Title:    Speech Understanding   (Lecture)

Time: Thursday, March 18, 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Location:    Tucson 1

Chair: Esther Levin    (AT&T Labs - Research)

9:30 AM    SP-16.1
Incorporating Confidence Measures in the Dutch Train Timetable Information System Developed in the Arise Project
Gies Bouwman, Janienke Sturm, Louis Boves (University of Nijmegen)
[abstract]  [manuscript]

9:45 AM SP-16.2
HMM and Neural Network based Speech Act Detection
Klaus Ries (Interactive Systems Labs at Carnegie Mellon University and University of Karlsruhe)
[abstract]  [manuscript]

10:00 AM SP-16.3
The LIMSI ARISE System for Train Travel Information
Lori F Lamel, Sophie Rosset, Jean-Luc S Gauvain, Samir K Bennacef (LIMSI-CNRS)
[abstract]  [manuscript]

10:15 AM SP-16.4
Improving The Suitability Of Imperfect Transcriptions For Information Retrieval From Spoken Documents
Matthew A Siegler (Carnegie Mellon University), Michael J. Witbrock (Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center)
[abstract]  [manuscript]

10:30 AM SP-16.5
Automatic Topic Identification for Two-Level Call Routing
John A Golden, Owen Kimball, Man-Hung Siu, Herbert Gish (BBN Technologies/GTE Internetworking)
[abstract]  [manuscript]

10:45 AM SP-16.6
Named Entity Tagged Language Models
Yoshihiko Gotoh, Steve Renals, Gethin Williams (University of Sheffield)
[abstract]  [manuscript]

11:00 AM SP-16.7
Speech Translation: Coupling of Recognition and Translation
Hermann Ney (Lehrstuhl fuer Informatik VI, RWTH Aachen, University of Technology, D-52056 Aachen, Germany)
[abstract]  [manuscript]

11:15 AM SP-16.8
Probabilistic models for topic detection and tracking
Frederick G Walls, Hubert Jin, Sreenivasa Sista, Richard Schwartz (GTE/BBN Technologies)
[abstract]  [manuscript]

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