Marilyn Walker (2d441a!walker@research.att.com)
Mon, 10 Feb 1997 17:37:41 -0500
Apologies if you receive this twice. Note that tutorial speakers are now confirmed. SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ACL/EACL Workshop INTERACTIVE SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS: Bringing Speech and NLP Together in Real Applications Madrid, Spain July 11 and 12th, 1997 Recent advances in speech technologies, natural language processing, and dialogue modeling have made it possible to build dialogue agents for a wide range of applications from voice dialing to accessing information about the weather, train schedules, cultural events or local restaurants. However, there is little research on the integration of component technologies required for these agents. This workshop will address the challenges involved in this integration: - the special requirements dialogue places on speech recognizers (such as the need for barge-in or substring confidence measures) - the special requirements dialogue places on speech synthesizers (such as producing appropriate prosody or tracking what has been produced so far) - the special requirements dialogue places on natural language generation (such as summarization, aggregration or selecting information subsets) - which ASR and TTS functionalities have the greatest impact on dialogue capabilities - the extent to which the dialogue manager can compensate for limitations of the speech recognizer or the NLP components - what tools exist for building integrated systems and what are the limitations and capabilities of these tools - what role do dialogue tagging schemes and tools for labeling play in the construction of dialogue systems - how to evaluate an integrated system (as opposed to its individual components) - how dialogue systems should be compared with one and other, across both domains and differences in component technologies. We solicit papers from text-to-speech, ASR, NLP, generation and dialogue modeling researchers, and people who are planning to work on interactive spoken dialogue systems as well as those already building integrated spoken dialogue systems. This is a TWO-DAY workshop. The first day of the workshop will start with a morning of 1 hour mini-tutorials (see below) of critical component technologies presented by leaders in the various technology fields. There will be a tutorial on the current state of the art in automatic speech recognition (ASR) by Alex Acero, on text-to-speech (TTS) by Marian Macchi and on dialogue modeling by James Allen. Since we expect to draw participants from diverse research communities, this session will provide a critical common ground for the remainder of the workshop. The remaining one and one-half days of the workshop will consist of presentations by participants on issues identified above and discussion of these issues. We plan to allow sufficient time for open discussion and interaction among the workshop participants. MINI-TUTORIALS: James Allen, University of Rochester: Dialogue Modeling Marian Macchi, Bellcore: Text to Speech Alex Acero, Microsoft Research: Automatic Speech Recognition PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Julia Hirschberg, ATT Labs Research, (co-organizer) Candace Kamm, ATT Labs Research, (co-organizer) Marilyn Walker, ATT Labs Research, (co-organizer) Rolf Carlson, KTH, Sweden Norman Fraser, Vocalis Ltd, Cambridge U.K. Lori Lamel, LIMSI, France Jacques Terken, Institute for Perception Research, The Netherlands SUBMISSIONS: Authors should submit extended abstracts of less than 3000 words. Please include a separate title page with the title of the paper, 200 word summary, 2-5 keywords, names, addresses, e-mail address, telephone and fax number of all authors. Joint submissions with the Concept-to-Speech ACL/EACL workshop are allowed. If there are sufficient joint submissions a joint session may be scheduled. Please indicate on the title page that your abstract is a joint submission. Electronic submissions are encouraged and should be submitted as described below. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Papers may be submitted either electronically or in hard copy. Electronic submissions must be PLAIN ASCII TEXT. Hard-copy submissions should either be plain text or use the Applied ACL final format style (aclapp.sty) retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV server via anonymous ftp: ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu Name: anonymous Password: <your email address> cd acl-l/Styfiles/Proceedings/aclap.sty.Z get aclap.sty.Z quit uncompress aclap.sty.Z Electronic submissions should be mailed to Electronic submissions should be mailed to cak@research.att.com. Hard copy submissions must be received by March 1st. Send to: Dr. Candace Kamm ATT Labs Research 700 Mountain Ave., 2D-426 Murray Hill, NJ 07974 cak@research.att.com Tel: 908-582-6823 Notice of acceptance by April 1st Final versions of 6 pages due by May 1st Details on other arrangements and costs to follow. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Marilyn Walker ATT Laboratories Phone: 908-582-6345 600 Mountain Ave Fax: 908-582-4271 Rm. 2D-441 Home: 201-683-0313 Murray Hill, N.J. 07974 Email: walker@research.att.com ______________________________________________________________________
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