17.2721, Confs: General Ling, Pragmatics/Taiwan

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Subject: 17.2721, Confs: General Ling, Pragmatics/Taiwan

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Date: 21-Sep-2006
From: Shu-Chuan Tseng < tsengsc at gate.sinica.edu.tw >
Subject: International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech 

	
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Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:35:36
From: Shu-Chuan Tseng < tsengsc at gate.sinica.edu.tw >
Subject: International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech 
 

International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech 
Short Title: LPSS 2006 

Date: 17-Nov-2006 - 18-Nov-2006 
Location: Taipei, Taiwan 
Contact: Shu-Chuan Tseng 
Contact Email: tsengsc at gate.sinica.edu.tw 
Meeting URL: http://www.lpss.sinica.edu.tw 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics 

Meeting Description: 

This symposium will focus on research results on the processing, analysis 
and understanding of the linguistic characteristics of spontaneous speech.  
And it will also provide an excellent opportunity for linguists, speech 
engineers, and practitioners of natural language processing and system 
developers to share with each other the latest thinking and results on 
spontaneous speech. With no restriction on the languages under 
investigation, we are interested in contributions concerned with phenomena 
in all languages. Invited speakers of the symposium are Dafydd Gibbon, 
Kikuo Maekawa and Elizabeth Shriberg. 

For further details about this symposium, please visit our website at 
http://www.lpss.sinica.edu.tw. 

Friday, 17 November 2006

Invited speech: 
Dafydd Gibbon (Universität Bielefeld)
Can there be standards for spontaneous speech? Towards an ontology for speech
resource exploitation

Session: Spoken dialogues 
1. Milan Gnjatovi? and Dietmar Rösner 
Gathering Corpora of Affected Speech in Human-Machine Interaction: Refinement of
the Wizard-of-Oz Technique

2. Anna Filipi and Roger Wales
Speaker's orientation to directional terms as problematic: task based talk and
interaction

3. Kenji Takano and Akira Shimazu
Recognizing local dialogue structures and dialogue acts

Invited speech: 
Kikuo Maekawa (National Institute for Japanese Language)
Analysis of language variation using a large-scale corpus of spontaneous speech

Session: Prosody 
1. Yi-Fen Liu, Shu-Chuan Tseng, Ya-Fang He, Yun-Ju Huang and Tzu-Lun Lee
Prosodic units for spontaneous speech understanding

2. Philippe Martin
Spontaneous speech intonation in French

3. Adrian Leemann and Beat Siebenhaar
Prosodic Features of Spontaneous Utterance-Initial Phrases in Bernese and Valais
Swiss German

4. Chun-lin Luo
Child Tone Acquisition in Mandarin: A Case Study


Saturday, 18 November 2006

Invited speech: 
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (Beckman Institute/UIUC)
Prosodically organized automatic speech recognition 

Session: ASR and software
1. Che-Kuang Lin, Shu-Chuan Tseng and Lin-Shan Lee
Spontaneous Mandarin speech recognition with disfluencies detected by latent
prosodic modeling

2. Tae-Jin Yoon, Xiaodan Zhuang, Jennifer Cole and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Voice quality dependent speech recognition 

3. Philippe Martin
Design of a high-performance dedicated software tool for transcription and
alignment of large spontaneous speech corpora

Session: Miscellaneous topics
1. Yi-Rung Chen
Verbal behaviors about remembering in conversation

2. Annie Wenhui Yang
Silences as Politeness Strategies in Trade Negotiation

3. Anna Alexandrovna Isaeva
Use of Lingiustic Analysis in Spontaneous Speech Translation

4. Abdulmohsen Dashti
English / Kuwaiti Arabic Code-Switching as a Strategy of Language Choice in Some
Kuwaiti Families

Session: Disfluency
1. Yasuharu Den
Prolongation in clause-initial mono-word phrases in Japanese

2. Helen Kai-yun Chen
An interactive perspective toward the sound pattern of Mandarin single word
recycling repairs

3. Takehiko Maruyama and Shin'ichiro Sano
Classification and Annotation of Self-Repairs in Japanese Spontaneous Monologues

4. Ai-li C. Hsin and Tzu-ying Wu
Pause pattern and prosodic manifestations of complementizer and determiner That:
A study of Chinese EFL leaners

Panel discussion: How to understand/deal with spontaneous speech ?





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