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Presented by the UWA Language Science group and the
Institute of Advanced Studies.
Guest speakers
Robert Dale
Professor
Department of Computing
Division of Information and Communication Sciences, Macquarie
University,
Director of the Centre for Language Technology
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~rdale/
Steven Bird
Associate Professor
Dept of Computer Science and Software Engineering
University of Melbourne
http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~sb/
Senior Research Associate
Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
Presentations were invited on new and original research within
the broad area of Speech and Language Technology, including but
not limited to the following:
spoken dialog systems
spoken language understanding
multi-modal spoken language processing
natural language generation
implementations of linguistic models
computational methods for language processing
computational tools for language documentation and other
research
technologies to aid language learning and communication
collection and labelling of speech corpora
machine translation
machine learning and language analysis
robustness issues in speech and language processing
prosodic and acoustic-phonetic features
speech generation and synthesis
speech modeling & features
communication enhancement for people with disabilities
diagnostic and therapeutic tools in communication disorders
Program The program and abstracts are available by clicking HERE.
Registration
Registration is $10 for students, $20 for UWA staff members, and $30 for others. This includes morning and afternoon teas and a light lunch. Please complete the Registration Form [pdf format] [rtf format] and send to the Institute of Advanced Studies at the address shown on the form. Please register as soon as possible so that catering arrangements can be made. If you need to arrange accommodation in Perth, please contact john.henderson@uwa.edu.au.
Organisers
Roberto Togneri (Electrical, Electronic and Computer
Engineering, UWA)
Cara MacNish (Computer Science & Software Engineering, UWA)
John Henderson (Linguistics, UWA)
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