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almaden.ibm.com> <kornaialmaden.ibm.com>CALL FOR PAPERS ECAI '96 workshop on "Extended finite state models of language" Aug 11-12, Budapest, Hungary Organizing Committee: Eva Ejerhed, Umea University (chair) Frederic Jelinek, Johns Hopkins University Lauri Karttunen, Xerox PARC and Rank Xerox Research Center Andras Kornai, IBM Almaden Research Center In spite of the wide availability of more powerful (context-free, mildly context-sensitive, and even Turing-equivalent) formalisms, the bulk of the applied work on language and sublanguage modeling is actually performed by (extended) finite state methods where most of execution time is spent in a state machine. The goal of the workshop is to bring together those developing and using such methods to text analysis, speech/OCR language modeling, and related CL and NLP tasks with those in AI and CS interested in analyzing and possibly extending the domain of finite-state algorithms. For a more detailed call, list of confirmed papers, deadlines, and submission details (electronic submissions preferred) see http://www.cs.rice.edu/~andras/ecai.html. Andras Kornai IBM Research Division, DPE/803 Almaden Research Center 650 Harry Road San Jose, CA 95120-6099 Tel: (408) 927-1921 Fax: (408) 927-4145 Email: kornaiMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
azrael.mitre.org>- -------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------+ PLEASE CIRCULATE +------------------------ - -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION ECAI-96 Workshop on Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-96) Budapest, Hungary August 13, 1996 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - ------------------ Elisabeth Maier Marion Mast Susann LuperFoy DFKI Saarbruecken Erlangen University MITRE PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Nick Campbell ATR, Japan Morena Danieli CSELT, Italy Norman Fraser VOCALIS, UK Julia Hirschberg AT&T, USA Susann LuperFoy MITRE, USA Elisabeth Maier DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany Marion Mast Erlangen University, Germany WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION - ------------------ The development of dialogue components for interactive systems that employ speech as input and/or output modality has to take into account problems that are specific for the treatment of spoken language. Among these problems are the following: * Segmentation of dialogue contributions into basic units While for dialogue systems that cope with written / typed language a sentence can serve as basic unit for dialogue modeling, this approach cannot be applied for the treatment of spontaneous speech or even read speech, where phrasing of sentences may differ from speaker to speaker. Spoken input is often incomplete, incorrect and contains interruptions and repairs; full sentences occur only very occassionaly. Therefore, new basic units for the development of dialogue models have to be proposed in order to also capture fragmentary input. Related to this problem is the determination of the boundaries that exist between the various dialogue units in longer single-speaker dialogue turns. While for written language punctuation and paragraphing serve as indicator for segmentation, reliable cues for the segmentation of spoken language still have to be determined. It can be expected that dialogue models that build on such a new notion of basic dialogue units differ significantly from dialogue models that treat only written language. A contrastive examination of the differences between dialogue models that treat spoken and written dialogue contributions is a point of future research. * Interaction of prosody and dialogue processing For some of the above-mentioned issues the consideration of prosody can contribute to a solution of the problems. Prosody can perform many functions such as chunking turns into smaller units, emphasizing important information, indicating discontinuities (e.g. interruptions, corrections), expressing intention and emotion. Therefore components which make prosodic information accessible to dialogue processing become more and more important. * Robustness Robustness of all components is an important issue in the design and the development of spoken language systems. With respect to dialogue components robustness is related to the following topics: * recognition errors and missing information * unexpected input * clarification * disfluencies * Evaluation So far the evaluation of spoken language systems has been focusing on the quality of the speech components. Evaluation criteria for the dialogue components of such systems are still to be developed. A careful evaluation can contribute to the improvement of the system with respect to what a user expects from the machine and how she adjusts to its abilities. Therefore criteria like user acceptance and user satisfaction have to be taken into account. We invite contributions that address any of the topics indicated above and provide innovative solutions. We are also interested in seeing papers that discuss NEW APPLICATIONS addressing the above-mentioned problems. SUBMISSIONS - --------- Papers (maximally 10 pages, point size no less than 12) can be submitted either as hard copy or in electronic form (prefered): Hard copy submissions should consist of four copies and have to be sent to the address indicated below. Electronic submissions will be accepted for papers in self-contained Latex style or plain text. They must not refer to any external files or styles. Papers generated from other sources, e.g., Word, must be submitted by mail. Papers must include on the first page: the title, author's name(s), affiliation, complete mailing address, phone number, fax number, e-mail, an abstract of 300 words maximum, and up to five keywords. Each paper will be refereed by at least two members of the program committee. In order to encourage discussions before the workshop we intend to make all submitted papers electronically available. We will announce the site address after the submission date. DEADLINES - ------- Hardcopies AND postscript files must arrive not later than 1st March 1996 at the address below. >>>>>>>>>>>>> Submission Deadline: March 1, 1996 >>>>>>>>>>>>> Notification Date: April 1, 1996 >>>>>>>>>>>>> Final Workshop Programm: April 20, 1996 >>>>>>>>>>>>> Final Papers Due: May 15, 1996 PUBLICATION - --------- Workshop proceedings will be published by ECAI. We currently also investigate the possibility to publish the workshop papers in book form. WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION - -------------------- Since workshop attendance will be limited to maximally 40 people, persons without a paper should contact the organizers as soon as possible. Preference will be given to people who present a paper, to their co-authors and to persons who submitted a paper. Other persons interested in attending will be asked to provide a one-page description of their background and of their interest in the workshop. REGISTRATION - ---------- This workshop will take place directly before the general ECAI-conference. It is an ECAI policy, that workshop participation is not possible without registration for the general conference. ADDRESSES - ------- Papers have to be submitted to the following address: Elisabeth Maier DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbruecken Germany e-mail: Elisabeth.MaierMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue