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The technical program can be downloaded here.
Day1: May 9, 2016
Two Parallel Tutorials:
ASR-Kaldi (Sanjeev Khudanpur) and TTS-Festival (Richard Sproat)
08:00-09:00 | Registration of participants |
09:00-10:30 | Tutorial Part I |
10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
11:00-12:00 |
Tutorial Part II |
12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
13:30-15:30 |
Tutorial Part III |
15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
16:00-18:30 |
Tutorial Part IV |
19:00-22:00 |
Welcome Reception at Hotel Phoenix with Gamelan Javanese Traditional Music |
Day2: May 10, 2016
08:00-09:00 | Registration of participants |
09:00-09:15
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Workshop Opening
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09:15-10:15
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Keynote Speaker: Steven Bird - Uni-Melbourne, Australia [Chair: Laurent Besacier]
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10:15-10:40
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Coffee Break
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10:40-12:20
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Oral session: "DATA COLLECTION, CROWDSOURCING & SPEECH SYNTHESIS"
[Chair: Shyam Agrawal]
5 Talks - 100min (each 20min; approx. 15min presentation + 5min Q&A)
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BREAKING THE UNWRITTEN LANGUAGE BARRIER: THE BULB PROJECT
Gilles Adda, Sebastian Stüker, Martine Adda-Decker, Odette Ambouroue, Laurent Besacier, David Blachon, Hélène Bonneau-Maynard, Pierre Godard, Fatima Hamlaoui, Dmitry Idiatov, Guy-Noël Kouarata, Lori F. Lamel, Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso, Annie Rialland, Mark Van de Velde, François Yvon and Sabine Zerbian.
- STUDY OF LARGE DATA RESOURCES FOR MULTILINGUAL TRAINING AND SYSTEM PORTING
Frantisek Grezl, Ekaterina Egorova and Martin Karafiat.
- MISMATCHED UNDER-RESOURCED LANGUAGES
Wenda Chen, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson and Nancy Chen.
- PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF PROBABILISTIC TRANSCRIPTIONS WITH LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC CONSTRAINTS
Xiang Kong, Preethi Jyothi and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson.
- BUILDING STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC MULTI-SPEAKER SYNTHESIS FOR BANGLADESHI BANGLA
Alexander Gutkin, Linne Ha, Martin Jansche, Oddur Kjartansson, Knot Pipatsrisawat and Richard Sproat.
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12:20-13:30
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Lunch
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13:30-14:30
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Keynote Speaker: Ming Kuok Lim - UNESCO, Indonesia
[Chair: Gilles Adda] |
14:30-16:10 |
Oral session: "SIGN LANGUAGE & NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING"
[Chair: Tan Tien Ping]
5 Talks - 100min (each 20min; approx. 15min presentation + 5min Q&A)
- A STUDY OF STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION METHODS FOR UNDER RESOURCED LANGUAGES
Win Pa Pa, Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita
- EXPLOITING SYNTACTIC SIMILARITIES FOR PREPOSITION ERROR CORRECTIONS ON INDONESIAN SENTENCES WRITTEN BY SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Budi Irmawati, Hiroyuki Shindo and Yuji Matsumoto.
- INDONESIAN NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION FOR 15 CLASSES USING ENSEMBLE SUPERVISED LEARNING
Aditya Satrya Wibawa and Ayu Purwarianti
- TOPIC SUMMARIZATION OF MICROBLOG DOCUMENT IN BAHASA INDONESIA USING THE PHRASE REINFORCEMENT ALGORITHM
Meganingrum Arista Jiwanggi and Mirna Adriani.
- AUTOMATIC TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROCESSING SPOKEN SIGN LANGUAGES
Alexey Karpov, Irina Kipyatkova and Milos Zelezny.
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16:10-16:35 |
Coffee Break |
16:35-18:15 |
Oral session: "ZERO RESOURCES SCENARIO"
[Chair: Martine Adda-Decker] 5 Talks - 100min (each 20min; approx. 15min presentation + 5min Q&A)
- THE ZERO RESOURCE SPEECH CHALLENGE 2015: PROPOSED APPROACHES AND RESULTS
Maarten Versteegh, Xavier Anguera, Aren Jansen and Emmanuel Dupoux.
- UNSUPERVISED LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS FOR SUPPORTING DPGMM CLUSTERING IN THE ZERO RESOURCE SCENARIO
Michael Heck, Sakriani Sakti and Satoshi Nakamura.
- VARIATIONAL INFERENCE FOR ACOUSTIC UNIT DISCOVERY
Lucas Ondel, Lukas Burget and Jan Cernocky.
- REFINING SPARSE CODING SUB-WORD UNIT INVENTORIES WITH LATTICE-CONSTRAINED VITERBI TRAINING
Wiehan Agenbag and Thomas Niesler.
- AUTOMATIC SYLLABLE SEGMENTATION USING BROAD PHONETIC CLASS INFORMATION
Bogdan Ludusan and Emmanuel Dupoux.
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18:15- |
Free Time |
Day3: May 11, 2016
08:00-09:15 | Registration of participants |
09:15-10:15 |
Keynote Speaker: Stavros Tsakalidis - BBN, USA
[Chair: Thomas Niesler] |
10:15-10:40 |
Coffee Break |
10:40-11:40 |
Oral session: "DEEP NEURAL NETWORK" [Chair: Sanjeev Khudanpur]
3 Talks - 60min (20min each; approx. 15min presentation + 5min Q&A)
- BOTTLE-NECK FEATURE EXTRACTION STRUCTURES FOR MULTILINGUAL TRAINING AND PORTING
Frantisek Grezl and Martin Karafiat.
- USING WEIGHTED MODEL AVERAGING IN DISTRIBUTED MULTILINGUAL DNNS TO IMPROVE LOW RESOURCE ASR
Reza Sahraeian and Dirk Van Compernolle.
- INVESTIGATING BILINGUAL DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS FOR AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION OF CODE-SWITCHING FRISIAN SPEECH
Emre Yilmaz, Henk Van Den Heuvel and David Van Leeuwen
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11:40-12:20 |
Short presentation for Poster
[Chair: Dessi Puji Lestari] 12 Posters - 40min (each approx. 3min) |
12:20-13:30 |
Lunch |
13:30-15:10 |
Poster session (12 Posters - 100 min) [Chair: Dessi Puji Lestari]
Board Size: 1m width x 2.5m height; Recommended to use A0 poster size (Portrait style).
- DEVELOPING SPEECH RESOURCES FROM PARLIAMENTARY DATA FOR SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH
Febe de Wet, Jaco Badenhorst and Thipe Modipa.
- EYRA - SPEECH DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR MANY LANGUAGES
Matthias Petursson, Simon Klüpfel and Jon Gudnason.
- PARALLEL SPEECH COLLECTION FOR UNDER-RESOURCED LANGUAGE STUDIES USING THE LIG-AIKUMA MOBILE DEVICE APP
David Blachon, Elodie Gauthier, Laurent Besacier, Guy-Noël Kouarata, Martine Adda-Decker and Annie Rialland.
- COLLABORATIVE SPEECH DATA ACQUISITION FOR UNDER RESOURCED LANGUAGES THROUGH CROWDSOURCING
Sunita Arora, Karunesh Kumar Arora, Mukund Kumar Roy, B K Murthy and Shyam Sunder Agrawal
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUDIBLE PATTANI MALAY-THAI ELECTRONIC PHRASEBOOK FOR MILITARY PURPOSES
Prachya Boonkwan, Thepchai Supnithi, Wandee Tosuwan and Chai Wutiwiwatchai.
- USING DICTIONARY AND LEMMATIZER TO IMPROVE LOW RESOURCE ENGLISH-MALAY STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM
Yin Lai Yeong, Tien-Ping Tan and Siti Khaotijah Mohammad.
- DICTIONARY BASED WORD SEGMENTATION FOR JAVANESE
Dipta Tanaya and Mirna Adriani.
- A TOOL TO SOLVE SENTENCE SEGMENTATION PROBLEM ON PREPARING SPEECH DATABASE FOR INDONESIAN TEXT-TO- SPEECH SYSTEM
M. Teduh Uliniansyah, Gunarso, Elvira Nurfadhilah, Lyla Ruslana Aini, A. Juliati Junde, Fara Ayuningtyas and Agung Santosa.
- A TEMPORAL COHERENCE LOSS FUNCTION FOR LEARNING UNSUPERVISED ACOUSTIC EMBEDDINGS
Gabriel Synnaeve and Emmanuel Dupoux.
- TOWARDS ROBUST INDONESIAN SPEECH RECOGNITION WITH SPONTANEOUS SPEECH ADAPTED ACOUSTIC MODELS
Devin Hoesen, Cil Hardianto Satriawan, Dessi Puji Lestari and Masayu Leylia Khodra.
- THE EFFECT OF TONE MODELING IN VIETNAMESE LVCSR SYSTEM
Quoc Bao Nguyen, Thang Vu and Chi Mai Luong.
- SPOKEN LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION USING PHONOTACTICS METHODS ON MINANGKABAU, SUNDANESE DAN JAVANESE
Nur Endah Safitri, Amalia Zahra and Mirna Adriani.
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15:10-15:35 |
Coffee Break |
15:35-17:15 |
Oral session: "SEMI-SUPERVISED TRAINING & CODE-SWITCHING"
[Chair: Alexey Karpov] 5 Talks - 100min (each 20min; approx. 15min presentation + 5min Q&A)
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LITHUANIAN BROADCAST SPEECH TRANSCRIPTION USING SEMI-SUPERVISED ACOUSTIC MODEL TRAINING
Rasa Lileikyté, Arseniy Gorin, Lori Lamel, Jean-Luc Gauvain and Thiago Fraga-Silva.
- SEMI-SUPERVISED TRAINING OF LANGUAGE MODEL ON SPANISH CONVERSATIONAL TELEPHONE SPEECH DATA
Ekaterina Egorova and Jordi Luque.
- AUTOMATIC SPEECH SPEECH RECOGNITION OF ENGLISH-ISIZULU CODE-SWITCHED FROM SOUTH AFRICAN SOAP OPERAS
Ewald Van der Westhuizen and Thomas Niesler.
- CODE-SWITCHED ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION MODELING FOR SWAHILI SPOKEN TERM DETECTION
Neil Kleynhans, William Hartman, Daniel Van Niekerk, Charl van Heerden, Rich Schwartz, Stavros Tsakalidis and Marelie Davel.
- AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION FOR AFRICAN LANGUAGES WITH VOWEL LENGTH CONTRAST
Elodie Gauthier, Laurent Besacier and Sylvie Voisin.
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18:00 |
Bus depart (approx. 45-60min duration to Prambanan Temple area) |
19:00-21:30 |
Banquet at Rama Shinta Garden Resto at Prambanan Temple area
(incl. the famous Sendratari Ramayana; Java's most spectacular dance-drama) |
Day4: May 12, 2016
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Cultural Events to Borobudur Temple
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12:00-13:00 |
Lunch near Borobudur Temple area |
13:00-15:00 |
Panel Discussions: "The Future of Under-Resourced Languages"
[Chair: Joseph Mariani/ Co-Chair: Sakriani Sakti]
(near Borobudur Temple area; approx. 2hours discussion)
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Conference Committee (SLTU Board)
Laurent Besacier (LIG, France)
- Zero Resource Speech Challenge Organizer
Emmanuel Dupoux (EHESS, France)
- Babel Project
Stavros Tsakalidis (BBN, USA)
- UNESCO
Ming Kuok Lim (UNESCO, Indonesia)
- Academia
Steven Bird (Uni-Melbourne, Austrralia/)
- Industry
Martin Jansche (Google)
- Open-source Software:
Kaldi: Sanjeev Khudanpur (JHU, USA)
- Country Representative
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15:00-15:30 |
Closing Remarks |
15:30 |
Bus depart (approx. 60-90min duration to Hotel Phoenix) |
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