29-31 October 2001, Moscow, Russia
Organized by Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU)

The International workshop 'Speech and Computer' - SPECOM-2001 is aimed to discuss the most important topics of man-computer interaction by speech and language and more perspective applied areas of speech-computer interaction.

TOPICS to be covered include, but are not limited to:

· Modern speech communication technologies;
· Multilingual, multimodal and multimedial systems;
· Automatic speech recognition and understanding systems;
· New technologies in linguadidactics;
· Speech discourse analysis and modeling;
· Speech under stress;
· Forensic phonetics systems;
· Linguistic and paralinguistic communication strategies;
· TTS-systems;
· Automatic speech translation systems;
· Language and Speech systems in industry;
· Conceptual models for natural spoken language;
· Telephone natural language response generation;
· Spontaneous speech perception modeling;
· Speech signal databasis;
· Perspectives of evolution of speech technologies.

GENERAL CHAIR:
Irina Khaleeva

GENERAL SPONSORS:
INTAS, International Association for Promotion of Cooperation with
Scientists from the New Independent States of the former SU
Russian Foundation for Basic Research

CO-SPONSOR:
State Intertrade Scientific and Technical Center "SCIENCE" of the Ministry
of Education of Russian Federation

SUPPORTED BY:
The International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
Interregional Association on Cognitive, Contrastive and Communicative
Linguistics

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Chair:
Rodmonga Potapova, MSLU, Russia
Co-Chair (Executive Secretary):
Mikhail Abovyan, MSLU, Russia
Members:
Irina Groucho, MSLU, Russia
Igor Kirillov, MSLU, Russia
Galina Strelkova, MSLU, Russia
Vladimir Mikhailenko, MSLU, Russia
Yurij Nikolaev, MSLU, Russia
Elena Shigina, MSLU, Russia

CO-CHAIRS:
George Kokkinakis, WCL, University of Patras, Greece
Hynek Hermansky, Center for Information Technology, Oregon graduate
Institute of Science and Technology, USA

ORGANIZED BY:
Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
Members:
G.Chikoidze, Dept. of Language Modelling, Inst. of Control Systems Georgian
Acad. of Sc., Georgia
V.Galunov, AudiTech, Russia
W.Jassem, Inst. of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Acad. of Sc.,
Poland
S.Krauwer, Univ. of Utrecht, The Netherlands
B.Lobanov, Inst. of Engineering Cybernetics Nat. Acad, of Sc., Belarus
W.Majewski, Inst. of Telecommunications and Acoustics, Wroclaw Univ. of
Technology, Poland
V.Matousek, Computer Science Univ. of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
H.Niemann, Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
R.Potapova, Dept. of Applied and Experimental Linguistics, Moscow State
Linguistic University, Russia
G.Rigoll, Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg, Germany
V.Taubkin, AudiTech, Russia
T.Vintsiuk, NAS Inst. of Cybernetics & UNESCO/IIP International Center for
Information Technology and Systems, Ukraine

SURVEY LECTURES: Some survey lectures will be presented by
leading scientists at especial sessions.

LANGUAGE: English is the official language of the workshop.
Presentation in Russian will be also allowed.
Simultaneous translation will be served.

REGISTRATION:
Registration fees are arranged as following:
Western participants - $ 250; Western students - $ 100;
Central Europe participants - $ 120; Central Europe students - $ 50;
Russian and former SU states participants - $ 15; Russian students (without
workshop Proceedings) - free of charge.
This fee must be paid on-site at the workshop. The fees include the
Reception, a copy of the workshop proceedings, all workshop material,
admission to all sessions and to the exhibition, banquet, and coffee break
refreshments.
Additional Proceedings copy is $ 10.

ACCOMMODATION:
All the participants will be provided with reduced accommodation in
comfortable university hotel (about $ 20 a day for a single room)
situated in the historical cultural City center.

SOCIAL PROGRAMS:
Sightseeing tour in Moscow;
Visiting the world famous Kremlin;
Visiting the Bolshoy Theatre.
The indicated cost of each activity requires extra payment and is not
included in the Registration fee.
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INFORMATION:
Rodmonga Potapova
2001 International Workshop SPEECH and COMPUTER (SPECOM-2001)
Moscow State Linguistic University
Ostozenca, 38, 119992, Moscow, Russia
tel. (095)2015697 (095)2462807 fax (095)2462807
e-mail: specom2001@linguanet.ru; potapova@linguanet.ru