Speech and Natural Language Processing
Paul Mc Kevitt
P.McKevitt at dcs.shef.ac.uk
Tue May 17 15:16:07 EDT 1994
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PROGRAMME AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
AAAI-94 Workshop on
Integration of Natural Language and Speech Processing
Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94)
Seattle, Washington, USA
Sunday/Monday, July 31st/August 1st, 1994
Chair:
Paul Mc Kevitt
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield, ENGLAND, EU
WORKSHOP COMMITTEE:
Prof. Ole Bernsen (Roskilde, Denmark)
Dr. Martin Cooke (Sheffield, England)
Dr. Daniel Jurafsky (ICSI, Berkeley, USA)
Dr. Steve Renals (Cambridge, England)
Prof. Noel Sharkey (Sheffield, England)
Dr. Eiichiro Sumita (ATR, Japan)
Prof. Dr. Walther v.Hahn (Hamburg, Germany)
Prof. Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, England)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Germany)
Dr. Sheryl R. Young (CMU, USA)
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
There has been a recent move towards considering the integration of
perception sources in Artificial Intelligence (AI) (see Dennett 1991
and Mc Kevitt (Ed.) 1994). This workshop will focus on research
involved in the integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and
Speech Processing (SP). The aim here is to bring to the AI community
results being presented at computational linguistics (e.g.
COLING/ACL), and speech conferences (e.g. ICASSP, ICSLP).
Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models
and systems in the areas of NLP and SP we have just started to see
progress on integrating these two subareas of AI. Most success has
been with speech synthesis and less with speech understanding.
However, there are still a number of important questions to answer
about the integration of speech and language processing. How is
intentional information best gleaned from speech input? How does one
cope with situations where there are multiple speakers in a dialogue
with multiple intentions? How does discourse understanding occur in
multi-speaker situations with noise? How does prosodic information
help NLP systems? What corpora (e.g. DARPA ATIS corpora, MAP-TASK
corpus from Edinburgh) exist for integrated data on speech and
language?
The workshop is of particular interest at this time because research
in NLP and SP have advanced to the stage that they can each benefit
from integrated approaches. Also, such integration is important as
people in NLP and SP can gain insight from each others' work.
References
Dennett, Daniel (1991)
Consciousness explained
Harmondsworth: Penguin
Mc Kevitt, Paul (1994) (Guest Editor)
Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing
Special Volume 8(1,2,3) of AI Review Journal
Dordrecht: Kluwer (forthcoming)
WORKSHOP TOPICS:
The workshop will focus on these themes:
* Speech understanding
* Dialogue & Discourse
* Machine translation
* Architectures
* Site descriptions (Hamburg, JANUS-II, ATR, CMU)
PROGRAMME:
Sunday, July 31st, 1994
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INTRODUCTION I:
8.45 `Introduction'
Paul Mc Kevitt
SPEECH UNDERSTANDING I:
(Chair: Alberto Lavelli)
9.00 `Left-to-Right analysis of spoken language'
Bernd Seestaedt, Franz Kummert & Gerhard Sagerer
University of Bielefeld, Germany, EU
9.30 `An N-Best representation for bidirectional parsing strategies'
Anna Corazza & Alberto Lavelli
IRST, Trento, Italy, EU
10.00 Break
10.30 `Incorporation of phoneme-context-dependence in LR table
through constraint propagation method'
Hozumi TANAKA, Hui LI & Takenobu TOKUNAGA
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
11.00 Discussion
SPEECH UNDERSTANDING II:
(Chair: Karen Ward)
11.15 `On the need for a theory of knowledge sources
for spoken language understanding'
Karen Ward & David G. Novick
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Oregon, USA
11.45 `Misrecognition detection in speech recognition'
Sheryl R. Young
Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
12.15 Discussion
12.30 LUNCH
SITE DESCRIPTION I:
(Chair: Nigel Ward)
2.00 `An outline of the Verbmobil project with focus on the
work at the University of Hamburg'
J. Amtrup, Andreas Hauenstein, C. Pyka, V. Weber & S. Wermter
University of Hamburg, Germany, EU
ARCHITECTURES I:
(Chair: Nigel Ward)
2.15 `An investigation of tightly coupled time synchronous speech language
interfaces using a unification grammar'
Andreas Hauenstein & Hans H. Weber
University of Hamburg & University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, EU
2.45 `An approach to tightly-coupled syntactic/semantic
processing for speech understanding'
Nigel Ward
University of Tokyo, Japan
3.15 Discussion
3.30 Break
DIALOGUE & DISCOURSE I:
(Chair: Jean Veronis)
4.00 `Pragmatic linguistic constraint models for
large-vocabulary speech processing'
Eric Atwell and Paul Mc Kevitt
University of Leeds & University of Sheffield, England, EU
4.30 `SpeechActs: a testbed for continuous speech applications'
Paul Martin & Andy Kehler
Sun Microsystems Laboratories & Harvard University, USA
5.00 `NL and speech in the Multext project'
Jean Veronis, Daniel Hirst, Robert Espesser & Nancy Ide
CNRS & Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France
5.30 Discussion
6.00 OICHE MHAITH
Monday, August 1st, 1994
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INTRODUCTION II:
8.45 `Introduction'
Paul Mc Kevitt
SITE DESCRIPTIONS II & III:
(Chair: Eiichiro Sumita)
9.00 `JANUS-II: research in spoken language translation'
Alex Waibel
Center for Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
& University of Karlsruhe, Germany, EU
9.15 `Work at ATR on spoken language translation'
Dr. Eiichiro Sumita
ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories,
Kyoto, Japan
MACHINE TRANSLATION:
(Chair: Bernhard Suhm)
9.30 `Bilingual corpus for speech translation'
Osamu FURUSE, Yasuhiro SOBASHIMA, Toshiyuki TAKEZAWA &
Noriyoshi URATANI
ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories,
Kyoto, Japan
10.00 Break
10.30 `Speech-language integration in a multi-lingual
speech translation system'
Bernhard Suhm, Lori Levin, N. Coccaro, Jaime Carbonell,
K. Horiguchi, R. Isotani, A. Lavie, L. Mayfield, C.P. Rose,
C. Van Ess-Dykema & Alex Waibel
Center for Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories,
Kyoto, Japan
U.S. Department of Defense, & University of Karlsruhe, Germany, EU
11.00 Discussion
ARCHITECTURES II:
(Chair: Daniel Jurafsky)
11.30 `Towards an artificial agent as the kernel of a spoken dialogue system:
a progress report'
David Sadek, A. Ferrieux & A. Cozannet
French Telecom, CNET, France, EU
12.00 `Integrating experimental models of syntax, phonology, and
accent/dialect in a speech recognizer'
Daniel Jurafsky, Chuck Wooters, Gary Tajchman,
Jonathan Segal, Andreas Stolcke & Nelson Morgan
ICSI and University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
12.30 Discussion
12.45 LUNCH
SITE DESCRIPTION IV:
(Chair: Sheryl R. Young)
2.00 `Work at CMU on spoken dialogue systems'
Sheryl R. Young
Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
DIALOGUE & DISCOURSE II:
(Chair: Sheryl R. Young)
2.15 `Speech recognition in multi-agent dialogue'
Sheryl R. Young
Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
2.45 `A study of intonation and discourse structure in directions'
Barbara J. Grosz, Julia Hirschberg & Christine H. Nakatani
Harvard University & AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA
3.15 Discussion
3.30 Break
ARCHITECTURES III:
(Chair: Mary P. Harper)
4.00 `An integrative architecture for speech and language understanding'
William Edmondson, Jon Iles & Paul Mc Kevitt
University of Birmingham & University of Sheffield, England, EU
4.30 `Integrating language models with speech recognition'
Mary P. Harper, Leah H. Jamieson, Carl D. Mitchell, Goangshiuan Ying,
SiriPong Potisuk, Pramila N. Srinivasan, Ruxin Chen,
Carla B. Zoltowski, Laura L. McPheters, Bryan Pellom &
Randall A. Helzerman
School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, USA
5.00 Discussion
5.15 OICHE MHAITH
PUBLICATION:
Workshop notes/preprints will be published by AAAI. If there is
sufficient interest we will publish a book on the workshop with AAAI
Press.
WORKSHOP CHAIR:
Paul Mc Kevitt
Department of Computer Science
Regent Court
University of Sheffield
211 Portobello Street
GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield
England, UK, EU.
e-mail: p.mckevitt at dcs.shef.ac.uk
fax: +44 742 780972
phone: +44 742 825572 (office)
825590 (secretary)
ATTENDANCE:
We hope to have an attendance between 25-50 people at the
workshop.
If you are interested in attending then please send the following
form to p.mckevitt at dcs.shef.ac.uk as soon as possible:
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