NATO ASI Call for Papers

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First Announcement: NATO Advanced Study Institute

NEW ADVANCES and TRENDS in SPEECH RECOGNITION and CODING

28 June-10 July 1993. Bubion (Granada), SPAIN.

Institute Director:	Dr. Antonio Rubio-Ayuso,
			Dept. de Electronica.
			Facultad de Ciencias.
			Universidad de Granada.
			E-18071 GRANADA, SPAIN.
			tel. 34-58-243193
			FAX. 34-58-243230
			e-mail ASI at hal.ugr.es

Organizing Committee:	Dr. Jean-Paul Haton, CRIN / INRIA, France.
			Dr. Pietro Laface, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
			Dr. Renato De Mori, McGill University, Canada.

OBJECTIVES, AGENDA and PARTICIPANTS

A series of most successful ASIs on Speech Science (the last ones in Bonas,
France; Bad Windsheim, Germany; Cetraro, Italy) created a fruitful and
stimulating environment to learn about scientific methods, exchange of
results, and discussions of new ideas.

The goal of this ASI is to congregate the most important experts on Speech
Recognition and Coding to discuss and disseminate their most recent findings,
in order to spread them among the European and American Centers of Excellence,
as well as among a good selection of qualified students. 

A two-week programme is planned with invited tutorial lectures, and
contributed papers by selected students (maximum 65). The proceedings of
the ASI will be published by Springer-Verlag.

TOPICS

The Institute will focus on the new methodologies and techniques that have
been recently developed in the speech communication area. Main topics of
interest will be:

	-Low Delay and Wideband Speech Coding.
	-Very Low bit Rate and Half-Rate Speech Coding.
	-Speech coding over noisy channels.
	-Continuous Speech and Isolated word Recognition.
	-Neural Networks for Speech Recognition and Coding.
	-Language Modeling.
	-Speech Analysis, Synthesis and data bases.

Any other related topic will also be considered.

INVITED LECTURERS

A. Gersho (UCSB, USA):
		"Speech coding."
B. H. Juang (AT&T, USA):
		"Statistical and discriminative methods for speech recognition
		 - from design objectives to implementation."
J. Bridle (RSRU, UK):
		"Neural networks."
G. Chollet (Paris Telecom):
		"Evaluation of ASR systems, algorithms and databases."
E. Vidal (UPV, Spain):
		"Syntactic learning techniques in language modeling and
		 acoustic-phonetic decoding."
J. P. Adoul (U. Sherbrooke, Canada):
		"Lattice and trellis coded quantizations for efficient coding
		 of speech."
R. De Mori (McGill Univ, Canada):
		"Language models based on stochastic grammars and their use in
		 automatic speech recognition."
R. Pieraccini (AT&T, USA):
		"Speech understanding and dialog, a stochastic approach."
F. Jelinek (IBM, USA):
		"New approaches to language modeling for speech recognition."
L. Rabiner (AT&T, USA):
		"Applications of Voice Processing Technology in
		 Telecommunications."
N. Farvardin (UMD, USA):
		"Speech coding over noisy channels."
J. P. Haton (CRIN/INRIA, France):
		"Methods for the automatic recognition of speech in adverse
		 conditions."
R. Schwartz (BBN, USA):
		"Search algorithms of real-time recognition with high
		 accuracy."
H. Niemann (Erlangen-Nurnberg Univ., Germany):
		"Statistical Modeling of segmental and suprasegmental
		 information."
I. Trancoso (INESC, Portugal):
		"An overview of recent advances on CELP."
C. H. Lee (AT&T, USA):
		"Adaptive learning for acoustic and language modeling."
P. Laface (Poli. Torino, Italy)
H. Ney (Phillips, Germany):
		"Search Strategies for Very Large Vocabulary, Continuous Speech
		Recognition."
A. Waibel (CMU, USA):
		"JANUS, A speech translation system."

ATTENDANCE, COSTS and FUNDING

Participation from as many NATO countries as possible is desired. Additionally, 
prospective participants from Greece, Portugal and Turkey are especially
encouraged to apply.A small number of students from non-NATO countries may be
accepted. The estimated cost of hotel accommodation and meals for the two-week
duration of the ASI is US$1,000. A limited number of scholarships are available
for academic participants from NATO countries. In the case of industrial or
commercial participants a US$500 fee will be charged. Participants are
responsible for their own health or accident insurance. A deposit of US$200 is
required for living expenses. This deposit is non-refundable in the case of
late cancelation (after 10 June, 1993).

The NATO Institute will be held in the hospitable village of Bubion (Granada),
set on Las Alpujarras, a peaceful mountain region with incomparable landscapes.

HOW TO REGISTER

Each application should include:

	1) Full address (including e-mail and FAX).
	2) An abstract of the proposed contribution (1-3 pages).
	3) Curriculum vitae of the prospective participant.
	4) Indication of whether the attendance to the ASI is conditioned
	   to obtaining a NATO grant.

For junior applicants, support letters from senior members of the professional
speech community would strengthen the application. 
 
This application must be sent to the Institute Director address mentioned
above.

SCHEDULE

Submission of proposals (1-3 pages): To be received by 1 April 1993.
Notification of acceptance: To be mailed out on 1 May 1993.
Submission of the paper: To be received by 10 June 1993.