Program ASRU 2009
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December 13 | Welcome and Registration (18.00 - 20.00) | ||
December 14 | (Video) | (Video) | Social Event |
December 15 | (Video) | Multilingual Language Processin (Video) | Banquet |
December 16 | Language Understanding and Dialog Systems (Video) | (Video) | Social Event |
December 17 | (Video) |
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Session S1: Acoustic Processing
Keynote speech:
Sadaoki Furui
Generalization Problem in ASR Acoustic Model Training and Adaptation
Session poster S1-P1: Acoustic Features
Session poster S1-P2: Acoustic Modeling
Session S2: Robustness
Invited Lecture L1: Jont Allen, Manipulation of Consonants in Natural Speech, TALK
Invited Lecture L2: Mark J.F. Gales, Acoustic Modelling for Speech Recognition: Hidden Markov Models and Beyond?, TALK
Session Poster S2-P1: Robustness in ASR |
Session Poster S2-P2: Robustness in ASR II
Survey Presentation: Roger Moore, Progress and Prospects for Speech Technology
Session S3: Spoken Language Systems
Invited Lecture L3: Holger Schwenk, Trends and Challenges in Language Modeling for Speech Recognition and Machine Translation, TALK
Invited Lecture L4: Jason D. Williams, Spoken Dialogue Systems: Challenges, and Opportunities for Research, TALK
Session Poster S3-P1:Language Modeling and Search
Session Poster S3-P2: ASR Systems
Session S4: Multilingual Language Processing
Invited Lecture L5: Dekai Wu, Toward Machine Translation with Statistics and Syntax and SemanticsInvited Lecture L6: Tanja Schultz, Rapid Language Adaptation Tools for Multilingual Speech Processing
Session Poster S4-P1: Multilingual Speech Processing and Machine Translation
Session S5: Language Understanding and Dialog Systems
Keynote speech:
Dan Jurafsky
It’s Not You, It’s Me: Automatically Extracting Social Meaning from Speed Dates
Invited Lecture L7: Tatsuya Kawahara, New Perspectives on Spoken Language Understanding: Does Machine Need to Fully Understand Speech?, TALK
Session Poster S5-P1: Spoken/Multimodal Language Understanding and Dialog Systems
Session S6: Spoken Document Processing
Invited Lecture L8: Gerasimos Potamianos, Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition and Related Bimodal Speech Technologies: A Review of the State-of-the-Art and Open Problems, TALK
Invited Lecture L9: Lin-shan Lee, Voice-Based Information Retrieval - How Far are We from the Text-Based Information Retrieval?
Session Poster S6-P1: Spoken Document Retrieval and Summarization
Session S7: Topics in Speech Processing
Invited Lecture L10: Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Online Discriminative Learning: Theory and Applications, TALK, VIDEO
Panel: Alex Acero, Mazin Gilbert, Why Funding Speech Research?
Participants: Hervé Bourlard (Idiap), Jerome R.Bellegarda (Apple), Fred Jelinek (JHU), Pascale Fung (UST), Davide Franco (Loquendo), Allen Gorin (DoD)
Session Poster S7-P1: Topics in Speech Recognition
