LINGUIST List 7.58

Fri Jan 12 1996

Calls: Interactive voice technology

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <dizdartam2000.tamu.edu>

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1. Murray F Spiegel, Call for Papers: IVTTA (Voice Technol for Telecommunications

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 CALL FOR PAPERS

 THIRD IEEE WORKSHOP ON
 INTERACTIVE VOICE TECHNOLOGY
 FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPLICATIONS

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 September 30 - October 1, 1996
 The AT&T Learning Center
 300 N Maple Ave
 Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 USA
 Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society

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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, New Jersey, 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 indentity 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.
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Topic areas of interest:
- ASR/verification systems for the cellular environment
- User interface / human factors of applying speech to
telecommunications tasks
- Language modeling and dialog design for "audio-only" communication
- Experimental interactive systems for telecommunication applications
- Experience in deployment & assessment of deployed ASR/verification
systems
- Text-to-speech applications in the network
- Speech enhancement for telecommunications applications
- Telephone services for the disabled
- Architectures for speech-based services
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Prospective authors should submit 1-page abstracts of no more than 400
words for review. Submissions should include a title, authors' names,
affiliations, address, telephone and fax numbers and email address if
any. Please indicate the topic area of interest closest to your
submission. Camera-ready full papers (maximum of 6 pages) will be
published in the proceedings distributed at the workshop. Due to
workshop facility constraints, attendance will be limited with
priority given to authors with accepted contributions.

 For further information about the workshop, please contact:

Dr. Murray Spiegel, Bellcore, 445 South Street, Morristown, NJ 07960
USA Phone: 1-201-829-4519; Fax: 1-201-829-5963; 
E-mail:spiegelbellcore.com

 For full information, visit our web page:
http://superbook.bellcore.com/IVTTA.html
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 Send abstracts (fax or email preferred) to:

Dr. David Roe
IEEE IVTTA '96
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA
Phone: 1-908-582-2548; Fax: 1-908-582-3306
E-mail: roehogpb.att.com
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 SCHEDULE

Abstracts due (400 words, maximum 1 page): Mar 15, 1996
Notification of acceptance: May 1, 1996
Submission of photo-ready paper (maximum 6 pages): Jun 15, 1996
Advance registration to be received before: Jun 15, 1996
Late registration cut-off: Aug 30, 1996
IVTTA '96 Evening welcoming reception: Sep 29, 1996
IVTTA '96 Conference: Sep 30 & Oct 1, 1996
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 WEB PAGE
Check our web page for late breaking news and developments:
 http://superbook.bellcore.com/IVTTA.html
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					 REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Early registration (prior to June 15, 1996):
Day-only: $390
Full: $650

Late registration (Jun 15 - Aug 30, 1996):
Day-only: $465
Full: $725
IEEE members: charges are $25 less
Additional proceedings: $25

Day-only registration includes all technical sessions, welcoming
reception, lunches, snacks, banquet, and a copy of the proceedings.
Full registration includes all of the above plus: dinner on evening of
arrival, breakfast both days, two nights lodging at the conference
center, and use of the center facilities (jogging track, exercise
center, pool, etc).
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 WORKSHOP COMMITTEE

GENERAL CHAIR REGISTRATION & FINANCE
Candace Kamm Dick Rosinski
AT&T Bell Laboratories AT&T Bell Laboratories
cakresearch.att.com rrrarch4.att.com

PROGRAM CHAIRS PUBLICITY
David Roe Murray Spiegel
AT&T Bell Laboratories Bellcore
roehogpb.att.com spiegelbellcore.com

George Vysotsky LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
NYNEX Science & Technology David Pepper
georgenynexst.com Bellcore
 dpepperbellcore.com
INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE
Sadaoki Furui, NTT PROCEEDINGS
Matthew Lennig, BNR Jay Naik
David Roe, AT&T Bell Laboratories NYNEX Science & Technology
Christel Sorin, CNET naiknynexst.com
George Vysotsky, NYNEX