1 December: DCLRS -- "The Expanding Role of Prosody in Speech Communication
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Seminar Announcement:
Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar
DCLRS 2008/2009
DCU DIT TCD UCD
Venue: Jonathan Swift Lecture Theatre (Arts Building 2041a)
Trinity College Dublin
Time: 16:00, Friday, December 5, 2008
Title:
The Expanding Role of Prosody in Speech Communication Technology
Speakers:
Professor Nick Campbell
Center for Language and Communication Studies
Trinity College Dublin
ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Labs
Acoustics & Speech Processing Department
Abstract:
Speech communication is a uniquely human attribute that plays a
multi-faceted role in human social interaction. At its core from one
point of view lies language and linguistic structure, yet from a more
fundamental point of view we find 'prosody' underlying many levels of
speech communication, serving to signal not just linguistic but also
interpersonal and social information.
Early humans would have had recourse primarily to tone-of-voice for
basic communication but as language use became more sophisticated over
evolutionary time this medium of human interaction became subsidiary
to more sophisticated elements of communcation, though its use did not
disappear entirely.
In the development of technology for processing human speech, the
linguistic element has long been considered prime. This talk will
focus, however, on the 'tone-of-voice' aspects of prosody in social
interaction, tracing their develop[ment in technological research from
a carrier of linguistic information, signalling semantic and syntactic
structure, to that of a social indicator, signalling affective and
interpersonal cues that are equally essential to effective
communication in a social situation.
By thus unravelling the role of prosody in speech, we will trace its
uses from higher to lower levels of sophistication, and suggest some
aspects of prosodic interpretation that might enable a technology for
the processing of interpersonal states and attitudes in addition to
and alongside the processing of propositional content in the speech
signal.
Autumn Schedule:
October 17 Mark Buckley (Edinburgh/Saarbruecken)
October 24 Marilyn Walker (Sheffield)
October 31 Tony Veale (UCD)
November 7 Jonathan Ginzburg (KCL)
November 14 John Kelleher and Brian Mac Namee (DIT)
November 21 Alexander Troussov (IBM, Dublin)
November 28 Rachele De Felice (Oxford)
December 5 Nick Campbell (ATR/TCD)
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