Plenary Sessions will be held on the first morning and the last afternoon of the conference. Profes sor Anne Cutler, Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, will be delivering the opening lecture entitled, "The Comparative Study of Spoken-Language Processing." The closing lecture will be "Natural Communication with Machines - Progress and Challenge," and will be delivered by Professor James L. Flanagan, Director of the CAIP Center at Rutgers University.
Each morning, there will be a briefing over continental breakfast for that day's authors and session chairs.
The official ICSLP 96 Conference Hotel is the Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel, 17th and Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103.
Room rates are as follows:
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If you are unable to make reservations at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel, the following hotels will be accepting reservations up to September 1, 1996. They are within five to six blocks of the Wyndham and comparably priced. Each hotel has specific reservation and cancellation policies that must be adhered to. Be sure to mention that you are a member of ICSLP 96.
| The Latham Hotel | 17th at Walnut |
| Philadelphia, PA 19103 | |
| phone: 215-563-7474 | |
| fax: 215-568-0110
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| Holiday Inn Select | 1800 Market Street |
| Philadelphia, PA 19103 | |
| phone: 215-561-7500 | |
| fax: 215-561-4484
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| Embassy Suites Hotel | 1776 Benjamin Franklin Parkway |
| Center City | at Logan Square |
| Philadelphia, PA 19103 | |
| phone: 215-561-1776 | |
| fax: 215-963-0122
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Hotels and Student Accomodations
USAir has been designated as the official carrier for the attendees of ICSLP 96 September 30-October 7, 1996, in Philadelphia, PA. USAir agrees to offer an exclusive low fare for the attendees. This special fare will offer a 5% discount off First Class and any published USAir promotional round trip fare. A 10% discount off unrestricted coach fares will apply with 7 day advance reservations and ticketing required. These discounts are valid providing all rules and restrictions are met and is applicable for travel from the Continental United States, Bahamas, Canada and San Juan, PR. Meeting discounts are not combined with other discounts or promotions.
Additional restrictions may apply on international travel.
These meeting discounts are valid between September 27 - October 10, 1996.
To obtain this meeting discount, you or your travel agent must call USAir's Meeting and Convention Reservation Office at (800) 334-8644; 8:00AM - 9:00PM., Eastern Time. REFER TO GOLD FILE NO. 44760215.
I95 South to Exit 17 (676 West - Central Philadelphia)
Follow 676 West to the first exit (Broad Street)
Broad Street exit will bring you onto 15th Street
First light is Vine Street - make a Right
Proceed two blocks to 17th Street - make a Left
Wyndham Franklin Plaza is 1 1/2 blocks down on the Left
From the South (Washington/Maryland):
Follow 676 West to the first exit (Broad Street)
Broad Street exit will bring you onto 15th Street
First light is Vine Street - make a Right
Proceed two blocks to 17th Street - make a Left
Wyndham Franklin Plaza is 1 1/2 blocks down on the Left
From the East (New York):
Take Exit 4 to 73 North to 38 West
Take 38 West to 30 West and follow signs to Benjamin Franklin Bridge
Ben Franklin Bridge will lead onto Vine Street - Stay in Local Traffic Lanes
Proceed straight on Vine Street to 17th Street - make a Left onto 17th
Wyndham Franklin Plaza is 1 1/2 blocks down on the Left
From the West (PA Turnpike/Harrisburg):
76 East to Exit 38 (676 East - Central Philadelphia)
Stay in right hand lanes and follow exit signs for Broad Street - Central Philadelphia
At end of exit, first light will be 15th Street - make a Right onto 15th
Go two blocks to Cherry Street - make a Right
Go one block to 16th Street - make a Right
Wyndham Franklin Plaza is 1 1/2 blocks down on the Left
From Philadelphia International Airport To Hotel:
Follow 676 West to the first exit (Broad Street)
Broad Street exit will bring you onto 15th Street
First light is Vine Street - make a Right
Proceed two blocks to 17th Street - make a Left
Wyndham Franklin Plaza is 1 1/2 blocks down on the Left
To Philadelphia International Airport from Hotel
The first light is Vine Street - Make a Right and stay to the Left
Follow signs for 676 East - Then I95 South
I95 South will take you directly to the Airport
The average high temperature in October is 66 F., or 19 C. and the average low is 49 F., or 9 C. For daily weather reports, the phone number to call is 215-936-1212.
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26th St. & Benjamin Franklin Pkwy
215-763-8100
The Philadelphia Zoo
Open Daily 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
34th St. and Girard Ave.
215-243-1100
Longwood Gardens
Open Daily April - October 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
November - March 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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610-388-6741
The following Satellite Workshops will be held immediately before or after the ICSLP 96 conference.
1. IVTTA THIRD IEEE WORKSHOP ON INTERACTIVE VOICE TECHNOLOGY FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPLICATIONS
September 30 - October 1, 1996
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The third of a series of IEEE workshops on Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications will be held at the AT&T Learning Center, Basking Ridge, NJ, from September 30 - October 1, 1996. The conference venue is on 35 semi-rural acres and is close enough (1 hour) for side trips to New York City. Our workshop will be held immediately before ICSLP 96 in Philadelphia, PA, approximately 80 miles from our location.
The IVTTA workshop brings together application researchers planning to conduct or who have recently conducted field trials of new applications of speech recognition, speaker identity verification, text-to-speech synthesis over the telephone network. The workshop will explore promising opportunities for applications and attempt to identify areas where further research is needed.
TOPIC AREAS OF INTEREST:
ASR/verification systems for the cellular environment
SCHEDULE
Late registration cut-off: August 30, 1996
IVTTA `96 Evening welcoming reception: September 29, 1996
IVTTA `96 Conference: September 30 & October 1, 1996
WEB PAGE
http://superbook.bellcore.com/IVTTA.html
Or contact Murray Spiegel, email:
spiegel@bellcore.com or fax: 1-201-829-5963
The 1996 International Symposium on Spoken Dialogue (ISSD-96) will be held on October 2 and 3 at the venue of ICSLP 96. It is intended to be a forum of interdisciplinary exchange between researchers working on spoken dialogues from various points of view. The first day is devoted to invited lectures followed by sessions of both invited and contributed papers, which will be continued on the second day as special sessions of ICSLP 96. Papers submitted to ICSLP 96 (Technical Areas H,L,O,U,&V) may be selected for presentation at the symposium.
For further information about the symposium, contact:
COCOSDA Workshop 96 will be held on Monday, October 7, at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel. The International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O Systems Assessment (COCOSDA) has been established to promote international cooperation in the fundamental areas of Spoken Language Engineering. Previous meetings have taken place in Banff 1992, Berlin 1993, Yokohama 1994 and Madrid 1995. Program and registration information for COCOSDA 96 will be forthcoming in later announcements. For more information about COCOSDA, consult the Web Page at http://www.itl.atr.co.jp/cocosda.
The Workshop on the Integration of Gesture in Language and Speech (WIGLS) will be held October 7 in Newark, Delaware, and October 8 in Wilmington, Delaware. This workshop will consider the relationship between gesture and spoken or signed languages, as well as the integration of gestures into human-computer interfaces. The keynote presenters will be David McNeill, Sherman Wilcox and Thomas Huang.
For further information, go to:
or write:
A. I. duPont Institute
P.O. Box 269
Wilmington, DE 19899
e-mail:
messing@asel.udel.edu
Phone: +1 302 651 6830; Fax: +1-302-651-6895
| University of Delaware | Alfred I. duPont Institute |
| Acoustical Society of America | Acoustical Society of Japan |
| American Speech-Language-Hearing Association | Australian Speech Science and Technology Association |
| European Speech Communication Association | IEEE Signal Processing Society |
| Incorporated Canadian Acoustical Association | International Phonetic Association |
| Linguistic Society of America |
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Hiroya Fujisaki - Founding Chair Science University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan | |
| Jens Blauert Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Bochum, Germany | Louis C. W. Pols University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Anne Cutler Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
Lawrence Rabiner AT&T Bell Labs Murray Hill, NJ, USA |
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Gunnar Fant Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm, Sweden |
Katsuhiko Shirai Waseda University Tokyo, Japan |
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John Laver Humanities Research Board of the British Academy Edinburgh, Scotland |
Kenneth Stevens Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA |
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Joseph Mariani LIMSI-CNRS Orsay, France |
Yoh'ichi Tohkura ATR Human Information Processing Research Lab Kyoto, Japan |
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J. Bruce Millar Australian National University Canberra, Australia |
Victor Zue Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA |
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John Ohala University of California Berkeley, CA, USA |
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H. Timothy Bunnell ICSLP 96 Chair |
Richard A. Foulds ICSLP 96 Vice-Chair |
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James B. Polikoff ICSLP 96 Conference Coordinator |
Mary Jane Wilkins ICSLP 96 Conference Co-Coordinator |
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William Idsardi ICSLP 96 Proceedings Coordinator |
Shirley Peters ICSLP 96 Proceedings Co-Coordinator
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Debra Yarrington ICSLP 96 Exhibits Coordinator | |
| Local Staff | |
| Susan Mayer | Doris Miklitz |
| Joanne Pugh | Carol Sharp |
Technical Program Committee Co-chairs
| Steven Levinson |
Mark Liberman |
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Maureen L. Stone
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| Kenneth Barner | Michael R. Brent |
| Sandra Carberry | Hiroya Fujisaki |
| James L. Hieronymous | Shubha Kadambe |
| Rena A. Krakow | Chin-Hui Lee |
| James J. Mahshie | Peggy B. Nelson |
| Sally G. Revoile | Richard C. Rose |
| Juergen Schroeter | Richard M. Stern |
| Doug H. Whalen | Grace H. Yeni-Komshian |
| Christian Benoit | Lynne E. Bernstein |
| Hiroya Fujisaki | Johan Liljankrantz |
| Qiguang Lin | Ronald Rosenfeld |
| Klaus R. Sherer | Maureen L. Stone |
| Alex Waibel | Eric D. Young |
| Etienne Barnard |
Lynne E. Bernstein |
| Herve Bourlard |
Patrick W. Demasco |
| Li Deng |
Silvio P. Eberhardt |
| Ellen Eide |
Brian A. Hanson |
| Hynek Hermanski |
Steve Hoskins |
| Arthur Joyce |
Ignatius G. Mattingly |
| Xavier Menendez |
Nelson Morgan |
| Venkatesh Nagesha |
David Novick |
| Ronald Rosenfeld |
Pieter Vermuleen |
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Irene B. Vogel
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This year, in cooperation with the journal Speech Communication (http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/specom), a number of papers will be chosen by the scientific committee for possible publication in an expanded format and reviewed version as "recommended by the ICSLP 96 Scientific Committee" papers in the Journal. Authors wishing to have their papers considered for such a publication must be willing to submit an extended version of their ICSLP paper within 6 months after the Conference for regular editorial review (note that audio files associated with papers can also be provided: audio files corresponding to published papers are from now on available on the Speech Communication web site). Please indicate interest by contacting the conference organizers via the conference email or surface mail address.
ICSLP `98 will be held at the Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, between November 30 - December 4, 1998. It will be hosted by the Australian Speech Science & Technology Association (ASSTA) Incorporated.
ASSTA invites all participants at ICSLP 96 to Australia for the 1998 conference. An exciting technical programme is planned, and a not to be forgotten social programme. We aim to provide technical challenge and debate as well as generating a friendly learning experience.
The Convention Centre is located in a complex of restaurants and shops on an expansive pedestrian peninsula at the waterfront of the celebrated Sydney Harbour and only a few minutes walk or monorail ride from the city centre.
Australia will be in early summer in December and there are lots of things to see and do. You will be able to combine the conference with numerous holiday opportunities - in Sydney sample Aussie beach culture, a concert in the Opera House, explore the vast harbour, or travel further to visit the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru, Kakadu, the Outback, see sheep shearing, visit our vineyards, go bushwalking, go to Tasmania where the last great unexplored wilderness still exists, help spot Thylacine, see the Southern Cross and get a clear view of the Milky Way at night. In fact, why not stay for Christmas and have a BBQ on the beach for a different Christmas dinner?
For advance information contact the ICSLP `98 Secretariat:
BY POST: TourHosts, GPO Box 128, SYDNEY NSW 2001, Australia
BY FAX: +61-2-262-3135
BY EMAIL:
mwick@tourhosts.com.au