Speech Prosody 2010 Satellite Workshop - 2nd circular

[Mathieu Avanzi]

CALL FOR PAPERS ***Prosodic Prominence: Perceptual and Automatic Identification***
Speech Prosody 2010 Satellite Workshop
May 10th, 2010, Chicago, Illinois
2nd circular

Description of the workshop:
Efficient tools for (semi-)automatic prosodic annotation are becoming more and more important for the speech community, as most systems of prosodic annotation rely on the identification of syllabic prominence in spoken corpora (whether they lead a phonological interpretation or not). The use of automatic and semi-automatic annotation has also facilitated multilingual research; many experiments on prosodic prominence identification have been conducted for European and non-European languages, and protocols have been written in order to build large databases of spoken languages prosodically annotated all around the world. The aim of this workshop is to bring together specialists of automatic prosodic annotation interested in the development of robust algorithms for prominence detection, and linguists who developed methodologies for the identification of prosodic prominence in natural languages on perceptual bases. The conference will include oral and poster
 sessions, and a final round table.

Scientific topics:
1. Annotation of prominence
2. Perceptual processing of prominences: gestalt theories’ background
3. Acoustic correlates of prominence
4. Prominence and its relations with prosodic structure
5. Prominence and its relations with accent, stress, tone and boundary
6. The use of syntactic/pragmatic information in prominence identification
7. Perception of prominence by naive/expert listeners
8. Statistical methods for prominence’s detection
9. Number of relevant prominence degrees : categorical or continuous scale
10.Prosodic prominence and visual perception

Submission of papers:
Anonymous four-page papers (including figures and references) must be written in English, and be uploaded as pdf files here: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=prom2010. All papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the scientific committee. Accepted four-page papers will be included in the online proceedings of the workshop published on the workshop website. The publication of extended selected papers after the workshop in a special issue of a journal is being considered.

Organizing Committee:
Mathieu Avanzi (Université de Neuchâtel, CH)
Anne Lacheret-Dujour (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Anne-Catherine Simon (Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve)

Scientific committee:
Antoine Auchlin (Université de Genève)
Plínio A. Barbosa (University of Campinas)
Jennifer S. Cole (University of Illinois)
Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University)
Daniel Hirst (Université de Provence)
Anne Lacheret-Dujour (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Chantal Lyche (Universitetet I Oslo)
Philippe Martin (Université Paris Diderot)
François Poiré (University of Western Ontario)
Caroline L. Smith (University of New Mexico)
Anne-Catherine Simon (Université de Louvain)
Marc Swerts (Tilburg University)
Fabio Tamburini (Università di Bologna)

Venue:
The workshop will take place in The Doubletree Hotel Magnificent Mile, in Chicago. See the Speech prosody 2010 website (http://www.speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/index.html) for further information.

Important deadlines:
Submission of four-page papers: November 15, 2009
Notification of acceptation: January 15, 2009
Author's Registration Deadline: March 2, 2010
Workshop: March 10, 2010

Registration:
Registration is free

Website of the workshop: http://www2.unine.ch/speechprosody-prominence


      
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