WORKSHOP ON PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY IN ASR
THEME: PARAMETERS AND FEATURES, AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS
THEME: PARAMETERS AND FEATURES, AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS
The workshop addresses the
implementation of phonetic and phonological knowledge in (modules of) ASR
systems. The implementation can concern the derivation of appropriate
parameters or (phonetic) features from the microphone signal, the definition of
recognition units, the system architecture, the definition of the lexicon
entries, etc. The workshop is also intended to set up collaborative experiments
between participants to evaluate the resulting systems or modules.
The article deadline is February 1, 2000. Each article will be reviewed by
two other participants. Please note this implies that if your abstract is
accepted, you will also have to review two articles!
Author guidelines are available in the example file PhonASR.doc, which
you can use with Microsoft Word for Windows. Articles should be 10-12 pages
(note that the pages are not long). To submit your article, please
send a ps- or pdf-file to Katrin Kirchhoff (katrin@isdl.ee.washington.edu)
with a Cc to Jacques Koreman (jkoreman@coli.uni-saarland.de).
You need not send in a printed version of your
paper, but please do print out the article and check it carefully before
sending it.
The final, reviewed version of the article must be sent to Jacques Koreman.
Please send a ps- or pdf-file and the corresponding doc-file.
ACCEPTED ABSTRACTS AND
USEFUL LINKS
The abstracts listed below have been accepted for presentation:
More information on travel to Saarbrücken can be obtained by clicking
on the link. You can see where Saarbrücken is and how you can get there
(and even plan your train journey), and you can find the Institute of
Phonetics (building 17) on the site map.
We have selected three accomodations for you. Please click on the link to
get more info. Most convenient is the Hermann
Neuberger sports school, because it is on campus. It is sober but clean, and probably has all the
facilities you need. The two hotels are slightly more luxurious. If you want
to be close to the city centre, hotel Madeleine is probably best, although
both other locations are at only a short bus ride from the city centre.
The organisers will make sure coffee and tea is available in the breaks.
Lunch and dinner will be arranged, but have to be paid for by the
participants.
General organisation of the workshop is in the hands of Jacques Koreman,
Bistra Andreeva and Katrin Kirchhoff. The local organisation committee
consists of Bistra Andreeva, Rossella Caradonna, Attilio Erriquez and
Jacques Koreman.
Jacques Koreman
Mail address:
Visiting address:
Phone:
+49/681 302 4690
FAX:
+49/681 302 4684
E-mail:
jkoreman@coli.uni-saarland.de
(subject: "Workshop")
Do you have any suggestions?
Simply send an e-mail! Any comments on this webpage, both concerning its
form and its content, are welcome! We are looking forward to seeing you
at the workshop,
Please click here to find other useful links.
You are invited to send us links to articles you have written on "Phonetics
& Phonology in Automatic Speech Recognition" as well as other useful
links. All links will be made available on this webpage.
Morphological decomposition for ASR in German.
The Application of a fuzzy clustering neural network to
acoustic-phonetic mapping for ASR.
Automatic detection and verification of Dutch phonological
rules.
Speech recognition via phonetically-featured syllables.
Integrating articulatory features into acoustic models
for speech recognition.
Can we use the linguistic information in the signal?
Model reduced proninciations in German.
Transcription considerations for southern French.
Some applications of a priori knowledge in multistream HMM and HMM/ANN
based ASR.
Computational frameworks for distinctive feature detection.
Underspecified phonological features for lexical access.
Using dutch phonological rules to model pronunciation
variation in ASR.
Entropy rate based stationary/non-stationary segmentation of
speech.
Multichannel/multispeaker articulatory database for continuous speech
recognition research.
INFORMATION ABOUT
TRAVELLING
AND
LODGING
If you are bringing an additional person who is not taking part in the workshop,
(s)he obviously does not have to pay the workshop fee. If you want to share
a room with (an)other workshop participant, please do not forget to indicate that person's
name - and make sure (s)he agrees to share a room with you.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you want to contact us, do not hesitate to get in touch with
University of the Saarland
FR 5.7 Institute of Phonetics
P.O. Box 15 11 50
D-66041 Saarbrücken
Germany
Im Stadtwald
D-66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
+49/681 302 2926 (secretariat)
Jacques Koreman
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Bistra Andreeva
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Katrin Kirchhoff