Satellite Workshop

Robust and Adaptive Information Processing
for
Mobile Speech Interfaces

Programme

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Description of the workshop    Up

The workshop will focus on adaptation and mobile technology in intelligent interactive systems. Especially, advanced research on machine learning techniques and robust technology needed in building adaptive systems will be discussed and demonstrated. The state of the art speech and language technology is already on such a high level that the users can execute simple control commands to direct system operations, and also have short conversations with the system to search for information. However, to enable natural multilingual interaction, the unique requirements that arise from the combination of adaptive interface design, dialogue research, and language processing have to be addressed in the system development. We encourage papers that investigate adaptive multilingual interaction techniques to handle both spoken and text input and to provide coordinated linguistic responses to the user. Papers that concern innovative frameworks and offer new, even controversial view-points for developing interactive systems are welcome: the goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussing how adaptive information processing can be combined in spoken dialogue systems to offer natural and rich interaction with various users.

The two-day workshop is organized around two themes that will be summarized in two panel sessions, one on each day, and address the questions such as:

A predecessor of the workshop was organized as the Dialogue systems workshop at the European Chapter for ACL in Budapest last year. The current workshop will focus on the scientific results and opportunities provided by the current state of speech and language technology. It will also function as the final workshop of the EU-IST project DUMAS, and thus provide a forum for combining high-quality research (presented both in the workshop and the preceding main conference) with practical development prospects for human language technology.

Topics of Interest    Up

 We solicit papers from a number of research areas, including but not limited to: 

We also welcome discussion on the challenges that these viewpoints pose for dialogue systems and speech interfaces, as well as new ideas and solutions for adaptive architectures and general framework. Demonstrations of working systems will be organized as part of the workshop, and special sections for posters describing interactive applications and advanced language technology systems can be organized too.                                                 

Workshop Format   Up

The workshop will be a two-day workshop with a tentative programme as follows:

 The participants are requested to register to the main COLING conference.

Submission of Papers and Abstracts   Up

The workshop is meant to cover both academic researchers as well as industrial partners. The target audience consists of researchers and system developers who share an interest in intelligent spoken dialogue systems and want to know about recent advances in robust speech and language processing. It is expected that the workshop will also have relevance to industrial partners, and draw their interest to advances in speech and language technology research in general.

The papers are expected to be on high scientific value, presenting both theoretical and practical issues concerning adaptation and learning in spoken dialogue systems.

The papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including title page, examples, references, etc. In addition to this, two additional pages are allowed as an appendix which may include extended example discourses or dialogues, algorithms, graphical representations, etc. They should be sent electronically to the e-mail address:
coling-se1@uiah.fi

The title page (no separate title page is needed) should include the following information:

     Title;

     Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses;

     Preferred thematic session, if any.

     Abstract (short summary up to 5 lines);

The format of the submissions is the same as used in COLING submission. Style files and instructions to authors are available at http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html

Papers must be submitted in pdf-format.

All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Other publication channels will also be explored (a book, Special Issue).

Important Dates   Up

Websites   Up

Workshop website: http://mlab.uiah.fi/~kjokinen/dumas/coling-se1.html

COLING website: http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/index.html

DUMAS website:http://www.sics.se/dumas/

Workshop Organisation   Up

The scientific committee of the workshop will consist of the following experts (most confirmed):

Alex Bailey, Canon Research Centre Europe, UK

Bill Black, UMIST, England

Peter Boda, Nokia Research Center, Finland

Rolf Carlson, KTH, Sweden

Roberta Catizone, University of Sheffield, UK

Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia

Laila Dybkjaer, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Björn Gambäck, SICS, Sweden

Kristiina Jokinen, University of Art and Design & University of Helsinki, Finland

Michael McTear, University of Ulster, Ireland

Victor Poznanski, Sharp Laboratories of Europe, UK

Allan Ramsay, UMIST, UK

Frank Reh, DaimlerChrysler, Germany

Uli Strempel, Etex, Germany

Pasi Tapanainen, Connexor, Finland

Markku Turunen University of Tampere, Finland

Tom Wachtel, Independent Consultant, Italy/UK

Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK

Contact Information for the Chairs   Up

In all correspondence with the chairs, please use the shared email: coling-se1@uiah.fi