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Subject: 7.247, Calls: Models of lang, Spoken dialogue at ECAI
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 19:23:10 PST
From: <kornai at almaden.ibm.com> (Andras Kornai)
Subject: Call For Papers: Extended finite state models of language
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:10:13 EST
From: susann at azrael.mitre.org (Susann LuperFoy)
Subject: Workshop on Spoken Dialogue at ECAI
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 19:23:10 PST
From: <kornai at almaden.ibm.com> (Andras Kornai)
Subject: Call For Papers: Extended finite state models of language
CALL FOR PAPERS
ECAI '96 workshop on "Extended finite state models of language"
Aug 11-12, Budapest, Hungary
Organizing Committee: Eva Ejerhed, Umea University (chair)
Frederic Jelinek, Johns Hopkins University
Lauri Karttunen, Xerox PARC and Rank Xerox Research Center
Andras Kornai, IBM Almaden Research Center
In spite of the wide availability of more powerful (context-free,
mildly context-sensitive, and even Turing-equivalent) formalisms, the
bulk of the applied work on language and sublanguage modeling is
actually performed by (extended) finite state methods where most of
execution time is spent in a state machine. The goal of the workshop
is to bring together those developing and using such methods to text
analysis, speech/OCR language modeling, and related CL and NLP tasks
with those in AI and CS interested in analyzing and possibly extending
the domain of finite-state algorithms. For a more detailed call, list
of confirmed papers, deadlines, and submission details (electronic
submissions preferred) see http://www.cs.rice.edu/~andras/ecai.html.
Andras Kornai
IBM Research Division, DPE/803
Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Road
San Jose, CA 95120-6099
Tel: (408) 927-1921
Fax: (408) 927-4145
Email: kornai at almaden.ibm.com
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:10:13 EST
From: susann at azrael.mitre.org (Susann LuperFoy)
Subject: Workshop on Spoken Dialogue at ECAI
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CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
ECAI-96 Workshop on
Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems
12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-96)
Budapest, Hungary
August 13, 1996
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Elisabeth Maier Marion Mast Susann LuperFoy
DFKI Saarbruecken Erlangen University MITRE
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Nick Campbell ATR, Japan
Morena Danieli CSELT, Italy
Norman Fraser VOCALIS, UK
Julia Hirschberg AT&T, USA
Susann LuperFoy MITRE, USA
Elisabeth Maier DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany
Marion Mast Erlangen University, Germany
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
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The development of dialogue components for interactive systems that
employ speech as input and/or output modality has to take into account
problems that are specific for the treatment of spoken language. Among
these problems are the following:
* Segmentation of dialogue contributions into basic units
While for dialogue systems that cope with written / typed
language a sentence can serve as basic unit for dialogue
modeling, this approach cannot be applied for the treatment of
spontaneous speech or even read speech, where phrasing of
sentences may differ from speaker to speaker. Spoken input is
often incomplete, incorrect and contains interruptions and
repairs; full sentences occur only very occassionaly.
Therefore, new basic units for the development of dialogue
models have to be proposed in order to also capture
fragmentary input.
Related to this problem is the determination of the boundaries
that exist between the various dialogue units in longer
single-speaker dialogue turns. While for written language
punctuation and paragraphing serve as indicator for
segmentation, reliable cues for the segmentation of spoken
language still have to be determined.
It can be expected that dialogue models that build on such a
new notion of basic dialogue units differ significantly from
dialogue models that treat only written language. A
contrastive examination of the differences between dialogue
models that treat spoken and written dialogue contributions is
a point of future research.
* Interaction of prosody and dialogue processing
For some of the above-mentioned issues the consideration of
prosody can contribute to a solution of the problems. Prosody
can perform many functions such as chunking turns into smaller
units, emphasizing important information, indicating
discontinuities (e.g. interruptions, corrections), expressing
intention and emotion.
Therefore components which make prosodic information accessible
to dialogue processing become more and more important.
* Robustness
Robustness of all components is an important issue in the
design and the development of spoken language systems. With
respect to dialogue components robustness is related to the
following topics:
* recognition errors and missing information
* unexpected input
* clarification
* disfluencies
* Evaluation
So far the evaluation of spoken language systems has been
focusing on the quality of the speech components. Evaluation
criteria for the dialogue components of such systems are still
to be developed.
A careful evaluation can contribute to the improvement of the
system with respect to what a user expects from the machine
and how she adjusts to its abilities. Therefore criteria like
user acceptance and user satisfaction have to be taken into
account.
We invite contributions that address any of the topics indicated above
and provide innovative solutions. We are also interested in seeing
papers that discuss NEW APPLICATIONS addressing the above-mentioned
problems.
SUBMISSIONS
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Papers (maximally 10 pages, point size no less than 12) can be
submitted either as hard copy or in electronic form (prefered): Hard
copy submissions should consist of four copies and have to be sent to
the address indicated below. Electronic submissions will be accepted
for papers in self-contained Latex style or plain text. They must not
refer to any external files or styles. Papers generated from other
sources, e.g., Word, must be submitted by mail. Papers must include
on the first page: the title, author's name(s), affiliation, complete
mailing address, phone number, fax number, e-mail, an abstract of 300
words maximum, and up to five keywords. Each paper will be refereed
by at least two members of the program committee.
In order to encourage discussions before the workshop we intend to
make all submitted papers electronically available. We will announce
the site address after the submission date.
DEADLINES
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Hardcopies AND postscript files must arrive not later than 1st
March 1996 at the address below.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Submission Deadline: March 1, 1996
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Notification Date: April 1, 1996
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Final Workshop Programm: April 20, 1996
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Final Papers Due: May 15, 1996
PUBLICATION
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Workshop proceedings will be published by ECAI. We currently also
investigate the possibility to publish the workshop papers in book
form.
WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION
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Since workshop attendance will be limited to maximally 40 people,
persons without a paper should contact the organizers as soon as
possible. Preference will be given to people who present a paper, to
their co-authors and to persons who submitted a paper. Other persons
interested in attending will be asked to provide a one-page
description of their background and of their interest in the workshop.
REGISTRATION
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This workshop will take place directly before the general
ECAI-conference. It is an ECAI policy, that workshop participation is
not possible without registration for the general conference.
ADDRESSES
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Papers have to be submitted to the following address:
Elisabeth Maier
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbruecken
Germany
e-mail: Elisabeth.Maier at dfki.uni-sb.de
Please address any further correspondence to
Marion Mast
Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
Lehrstuhl fuer Mustererkennung (Inf. 5)
Martensstr. 3
D- 91058 Erlangen
Germany
e-mail: mast at informatik.uni-erlangen.de
WEB PAGES
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For further information about this workshop we installed a Web Page
that is accessible under the following address:
http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/ecai96/WS-call-for-papers4.html
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