[Corpora-List] Call for papers: Workshop on very-large-scale phonetics research

[Catherine Lai]

Call for papers

Workshop on New Tools and Methods for Very-Large-Scale Phonetics Research
University of Pennsylvania, January 28-31, 2011.

Today, advances in networking, computation and mass storage are promising a
new revolution in phonetics research: a movement from the study of small,
mostly artificial datasets to the analysis of published corpora of natural
speech that are thousands of times larger. To welcome and promote this
revolution, we are organizing a workshop on new tools and methods for
Very-Large-Scale phonetics research, as part of a newly awarded NSF grant.
The themes of the workshop include: integration of speech technology in
phonetics studies (including software to facilitate teaching and research);
variation and invariance in large speech corpora; and revisiting classic
phonetic and phonological problems from the perspective of corpus phonetics.

The last day of the workshop (January 31st) is for those interested in
discussing development of tools suitable for teaching acoustic-phonetic
analysis to beginners while allowing smooth progression to efficient
advanced research protocols. The aim is to capitalize on the strengths of
existing freeware systems, losing none of their capabilities, while
providing as unified a platform as possible for future development.

Authors of contributions on Very-Large-Scale phonetics may submit either
extended abstracts or Interspeech-style papers (up to four pages) via the
workshop website at *http://ling.upenn.edu/phonetics/workshop*. In addition,
those interested in participating in the freeware tools workshop on January
31st are warmly invited to apply by emailing
speech.tools.workshop at gmail.comwith an outline (less than 1000 words)
of what you would like to contribute
to the workshop, and (if you wish) other topics that you would like
discussed.

Selected papers from the workshop will be published in a special issue of *The
Journal of Experimental
Linguistics<http://elanguage.net/journals/index.php/jel/index>
*. A tutorial on forced alignment and the Penn Phonetics Lab Forced Aligner
will also be provided prior to the workshop. Further details are available
on the workshop website: *http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phonetics/workshop*.

Important Dates

* Nov. 21, 2010: Abstract/paper submission deadline
* Jan. 28, 2011: Tutorial on forced alignment
* Jan. 29-31, 2011: Workshop

 Organizing Committee

Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania (January 29-30)
Andreas Stolcke, SRI International and ICSI (January 29-30)
Jiahong Yuan, University of Pennsylvania (January 29-30)
Suzanne Boyce, University of Cincinnati (January 31)
Sarah Hawkins, University of Cambridge (January 31)
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