30.3000, Confs: General Linguistics/Taiwan

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Subject: 30.3000, Confs: General Linguistics/Taiwan

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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 01:53:23
From: Tiffany Liu [2019lpss at gmail.com]
Subject: 3rd International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech

3rd International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech 
Short Title: LPSS 2019 

Date: 21-Nov-2019 - 22-Nov-2019 
Location: Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan 
Contact: Tiffany Liu 
Contact Email: 2019lpss at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://lpss2019.ling.sinica.edu.tw/index.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The first LPSS was held in Academia Sinica in 2006 to specifically bring
together scholars from linguistics and speech technology for interaction and
discussion about what spontaneous speech is and how it can be understood and
dealt with, given the common goal is to look for genuine linguistic patterns. 

In 2010, Kikuo Maekawa and Yasuharu Den hosted the second LPSS, as an
Interspeech satellite event, embracing a prospective variety of research
topics related to spontaneous speech and disfluency. Since 2014, the Institute
of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (ILAS) and the National Institute for Japanese
Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) have established bilateral collaborations.
The collaboration project, Cross-linguistic research of the phonetic
representations of filled pauses, has been successful in exchanging Chinese
and Japanese data and research methodology on spontaneous speech. Given the
fast-growing demands of intelligent technology systems involving the spoken
language, the third LPSS in 2019 aims to explore the application possibilities
of spontaneous speech, including technology, pathology, and acquisition.
Moreover, the organizers also hope to minimize the efforts that individual
teams have to make by discussing the common theoretical and empirical works
and by sharing data and know-how, with an integrative view.

Program:

For the full program visit:
http://lpss2019.ling.sinica.edu.tw/slides/LPSS2019_ProgramTentative0725.pdf

Invited speech I: Kelly Davis (Mozilla)
Free(ing) Speech: Collection, Validation, and Recognition

Session 1: NINJAL/ILAS spoken data resources 
Japanese spoken corpora (NINJAL) 
Hanae Koiso (National Institute for Japanese language and Linguistics)

Mandarin spoken corpora (ILAS)
Shu-Chuan Tseng (Academia Sinica)

Session 2: Fillers in spontaneous speech
A comparison of disfluencies in scripted and non-scripted spontaneous speech
Ralph Rose

Comparison of factors related to probabilities of three filler types, “Ee”,
“Anoo” and “Maa” in informal presentation speeches in Japanese
Michiko Watanabe and Yuma Shirahata

How social settings affect our language and interaction: A case of fillers
Yasuharu Den

Session 3: Poster presentations
Automatic detection of fillers in Mandarin conversational speech
Yeh-Sheng Lin, Hen-Hsen Huang, Shu-Chuan Tseng and Hsin-Hsi Chen

A corpus-based analysis of the functions of “kedo utterances”
Xing Yan and Yasuharu Den

Towards building a construction of talk-in-interaction: a data-driven,
vector-based method to describe properties of (lexical) constructions in talk
Andreas Liesenfeld

Processing of some special syllable structures in Mongolian for use in speech
database
Yurong and Ken’ya Nishikawa

An exploratory study on prosodic features in Mandarin-speaking preschoolers: A
case study
Yi-Ting Tsai and Lili Yeh

Invited speech II: Satoshi Imaizumi (University of Tokyo Health Sciences)
Speech Patterns of Children with Neuro-developmental Disorders

Invited speech III: Charles D. Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
The Role of the Lexicon in Phonological Acquisition and Change

Session 4: Prosodic-phonetic characteristics of speech
Quantifying and correlating rhythm zones in speech
Dafydd Gibbon and Peng Li

Prosodic diversity according to relationship among participants in everyday
Japanese conversation
Yuichi Ishimoto and Hanae Koiso

A cross-language study of VOT and F0 of stop consonants in six languages
Katsumasa Shimizu

Session 5: Discussion session 
Moderators: Yi-Fen Liu, Lily Yeh and Alvin Chen
Kelly Davis 
Satoshi Imaizumi 
Charles Yang 

Session 6: Spoken data projects
Development of a large-scale Taiwanese Min speech corpus for improving
human-computer interaction
Yuan-Fu Liao, Hui-Ju Hsu, Un-Gian Iunn, Chun-Yuan Cheng, Jane S. Tsay and
Yung-Hsiang Shawn Chang

Spontaneous speech elicitation for large speech corpus in multilingual
Singapore
Ying Ying Tan

Should we use movie subtitles to study linguistic patterns of conversational
speech? 
A contrastive study based on French, English and Taiwan Mandarin
Laurent Prévot, Pierre Magistry and Pierre Lison

Session 7: Panel discussion

Demo sessions:
NINJAL
Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (https://pj.ninjal.ac.jp/corpus_center/csj/en/)
Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation
(https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/L18-1672)
Corpus of Japanese Dialects
(https://repository.ninjal.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=1924&file_id=4
8&file_no=1 pp.21-28)
Comprehensive searching environment for the above corpora

ILAS
Taiwan Mandarin Adult Conversation Corpus
Taiwan Mandarin Child speech Corpus
Taiwan Mandarin Sociolinguistic Database
Query system for the above corpora
Normative Database of Taiwan Mandarin Children Developmental Speech

Mozilla
Common Voice Project

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