Symposium on Prosody and Speech Processing
Organized by Scientific Research of Priority Areas
“Realization of advanced spoken language information processing from prosodic features,
” Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japanese Government
Major Meeting Room, Sanjo-Kaikan, University of Tokyo
February 6 (Thursday), 2002
Program
| 9:30 | Registration desk opens. | |
| 9:50 | Opening | Keikichi Hirose (Project Head) |
| Session 1 Fundamentals | Chair: Zendo Uwano | |
| 10:00 | “Perception of paralinguistic information in a foreign language” |
Kikuo Maekawa （National Institute of Japanese Language） |
| 10:25 | “What aspect of prosody can J-ToBI describe? - An evaluation of J-ToBI -” |
Shigeyoshi Kitazawa, Shinya Kiriyama, Toshihiko Ito (Shizuoka University), Nick Campbell (ATR) |
| 10:50 | “Asymmetric distribution of the two high vowels” | Yuko Z. Yoshida (Doshisha University) |
| Session 2 Invited Talks 1 |
Chair: Hiroya Fujisaki |
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| 11:15 | “The representation of function and form in prosodic annotation: A multi-level approach” |
Daniel Hirst (CNRS & Universite de Provence, France) |
| 12:15～13:30 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 3 Invited Talks 2 |
Chair: Yoshinori Sagisaka |
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| 13:30 | “Prosody models for conversational speech recognition” |
Mari Ostendorf (University of Washington, U.S.A.) |
| Chair: Keikichi Hirose | ||
| 14:30 | “Prosody and automatic speech recognition -Why not yet a success story and where to go from here” |
Elmar Noeth (Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany) |
| 15:30～16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 4 Technologies and Applications |
Chair: Shigeki Sagayama |
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| 16:00 | “Corpus-based generation of fundamental frequency contours under the model-constraint -Emotional speech synthesis -” | Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu and Toshiya Katsura (University of Tokyo) |
| 16:25 | “The use of prosody for disambiguating Japanese dependency structure” |
Kazuyuki Takagi, Mamiko Okimoto, Yoshio Ogawa, Kazuhiko Ozeki (University of Electro-Communications) |
| 16:50 | “Conversation system using linguistic and paralinguistic information” | Tetsunori Kobayashi, Yosuke Matsusaka (Waseda University) |
| 17:15 | “Prosodic and segmental evaluation of dysarthria” |
Hiroki Mori, Yasunori Kobayashi, Hideki Kasuya (Utsunomiya University), Hajime Hirose, Noriko Kobayashi (Kitasato University) |
| 17:40 | Discussion | |
| 18:00 | Closing | |