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nias.knaw.nl>DEADLINE APPROACHING A workshop and symposium on "Language and Consciousness" will be held June 25-27, 1999, at the LSA Summer Institute at the University of Illinois. The workshop will consist of fifteen hours lecturing and discussion format. For orientation about it, please consult the web page of the LSA Summer Institute at: http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu/groups/cs/linginst/Workshops/lang.html During the workshop two evening sessions will be dedicated to a symposium on consciousness and language. The participants in the workshop are encouraged to consider the possibility of contributing to the symposium a paper on some topic related to workshop's theme. The papers will be given a 20 min. presentation time plus 10 min. discussion time. The deadline for 500-words abstract submission is May 20, 1999. Those interested in preparing a paper for the symposium, please contact Maxim Stamenov at stamenovMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp>Final TMI'99 Workshop Call for Papers Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation CONSTRAINTS ON MACHINE INTERPRETATION http://crl.nmsu.edu/~jamtrup/tmi99/ Extended Deadline: May, 28, 1999 Conference: August 23 - 25, 1999 Workshop: August 26, 1999 University College, Chester, England The translation of spoken utterances (MI, machine Interpreting) is one of the most challenging tasks within the field of MT. There are still several phenomena which are unknown or insufficiently described and are not accounted for in the systems currently available. These phenomena affect all stages of processing within MT systems. To name just a few, the translation of spoken language has to take into account: - Prosody. While prosodic features have been integrated into MI systems over the last few years, their application has largely been restricted to disambiguation tasks (to detect boundaries of various kinds and for classification). The influence of specific conditions, e.g. stress, on the prosodic realization of texts is more or less unknown. - Basic characteristics of speech as opposed to written language. Hesitations, repairs, breaking offs and others fall into this class. Their occurrence if often unexpected, the recognition and utilization of these seems underdeveloped - Characteristics of lexica and grammars. Clearly, the knowledge sources for systems dealing with spoken input has to be different from those analyzing written language. Especially spontaneous speech can usually not be covered using a standard grammar constructed with written texts in mind. - User-Machine interfaces. Using speech as input and output of machine translation systems poses new and sometimes unexpected problems for the design of the interface through which an user interacts with a system. These range from designing a high quality of synthesis to the assessment of the reactions to sometimes long waiting periods during a translation. As a consequence, a MI system does not only contain the additional components needed to analyze and synthesize speech, but the core modules have to be adapted as well to the demands of speech-to-speech communication. The collaboration between researchers working in the traditional core field of MT and in the more speech-oriented fields is highly advantageous for a successful design and implementation of a speech-to-speech translation application. The workshop ``Constraints on Machine Interpretation'' calls for contributions relevant for the translation of spoken language, including, but not limited to: - Speech recognition, language recognition, speaker identification - Prosody and its use in MI systems - Analysis, transfer and generation of spoken input utterances - Architecture and design of MI systems and their user interfaces - Dialog behavior, design and analysis - Evaluation of MI systems The workshop complements the main theme of TMI'99 (Modalities and MT: Where can MT be used?) by concentrating on one important modality, namely speech. It will be held as a one day workshop on Aug, 26th 1999, right after the main conference. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submissions due May, 28, 1999 Acceptance notification June, 15, 1999 Final copies due July 2, 1999 Conference dates Aug 23-25, 1999 Workshop Aug 26, 1999 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The format of submissions for the workshop should follow the general guidelines of the main conference. The submissions should be sent to one of the contact addresses below. Also note that the schedule for submissions, notification and final versions is different from the schedule of the main conference. CONTACT Susanne J. Jekat University of Hamburg Computer Science Department Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30 225 27 Hamburg Germany Phon: + 49 40 5494 - 2520 Fax: + 49 40 5494 - 2515 e-mail: jekatMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue