CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS ACL/COLING-98 Workshop on PARTIALLY AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSCRIBING NATURALLY OCCURRING, CONTINUOUS SPEECH August 16, 1998 (following ACL/COLING-98) University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec, Canada) CALL FOR PAPERS DESCRIPTION ----------- The development of robust systems for speech analysis and synthesis depends crucially on the availability of well-annotated corpora of naturally occurring, continuous speech. Yet existing speech corpora are rarely well-annotated. A key to proper annotation is the availability of partially automated systems for linking selected portions of a visual display of speech to the corresponding transcriptions. To be of practical use, such systems must be able to handle large files of digitized speech and they should permit transcriptions at different levels of analysis. This workshop will be devoted to the presentation and discussion of papers and software demonstrations which reflect the current state of the art. We invite proposals of up to 800 words which address the development, use, evaluation, or potential commercial application of such systems. SUBMISSIONS ----------- Only email submissions in LaTeX or Ascii will be accepted. Authors should submit an abstract of no more than 800 words to: trans98@cs.concordia.ca Style files and templates for LaTeX submissions can be found at http://colingacl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html The official language of the conference is English. IMPORTANT DEADLINES ------------------- Submission Deadline: April 15, 1998 Notification Date: May 15, 1998 Camera ready copy due: June 15, 1998 PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------- Nancy Belmore Concordia University, Canada Sabine Bergler Concordia University, Canada John Esling Univ. of Victoria, Canada Eric Keller Univ. of Lausanne, Switzerland Roland Kuhn Panasonic Technologies, Inc., U.S.A. Douglas O'Shaughnessy INRS-Telecommunications, Canada Ching Y. Suen Concordia University, Canada ORGANIZERS ---------- Nancy Belmore Concordia University, Canada Sabine Bergler Concordia University, Canada Douglas O'Shaughnessy INRS-Telecommunications, Canada REGISTRATION ------------ There is a discounted workshop fee for participants of Coling/ACL. Participants who are not registered for Coling/ACL will have to pay the full workshop fee (to be announced shortly). INFORMATION ----------- Any requests for information should be sent to trans98@cs.concordia.ca