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2002 International Workshop
SPEECH AND COMPUTER (SPECOM'2002)
2-5 September 2002, St-Petersburg, Russia
Organized by St-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS). Supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and European Network in Language and Speech (ELSNET)
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
7-th International Workshop "Speech and Computer" SPECOM'2002 was held in St-Petersburg September 2-5 2002. The aim of Workshop was to discuss the ROBUST SPEECH UNDERSTANDING (RSU) problem. This choice was made in connection with remarkable growth of attention of lots world experts to this subject. According our opinion RSU has become now a crucial problem on the way of efficient intellectual applications creation and needs especial interdisciplinary co-ordination/efforts. We discussed some aspects of speech recognition/understanding, which are closely connected with RSU problem, for example:
GENERAL CHAIR:
Rafael M. Yusupov, Director of the SPIIRAS,
St-Petersburg, Russia
Co-CHAIR:
Antonio Zampolli, Director of the Institute
of Computational Linguistics in Pisa, Italy
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
A.Gorin AT&T Laboratories, USA
Y.Kosarev SPIIRAS, St-Petersburg, Russia
H.Niemann University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
R.Piotrowski Russian State Pedagogical St-Petersburg, Russia
R.Potapova Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia
G.Rigoll Munich University of Technology, Germany
N. Miki Future University, Japan
J. Caelen Crenoble University, France
LANGUAGE: English is the official language of the workshop.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Prospective authors should submit the abstracts in English of 400-500 words by Email. Submissions should include a title, author's names, affiliations, address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address. Camera-ready full papers in English (4 or 6 pages) will be published in the proceedings distributed at the workshop. The paper must be sent to the Organizing Committee by e-mail. Instructions about the form of camera-ready papers will be distributed later.
EXCURSIONS:
There will be possible excursions to some
research and education institutions belonging to the 'Educational Research
Center for Speech and Language'.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Chair: Yuri Kosarev SPIIRAS, Russia
Members: Anatoli Tkatsh SPIIRAS, Russia
Irina Podnozova
SPIIRAS, Russia
Izolda Lee SPIIRAS, Russia
Andrey Ronjin SPIIRAS, Russia
Alexey Karpov
SPIIRAS, Russia
Aleksandr Shalin SPIIRAS, Russia
REGISTRATION:
Registration fees are arranged as following:
Western participants - $ 300; Western students - $ 150;
Central Europe participants
- $ 180; Central Europe students - $ 80;
Russian and former SU states participants
- $ 100; Russian students - free of charge.
The fees include the Reception,
a copy of the workshop Proceedings, all workshop material, admission to all
sessions and to the exhibition, banquet, coffee break refreshments and transportation
of foreign participants from Airport.
Additional Proceedings copy is $15.
ACCOMODATION:
All the participants will be provided with
comfortable hotel according their choice based on our information.
SCHEDULE:
Submission of abstracts deadline: 15 April 2002
Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2002
Submission of camera-ready papers: 1 July 2002
Workshop: 2-5 September 2002
Some cultural program will be offered in weekend and other days.
INFORMATION:
Dr.Y.Kosarev SPIIRAS, 39, 14th line, St-Petersburg,
199178, RUSSIA Tel.: + 7 812 328 7081 Fax : + 7 812 328 4450
E-mail: specom@mail.iias.spb.su