Program Outline

Friday, 28 January 2011

Saturday, 29 January 2011

Sunday, 30 January 2011

Monday, 31 January 2011

Session Details

Invited Speakers

IS.01	New Tools and Methods for Very Large Scale Measurements of Very Large Corpora
	Bill Labov and Ingrid Rosenfelder University of Pennsylvania
IS.02	Speech Prosody: From Data to Models. Analysis by Synthesis as a Tool for Linguists
	Daniel Hirst CNRS and Université de Provence
IS.03	Tools for Construction of Large Speech Databases in any Language
	Alan W. Black Carnegie Mellon University
IS.04	Very-large-scale Phonetics: perspectives of a nano-phonetician
	Louis Goldstein University of Southern California

Oral Session I

13:30	Mining a Year of Speech
	John Coleman, Mark Liberman, Greg Kochanski, Lou Burnard and Jiahong Yuan University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania
14.00	Mobilizing Smaller Datasets for Large-Scale Phonetic Analysis: Web-Databases and Semi-Automatic Analyses
	Tyler Kendall and Ann Bradlow University of Oregon, Northwestern University
14:30	How Unlabeled Data Change the Acoustic Models For Phonetic Classification
	Jui-Ting Huang, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson and Jennifer Cole University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
15:00	Should Corpora be Big, Rich, or Dense?
	Greg Kochanski, Chilin Shih and Ryan Shosted Oxford University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Oral Session II

16:00	Acoustic Classification of Focus in a Web Corpus of Comparatives
	Jonathan Howell, Mats Rooth and Michael Wagner Cornell University, McGill University
16.30	In search of intonational cues to content word beginnings in conversational speech
	Pauline Welby, Robert Espesser and Christine Meunier Université de Provence
17:00	Evaluating Second Language Fluency
	Chilin Shih and Chen-Huei Wu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
17.30	Kinematic parsing of the U. Wisconsin X-ray microbeam corpus applied to a prosodic boundary location task
	Mark Tiede, Hosung Nam, Argyro Katsika and Louis Goldstein Haskins Laboratories, MIT, Yale University, University of Southern California

Oral Session III

13:30	SailAlign: Robust long speech-text alignment
	Athanassios Katsamanis, Matt Black, Panayiotis Georgiou, Louis Goldstein and Shrikanth Narayanan University of Southern California
14.00	Accurate Discriminative Forced Alignment
	Joseph Keshet Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
14:30	Phonemic Segmentation and Labelling using the MAUS Technique
	Florian Schiel, Christoph Draxler and Jonathan Harrington Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals, Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munchen
15:00	Towards Exploring Linguistic Variation in ASR Errors: Paradigm and Tool for Perceptual Experiments
	Martine Adda-Decker, Ioana Vasilescu, Natalie Snoeren, Nadia Yahia and Lori Lamel LIMSI-CNRS, LPP-CNRS

Poster Session I

P1.01	Allophonic variation is regular
	Antti Arppe and Benjamin V. Tucker University of Helsinki, University of Alberta
P1.02	Foreign-Accented Speech Database for Children
	Tessa Bent Indiana University
P1.03	Finding Turkish front vowels: very large is not enough
	Ewan Dunbar, Brian Dillon and William Idsardi University of Maryland
P1.04	A New Use of an Old Corpus: The Dictionary of American Regional English and North American English Vowels
	Keelan Evanini Educational Testing Service
P1.05	Automatic analyses of vowels in broadcast speech corpora: methodological safeguards and phonetic implications
	Cedric Gendrot and Martine Adda-Decker Université Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, LIMSI-CNRS
P1.06	Automatic keyword spotting for continuous speech
	Joseph Keshet and Morgan Sonderegger Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, University of Chicago
P1.07	Comparative Analysis of Prosodic Features of Native and Non-native Spontaneous Speech
	Catherine Lai, Keelan Evanini and Klaus Zechner University of Pennsylvania, Educational Testing Service
P1.08	Vowel Formant Contours in Spontaneous and Read Speech
	Micheal Kiefte and Terrance Nearey Dalhousie University, University of Alberta
P1.09	Nonlinear development of speaking rate in child-directed speech
	Eon-Suk Ko University at Buffalo, SUNY
P1.10	A preliminary acoustic study of prosody for the Cantonese AphasiaBank
	Alice Lee, Anthony Kong and Sam Po Law University College Cork, University of Central Florida, The University of Hong Kong
P1.11	Feature Sets for the Automatic Detection of Prosodic Prominence
	Tim Mahrt, Jui-Ting Huang, Yoonsook Mo, Jennifer Cole, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson and Margaret Fleck University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
P1.12	Uniformity and variability among speakers in the acoustic encoding of prosody in spontaneous speech
	Yoonsook Mo and Jennifer Cole University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
P1.13	Prosodic analysis of disfluent events in a corpus of university lectures
	Helena Moniz, Ana Isabel Mata and Isabel Trancoso INESC-ID, FLU, IST
P1.14	Vowel devoicing in Japanese and English by native speakers of Japanese
	Midori Morris University of Pennsylvania
P1.15	Measuring and modeling rhythm distributions: The contribution of forced alignment
	Emily Nava, Louis Goldstein and Joseph Tepperman Rosetta Stone Labs, University of Southern California
P1.16	A Longitudinal Study of Accent Development in an International Spoken English Environment
	Rosemary Orr, Hugo Quené, Roeland van Beek, Thari Diefenbach, David van Leeuwen and Marijn Huijbregts Utrecht University, Radboud University
P1.17	Acoustic methods of classifying fricatives
	Laura Spinu and Jason Lilley Concordia University, University of Delaware
P1.18	Studying Variation in the Lab with Larger Scale Production Experiments
	Michael Wagner McGill University
P1.19	Prosodic Boundary Signalled by Syllable-Final Vocalic Duration
	Tae-Jin Yoon McMaster University

Poster Session II

P2.01	UltraPraat & UltraWord: Software and data for multimodal speech analysis
	Diana Archangeli, Ian Fasel and Jeff Berry University of Arizona
P2.02	Detecting gross alignment errors in the Spoken British National Corpus
	Ladan Baghai-Ravary, Sergio Grau and Greg Kochanski Oxford University
P2.03	Speech Corpora for the Study of English in a Global Context
	Ann Bradlow, Lauren Ackerman, Melissa Baese-Berk, Rachel Baker, Ann Burchfield, Lisa Hesterberg, Midam Kim, Jenna Luque, Kelsey Mok and Kristin Van Engen Northwestern University, Education First
P2.04	Taiwan Min EasyAlign: an automatic phonetic alignment tool under Praat
	Mao-Hsu Chen, Jean-Philippe Goldman, Ho-hsien Pan and Janice Fon National Chiao Tung University, University of Geneva, National Taiwan University
P2.05	mtrans: A MATLAB tool for multi-channel, multi-tier speech annotation
	Martin Cooke and Marco Piccolino-Boniforti Ikerbasque & University of the Basque Country, University of Cambridge
P2.06	Time- and Text-Aligned Annotations: the SpLaSH Data Model
	Francesco Cutugno and Sara Romano University of Naples Federico II Italy
P2.07	Functional Data Analysis for Phonetics Research
	Michele Gubian Centre for Language and Speech Technology, Radboud University Nijmegen
P2.08	Diapix: a method for the elicitation of spontaneous speech dialogs
	Valerie Hazan, Rachel Baker and Ann Bradlow University College London, Northwestern University
P2.09	HMM-based Pronunciation Dictionary Generation
	Arthur Kantor and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
P2.10	Festvox: Tools for Creation and Analyses of Large Speech Corpora
	Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, Kishore Prahallad and Alan W Black INESC-ID Lisboa, Carnegie Mellon University, IIIT-Hyderabad
P2.11	Speech Corpus Toolkit for Praat - Basic steps in annotating, querying and analysing two corpora of conversational Finnish with Praat scripts
	Mietta Lennes University of Helsinki
P2.12	WinPitch, a multipurpose multimodal tool for speech analysis of very large scale corpora
	Philippe Martin Université Paris Diderot
P2.13	Large-scale accessories for large-scale phonetics research
	Jeff Mielke University of Ottawa
P2.14	Automatic gestural annotation of the U. Wisconsin X-ray Microbeam corpus
	Hosung Nam, Vikramjit Mitra, Mark Tiede, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Carol Espy-Wilson, Elliot Saltzman and Louis Goldstein Haskins Laboratories, University of Maryland, MIT, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Boston University, University of Southern California
P2.15	Using hotspots as a novel method for accessing key events in a large multi-modal corpus
	Catharine Oertel, Celine De Looze, Brian Vaughan, Emer Gilmartin, Petra Wagner and Nick Campbell Trinity College Dublin, Bielefeld University
P2.16	Bootstrapping The Correlate: Making Do With Less
	Gayatri Rao The University of Texas - Austin
P2.17	A new tool for automatic VOT measurement
	Morgan Sonderegger, Nattalia Paterson, Matthew Goldrick and Joseph Keshet University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
P2.18	Development of a new corpus of foreign-accented English
	Terrin Tamati, Hanyong Park and David Pisoni Indiana University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P2.19	Unicode-Based Phonetic Dictionary Construction for Korean Speech Recognition System
	Tae-Jin Yoon and Yoonjung Kang McMaster University, University of Toronto