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Technical Program
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Sunday 9th December |
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| 10.30
am - 04.30 pm |
Bus Transfer from
Verona, Milano and Venezia airports |
| 03.30
pm - 07.00 pm |
Registration |
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| 07.00
pm - 09.30 pm |
Welcome Reception
Invited Speakers
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Gianni Bonvicini (President of ITC)
Riccardo Maturi (President of APT - Madonna di Campiglio)
Giovanni B. Varile (European Commission, DGXIII Luxembourg):
"Speech and Language Technologies Activities in the EU: Present
and Future"
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Monday 10th December |
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| 06.30 am
- 08.00 am. |
Breakfast |
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| 08.00 am - 08.15 am |
Opening Remarks |
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| 08.15
am - 09.00 am |
Keynote
I |
James
F. Kaiser (Duke University, USA) |
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| 09.00
am - 10.30 am |
Session
I |
"ASR
Robustness (Feature Extraction, Acoustic Modeling and Adaptation)" |
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Session
Chair |
Alex Potamianos (Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies, USA) |
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Invited
speakers |
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First
plenary talk (30') |
Vasilios
Digalakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece) |
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Second
plenary talk (30') |
Mark
Gales (Cambridge University, U.K.) |
| 10.30 am - 10.45 am |
Break |
|
| 10.45
am - 12.15 am |
Poster
I |
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| 12.15 am - 02.00 pm |
Lunch |
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| 02.00
pm - 03.30 pm |
Poster
II |
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| 03.30
pm - 05.00 pm |
Session
II |
"Wireless
ASR, Distributed Speech Recognition and Hands Free Interaction"
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Session
Chair |
Sadaoki
Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) |
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Invited
speakers |
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First
plenary talk (20') |
Fred
Juang (Avaya, USA) |
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Second
plenary talk (20') |
Hirotaka
Nakano (NTT DoCoMo, Japan) |
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Third
plenary talk (20') |
Olli
Viikki (Nokia, Finland) |
| 05.00 pm - 05.15 pm
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Break |
|
| 05.15
pm - 06.30 pm |
Panel
I |
"Impact
of Infrastructure (wireless communication systems, devices, etc) and
Multimodality when applying ASR to Hand-held Devices" |
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Panel
Chair |
Hsiao
Wuen Hon (Microsoft Research, USA) |
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Panelists |
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David
Pearce (Motorola, U.K./Aurora Consortium) |
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Roberto
Pieraccini (SpeechWorks, USA) |
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Alex
Waibel (CMU, USA) |
| 06.30 pm - 11.00 pm |
Social Event |
Habsburgic Dinner |
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Tuesday 11th
December |
|
| 06.30 am - 08.00 am |
Breakfast |
|
| 08.15
am - 09.00 am |
Keynote
II |
Jim
Larson (Intel, USA) |
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| 09.00
am - 10.30 am |
Session
III |
"Large
Vocabulary (Language Modeling and Speech Understanding)" |
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Session
Chair |
Giuseppe
Riccardi (AT&T Labs Research, USA) |
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Invited
Speakers |
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First
plenary talk (20') |
Sanjeev
Khudanpur (Johns Hopkins University, USA) |
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Second
plenary talk (20') |
Elmar
Nöth (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) |
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Third
plenary talk (20') |
Andreas
Stolcke (SRI, USA) |
| 10.30 am - 10.45 am |
Break |
|
| 10.45
am - 12.15 am |
Poster
III |
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| 12.15 am - 02.00 pm |
Lunch |
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| 02.00
pm - 03.30 pm |
Poster
IV |
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| 03.30
pm - 05.00 pm |
Session
IV |
"Dialogue
Systems (Voice Agents, Applications, and Field Trials)" |
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Session
Chair |
Roberto
Pieraccini (SpeechWorks, USA) |
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Invited
speakers |
|
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First
plenary talk (20') |
Morena
Danieli (Loquendo, Italy) |
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Second
plenary talk (20') |
David
Sadek (France Telecom, France) |
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Third
plenary talk (20') |
David
Stallard (BBN, USA) |
| 05.00 pm - 05.15 pm
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Break |
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| 05.15
pm - 06.30 pm |
Panel
II |
"Driving
force in the technology for Spoken Language Dialogue Systems"
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Panel
Chair |
Christel
Sorin (France Telecom, USA) |
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Panelists |
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Jordan
Cohen (Voice Signal, US) |
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Paul
Heisterkamp (Daimler Chrisler, Germany) |
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Melvyn
Hunt (Phonetic System, UK) |
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Fred
Jelinek (Johns Hopkins University, US) |
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Hirotaka
Nakano (NTT DoCoMo, Japan) |
| 06.30 pm - 11.00 pm |
Exhibition Night: Buffet Dinner
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Wednesday 12th
December |
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| 06.30 am - 08.00 am |
Breakfast |
|
| 08.15
am - 09.00 am |
Keynote
III |
Christopher
Kotelly (SpeechWorks, USA) |
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| 09.00
am - 10.30 am |
Session
V |
"Audio-video
Information Retrieval and Digital Archives" |
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Session
Chair |
Jean
Luc Gauvain (LIMSI-CNRS, France) |
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Invited
speakers |
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First
plenary talk (20') |
Alex
Hauptmann (CMU, USA) |
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Second
plenary talk (20') |
Gerhard
Rigoll (University of Duisburg, Germany) |
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Third
plenary talk (20') |
Richard
Schwartz (BBN, USA) |
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|
|
| 10.30 am - 10.45 am |
Break |
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| 10.45 am - 12.15 am |
Poster
V |
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| 12.15 am - 02.00 pm |
Lunch |
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| 02.00 pm - 03.30 pm |
Poster VI
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| 03.30 pm - 05.00 pm |
Session VI |
"Multilingual and Speech-to-Speech
Translation" |
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Session Chair |
Enrique Vidal
(University
Politecnica of Valencia, Spain) |
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Invited
speakers |
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First plenary talk (30') |
Hermann Ney
(University of Aachen) |
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Second plenary talk (20') |
Francisco Casacuberta
(University Politecnica of Valencia, Spain) |
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Third plenary talk (20') |
Srnivas Bangalore (AT&T
Labs Research, USA) |
| 05.00 pm - 05.15 pm
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Break |
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| 05.15 pm - 06.30 pm |
Panel III |
"Portability of ASR
Technology to New Languages: Multilinguality Issues and Speech/Text
Resources" |
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Panel Chair |
Jimmy Kunzmann (IBM
Speech Systems, Germany) |
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Panelists |
Khalid Choukri
(ELRA/ELDA, France) |
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Eric Janke
(IBM, UK) |
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Andreas Kiessling
(Ericsson, Germany) |
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Kate Knill
(Nuance, UK) |
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Lori Lamel
(LIMSI-CNRS, France) |
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Tanja Schultz
(University of Karlsruhe, Germany - CMU, USA) |
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Seiichi Yamamoto
(ATR, Japan) |
| 06.30 pm - 11.00 pm |
Gala Dinner + Final
Remarks |
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Thursday 13th
December |
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from 06.30 am
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Connections to
Verona, Milano and Venezia airports and to Trento (for those
wishing to visit ITC-irst) |
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