PROGRAME

Invited Lecture:

• Machine Translation
  David Farwell
  ICREA Investigator
  TALP Research Center, UPC

  Machine Translation, now in its sixth decade, is the oldest non-numerical application of digital computers. The goal of this lecture is to provide students with a general introduction to this now mature area of research and development. Students will be presented with a variety of translation problems that MT systems must deal with, a general description of the central approaches to MT system design that have been followed and a brief survey of current commercial and research systems representing the state of the art. In addition, there will be a short summary of issues and approaches to MT system evaluation.

Tutorials

1) Perception of Major Speech Cues
    Astrid van Wieringen
    Leuven
    2 sessions

2) Auditory Coding of Speech Sounds
    Sarah Simpson
    Sheffield
    2 sessions

3) Very Low Bit Rate Speech Coding
    Jan Cernocky & Petr Motlicek
    Brno
    3 sessions

4) Voice XML & Finite State Dialogue Processing
    Ivan Kopecek & Martin Rajman
    Brno & Lausanne
    3 sessions

5) Machine Learning and NLP
    Lluis Marquez & Xavier Carreras
    Barcelona
    3 sessions

6) Building Corpora
    Karel Pala, Radek Sedlacek
    Brno
    3 sessions

7) Building a Semantic Network
    Karel Pala, Pavel Smrz
    Brno
    2 sessions

8) NLP with Prolog
    Hans-Christian Schmitz & Bernhard Schröder
    Bonn
    3 sessions

8adv) NLP with Prolog (advanced tutorial)
    Hans-Christian Schmitz & Bernhard Schröder
    Bonn
    1 session

9) Limited Domain Synthesis Exercise (FESTVOX tools)
    Simon King
    Edinburgh
    1 session (twice)

9adv) Limited Domain Synthesis Exercise (advanced tutorial)
    Simon King
    Edinburgh
    1 session

Students presentations

Oral communications must be no longer than 20 minuts in order to have 10 minuts discussion.

Posters will be distributed along the wall of the main classroom. The authors should try to convince people to read their posters in a very short summary (3 minuts).

Student presentations I

Title: An extensive review on text classification and categorization.
Author: JENWEI LIU

Title: Creating a Multidisciplinary Monolingual Text Corpus for Persian OR Modeling Persian Language Syntax and Morphology in LingBech IDE Parser
Author: Peyman Nojoumian

Title: Just noticeable differences with respect to tempo
Author: Steven Soenen

• Title: Building Unit Selection Voice for Festival
  Author: Yoko Saikach
• Title: Synthesising speech with appropriate intonation using unit selection in a limited domain
  Author: Rachel Baker
• Title: Examination of the stress effect on speech quality
  Author: Corinna Kann and Verena Pyschny
• Title: VUT Brno room for meeting recordings
  Author: Petr Jenderka
• Title: LVCSR of meeting data
  Author: Martin Karafiat

Student presentations II

Title: Natural language query system
Author: Joris Pelemans

Title: A Question Answering System in its infancy
Author: David Steimle

Student presentations III

Title: Detecting unknown words in spontaneous speech
Author: Josep Casarramona

Title: Modelling global information with Latent Semantic Analysis
Author: Aurélien Giraud

Title: Punker: predicting punctuation in Dutch Speech Recognizer output.
Author: Jo Meyhi

Title: Adding prosodic cues to a spoken dialog system: a preliminary study
Author: Josep María Crego

Student presentations IV

Title: Making a Czech synthesizer talk German
Author: Eva Lasarcyk

Title: Presentation of Text-Synthesis programmed in Pascal
Author: Marek Latkowski