<div dir="ltr">-- Apologies for cross posting --<br><br><br>PROSLI - Prosody for self-learning instruction<br>Workshop at ICNAAM<br>26-27 September 2013, Rodos Palace Hotel, Rhodes, Greece<br><a href="http://www.icnaam.org/" target="_blank">http://www.icnaam.org/</a><br>
<br>Prosody addresses fundamental components of speech communication -
such as intonation and rhythm - which must be mastered by language
learners in order to understand and make themselves understood properly
in the target language. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) almost never
incorporates such components. As a result, speech technologies for
self-learning instructions (SLI) are unable to offer feedback to
learners as to their prosodic skills. In most cases, prosody is made
object of specific separate tools. <br>
The workshop will try to cover the whole spectrum of topics both
theoretical and practical, that deal with prosody and self-learning
instructions. It will include demonstration and state of the art of such
tools, their effectiveness in self-learning contexts. It will address
prosodic issues in language learning from both the analysis and the
perception viewpoint and their accountability in real world
applications. In particular, of interest to the workshop will also be
ASR systems for languages like Chinese, which naturally incorporate tone
level parameters in their language models; or like Japanese which need
to account for durational differences at phonemic and subphonemic level.<br>
<br>Submission: look for formatting details in the main conference
website, and then send a 4 pages extended abstract with your affiliation
to this address, <a href="mailto:delmont@unive.it" target="_blank">delmont@unive.it</a>.<br><br>Deadlines<br>
• Early-bird registration: April 20, 2013<br> • Paper submission: May 30, 2013<br> • Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2013<br> • Submission of camera ready paper: July 28, 2013<br> • Conference days: September 26-27, 2013<br>
<br>Program Committee<br>Björn Granström, KTH, Center Speech Technology<br>Daniel Hirst, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université<br>Philippe Martin, Université Paris Diderot<br>Ruediger Hoffmann - Technische Universität Dresden<br>
Helmer Strik, Radboud University, Nijmegen<br>Anton Batliner, University of Munich<br>Barbara Gili Favela, Università di Lecce<br>Fabio Tamburini, Università di Bologna<br>Jared Bernstein, Pearson Knowledge Technologies<br>
Brigitte Bigi, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université<br>Anne Bonneau, LORIA, France<br>Uwe Reichel, University of Munich<br>Rodolfo Delmonte, Ca' Foscari University Venice<div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br>Rodolfo Delmonte Ph.D.<br>
Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics<br>Director of Laboratory of Computational Linguistics<br>Department of Linguistic Studies<br>Ca' Bembo - Dorsoduro 1075<br>30123 VENEZIA (Italy)<br>website: http//<a href="http://project.cgm.unive.it" target="_blank">project.cgm.unive.it</a><br>
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