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mbeya.research.att.com>SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPEECH SYNTHESIS September, 1994 Arden House Harriman, New York, USA Preliminary Announcement Given the success of the ESCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis held September 25-28 1990, Autrans, France, we plan to hold the Second International Workshop on Speech Synthesis in September, 1994, at Arden House, Harriman, New York. The focus of this workshop will be the application of novel or theoretically interesting techniques for text-to-speech systems. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: o Applications of novel signal processing techniques to synthesis. o Techniques for generating inventories for concatenative systems. o Techniques for computing trajectories for formant/articulatory systems. o Models of timing, amplitude, and pitch. o Models of intonation, pitch accent and tone. o Computation of prosodic features from text. o Multi-lingual synthesis. o Evaluation techniques for synthesizers. o Text generation (message-to-speech). o Novel applications of speech synthesis. Planning for the workshop is in its early stages, so we welcome input on form or content, addressed to any one of us: Julia Hirschberg (juliaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.usm.MY>Machine Translation Project Fax (60-4) 873335 School of Computer Science Telex MA 40254 University of Science Malaysia Tel (60-4) 877888 ext. 2156 11800 Penang, Malaysia Residence (60-4) 846158 ************************************************* SEMINAR "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS" Tzigov Chark (Batak Lake), Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria 24 September - 29 September '92 SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT The seminar "Contemporary topics in computational linguistics" will take place from 24th to 29th September 1992 in Tzigov Chark, Batak Lake, Bulgaria. It is intended (but not limited to) university students and will consist mainly of introductory courses. Considering the nature of most of the courses, undergraduate students are especially welcome. Furthermore a student session is envisaged within the tutorial, and students who would like to report on their research activities or final year projects will be given this opportunity (if volunteers are available, the student session programme will be compiled on site, each talk lasting approximately 15 minutes). Those who would like to extend their stay in Bulgaria can join the Bulgarian National seminar on mathematical and computational linguistics that will take place from 27th September to 4th October '92 at the same place. The seminar is organized by Incoma-TD Co, Ltd, Shumen, Bulgaria. The preliminary programme of the tutorial will include the following courses (two or three more lectures will probably be added): P. Seuren (University of Nijmegen, Holland) - Language and logic; Introduction to the study of language M. Zock (LIMSI, Orsay, France) - The problem of language and thought; A crash course in linguistics D. Estival (ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland) - Unification formalisms in NLP; Reversible grammars M. Kudlek (Hamburg University, Germany) - Formal grammars and languages J. Haller (University of Saarbrucken, Germany) - Introduction to Machine Translation; Student training in MT J.P. Descles (University of Paris Sorbonne, France) - Categorial and applicative grammars H. Horacek (University of Bielefeld, Germany) - Pragmatic issues in natural language generation H. Somers (UMIST, Manchester, United Kingdom) - Corpus-based approaches to MT: challenging the orthodoxy Costs: The special participation fee at the seminar is 100 USA dollars for full-time students, 140 USA dollars for academic employees and 200 USA dollars for other participants. The fee includes attendance at the seminar, abstracts of the lectures, refreshments and a reception party as well as meals and accommodation in a 2-star hotel (two-bed rooms). Participants will be requested to pay in cash on site (any currency accepted). Seminar venue and Accommodation: The participants will be accommodated in Hotel "Orbita", Tzigov Chark. The courses will be given in the lecture hall of the hotel. Deadlines: The registration forms should arrive not later than 09.09.1992 at the address given below. On site registration is also possible. Further information: Participants who have sent their registration form, will receive at the latest in June 1992 the second announcement for the seminar and supplementary materials incl. information on how to get to the conference place. For further information you can also contact until10.07.92 Ruslan Mitkov at ruslanMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue