Programme
Aix-en-Provence, France, 11-13 April 2002
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Aix-en-Provence, France, 11-13 April 2002 | |
9h00-9h30 Opening ceremony
9h30-12h30 ORAL SESSION Prosody and Emotion
There has been a recent upsurge of interest coming particularly from the field of speech synthesis on the ways in which prosody conveys information as to the emotional characteristics of speakers and utterances. This session was an opportunity to provide a synthesis of work in this area.
Keynote speaker: Sylvie Mozziconacci (Q-go and Leiden University, NL)
Co-speakers:
- Anne Wichmann (University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK)
- Branka Zei (Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, CH)
Selected oral presentations
12h30-15h30 POSTER SESSION
15h30-18h30 ORAL SESSION Prosody and Speech Technology
It is generally agreed that both for speech synthesis and speech recognition, prosody is the area in which the most progress needs to be made before such technology can be used as an acceptable replacement for human speech. More generally, contributions to this session will be concerned with problems and solutions for the automatic generation, analysis and recognition of natural prosody.
Keynote speaker: Colin Wightman (Minnesota State University, US)
Co-speakers:
- Li Aijun (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, CN)
- Hansjoerg Mixdorff (Berlin University of Applied Sciences, DE)
Selected oral presentations
19h00 Cocktails followed by a guided tour of the city of Aix-en-Provence
9h00-12h00 ORAL SESSION Prosody and Syntactic, Semantic, Pragmatic Interpretation
The way in which prosody contributes to the syntactic, semantic and/or pragmatic interpretation of an utterance in a given context is still an area where rather little is known. Papers in this session attempted to provide answers to the central question of the way in which prosody contributes to the meaning of an utterance.
Keynote speaker: Carlos Gussenhoven (University of Nijmegen, NL)
Co-speakers:
- Julia Hirschberg (AT&T Labs, New Jersey, US)
- Thorstein Fretheim (University of Trondheim, NO)
Selected oral presentations
12h00-15h00 POSTER SESSION
15h00-18h00 ORAL SESSION Prosody and the Brain
Papers in this session were concerned with interpreting direct or indirect evidence for the ways in which normal and abnormal activity of the brain can be correlated with prosodic characteristics of utterance.
Keynote speaker: Kai Alter (Max-Planck-Institute, Leipzig, DE)
Co-speakers:
- Marc Pell (McGill University, Montreal, CA)
- Janet Dean Fodor (CUNY, New York, US)
Selected oral presentations
18h00-19h00 General assembly of SProSIG, the Special Interest Group on Speech Prosody.
9h00-12h00 ORAL SESSION Lexical Prosody and Phonemic Alignment
Different languages of the world make different uses of prosody in characterising lexical items. The way in which lexical features of tone, accent, stress and quantity are integrated into global prosodic patterns and are aligned with phonemic representations provides a particularly interesting source of information concerning the nature of phonological representations of prosody.
Keynote speaker: Yi Xu (North Western University Illinois, US)
Co-speakers:
- Mariapaola D'Imperio (LPL, Aix en Provence, FR)
- Jan van Santen (Center for Spoken Language Understanding at OGI, Oregon, US)
Selected oral presentations
12h00-15h00 POSTER SESSION
15h00-18h00 ORAL SESSION Prosody and Linguistic Typology
It is well-known that prosody constitutes an essential factor in characterising ways in which different languages differ and that furthermore it probably contributes in a crucial way to the early recognition and identification of a speakers native language. Papers in this session addressed issues concerning the characterisation of objective paradigms for establishing prosodic typologies.
Keynote speaker: Franck Ramus (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, FR)
Co-speakers:
- Fred Cummins (Media Lab Europe and University College, Dublin, IE)
- Esther Grabe (University of Oxford, UK)
Selected oral presentations
18h00 CLOSING CEREMONY
20h30-24h00 Conference Banquet.