Moscow, Russia, 29th - 31st October 2001

27TH - 28TH OCTOBER
Arriving and Registration

SUNDAY, 28TH OCTOBER
13.00-18.30 Registration
19.30-21.30 Wine Reception

MONDAY, 29TH OCTOBER
9.00-10.00 Registration
10.00-10.30 Official Opening of Workshop

SURVEY LECTURES
Co-chairs: I. Khaleeva, G. Kokkinakis
10.30-11.15 Electronic Dictionaries Integrating Multimedia and Speech
Language Technologies
George Kokkinakis
11.15-12.00 Basic Trends in Modern Machine Translation Research
Yu. N. Marchuk
12.00-12.15 Coffee break
12.15-13.00 New Technologies and Applied Linguistics R.K. Potapova
13.00-14.00 Lunch break

SESSION A:
Speech Recognition and Understanding Processing
Co-chairs: R.K. Potapova, E. Dermatas
14.00-14.30 A Hierarchical Approach for Topic Identification
Brigitte Bigi, Armelle Brun, Kamel Sma?li, Jean-Paul Haton
14.30-15.00 Context Use to Improve the Speech Understanding Processing
Caroline Bousquet-Vernhettes and Nadine Vigouroux
15.00-15.30 SpART I - an Experimental Automatic Speech Recognizer
Kamil Ekљtein
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-16.30 Refining the N-best Hypotheses' List in Large Vocabulary Speech
Recognition by Applying Lexical Rule
K.Georgila, A.Tsopanoglou, N.Fakotakis, G.Kokkinakis
16.30-17.00 Feature Adaptation Using a Probabilistic Neural Network for
Speech Recognition of Moving Speakers in Reverberant Environments
Nokas George, Dermatas Evangelos, and Kokkinakis George
17.00-17.30 Feature Extraction with Variable Rate Frequency Sampling
I. Potamitis, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis
17.30-17.45 MultimeDial Approach to Speech Recognition Process
Potapova R.K., Sobakin A.N.
19.00 Visiting the Bolshoy Theater

SESSION B:
Dialogue Systems

SESSION D:
Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Co-chairs: L. Rothkrantz, B. Lobanov
14.00-14.30 Multimodal Interface of a Dialogue Manager
Vojtech Knezu, Leon Rothkrantz
14.30-15.00 Spoken Dialogue System for Mobile Parking
E.Meister, B.Lobanov, R.Vahisalu, T.Levkovskaya, V.Kisialou, P.Tatter, J.Lasn
15.00-15.30 Dialogue System for City Information Centres - Semantic
Representation of Czech Spoken Language
Roman Moucek, Karel Tauљer
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-16.30 Simulated Dialogues Between Visually Impaired Programmers and
Dialogue System
K. Tauљer and R. Moucek
16.30-17.00 Automatic Transcriber of Russian Texts: Problems, Structure and
Application
Olga F. Krivnova, Leonid M. Zakharov, Grigory S. Strokin
17.00-17.30 Quality Evaluation of Estonian Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Meelis Mihkla, Einar Meister, Jьrgen Lasn
19.00 Visiting the Bolshoy Theater

SESSION C:
Speech Signal Processing
Co-chairs: G. Kokkinakis, A.B. Agranovsky
14.00-14.30 A Working out of Speech Compression Adaptive Algorithms Based
on the Systems with Variable Structure
Andrey A. Afanasjev
14.30-15.00 Segmentation of Signal, Containing a Talk of Several Speakers,
into Monologue Components
A.B. Agranovsky, D.A. Lednov, A.M. Potapenko, S.A. Repalov
15.00-15.30 Science Perspectives of Speech Technology
V. I. Galunov, G.V. Galunov
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-16.30 Blind Speech Separation Using Wavelet Decomposition
A. Koutras, E. Dermatas and G. Kokkinakis
16.30-17.00 About Relationship Between Acoustical and Perceptual Parameters
Vadim G. Mikhailov
17.00-17.30 Structural Adaptation of Speech Coding Algorithms Based on the
Linear Prediction Method on the Basis of Adaptive Information Resources
Distribution
Sergei V. Orlik, Alexander A. Rybolovlev
19.00 Visiting the Bolshoy Theater

TUESDAY, 30TH OCTOBER

SURVEY LECTURES
Co-chairs: R.K. Potapova, V.I. Galunov
10.00-10.45 One Approach to Speech Recognition
V.L.Taubkin, V. I. Galunov, G.V. Galunov
10.45-11.30 Development of Text-To-Speech Algorithms Suitable for
Realisation by Microprocessors
R.K. Potapova, V.G. Sannikov
13.30-12.00 Coffee break

SESSION E:
Statistical Language Models, Dictionaries
Co-chairs: J.P. Haton, V.G. Michailov
12.00-12.30 Improving Statistical Language Models by Removing Impossible
Events
Armelle Brun, David Langlois, Kamel Smaili and Jean-Paul Haton
12.30-13.00 "Lexithiras": A Linux-Based Framework for Developing Corpus
Processing Tools
Evangelos Dermatas, and George Kokkinakis
13.00-14.00 Lunch break
14.00 Sightseeing tour in Moscow
19.30 Workshop Dinner

SESSION F:
Speaker Identification Problems
Co-chairs: V.V. Potapov, V.R. Zhenilo
12.00-12.30 Voice Changer Impact on the Speaker Identification Potential
Irene V. Efimenko
12.30-13.00 Integrated Approach to Forensic Phonogram Authentication
Elena I. Galyashina
13.00-14.00 Lunch break
14.00 Sightseeing tour in Moscow
19.30 Workshop Dinner

WEDNESDAY, 31ST OCTOBER

SESSION E:
Statistical Language Models, Dictionaries
Co-chairs: D. Langlois, E. Dermatas
10.00-10.30 Variable History Stochastic Networks for Language Modelling in
Dialogue Systems
Kallirroi Georgila, Nikos Fakotakis, George Kokkinakis
10.30-11.00 Efficient Language Models Combination: Application to Phrase
Finding
David Langlois, Kamel Smaпli, Jean-Paul Haton
11.00-11.30 Mono/Multi-lingual Arabic Dictionaries
Solomon I. Sara, S.J.
12.00-13.00 Closing of Workshop
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00 Visiting the World Famous Kremlin

SESSION F:
Speaker Identification Problems

SESSION G:
New Technologies and Education
Co-chairs: R.K. Potapova, G. Kedrova
10.00-10.30 Auditory Perception of Speech by Non-Native Speakers
R. K. Potapova, V.V. Potapov
10.30-11.00 Digital Speech Wave File as a Phonodocument
Valery R. Zhenilo, Maria V. Zhenilo, Svetlana V. Zhenilo
11.00-11.30 Comparative Study of Internet-Based Educational Hypertexts: the
Feasibility of Formal Approach
Kedrova G.
11.30-12.00 Some Aspects of Germans' Acquisition of the Russian Language
Vsevolod V. Potapov
12.00-13.00 Closing of Workshop
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00 Visiting the World Famous Kremlin

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