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10TH ELSNET EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON LANGUAGE AND SPEECH COMMUNICATION

First Announcement

Evaluation and Assessment of Text and Speech Systems

Odense, Denmark
15-26 July 2002
Organized by the Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory (NISLab)
University of Southern Denmark.

The ELSNET European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication has
become one of the most successful annual training courses in Europe. For
the year 2002 the topic of evaluation and assessment of text and speech
systems has been selected. The school will provide courses on evaluation of
language, speech, and multimodal systems and components, and on the use of
corpora and annotation schemes, methods and tools in the evaluation
process. State of the art techniques and tools (hands-on experience
included) will be presented by eminent teachers. The target audience of the
Summer School are advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, postdocs
and academic and industrial researchers and developers.

GRANTS will be available from the EU Improving Human Potential programme
and may cover a substantial part of total costs for young European
researchers. The ISCA grant scheme is open for applications related to this
summer school.

PRELIMINARY COURSE TOPICS
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Evaluation of spoken dialogue systems.
Speech recognition evaluation: broadcast news transcribtion, meeting
transcription, audio-visual speech recognition.
Evaluation of question/answering systems, summarization systems and
information retrieval systems.
Evaluation of machine translation systems.
Annotation and evaluation of text and speech systems.
Evaluation of talking animated interface agents.
Resources and evaluation of text and speech systems.
Evaluation of part of speech tagging and terminology and lexicons etc.
Usability evaluation.
Evaluation of speech synthesis systems.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for pre-registration & grant application: April 15, 2002
Notification of registration and grants: May 1, 2002
Payment deadline: June 1, 2002

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Joseph-Jean Mariani (LIMSI, FR)
Antonio Zampolli (University of Pisa, IT)
Gerrit Bloothooft (Utrecht University, NL)
Koenraad de Smedt (University of Bergen, NO)
Niels Ole Bernsen (University of Southern Denmark, DK)

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
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Holmer Hemsen
Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory (NIS)
University of Southern Denmark - Odense
Science Park 10
DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
Email: hemsen@nis.sdu.dk
Phone: (+45) 63 15 73 08 -- Fax: (+45) 63 15 72 24

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