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Monday, June 10, 2013 by Chris Wellekens

3-3-30 (2013-09-26) PROSLI - Prosody for self-learning instruction Rhodes, Greece
  
PROSLI - Prosody for self-learning instruction
                 
Workshop at ICNAAM
                 
26-27 September 2013, Rodos Palace Hotel, Rhodes, Greece
                                   
                 
                 
Prosody addresses fundamental components of  speech communication - such as intonation and rhythm  - which must be mastered by language learners in order to understand and make themselves understood  properly in the target language. Automatic Speech  Recognition (ASR) almost never incorporates such  components. As a result, speech technologies for  self-learning instructions (SLI) are unable to offer  to learners as to their prosodic skills. In  most cases, prosody is made object of specific  separate tools. 
                 
The workshop will try to cover the whole spectrum of topics both theoretical and practical, that deal  with prosody and self-learning instructions. It will include demonstration and state of the art of such  tools, their effectiveness in self-learning contexts. It will address prosodic issues in   language learning from both the analysis and the perception viewpoint and their accountability in real world applications. In particular, of interest  to the workshop will also be ASR systems for languages like Chinese, which naturally incorporate tone level parameters in their language models; or like Japanese which need to account for durational differences at phonemic and subphonemic level.
                 
                 
                 
Submission: look for formatting details in the main conference website, and then send a 4 pages extended abstract with your affiliation to this  address, delmont@unive.it.
                 
                 
                 
Deadlines
                 
•Early-bird                     registration: April 20, 2013
                 
•Paper                     submission: May 30, 2013
                 
•Notification of                     acceptance: June 30, 2013
                 
•Submission of                     camera ready paper: July 28, 2013
                 
•Conference                     days: September 26-27, 2013
                 
                 
                 
Program Committee
                 
Björn Granström, KTH, Center Speech Technology
                 
Daniel Hirst, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université
                 
Philippe Martin, Université Paris Diderot
                 
Maxine Eskenazi, CMU, USA
                 
Isabel Trancoso, IST-INESC, Lisbon
                 
Ruediger Hoffmann - Technische Universität                     Dresden
                 
Helmer Strik, Radboud University, Nijmegen
                 
Anton Batliner, University of Munich
                 
Barbara Gili Favela, Università di Lecce
                 
Fabio Tamburini, Università di Bologna
                 
Mariapaola D'Imperio, CNRS & Aix-Marseille                     Université
                 
Jared Bernstein, Pearson Knowledge Technologies,                     USA
                 
Brigitte Bigi, CNRS & Aix-Marseille                     Université
                 
Anne Bonneau, LORIA, France
                 
Uwe Reichel, University of Munich
                 
Rodolfo Delmonte, Ca' Foscari University Venice
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
Prosody for self-learning instruction
                 
Prosody addresses fundamental components of                     speech communication - such as intonation and rhythm                     - which must be mastered by language learners in                     order to understand and make themselves understood                     properly in the target language. Automatic Speech                     Recognition (ASR) almost never incorporates such                     components. As a result, speech technologies for                     self-learning instructions (SLI) are unable to offer                     feedback to learners as to their prosodic skills. In                     most cases, prosody is made object of specific                     separate tools. 
                 
The workshop will try to cover the whole spectrum                     of topics both theoretical and practical, that deal                     with prosody and self-learning instructions. It will                     include demonstration and state of the art of such                     tools, their effectiveness in self-learning                     contexts. It will address prosodic issues in                     language learning from both the analysis and the                     perception viewpoint and their accountability in                     real world applications. In particular, of interest                     to the workshop will also be ASR systems for                     languages like Chinese, which naturally incorporate                     tone level parameters in their language models; or                     like Japanese which need to account for durational                     differences at phonemic and subphonemic level.
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
A list of papers will be selected for publication                     of an extended and revised version in a book by                     Springer of the series Studies in Computational                     Intelligence.
                 
                 
                 
                                             
                           
rodolfo delmonte Ph.D.
                           
associate professor Computational                               Linguistics
                           
director computer linguistics                               laboratory
                           
department language sciences
                           
ca' bembo, dd. 1075
                           
30123 venezia - italy
                           
                           
                                                     
                         

                           
                       
                 
                 
               
             

             


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