Conf: Interspeech 2007, Open registration

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:57:53 +0200
From: ELDA <info at elda.org>



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                       CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                          INTERSPEECH 2007
                         August 27-31, 2007
                          Antwerp, Belgium


On-line Registration, Housing and Practical Information is now
available at www.interspeech2007.org


ISCA, together with the Interspeech 2007 organizing committee, would
like to invite you to participate in the upcoming conference.

Interspeech 2007 is organized by the Belgian and Dutch speech
communities. It is the 10th biennial Eurospeech conference and the 8th
in the annual series of Interspeech events organized by the
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), after Beijing,
Aalborg, Denver, Geneva, Jeju, Lisbon and Pittsburgh.

The conference will be held August 27-31 in Antwerp, Belgium.

The main conference (August 28-31) will take place in the Flanders
Congress and Concert Centre(FCCC) and the adjacent Astrid Park Plaza
Hotel.  The FCCC is one of the historic conference centres of Europe;
it connects to the Antwerp zoo and is located right in the city
centre.  Antwerp is a lively midsize town with a well preserved
medieval center, keeping conference centre and most hotels and social
event venues within comfortable walking distance.  Antwerp was the
home town of the famous painter Rubens and is today well known as an
international centre of diamonds. It also hosts one of the largest
harbors in the world.

The Technical Program will include in parallel 3 oral, 3 poster and 1
special session, totaling 745 papers, selected from 1268 submitted
full papers. For the first time in INTERSPEECH history, a standard of
3 reviews per paper was used to evaluate the submissions.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

- Tuesday 28th:   ISCA Medalist: Victor Zue (MIT)
  "On Organic Interfaces"

- Wednesday 29th: Sophie Scott (Univ. College London)
  "How the Brain Decodes Speech - Some Perspectives from Functional
  Imaging"

- Thursday 30th:  Alex Waibel (CMU and Univ. of Karlsruhe)
  "Computer-Supported Human-Human Multilingual Communication"

- Friday 31th: TBA


TUTORIALS:

Tutorials for Interspeech 2007 are organized by internationally
recognized experts in their fields and will be held on Monday, August
27 on premises of the city centre campus of the University of Antwerp.

Morning tutorials:

- Voice Quality in Vocal Communication presenter: Christophe
  d'Alessandro 

- The Modulation Spectrum and Its Application to Speech Science and
  Technology presenters: Les Atlas, Steven Greenberg and Hynek
  Hermansky

- Spoken Language Processing by Mind and Machine presenters: Roger
  K. Moore and Anne Cutler 

- Processing Morphologically-Rich Languages presenters: Katrin
  Kirchhoff and Ruhi Sarikaya

Afternoon tutorials: 

- Voice Transformation, presenter: Yannis Stylianou 

- A Mathematical Theory of Speech Signals - Beyond the Linear Model
  presenters: Gernot Kubin and Erhard Rank

- Talking to Computers: from Speech Sounds to Human Computer
  Interaction presenters: Giuseppe Riccardi and Sebastian Varges

- Machine Learning for Text and Speech Processing, presenters: Antal
  van den Bosch and Walter Daelemans


REGISTRATION:

The online registration for the conference is now open.
Authors of accepted papers should make sure that at least one of its
authors has registered by the early registration deadline of June 22,
2007.
Papers without any author registration will be removed from the final
program.


ACCOMMODATION:

A large number of rooms has been reserved in several hotels of which
most are within a 5-10' walking distance from the conference centre.
An online hotel reservation form is available on the conference
website.


TRAVEL:

Antwerp is easily reached from the international airports of Brussels
and Amsterdam.


FURTHER INFORMATION:

For up to date information on the technical and social program and for
practical arrangements please visit the conference website

                       www.interspeech2007.org

If you can't find an essential piece of information there,
please send an email to                                                 
                      info at interspeech2007.org



We hope to welcome you in Antwerp in August !


Dirk Van Compernolle, General Chair
Lou Boves, General Chair
Jean-Pierre Martens, Technical Program Chair
Helmer Strik, Technical Program Chair


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