Summer School on Language and Speech Communication
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The ELSNET Summer School on Language and Speech Communication has become one of the most successful annual training courses in Europe. For the year 2002 the topic of Evaluation and Assessment of Text and Speech Systems has been selected. The target audience of the Summer School are advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, postdocs and academic and industrial researchers and developers.
| Week 1 (July 15-19,2002) | Week 2 (July 22-26,2002) | ||
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| Plenary | Plenary | ||
| Chris Cieri (LDC) | Wolfgang Minker (DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany) | ||
| Resources and evaluation of text and speech systems. | Evaluation of Spoken Language Dialogue Systems. | ||
| Parallel A (morning) | Parallel B (morning) | Parallel A (morning) | Parallel B (morning) |
| cancelled | Björn Granström and David House (KTH, Sweden) | Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau (CNRS, France) | Laurent Romary (Loria, France) |
| Usability evaluation. | Evaluation of talking animated interface agents. | Evaluation and Assessment of Speaker Recognition. | Towards standards for representing language resources - methods and formats. |
| Parallel A (afternoon) | Parallel B (afternoon) | Parallel A (afternoon) | Parallel B (afternoon) |
| Nick Campbell (ATR, Japan) | Maghi King (ISSCO, Switzerland) | Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI, France) | Simone Teufel (Cambridge,UK) |
| Evaluation of speech synthesis systems. | Evaluating Machine Translation Systems. | Evaluation of Part of Speech tagging and of parsing technologies | Evaluation of Question/Answering systems, summarisation systems and/or information retrieval systems. |
| Student session (evening) | Student session (evening) | Student session (evening) | Student session (evening) |
| Student session programme | |||
| Programme Committee | |
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| Joseph-Jean Mariani | (LIMSI, FR) |
| Antonio Zampolli | (University of Pisa, IT) |
| Gerrit Bloothooft | (Utrecht University, NL) |
| Koenraad de Smedt | (University of Bergen, NO) |
| Niels Ole Bernsen | (University of Southern Denmark, DK) |
| Important Dates | |
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| Deadline for pre-registration & grant application: | May 15, 2002 |
| Notification of registration and grants: | June 1, 2002 |
| Payment deadline: | June 21, 2002 |
| Online registration is still possible | after June 21, 2002 |
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 Videos from last years lectures now online! |
| For more information contact: |
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Holmer Hemsen Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory (NIS) University of Southern Denmark -- Odense Forskerparken 10 DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark Phone: (+45) 63 15 73 08 -- Fax: (+45) 63 15 72 24 hemsen@nis.sdu.dk |