WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

International workshop "Speech and Computer" - SPECOM'96 was concerned with the most important topics of speech interaction with computer. It was aimed to obtaining and using new original adequate approaches to spoken language understanding by means of integration results of pattern recognition, quantitative linguistics, information theory, psychoacoustics and other related areas.

TOPICS

• Conceptual models of natural language
• Models for spoken language semantic interpretation
• Integration of diverse knowledge in speech understanding process
• Spoken language translation models
• Adaptation and training in speech understanding
• Speech recognition and synthesis methods
• Applied systems

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

• Louis C.W.Pols
  Institute of Phonetic Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, President of ESCA
• Rafael M.Yusupov
  SPIIRAS, St-Petersburg, Russia

• Yuri Kosarev,
  SPIIRAS, St-Petersburg, Russia
• Raimond Piotrowski,
  State Pedagogical University of St-Petersburg, Russia
• Yulen M.Kozlov,
  Baltic Technical University of St-Petersburg, Russia
• George Kokkinakis,
  Wire Communication Laboratory, University of Patras, Greece
• Boris M. Lobanov,
  Speech Recognition and Synth. Laboratory, Inst. of Engineering Cybern. Belarussian Academy of Sciences. Minsk, Belarus
• Walther V. Hahn,
  Computer Science Department Natural Language Systems Division, Hamburg, Germany
• Hermann Ney,
  Lehrstuhl fuer Informatik VI RWTH Aachen - University of Technology, Aachen, Germany
• Gerhard Rigoll,
  University of Duisburg, Germany
• Steven Krauwer,
  Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, The Netherlands, ELSNET Coordinator