Second Call for Papers DiSS-LPSS Joint Workshop 2010

April 7th, 2010
Second Call for Papers
DiSS-LPSS Joint Workshop 2010

The 5th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech
and
The 2nd International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns
in Spontaneous Speech
Date: September 25-26, 2010
Place: Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
DiSS-LPSS Joint Workshop 2010, a satellite meeting of INTERSPEECH 2010, will be held in Tokyo, Japan, on September 25-26, 2010. We invite you to submit original papers in any related area, including but not limited to:

– Characteristics of disfluency in spontaneous speech
– Human production and perception of speech errors, repairs and hesitations
– Neurocognitive correlates of speech disfluency
– Comparison of normal disfluencies with those occurring in communication disorders
– Prosody in spontaneous speech
– Linguistic analyses on spontaneous speech
– Automatic speech recognition of spontaneous speech
– Understanding spontaneous speech in dialogue systems
– Corpora of spontaneous speech
– Automatic or manual annotation of spontaneous speech data
– Comparison of spontaneous speech and read speech

We would welcome submission of 4-page papers for oral and poster presentations by May 31, 2010, for review. In addition to 4-page regular papers, we would also welcome submission of 2-page short papers, which will be considered for poster presentations only. All accepted papers will be published in CD-ROM and printed proceedings.
Important
dates:
 Deadline for full-paper submission:May 31, 2010
 Acceptance notification to authors:July 15, 2010
 Deadline for camera-ready paper:August 15, 2010
 Workshop dates:September 25-26, 2010
Invited
speakers:
Shigeaki Amano (Faculty of Human Informatics, Aichi Shukutoku University)
Dale Barr (Department of Psychology, University of California)
Program
Committee:
Jens Allwood (University of Goteborg)
Martin Corley (University of Edinburgh)
Yasuharu Den (Chiba University)
Robert Eklund (Karolinska Institute)
Janice Fon (National Taiwan University)
Rob Hartsuiker (University of Ghent)
Robin Lickley (Queen Margaret University)
Kikuo Maekawa (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
Ralph Rose (Waseda University)
Elizabeth Shriberg (SRI International)
Takenobu Tokunaga (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Shu-Chuan Tseng (Academia Sinica)
Michiko Watanabe (University of Tokyo)
Asa Wengelin (Lund University)
Etsuko Yoshida (Mie University)
Organizing
chairs:
Kikuo Maekawa (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
Yasuharu Den (Chiba University)
Local
organizers:
Michiko Watanabe (University of Tokyo)
Ralph Rose (Waseda University)
URL: http://cogsci.l.chiba-u.ac.jp/diss-lpss2010/
Contact
address:
diss-lpss2010-info@cogsci.l.chiba-u.ac.jp