1998 International Symposium on Spoken Dialogue (ISSD-98)
November 30, 1998, at Room 3, Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre
(Chair: Prof. Hiroya Fujisaki, Co-chair: Prof. Michael Wagner)
The 3rd International Symposium on Spoken Dialogue will be held in conjunction with ICSLP'98, from 9:00 to 17:00 on 30 November in Room 3 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre. The purpose of the Symposium is to facilitate the discussion on the state of the art of spoken dialogue methods and systems among those participants of ICSLP'98 who are interested in the field of spoken dialogue. This is the third one in a series of symposia that has been held since 1993. The first one was held in Tokyo in November 1993, the second one in Philadelphia in October 1996 (as a satellite meeting of ICSLP'96), each time with invited overviews and contributed papers.
The program of ISSD-98 will consist of the following invited tutorials by distinguished researchers in this field, followed by a panel discussion.
8:00 - Registration
9:00 - 9:10 Opening Remarks
9:10 - 9:50 Seiichi Nakagawa (Toyohashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Architecture and Evaluation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
9:50 - 10:30 Lori Lamel (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Spoken Language Dialog System Development and Evaluation at LIMSI
10:30 - 11:00 --- morning tea ---
11:00 - 11:40 Florian Gallwitz et al. (Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
The Erlangen Spoken Dialogue System EVAR: A State-of-the-Art
Information Retrieval System
11:40 - 12:20 Harald Aust and Olaf Schroeer (Philips, Germany)
Application Development with the Philips Dialog System
12:20 - 13:40 --- lunch break ---
13:40 - 14:20 Chin-Hui Lee (Lucent Technologies, U.S.A)
Spoken Dialgue Processing Towards Telecommunication Applications
14:20 - 15:00 Toshiyuki Takezawa and Seiichi Yamamoto (ATR-ITRL, Japan)
Dialogue Processing in a Speech-to-Speech Translation System Between
Japanese and English
15:00 - 15:30 --- afternoon tea ---
15:30 - 17:00 Panel Discussion
The meeting is open to all those who are interested, and the admission is free. In order to secure a seat and to obtain the proceedings, however, those who wish to attend are strongly suggested to register in advance by sending e-mail (Subject: ISSD-98 Registration) or fax to:
Dr. Tuan Pham, ISSD-98 Secretariat
School of Computing, University of Canberra
e-mail: tuanp@ise.canberra.edu.au
Fax: +61-2-6201-5231
The meeting will be sponsored by the "Research for the Future" Program of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, in cooperation with the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ), the Australian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA), and the European Speech Communication Association (ESCA).