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:

Abstracts of no more than 800 words in length should be submitted electronically (see Electronic Submissions) by April 24. PLEASE USE ASCII OR POSTSCRIPT FORMAT ONLY. For questions about or problems with electronic submission, send email to mo@ee.washington.edu.

Important Dates:

Submissions due: April 24, 2001
Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2001
Deadline for Early Registration: June 22, 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: info@isca-speech.org
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

International Scientific Committee