Friday, 17 November 2006                                                                     Next day >>

Slot

Papers

08:30-09:00

Registration

09:00-09:10

Opening ceremony

09:10-10:30

Invited speech:
Dafydd Gibbon (Universität Bielefeld)
Can there be standards for spontaneous speech? Towards an ontology for speech resource exploitation
Chair : Chiu-yu Tseng (Academia Sinica)

10:30-10:50

Coffee break

Session 1 : Spoken dialogues
Chair : Yuan-Fu Liao (National Taipei University of Technology)

10:50-11:20

Milan Gnjatović and Dietmar Rösner
Gathering corpora of affected speech in human-machine interaction: refinement of the wizard-of-oz technique

11:20-11:50

Anna Filipi and Roger Wales
Speakers' orientations to directional terms as problematic: task based talk and interaction

11:50-12:20

Kenji Takano and Akira Shimazu
Recognizing local dialogue structures and dialogue acts

12:20-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:20

Invited speech:
Kikuo Maekawa (National Institute for Japanese Language)
Analysis of language variation using a large-scale corpus of spontaneous speech
Chair : Chu-Ren Huang (Academia Sinica)

15:20-15:50

Coffee break

Session 2 : Prosody
Chair : Jane Tsay (National Chung Cheng University)

15:50-16:20

Yi-Fen Liu, Shu-Chuan Tseng, Ya-Fang He, Yun-Ju Huang and Tzu-Lun Lee
A preliminary study for spontaneous speech understanding and
processing: prosodic units in Mandarin Chinese

16:20-16:50

Philippe Martin
Spontaneous speech intonation in French

16:50-17:20

Adrian Leemann and Beat Siebenhaar
Prosodic features of spontaneous utterance-initial phrases in Bernese and Valais Swiss-German

17:20-17:50

Chun-lin Luo
Tone acquisition in Mandarin: a case study

18:00-20:00

Banquet