Dear colleagues,
Could you be so kind and post our cfp?
Thanks a lot
Kai
PS.: Could you please confirm the receipt of this email directly to
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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
for the Workshop on
"CONCEPT to SPEECH GENERATION SYSTEMS"
Friday, July 11, 1997
in conjunction with 35th Annual Meeting
of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference)
July 7-11, 1997
Madrid, Spain
Information about the workshop can also be retrieved from:
http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/~finkler/acl97-cts/index.html
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FOCUS OF THE WORKSHOP
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Concept-to-Speech (CTS) generation, i.e., the production of synthetic
speech on the basis of pragmatic, semantic, and discourse knowledge offers
a challenging and relatively new field of research in intelligent user
interfaces.
The questions raised in such an environment range from pragmatics,
semantics, and (morpho-)syntax to phonology and phonetics. The modelling
of prosody (at symbolic and acoustic level) serves as one of the
open questions within this paradigm.
Obviously, the development of a CTS system is very demanding. Successful
work within the framework of CTS relies on the ability to integrate
efforts from a number of disciplines, such as Computational Linguistics,
Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, and Signal Processing.
The workshop will provide a forum to bring together researchers
from the fields of natural language generation and speech synthesis. The
aim of the workshop is to stimulate interchange of innovative ideas and
results of diverse aspects of CTS generation in order to bridge the gap
between these fields.
Among the challenging aspects of a CTS system, we propose to address
issues of the following list in the first place:
* How can systems for natural language generation be adapted in order to
utilize new realization options to the generation process that are
offered in the CTS framework?
* How can issues in the time-course of the interleaved process for generation
and synthesis (when-to-say) be dealt with? Which requirements on speech
synthesis are to be fulfilled in an incremental approach to spoken
language production?
* Due to its inherent integrational property, being influenced by a whole
number of representational levels, modelling of prosody will be one of
the major topics of the workshop.
* How can approaches in the Text-to-Speech tradition to synthesis
show their adaptability to Concept-to-Speech?
We invite contributions that provide solutions to any of the topics
indicated above or that present innovative applications addressing
the abovementioned issues.
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Robert BANNERT Univ. of Umea, Sweden
John BATEMAN, GMD Darmstadt, Germany
Mary BECKMAN, Ohio State Univ., USA
Carlos GUSSENHOVEN, Univ. of Nijmegen, The Neatherlands
Bjorn GRANSTROeM, KTH Stockholm, Sweden
Elisabeth MAIER, DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany
Scott PREVOST, MIT Boston, USA
Mark STEEDMAN, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
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WORKSHOP FORMAT
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The workshop will be a full-day event that provides a forum for individual
presentations as well as group discussions. In the presentation part,
authors of accepted papers will describe their results and positions
(about 30 minutes each). A plenary discussion of about one hour length
will take place.
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REQUIREMENTS & SUBMISSIONS
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Authors should submit a full length paper not exceeding 3200 words
(exclusive of references). Due to tight time constraints, initial
submissions and reviewing will be handled exclusively electronically.
Joint submissions with the `Interactive Spoken Dialog Systems' 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. Submissions must use the
ACL submission style (aclsub.sty) retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV
server via anonymous ftp:
ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu
Name: anonymous
Password: <your email address>
cd acl-l/ACL97
get aclsub.sty
Submissions have to be mailed as a single LaTeX file or a single
postscript file. Mails should be sent to [log in to unmask]
and formatted as follows:
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: CTS 97 Submission
--text follows this line--
title: <title of submission>
authors: <authors as they appear on the title page>
word count:
email: <email address of author to whom correspondence should be directed>
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<Body of submission>
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IMPORTANT DATES
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March 1, 1997 Deadline for submission of papers
April 1 1997 Notification of acceptance
April 21, 1997 Deadline for final version of papers
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IMPORTANT NOTE
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As this workshop takes place in conjunction with the ACL/EACL-97 conference,
participants of the workshop are obliged to register for the main conference
as well.
Conference registration details can be obtained via WWW from the
ACL/EACL-97 home page http://horacio.ieec.uned.es:80/cl97/
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Kai ALTER Hannes PIRKER Wolfgang
FINKLER
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Austrian Research Inst. for AI German Research Inst. for AI
(OFAI) (DFKI)