LECTURES:
TUTORIALS AND PRACTICALS:
The timetable for the tutorials is now available here. The list of who is enrolled for which tutorial is available here. You will get a printed copy of these timetables at the registration desk.
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
(LCD projector and laptop with Windows98 and PowerPoint98 available)
| MONDAY | July 8th | ||
| 11.10 | The African Speech Technology Project (summary, slides) | Bart Mellebeek (KU Leuven) | |
| 11.30 | Lexical Resources for Statistical Machine Translation (summary, slides) | Peter Dirix (KU Leuven) | |
| 11.50 | Improving Evaluation of ASR devices using the Relative Information Loss and whether Stochastic Edit Probabilities Improve the Evaluation Result (summary) | Viktoria Maier (University of Sheffield) | |
| 12.10 | Using Language Models to Assist in the Correction of Machine Translation Output (summary, slides) | Beatrice Alex (University of Edinburgh) | |
| 12.30 | lunch | ||
| 14.00 | Iterative Viterbi for Keyword Spotting (summary) | Simon Payne (University of Sheffield) | |
| 14.20 | Dynamic Bayesian Network-Based Speech Recognition with Energy as Auxiliary Variable (summary, slides) | Jaume Escofet Carmona (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) | |
| 14.40 | Evaluating Prosody Prediction in Synthesis with respect to Modern Greek Prenuclear Accents (summary, slides) | Elisabeth Chorianopoulou (University of Edinburgh) | |
| 15.00 | Recognising Clauses (summary, slides) | Benjamin Hackey (University of Edinburgh) | |
| 15.20 | A Measure of "Confusability" and Exploiting Uncertainty in Speech Recognition System Design (summary) | Annika Hämäläinen (University of Edinburgh) | |
| 15.40 | coffee break | ||
| 16.10 | Recognising Nominalisations (summary, slides) | Yuk On Kong (University of Edinburgh) | |
| 16.30 | Using the Keyword Lexicon for Speech Recognition (summary, slides) | Christophe Van Bael (University of Edinburgh) | |
| 16.50 | Predicting Prosodic Phrasing (summary, slides) | Pepi Stavropoulou (University of Edinburgh) | |
| 17.10 | A Question-Answering System (summary) | Jordi Adell Mercado, Josep Maria Crego Clemente, Rafael Pau Oliveros, and Jesús Llevadias Jané (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) | |
| THURSDAY | July 11th | ||
| 09.00 | Stress Patterns of German Cardinal Numbers (summary, slides) | Sarah Creer (University of Edinburgh) | |
| 09.20 | Concatenation Based Spanish Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Embedded Applications – The Panasonic Approach (summary) | Xavier Anguera Miro (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) | |
| 09.40 | MBROLA - Creating the Polish Diphone Database for Speech Synthesis (summary) | Krzysztof Szklanny (Polsko-Japonska Wyzsza Szkola Technik Komputerowych) | |
| 10.00 | Vector Models for Term Discovery and Ontology Construction (summary) | Scott Martens (KU Leuven) | |
| 10.20 | coffee break | ||
| 11.10 | A Syntactic and Semantic Treatment of Ergativity in a System Network Grammar (summary, slides) | Vincent Spincemaille (KU Leuven) | |
| 11.30 | Prosodic Influences of Relative Clause Attachment in 3-site Context Revisited (summary, slides) | Eric Auer (Universität des Saarlandes) | |
| 11.50 | Seneff's Auditory System (summary, slides) | Miriam Cordero Ruiz (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) | |