13.2335, Confs: Speech Prosody - Nara, Japan

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Subject: 13.2335, Confs: Speech Prosody - Nara, Japan

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Date:  Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:01:26 +0200
From:  Daniel Hirst <daniel.hirst at lpl.univ-aix.fr>
Subject:  First announcement: The second international conference on speech          prosody. SP2004

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Date:  Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:01:26 +0200
From:  Daniel Hirst <daniel.hirst at lpl.univ-aix.fr>
Subject:  First announcement: The second international conference on speech          prosody. SP2004

Speech Prosody 2004
First announcement

March 23-26, 2004 in Nara, Japan

Inspired by the success of the first international conference on
prosody 2002 in Aix-en-Provence, Japanese researchers who are working
on speech prosody are planning to invite the next conference to Nara,
an ancient capital of Japan.  The rationale for holding the second
conference in Japan is that we have two on-going projects related to
prosody: one is "Prosody and Speech Processing," a large-scale
National Project supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
on Priority Areas from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
of Japan (headed by Keikichi Hirose at the University of Tokyo), and
the other is "Processing of Expressive Speech," funded by the Japan
Science & Technology Agency (headed by Nick Campbell at ATR).  Since
both projects will last until the end of March 2004, it is quite
opportune for us to host the conference toward the end of March, when
the climate and scenary in Nara are ideal.

The current plan is as follows:

- Venue:  Nara New Convention Center, Nara, Japan
- Period: March 23 (Tuesday) to 26 (Friday), 2004
- Committee:
   Honorary Chair: Hiroya FUJISAKI (Professor Emeritus, University of
	Tokyo)
   Chair:          Keikichi HIROSE (University of Tokyo)
   Vice Chair:     Nick CAMPBELL (ATR)
   Secretary:      Nobuaki MINEMATSU (University of Tokyo)
- Preliminary List of Topics:

  	Analysis, Formulation and Modeling of Prosody
	Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and Prosody
  	Cross-linguistic Studies of Prosody
   	Variations in Prosody
   	Prosody of Dialogues and Spontaneous Speech
   	Prosody of Emotional Speech
   	Prosody and Speech Perception
   	Prosody in Speech Synthesis
   	Prosody in Speech Recognition/Understanding
   	Pathology of Prosody and Aids for the Impaired
   	Speech Corpus for Prosody Research/Applications
   	Others

We are also pleased to give preliminary information on a satellite
symposium being planned by our colleagues at the Institute of
Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing.
Here are the plans:

- Tentative Title:
     International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages - with
	Emphasis on Tone Languages -
- Venue:  Institute of Linguistics, Beijing, China
- Period: March 28 (Sunday), 2004,  registration
           March 29 (Monday) to 30 (Tuesday), symposium
- Committes (tentative):
   Honorary Chair: Zongji WU  (Emeritus Nember, Institute of
	Lingusitics)
   Chair:          Maocan LIN (Institute of Linguistics)
   Secretary:      Aijun  LI  (Institute of Linguistics)

For further information, please contact

Keikichi HIROSE   mailto:hirose at gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (for SP2004)


Maocan LIN 	  mailto:linmaocan at 263.net (for the symposium in Beijing)

We hope that our plans will meet the approval of many colleagues
working in the fields of research related to speech prosody both in
basic sciences and applied technology, and look forward to welcoming
you to Nara and Beijing,

Keikichi HIROSE and Maocan LIN

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