ESSLLI-2002 Workshop on
Recent Advances in Speech Translation Systems
August 12-16, 2002
Trento, IT
A workshop held as part of the
14th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
ESSLLI-2002
Trento, Italy
August 5-16, 2002
** REVISED CALL FOR PAPERS **
** NOTE EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 15, 2002 **
ORGANIZERS: Alon Lavie and Lori Levin (Carnegie Mellon University)
Fabio Pianesi (ITC-irst)
DESCRIPTION:
Speech Translation research has made significant strides over the last
decade, with several large scale research efforts (C-STAR, Verbmobil,
SLT, NESPOLE! and others) significantly advancing the state-of-the-art.
A wide variety of different approaches to MT has been pursued in the
various research efforts, and in some cases these have been combined
in multi-engine approaches. Nevertheless, current speech translation
technology is still far away from broad commercial application, with a
basic tradeoff between quality of translation and domain coverage.
Some recent research has focused on issues of robustness and
domain-portability and on enhancing the communication abilities using
multi-modal interaction. The purpose of this workshop will be to present
the current state-of-the-art of speech translation research and explore
the current promising trends and developments.
This workshop is intended to complement the ACL-02 workshop on
Speech-to-Speech Translation, which will be held in conjunction with
ACL-02 in Philadelphia about one month earlier. Our intention is to
have deeper and more focussed presentations and discussions on several
identified key topics and issues in current speech translation
research. In support of this goal, the workshop program will be
organized around daily theme topics, taking advantage of the ESSLLI
workshop format of five daily sessions of 90 minutes each. Each daily
theme will consist of one or two long (30 minute) presentations of
research and/or position papers which explore the theme, followed by
extensive time for discussion of the main issues related to the theme.
Groups and researchers are encouraged to submit distinct papers to
both workshops. Please note that the submission deadline to this
workshop has been extended to April 15th, in order not to conflict
with the deadline of the ACL-02 workshop.
Some possible theme topics include:
- Architechture and design considerations for ST systems
- New approaches to ST systems and their components
- Domain and language portability issues for ST systems
- Improving communication robustness
- Robust Speech Recognition for ST applications (i.e, dealing with noise,
bandwidth and platform issues)
- Integration of ST with alternative modalities for cross-lingual communication
- Evaluation of Speech Translation - specific problems and approaches.
- Moving from prototypes to real-world systems and applications (i.e, issues
related to translation quality, user interfaces, speech translation on
small devices, etc.)
SUBMISSION:
We invite both research and position paper submissions from all researchers in
the area of speech translation and related topics. Submissions will be
Electronic, in either postscript, pdf or MS word formats. Submissions should
not exceed 10 (A4 or letter) pages, typeset in 10-12 point, with at least 2.5
cm / 1 inch margins. All submissions will be reviewed by an international
program committee. The accepted papers will be made available in a summer
school reader.
A joint volume of expanded versions of a selection of papers from both
the ACL-02 and ESSLLI-02 workshops is being planned. A joint
editorial board will be established after the workshops to select
candidate papers from those presented at the two workshops and to
consider possible publishing venues.
Submissions should be sent by Monday, April 15, 2002 to the following
email address:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
IMPORTANT DATES:
Apr 15, 2002: Deadline for submissions
May 03, 2002: Notification of acceptance
May 31, 2002: Final version due
Aug 12, 2002: Start of workshop
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Alon Lavie (Carnegie Mellon)
Lori Levin (Carnegie Mellon)
Fabio Pianesi (ITC-irst)
Tanja Schultz (Carnegie Mellon)
Steven Krauwer (OTS)
Yuqing Gao (IBM)
Satoshi Nakamura (ATR)
Herve Blanchon (Universite Joseph Fourier)
Marcello Federico (ITC-irst)
FURTHER INFORMATION:
To obtain further information about ESSLLI-2002 please visit
http://www.esslli2002.it/
This workshop is held as part of the ESSLLI-2002 summer school. Therefore all
workshop participants are required to register for ESSLLI-2002. Registration
information will be announced in due time by the local organizers on the
ESSLLI-2002 website.
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