SPECOM'99 PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

Moscow, Russia, 4th - 7th October 1999


MONDAY, 4TH OCTOBER

13.00-17.00Registration
19.30-21.30Wine Reception

TUESDAY, 5TH OCTOBER

9.00-9.30Registration
9.30-10.00Official Opening of Workshop. SURVEY LECTURES: Co-chairs: I. Khaleeva, G. Rigoll
10.00-10.45Speech technologies and speech science: V.Galunov, V.Taubkin
10.45-11.30Spoken Dialogue Systems for Call Centre Automation: George Kokkinakis
11.30-11.50Coffee break
11.50-12.40Statistical Pattern Recognition Techniques for Multimodal Human Computer Interaction and Multimedia Information Processing: G.Rigoll, S.Miller
12.40-12.50Information about further events
12.50-14.00Lunch break

SESSIONS A; B:Co-chairs: V. Galunov, N. Minematsu

14.00-14.30Stochastic Conceptual Model for Spoken Language Understanding: Caroline Bousquet-Vernhettes, Nadine Vigouroux and Guy Pérennou
14.30-15.00Combining Statistics with Semantic Networks in a Real-time Dialogue System: J.Fischer, E.Nöth, H.Niemann
15.00-15.30Spoken Dialogue Systems: Toward a Complexity Measure for System’s Questions: Carine-Alexia Lavelle, Guy Pérennou
15.30-16.00Coffee break
16.00-16.30Acceleration of Lexical Access Caused by Word Familiarity and by Accent Nucleus Perception in Japanese: Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa
16.30-17.00Speech Based, Multimodal Human computer Interaction: L.J.M.Rothkrantz, M.Andre, B.Sletterink
18.15Visiting the Bolshoy Theater

SESSION C:Co-chairs: Yu. Kosarev, J.-P. Haton

14.00-14.30Improvement of Multi-Band Speech Recognition: J.-P.Haton, C.Cerisara, D.Fohr
14.25-14.55Integrating Speech Recognition and Natural Language LTAG Techniques with Weighted Synchonized Automata: Jean-Luc Husson (*) and Patrice Lopez (**)
14.55-15.25An Adaptive Pruning Threshold Algorithm for Efficient Speech Recognition: Cheol-Jun Hwang, Se-Jun Oh, Ho-Youl Jung, Hyun-Yeol Chung
15.30-16.00Coffee break
16.00-16.15Development and Evaluation of Digital Map Retrieval System Using speech Recognition Interface: Tae-Soo Kim, Chelo-Jun Hwang, Ho-Youl Jung, Hyun-Yeol Chung
16.15-16.30Acoustic Speech Recognition by Two and three Layered Neural Networks with Competition and Cooperation: Tetsuro Kitazoe, Sung-Ill Kim, Tomoyuki Ichiki, Makoto Junamori
16.30-16.45Towards a Better Collaboration Between a n-class and a n-gram Language Model: K.Smażli, I.Zitouni, J.P.Haton
16.45-17.00Phoneme-by-Phoneme Recognition for Continuous Speech: Taras K.Vintsiuk
18.15Visiting the Bolshoy Theater

SESSION D;E:Co-chirs: V. Potapov, Y. Laprie

14.00-14.25Hypertextual Multimedia Database of Russian Phonetics for distance Education: G.E.Kedrova, O.V.Dedova, V.V.Potapov
14.25-14.50Acoustic Evidence of Tension in Voiceless German Plosives: Natalia Petlyuchenko
14.50-15.15Usage of the Acoustic-Phonetic Classifier for Optimization of Codecs with a Linear Prediction: Gennady V.Bogachev, Alexander A.Rybolovlev
15.15-15.30Recurrent multiband pitch estimation: Michael Braude-Zolotarev (*), Yuri Braude-Zolotarev (**)
15.30-16.00Coffee break
16.00-16.15A speech interface sysstem for information retrieval tasks on the WWW: Atsuhiko Kai (*), Takahiro Nakano, and Seiichi Nakagawa (**)
16.15-16.30Automatic formant tracking by an active contour technique: Yves Laprie
16.30-16.15Speech quality measurements: Vadim G.Mikhailov
16.45-17.00Pattern Response Generation as a Part of the Model of the Dialogue with the Telephone Query System: Svetlana Toldova
18.15Visiting the Bolshoy Theater

WEDNESDAY, 6TH OCTOBER

SURVEY LECTURESL: Co-chairs: R. Yusupov, G. Kokkinakis

9.00-9.50The beginning of machine translation in the USSR (retrospective review): Yu.N.Marchuk
9.50-10.40The interactive expert system for forensic speaker identification used in Russia: N.F.Popov, A.N.Linkov (1), An.V.Fesenko, N.B.Kurachenkova, N.V.Baicharov (2), I.P.Karlin, I.N.Timofeev (3), R.K.Potapova (4),
10.40-11.00Coffee break
11.00-11.50The Knowledge Based Speech – Input expert System for Russian: R.K.Potapova
11.50-12.40Realization of some reserves of language and extralinguistic knowledge for the speech dialogue systems improvement: Yu.Kosarev, J.Savage
12.40-14.00Lunch break
14.00Sightseeing tour in Moscow
19.30Workshop Dinner

THURSDAY, 7TH OCTOBER

SESSIONS F; G: Co-chirs: V. Chuchupal, M. Sugiyama

9.00-9.25Testing of [Text-to-Speech] System Developed in MSU: Alexey Babkin, Leonid Zakharov
9.25-9.50The Application of Text-to-Speech System in Slovak to Singing voice Synthesis: Sachia Darzagin, Varian Trnka, Milan Rusko
9.50-10.20Main Principles and Overall Structure of TTS system for Russian Language: Olga Krivnova
10.20-10.40Coffee break
10.40-11.20Prosody Generation and Segment Concatenation in the Time Domain: J.Longster, R.Sahandi and D.S.G.Vine
11.20-11.40Recording Concatenative Units for Speech Synthesis using a Reference Pitch Prompt: D.S.G.Vine, R.Sahandi, J.Longster
11.40-12.20Design and Implementation of a Russian Telephone Speech Database: V.Kouznetsov (*), V.Chuchupal, K.Makovkin , A.Chichagov (**)
12.20-12.50Fast and Robust Segment Searching Algorithms: Masahide Sugiyama
12.50-13.10Closing of Workshop
13.10-14.30Lunch
14.30Visiting the world famous Kremlin

SESSIONS H; I: R. Potapova, T. Nakai

9.00-9.25Sound Pressure Distributions and Propagation Paths in the vocal Tract with the Pyriform Fossa and the Supraglottis: Takayoshi Nakai, Kenji Satoh, Yasunori Suzuki and Keizo Ishida
9.25-9.50Emotional Colouring of a Voice and the Phenomenon of Quasiharmony of Overtones: Vladimir P.Morozov (*), Youri M.Kouznetsov (**)
9.50-10.20Phonetic Analysis of Brief Utterances: a Practical Method of a Sophisticated Forensic speaker Identification Technique: Elena I.Galyashina
10.20-10.40Coffee break
10.40-11.20Speaker Identification in the Case of Voice Disguising: Serguey N.Krinov
11.20-11.40A Research of Person Emotional State Reflection in Spectral Characteristics of the Speech: V.A. Orlov
11.40-12.20Some Aspects of Forensic Phonetics Experts Learning (on the Basis of Russian): R. K.Potapova
12.20-12.50Speaker Identification Using Discriminative Feature Selection - A Growing Neural Gas Approach: Bogdan Dabac and Inge Gavat
12.50-13.10Closing of Workshop
13.10-14.30Lunch
14.30Visiting the world famous Kremlin