concordia University,
Montreal, Quebec (Canada).