Workshop Program

Sun, Dec 14, 1997
18:00-19:30 Dinner
19:30-19:40 Welcome
19:40-20:30 Keynote Speaker: Professor Jim Flanagan, Rutgers Univ.
Synergistic Modalities for Human/Machine Communication
20:30-21:20 Keynote Speaker: Professor David Donoho, Stanford Univ.
Evolution and Optimal Representation
Mon, Dec 15, 1997
7:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-12:30 Session 1: Dialogue Systems and Voice Agent Technologies
Organizers: Jay Wilpon, Richard Schwartz
9:00-9:30 Invited Speaker: Candace Kamm, AT&T Labs - Research
Design and Evaluation of Spoken Dialog Systems
9:30-10:00 Invited Speaker: Marie Meteer, BBN
Collaborative Systems
10:00-10:30 Poster Introduction
10:30-11:30 Break and Poster
11:30-12:30 Discussion
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-17:40 Session 2: Mathematical Foundations and New Paradigms of SRU
Organizers: Chin Lee, Joe Picone
14:00-14:30 Invited Speaker: Li Deng
A Dynamic, Feature-Based Approach to Speech Modeling and Recognition
14:30-15:00 Invited Speaker: Martin Russel
Progress Towards Speech Models that Model Speech
15:00-15:40 Poster Introduction
15:40-16:40 Break and Poster
16:40-17:40 Discussion
17:40-19:30 Dinner
19:30-21:30 Session 3: Lessons Learned from Human Speech Recognition System
Organizers: Roger Moore, Mari Ostendorf
19:30-20:00 Invited Speaker: Louis Pols, Univ. of Amsterdam
Flexible Human Speech Recognition
20:00-20:30 Invited Speaker: Anne Fernald, Stanford Univ.
Emerging Understandings: Experimental Research on the Early Development of Speech Comprehension
20:30-21:30 Discussion
Tues, Dec 16, 1997
7:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-12:20 Session 4: Efficient Decoding Algorithms and Implementations
Organizers: Volker Steinbiss, Ponani Gopalakrishnan
9:00-9:30 Invited Speaker: Hermann Ney
Progress in Dynamic Programming Search for LVCSR
9:30-10:00 Invited Speaker: Fil Alleva
Search Organization in the Whisper Continuous Speech Recognition System
10:00-10:20 Poster Introduction
10:20-11:20 Break and Poster
11:20-12:20 Discussion
12:20-14:00 Lunch
14:00-17:40 Session 5: Robust Modeling in Acoustics, Lexicon and Language
Organizers: Richard Stern, Kiyohiro Shikano, Jean-Claude Junqua
14:00-14:30 Invited Speaker: Chin Lee, Bell Labs
Adaptive Compensation for Robust Speech Recognition
14:30-15:00 Invited Speaker: Richard Lippmann, MIT
Robust Recognition with Time-Varying Filtering, Interruptions, and Noise
15:00-15:40 Poster Introduction
15:40-16:40 Break and Poster
16:40-17:40 Discussion
17:40-19:30 Dinner
19:30-21:30 General Discussion
Wed, Dec 17, 1997
7:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-12:30 Session 6: Applications of Speech Recognition and Understanding (SRU) Systems
Organizers: Brian Hanson, Wu Chou
9:00-9:30 Invited Speaker: Lawrence R. Rabiner, AT&T Labs
Applications of Speech Recognition in the Area of Telecommunications
9:30-10:00 Invited Speaker: David Thomson, Lucent Technologies
Ten Case Studies of the Effect of Field Conditions on Speech Recognition Error
10:00-10:30 Poster Introduction
10:30-11:30 Break and Poster
11:30-12:30 Discussion
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Adjourn
15:00-17:00 Open House at STL/Panasonic Technologies

The workshop committee invites you to the Open House at STL/Panasonic Technologies. This is a conference-related tour and is not formally part of the workshop program.


For more information, please email asru97@isip.msstate.edu or (601) 325-3149(phone), (601) 325-2298(fax).
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