LINGUIST List 5.376

Thu 31 Mar 1994

Confs: Speech and Handwriting Workshop, LANGUES ET GRAMMAIRE I

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1. Dr TG Rose, Speech and Handwriting Workshop Programme
2. , conference announcement and call for papers

 Computational Linguistics for Speech and Handwriting Recognition
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 A one-day workshop organized by L.J. Evett & T.G. Rose
 as part of the AISB 1994 Workshop Series
 12th April 1994
 Leeds University, England
 PROGRAMME
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SESSION 1
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10:00 - 10:10 Introduction - Lindsay Evett (chair)
10:10 - 10:35 "Integrating probabilistic and knowledge-based approaches to
 corpus parsing"
 John Carroll & Ted Briscoe
 Cambridge University / Rank Xerox
10:35 - 11:00 "Applying syntactic information to text recognition"
 Frank Keenan & Lindsay Evett
 Oxford University Press / Nottingham Trent University
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 11:55 "A large vocabulary semantic network for computerised
 speech recognition"
 George Demetriou & Eric Atwell
 Leeds University
11:55 - 12:20 "Corpus-based contextual analysis for speech and handwriting
 recognition"
 Tony Rose, Lindsay Evett & Mike Lee
 Nottingham Trent University
12:20 - 12:45 "A methodical approach to word class formation using automatic
 evaluation"
 John Hughes & Eric Atwell
 Leeds University
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12:45 - 14.00 LUNCH
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SESSION 2
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14:10 - 14:15 Introduction - Tony Rose (chair)
14:15 - 14:40 "A hierarchical, mutual information based probabilistic
 language model"
 Uwe Jost & Eric Atwell
 Leeds University
14:40 - 15:05 "Language models: where is the bottleneck?"
 Andreas Kornai
 IBM Almaden Research Center
15:05 - 15:30 "Integration of linguistic knowledge into pattern recognition"
 Michael Ingleby, Wiebke Brockhaus & Carl Chalfont,
 Huddersfield University
15:30 - 16:00 Tea Break
16:00 - 16:25 "Sentence hypothesization in a speech recognition and
 understanding system for the Slovene spoken language"
 Jerneja Gros, France Mihelic & Nikola Pavesic
 Ljubljana University
16:25 - 16:50 "Language modeling for a real-world handwriting recognition
 task"
 Thomas Bruel
 IDIAP, Switzerland
16:50 - 17:30 Plenary Session
17:30 Close
Attendance is limited. For further details, contact:
Tony Rose (tgruk.ac.ntu.doc)
Lindsay Evett (ljeuk.ac.ntu.doc)

LANGUES ET GRAMMAIRE - I
Universite' Paris - 8
June 23-25, 1994
The Department of Linguistics of the University Paris 8 wishes to
organize on an annual basis, an international conference where recent
developments in linguistic theory in the domains of Syntax, Semantics,
Phonolgy and Morphology will be presented.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
Submit three anonymous copies of an abstract, accompanied by a
camera-ready copy bearing author's name, affiliation, address. Abstracts
should not exceed TWO PAGES, for a 45 minute talk. They must reach us
before APRIL 9, 1994.
Please send abstracts to:
"LANGUE ET GRAMMAIRE - I"
Comite' d'organisation
De'partement des Sciences du Langage
Universite' Paris - 8
2, rue de la Liberte'
F-93526 Saint-Denis Cedex 02
FRANCE
Presentations may be in FRENCH or ENGLISH. The language used in the
abstract will be the language of the presentation.
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Decisions will be made known around May 15 and a final program
distributed.
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There will be a special session on "BE" and "HAVE".
If you wish your abstract to be considered for this special session,
please indicate it on a separate sheet.
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For more information call: +33+1+49406418, fax: +33+1+49406783
The organizing committee: Georges Tsoulas - Le'a Nash