11.575, Confs: Natural Lang Understanding, VOTS-2000

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Subject: 11.575, Confs: Natural Lang Understanding, VOTS-2000

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Date:  Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:35:36 +0100 (NFT)
From:  martens at ibmsp3.elis.rug.ac.be (Jean-Pierre Martens)
Subject:  VOTS-2000 workshop program

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Date:  Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:35:36 +0100 (NFT)
From:  martens at ibmsp3.elis.rug.ac.be (Jean-Pierre Martens)
Subject:  VOTS-2000 workshop program


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	  PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME OF THE VOTS-2000 WORKSHOP
  "Voice Operated Telecom Services: Do they have a bright future?"
	
	  Web site:  http:/www.elis.rug.ac.be/cost249/workshop
	  Registration deadline: APRIL 15 !!!
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Thursday, May 11

  8.45 : Registration
  9.15 : Opening session
  9.30 : Keynote 1 by Hugh Cameron (L&H, Canada)
         Speech at the interface
 10:15 : Keynote 2 by Denis Johnston (BT, UK)
         Speech Technology - Shaking the foundations
 11:00 : Coffee break
 11:30 ; Oral session 1
         - Els den Os (KPN, Netherlands)
           Usability of automatic speech recognition in telecommunication
           services
	 - Rudi Vuerinckx (L&H, Belgium)
	   Evaluation of the robustness of ASR systems on cellular phone
           speech
 12:30 : General discussion

 13.00 : Lunch

 14.00 : Poster and demo session
         - Anita Cremers (KPN, Netherlands)
           Adaptive speech interfaces: some user experiences
         - Gies Bouwman (KUN, Netherlands)
	   Weighting phone confidence measures for automatic speech
           recognition
	 - G. Carsten (IBM, Germany)
	   ISA: A traffic jam information system based on the IBM ViaVoice
           telephony toolkit
	 - Hishashi Kawai (KDD, Japan)
	   A realistic application of digit recognition - prank call
	   rejection for international help desk
	 - Odette Scharenborg (KUN, Netherlands)
	   Connected digit recognition with class specific word models
	 - Sari Accaino (L&H, Belgium)
	   Modeling extra events for telephony
	 - Algimantas Rudzionis (KUT, Lithuania)
	   Noisy speech detection and endpointing
	 - Ben Milner (BT, UK)
	   Mobile and IP access to network-based speech recognizers
 15:30 : Coffee break
 16:00 : Keynote 3 by Petri Haavisto (Nokia, Finland)
         [title to be confirmed]
 16:45 : Keynote 4 by Sadaoki Furiu (TiTech, Japan)
	 Steps towards natural human-machine communication in the
         21st century
 17:30 : General discussion

 19:30 : Dinner


Friday, May 12

  9.30 : Keynote 5 by Volker Steinbiss (Philips, Germany)
         Speech dialogue systems in the telecom network
 10:15 : Keynote 6 by Fred Lundin (Telia, Sweden)
         Development of a public voice dialling telephone service
 11:00 : Coffee break
 11:30 : Oral session 2
         - Gunnar Lehtinen (ETH, Switzerland)
	   IDAS : Interactive directory assistance service
         - Marcus Hennecke (TEMIC, Germany)
	   Easy configuration of natural language understanding systems
 12:30 : General discussion

 13.00 : Lunch

 14:00 : Keynote 7 by Christian Dugast (Nuance, France)
         Case studies to help understand the new generation network
 14:45 : Keynote 8 by Roger Moore (20/20 Speech, UK)
	 The future of speech-based services: bringing in the benefit
 15:30 : General discussion
 16:00 : Closing session (15 minutes)
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