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<div align="center">TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation<br>
June 19-21, 2006<br>
Barcelona, Spain <br><br>
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TC-STAR is a European integrated project focusing on Speech-to-Speech
Translation (SST).<br>
The project targets unconstrained conversational speech domains in three
languages: European English, European Spanish, and Mandarin
Chinese.<br><br>
The workshop intends to bring together researchers working on all aspects
of speech-to-speech translation and to compare TC-Star innovative
approaches to other on-going research projects. The workshop is
associated with an open evaluation campaign (for details see:
<a href="http://www.elda.org/tcstar-workshop/">
www.elda.org/tcstar-workshop</a>), whose results will be presented in
addition to regular papers.<br><br>
TOPICS OF INTEREST<br><br>
The workshop invites the submission of papers on original and unpublished
research on all aspects of speech-to-speech translation:
<ul>
<li>speech and language translation
<li>speech recognition
<li>speech synthesis
<li>evaluation and system aspects: performance measures, integration of
recognition and translation, combination of system outputs, ...
</ul><br>
Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. Further
details on the submission guidelines can be found on the workshop web
site
<a href="http://www.elda.org/tcstar-workshop/">
www.elda.org/tcstar-workshop</a>.<br><br>
INVITED SPEAKERS:<br>
F. Och, Google Research, USA: Machine Translation<br>
M. Gales, U Cambridge, UK: Speech Recognition<br>
N. Campbell, ATR, Japan: Speech Synthesis<br><br>
IMPORTANT DATES:<br>
Submission of full papers (6 pages) March 1, 2006<br>
Notification of acceptance April 17, 2006<br>
"Camera-ready" paper submission May 22, 2006<br>
Registration June 2, 2006<br>
Workshop June 19-21, 2006<br><br>
ORGANIZING COMITTEE:<br>
A. Bonafonte, UP Catalunya, Spain<br>
K. Choukri, ELDA, France<br>
J.-L. Gauvain, LIMSI, France<br>
J. Kunzmann, IBM, Germany<br>
G. Lazzari, ITC-IRST, Italy<br>
H. Ney (Workshop Chair), RWTH Aachen, Germany<br>
H. van den Heuvel, U Nijmegen, Netherlands <br><br>
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:<br>
A. Black, CMU, USA<br>
B. Byrne, U Cambridge, UK<br>
N. Campbell, ATR, Japan<br>
F. Casacuberta, UP Valencia, Spain<br>
T. Ciloglu, METU Ankara, Turkey<br>
L. Deng, Microsoft Research, USA<br>
M. Federico, ITC-IRST, Italy<br>
G. Foster, NRC-IIT Ottawa, Canada<br>
T. Hain, U Sheffield, UK<br>
U. Hain, Siemens, Germany<br>
Z. Kacic, U Maribor, Slovenia<br>
K. Kirchhoff, U Washington, USA<br>
R. Kuhn, NRC-IIT Ottawa, Canada<br>
J. Marino, UP Catalunya, Spain<br>
H. Meng, CUHK, China<br>
D. Mostefa, ELDA, France<br>
J. Nurminen, Nokia, Finland<br>
F. Och, Google Research, USA<br>
L. Qun, ICT, China<br>
S. Roukos, IBM Research, USA<br>
J. Senellart, Systran Research, France<br>
I. Shafran, Johns Hopkins U, USA<br>
H. Uszkoreit, DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany<br>
A. Venkataraman, SRI, USA<br>
A. Waibel, U Karlsruhe, Germany<br>
R. Zens, RWTH Aachen, Germany<br>
C. Zong, NLPR, China<br>
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