8.888, Confs: Concept-to-Speech Generation Systems
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Subject: 8.888, Confs: Concept-to-Speech Generation Systems
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 15:35:56 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Hannes Pirker <hannes at mail4.ai.univie.ac.at>
Subject: Workshop on Concept-to-Speech Generation Systems
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 15:35:56 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Hannes Pirker <hannes at mail4.ai.univie.ac.at>
Subject: Workshop on Concept-to-Speech Generation Systems
ACL'97 Workshop: Concept-to-Speech Generation Systems
Friday, July 11, 1997
in conjunction with 35th Annual Meeting
of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference)
July 7-11, 1997 Madrid, Spain
FOCUS OF THE WORKSHOP
Concept-to-Speech (CTS) generation, i.e., the production of synthetic
speech on the basis of pragmatic, semantic, and discourse knowledge offers
a challenging and relatively new field of research in intelligent user
interfaces.
The questions raised in such an environment range from pragmatics, semantics,
and (morpho-)syntax to phonology and phonetics. The modelling of prosody
(at symbolic and acoustic level) serves as one of the open questions within
this paradigm.
Obviously, the development of a CTS system is very demanding. Successful
work within the framework of CTS relies on the ability to integrate efforts
from a number of disciplines, such as Computational Linguistics, Artificial
Intelligence, Cognitive Science, and Signal Processing.
The workshop will provide a forum to bring together researchers from
the fields of natural language generation and speech synthesis. The aim
of the workshop is to stimulate interchange of innovative ideas and results
of diverse aspects of CTS generation in order to bridge the gap between
these fields.
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Program of the workshop
09:00 Introduction
09:10 - 09:45 Probabilistic Model of Acoustic / Prosody / Concept
Relationships for Speech Synthesis
Nanette Veilleux
09:45 - 10:20 Message-to-Speech: High Quality Speech Generation for
Messaging and Dialogue Systems
Peter Spyns, Filip Deprez, Luc Van Tichelen, and Bert Van Coile
10:20 - 10:55 A Compact Representation of Prosodically Relevant
Knowledge in a Speech Dialogue System
Peter Poller and Paul Heisterkamp
Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:50 Integrating Language Generation with Speech Synthesis
in a Concept to Speech System
Shimei Pan and Kathleen McKeown
11:50 - 12:25 Can Pitch Accent Type Convey Information Status in Yes-No
Questions?
Martine Grice and Michelina Savino
12:25 - 13:00 Computing prosodic properties in a Data-to-Speech system
M. Theune, E. Klabbers, J. Odijk, and J.R. de Pijper
Lunch Break
15:00 - 15:35 Semantic and Discourse Information For Text-to-Speech Intonation
Laurie Hiyakumoto, Scott Prevost, and Justine Cassell
15:35 - 16:10 Looking for the presence of linguistic concepts in the
prosody of spoken utterances
Gerit P. Sonntag and Thomas Portele</tt>
Final Discussion
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Robert Bannert, Univ. of Umea, Sweden
John Bateman, GMD Darmstadt, Germany
Mary Beckman, Ohio State Univ., USA
Carlos Gussenhoven, Univ. of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Bjorn Granstroem, KTH Stockholm, Sweden
Elisabeth Maier, DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany
Scott Prevost, MIT Boston, USA
Mark Steedman, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Kai Alter, Austrian Research Institute for AI (OFAI),
Max-Planck-Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
alter at cns.mpg.de
Wolfgang Finkler, German Research Center for AI (DFKI)
finkler at dfki.de
Hannes Pirker, Austrian Research Institute for AI (OFAI)
hannes at ai.univie.ac.at
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As this workshop takes place in conjunction with the ACL/EACL-97 conference,
participants of the workshop are obliged to register for the main conference
as well. Conference registration details can be obtained via WWW from the
ACL/EACL-97 home page http://horacio.ieec.uned.es:80/cl97/
Workshop registration details can be obtained via
http://horacio.ieec.uned.es:80/cl97/workshop_reg.html
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[ ] Spoken Language Translation
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[ ] Operational Factors in Practical, Robust Anaphora Resolution
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[ ] Interactive Spoken Dialogue Systems: Bringing Speech and NLP
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[ ] Referring Phenomena in a Multimedia Discourse and Their
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