Return-Path: Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa03124; 21 Dec 93 16:20:50 EST Received: from Csli.Stanford.EDU by CS.CMU.EDU id aa18152; 21 Dec 93 16:20:36 EST Received: from localhost.Stanford.EDU by CSLI.Stanford.EDU (4.1/25-CSLI-eef) id AA05037; Tue, 21 Dec 93 12:25:05 PST Message-Id: <9312212025.AA05037@CSLI.Stanford.EDU> From: Paul Mc Kevitt Subject: INTEGRATION OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE AAAI-94 WORKSHOP To: empiricists@CSLI.Stanford.EDU Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 12:25:02 -0800 Sender: roscheis@CSLI.Stanford.EDU Advance Announcement CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION AAAI-94 Workshop on the Integration of Natural Language and Speech Processing Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94) Seattle, Washington, USA 2 days during July 31st-August 4th 1994 Chair: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION There has been a recent move towards considering the integration of perception sources in Artificial Intelligence (AI) (see Dennett 1991 and Mc Kevitt (Ed.) 1994). This workshop will focus on research involved in the integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Processing (SP). The aim here is to bring to the AI community results being presented at computational linguistics (e.g. COLING/ACL), and speech conferences (e.g. ICASSP, ICSLP). Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of NLP and SP we have just started to see progress on integrating these two subareas of AI. Most success has been with speech synthesis and less with speech understanding. However, there are still a number of important questions to answer about the integration of speech and language processing. How is intentional information best gleaned from speech input? How does one cope with situations where there are multiple speakers in a dialogue with multiple intentions? What corpora (e.g. DARPA ATIS corpora, MAP-TASK corpus from Edinburgh) exist for integrated data on speech and language? How does discourse understanding occur in multi-speaker situations with noise? How does prosodic information help NLP systems? The workshop is of particular interest at this time because research in NLP and SP have advanced to the stage that they can each benefit from integrated approaches. Also, such integration is important as people in NLP and SP can gain insight from each others' work. References Dennett, Daniel (1991) Consciousness explained Harmondsworth: Penguin Mc Kevitt, Paul (1994) (Guest Editor) Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing Special Volume (Issues 1,2,3) of AI Review Journal Dordrecht: Kluwer (forthcoming) WORKSHOP TOPICS: The workshop will focus on three themes: * Theoretical issues on integrated NLP and SP * Systems exhibiting integrated NLP and SP * Intelligent multimedia involving NLP and SP The following issues will be focussed upon during the workshop: * Common representations for NLP and SP * How does NLP help SP and vice-versa? * What does integration buy us? * Symbolic versus connectionist models * Varieties of communication between NLP and SP processors * Designs for integrating NLP + SP * Tools for integrating NLP + SP * Corpora for integrated NLP + SP * Testing of integrating NLP + SP systems * Possible applications of integration WORKSHOP FORMAT: Our intention is to have as much discussion as possible during the workshop and to stress panel sessions and discussion as well as having formal paper presentations. We will also organize a number of presentations on Site Descriptions of ongoing work on NLP + SP. There may be a number of invited speakers. Day 1: Theory and modelling for integrated NLP and SP. Day 2: Systems for integrated NLP/SP, and intelligent multimedia. ATTENDANCE: We hope to have an attendance between 25-50 people at the workshop. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Papers of not more than 8 pages should be submitted by electronic mail to Paul Mc Kevitt at p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk. Preferred format is two columns with 3/4 " margins all round. Papers must be printed to 8 1/2" x 11" size. Double sided printing is encouraged. If you cannot submit your paper by e-mail please submit three copies by snail mail. *******Submission Deadline: March 18th 1994 *******Notification Date: April 8th 1994 *******Camera ready Copy: April 29th 1994 PUBLICATION: Workshop notes/preprints will be published by AAAI. If there is sufficient interest we will publish a book on the workshop with AAAI Press. WORKSHOP CHAIR: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science Regent Court University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield England, UK, EC. e-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk fax: +44 742 780972 phone: +44 742 825572 (office) 825590 (secretary) WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: Prof. Ole Bernsen (Roskilde, Denmark) Dr. Martin Cooke (Sheffield, England) Prof. Noel Sharkey (Sheffield, England) Dr. Eiichiro Sumita (ATR, Japan) Prof. Dr. Walther V.Hahn (Hamburg, Germany) Prof. Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, England) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Germany) Dr. Sheryl R. Young (CMU, USA) From ac937346@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk Mon Jan 17 13:52:00 EST 1994 Article: 20270 of comp.ai Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:20270 Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!warwick!news.shef.ac.uk!sunc!ac937346 From: ac937346@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk (M Lee) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Language and Speech workshop - call for papers and participation Date: 17 Jan 1994 16:27:40 GMT Organization: Academic Computing Services, Sheffield University Lines: 156 Message-ID: <2hee9s$apr@silver.shef.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunc.shef.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Advance Announcement CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION AAAI-94 Workshop on the Integration of Natural Language and Speech Processing Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94) Seattle, Washington, USA 2 days during July 31st-August 4th 1994 Chair: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION There has been a recent move towards considering the integration of perception sources in Artificial Intelligence (AI) (see Dennett 1991 and Mc Kevitt (Ed.) 1994). This workshop will focus on research involved in the integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Processing (SP). The aim here is to bring to the AI community results being presented at computational linguistics (e.g. COLING/ACL), and speech conferences (e.g. ICASSP, ICSLP). Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of NLP and SP we have just started to see progress on integrating these two subareas of AI. Most success has been with speech synthesis and less with speech understanding. However, there are still a number of important questions to answer about the integration of speech and language processing. How is intentional information best gleaned from speech input? How does one cope with situations where there are multiple speakers in a dialogue with multiple intentions? What corpora (e.g. DARPA ATIS corpora, MAP-TASK corpus from Edinburgh) exist for integrated data on speech and language? How does discourse understanding occur in multi-speaker situations with noise? How does prosodic information help NLP systems? The workshop is of particular interest at this time because research in NLP and SP have advanced to the stage that they can each benefit from integrated approaches. Also, such integration is important as people in NLP and SP can gain insight from each others' work. References Dennett, Daniel (1991) Consciousness explained Harmondsworth: Penguin Mc Kevitt, Paul (1994) (Guest Editor) Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing Special Volume (Issues 1,2,3) of AI Review Journal Dordrecht: Kluwer (forthcoming) WORKSHOP TOPICS: The workshop will focus on three themes: * Theoretical issues on integrated NLP and SP * Systems exhibiting integrated NLP and SP * Intelligent multimedia involving NLP and SP The following issues will be focussed upon during the workshop: * Common representations for NLP and SP * How does NLP help SP and vice-versa? * What does integration buy us? * Symbolic versus connectionist models * Varieties of communication between NLP and SP processors * Designs for integrating NLP + SP * Tools for integrating NLP + SP * Corpora for integrated NLP + SP * Testing of integrating NLP + SP systems * Possible applications of integration WORKSHOP FORMAT: Our intention is to have as much discussion as possible during the workshop and to stress panel sessions and discussion as well as having formal paper presentations. We will also organize a number of presentations on Site Descriptions of ongoing work on NLP + SP. There may be a number of invited speakers. Day 1: Theory and modelling for integrated NLP and SP. Day 2: Systems for integrated NLP/SP, and intelligent multimedia. ATTENDANCE: We hope to have an attendance between 25-50 people at the workshop. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Papers of not more than 8 pages should be submitted by electronic mail to Paul Mc Kevitt at p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk. Preferred format is two columns with 3/4 " margins all round. Papers must be printed to 8 1/2" x 11" size. Double sided printing is encouraged. If you cannot submit your paper by e-mail please submit three copies by snail mail. *******Submission Deadline: March 18th 1994 *******Notification Date: April 8th 1994 *******Camera ready Copy: April 29th 1994 PUBLICATION: Workshop notes/preprints will be published by AAAI. If there is sufficient interest we will publish a book on the workshop with AAAI Press. WORKSHOP CHAIR: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science Regent Court University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield England, UK, EC. e-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk fax: +44 742 780972 phone: +44 742 825572 (office) 825590 (secretary) WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: Prof. Ole Bernsen (Roskilde, Denmark) Dr. Martin Cooke (Sheffield, England) Prof. Noel Sharkey (Sheffield, England) Dr. Eiichiro Sumita (ATR, Japan) Prof. Dr. Walther V.Hahn (Hamburg, Germany) Prof. Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, England) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Germany) Dr. Sheryl R. Young (CMU, From M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk Fri Mar 11 13:16:59 EST 1994 Article: 21064 of comp.ai Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:21064 comp.ai.nat-lang:1337 comp.speech:2096 Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Malcolm Crawford) Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.nat-lang,comp.speech Subject: AAAI-94, Integration of Natural Language and Speech Processing Date: 11 Mar 1994 07:17:21 -0600 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 176 Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <9403111300.AA12982@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Reply-To: M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu Advance Announcement CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION AAAI-94 Workshop on the Integration of Natural Language and Speech Processing Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94) Seattle, Washington, USA 2 days during July 31st-August 4th 1994 Chair: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION There has been a recent move towards considering the integration of perception sources in Artificial Intelligence (AI) (see Dennett 1991 and Mc Kevitt (Ed.) 1994). This workshop will focus on research involved in the integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Processing (SP). The aim here is to bring to the AI community results being presented at computational linguistics (e.g. COLING/ACL), and speech conferences (e.g. ICASSP, ICSLP). Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of NLP and SP we have just started to see progress on integrating these two subareas of AI. Most success has been with speech synthesis and less with speech understanding. However, there are still a number of important questions to answer about the integration of speech and language processing. How is intentional information best gleaned from speech input? How does one cope with situations where there are multiple speakers in a dialogue with multiple intentions? What corpora (e.g. DARPA ATIS corpora, MAP-TASK corpus from Edinburgh) exist for integrated data on speech and language? How does discourse understanding occur in multi-speaker situations with noise? How does prosodic information help NLP systems? The workshop is of particular interest at this time because research in NLP and SP have advanced to the stage that they can each benefit from integrated approaches. Also, such integration is important as people in NLP and SP can gain insight from each others' work. References Dennett, Daniel (1991) Consciousness explained Harmondsworth: Penguin Mc Kevitt, Paul (1994) (Guest Editor) Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing Special Volume (Issues 1,2,3) of AI Review Journal Dordrecht: Kluwer (forthcoming) WORKSHOP TOPICS: The workshop will focus on three themes: * Theoretical issues on integrated NLP and SP * Systems exhibiting integrated NLP and SP * Intelligent multimedia involving NLP and SP The following issues will be focussed upon during the workshop: * Common representations for NLP and SP * How does NLP help SP and vice-versa? * What does integration buy us? * Symbolic versus connectionist models * Varieties of communication between NLP and SP processors * Designs for integrating NLP + SP * Tools for integrating NLP + SP * Corpora for integrated NLP + SP * Testing of integrating NLP + SP systems * Possible applications of integration WORKSHOP FORMAT: Our intention is to have as much discussion as possible during the workshop and to stress panel sessions and discussion as well as having formal paper presentations. We will also organize a number of presentations on Site Descriptions of ongoing work on NLP + SP. There may be a number of invited speakers. Day 1: Theory and modelling for integrated NLP and SP. Day 2: Systems for integrated NLP/SP, and intelligent multimedia. ATTENDANCE: We hope to have an attendance between 25-50 people at the workshop. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Papers of not more than 8 pages should be submitted by electronic mail to Paul Mc Kevitt at p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk. Preferred format is two columns with 3/4 " margins all round. Papers must be printed to 8 1/2" x 11" size. Double sided printing is encouraged. If you cannot submit your paper by e-mail please submit three copies by snail mail. *******Submission Deadline: March 18th 1994 *******Notification Date: April 8th 1994 *******Camera ready Copy: April 29th 1994 PUBLICATION: Workshop notes/preprints will be published by AAAI. If there is sufficient interest we will publish a book on the workshop with AAAI Press. 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