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International Summer School  ``Neural Nets E. R. Caianiello"

3rd Course

                "A Course on Speech Processing,
                 Recognition, and Artificial
                 Neural Networks"

web page: http://wsfalco.ing.uniroma1.it/Speeschool.html

The school is jointly organized  by:

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC STUDIES (IIASS)
Vietri sul Mare (SA) Italy,

ETTORE MAJORANA FOUNDATION AND CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE (EMFCSC)
Erice (TR), Italy

Supported by:

EUROPEAN SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (ESCA)

Sponsored by:

SALERNO UNIVERSITY, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche E.R. Caianiello
(Italy)

DIRECTORS OF THE COURSE                 DIRECTORS OF THE SCHOOL
AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Gerard Chollet (France).                Maria Marinaro  (Italy)
M. Gabriella Di Benedetto (Italy)       Michael Jordan  (USA)
Anna Esposito  (Italy)
Maria Marinaro (Italy)

PLACE: International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies (IIASS)
       Via Pellegrino 19, 84019 Vietri sul Mare, Salerno  (Italy)

DATES: 5th-14th October  1998

POETIC TOUCH

Vietri (from "Veteri", its ancient Roman name) sul Mare ("on sea")
is located within walking distance from Salerno and marks the
beginning of the Amalfi coast. Short rides take to Positano, Sorrento,
Pompei, Herculaneum, Paestum, Vesuvius, or by boat, the islands of
Capri, Ischia, and Procida. Velia (the ancient "Elea" of Zeno and
Parmenide) is a hundred kilometers farther down along the coast.

Student Fee:        1500 dollars

Student fee include accommodations (arranged by the school),
meals, one day of excursion, and a copy of the proceedings of
the school.  Transportation is not included.  A few scholarships
are available for students who are otherwise unable
to participate at the school, and who cannot apply for
the grants offered by ESCA.
The scholarship will partially cover lodging and living expenses.

Day time:            3 hour in the morning, three hour in the afternoon.

Day free:            One day with an excursion of the places around.

AIMS:

        The aim of this school is to present the experiments,
        the theories and the perspectives of acoustic phonetics,
        as well as to discuss recent results in the speech literature.
        The school aims to provide a background for further
        study in many of the fields related to speech science
        and linguistics, including automatic speech recognition.
        The school will bring together leading researchers
        and selected students in the field of speech science
        and technology to discuss and disseminate the latest techniques.
        The school is devoted to an international audience and
        in particular to all students and scientists who are
        working on some aspects of speech and want to learn other
        aspects of this discipline.

MAJOR TOPICS

The school will cover a number of broad themes relevant to speech,
among them:

      1) Speech production and acoustic phonetics

      2) Articulatory, acoustic, and prosodic features

      3) Acoustic cues in speech perception

      4) Models of speech perception

      5) Speech  processing (Preprocessing algorithms for Speech)

      6) Neural Networks for automatic speech recognition

      7) Multi-modal speech recognition and recognition in adverse
      environments.

      8) Speech to speech translation (Vermobil and CSTAR projects)

      9) Applications (Foreign Language training aids, aids for
      handicapped, ....).

      10) Stochastic Models and Dialogue systems

FORMAT

The  meeting  will  follow the usual format  of  tutorials  and  panel

discussions  together  with poster sessions for  contributed  papers.

The following tutorials are planned:

ABEER ALWAN           UCLA University  (CA) USA

    "Models of Speech Production and Their Application
     in  Coding and Recognition"

ANDREA CALABRESE      University of Connecticut (USA)

    "Prosodic and Phonological Aspects of Language"

GERARD CHOLLET        CNRS - ENST France

     "ALISP, Speaker Verification, Interactive Voice Servers"

PIERO COSI           CNR-Padova  Italy

     "Auditory Modeling and Neural Networks"

RENATO DE MORI        Universite d' Avignon, France

    "Statistical Methods for Automatic Speech Recognition"

M. GABRIELLA DI BENEDETTO   Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La
Sapienza", Rome,
                            Italy

       ``Acoustic Analysis and Perception of Classes
        of Sounds (vowels and consonants)"

BJORN GRANSTROM       Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Sweden

    "Multi-modal Speech Synthesis with Application"

JEAN P. HATON    Universite Henri-Poincare, CRIN-INRIA, France

    "Neural Networks for Automatic Speech Recognition"

HYNEK HERMANSKY     Oregon Graduate Institute, USA

   "Goals and Techniques of Speech Analysis"

HERMANN NEY      Computer Science Department, Aachen Germany

"Algorithms for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition"
"Text to Speech Translation using Statistical Methods"

JOHN OHALA            University of California at Berkeley (CA) USA

    "Articulatory Constraints on Distinctive Features"

JEAN SYLVAIN LIENARD          LIMSI-CNRS, France

    "Speech Perception, Voice Perception"
    "Beyond Pattern Recognition"

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings will be published in the form of a book
containing  tutorial  chapters written  by  the
lecturers  and possibly shorter  papers from other  participants.
One free copy of the book will be distributed to each participant.

LANGUAGE
The official language of the school will be English.

POSTER SUBMISSION
There  will  be  a poster session for contributed presentations
from  participants. Proposals consisting of a one page abstract for
review
by  the  organizers should be submitted with applications.

DURATION

Participants are expected to arrive in time for the evening meal on
Sunday
4th October and depart   on Tuesday 15th  October.

Sessions will  take place from Monday 5th-Wednesday 14th.

COST

The cost per  participant of 1.500 $ dollars
covers   accommodation (in twin rooms), meals for the  duration of
the course, and  one day of excursion.

-- A supplement of  40 dollars per night should be paid for single
   room.

   Payment details  will be notified  with
   acceptance of applications.

GRANTS

-- A few ESCA grants are available for participants (which
cover tuition and, maybe, part of the lodging).
See http://ophale.icp.inpg.fr/esca/grants.html for
further information.
Individual applications for grants should be sent to Wolfgang Hess by
e-mail: wgh at sunwgh.ikp.uni-bonn.de

ELIGIBILITY
The school is open to all suitably qualified scientists
from around the world.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE:

       Important Date:

       Application deadline:                May   15 1998
       Notification of acceptance:          May   30 1998
       Registration fee payment deadline:   July  10 1998

People with few years of experience in the field should include
a recommendation letter of their supervisor or group leader

Places are limited to a maximum of 60 participants in addition to  the
lecturers.
These will  be allocated on  a first come, first served  basis.

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Please send the application form  together the
recommendation letter
by electronic mail to:
iiass at tin.it, subject: summer school;

or

by fax:
+39 89 761 189 (att.ne Prof. M. Marinaro)

or

by ordinary mail to the address below:
IIASS
Via Pellegrino 19, I84019 Vietri sul Mare (Sa) Italy

For further information please contact:
Anna Esposito
International Institute for advanced Scientific Studies (IIASS)
Via Pellegrino, 19,
84019 Vietri sul Mare (SA) Italy
Fax:    + 39 89 761189
e-mail: annesp at vaxsa.csied.unisa.it
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