CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

Slovenian Language Technologies Society

Information Society - IS 2010

Seventh Language Technologies Conference

IS-JT 2010

October 14 - 15, 2010
Ljubljana
Slovenia

The Slovenian Language Technologies Society held its biennial conference in the scope of the Information Society - IS 2010, taking place October 14 - 15, 2010 at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

This event was the seventh in the series of Slovenian Language Technologies Conferences ('98, '00, '02, '04, '06, '08) with the official languages of the conference being both English and Slovenian. The conference were published in printed proceedings, as well as on-line, on the conference Web site.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
[PDF, 8MB] Invited talks Conference schedule Programme committee Organising committee

INVITED TALKS

Serge Sharoff, University of Leedsu:
Analysing similarities and differences between corpora
The notion of comparable corpora rests on our ability to assess the difference between corpora which are claimed to be comparable, but this activity is still art rather than proper science. Here I will discuss attempts at approximating the content of corpora collected from the Web using various methods, also in comparison to traditional corpora, such as the BNC. The procedure for estimating the corpus composition is based on selecting keywords, followed by hard clustering or by building topic models. This can apply to corpora within the same language, e.g. the BNC against various crawled Internet corpora, as well as to corpora in different languages, e.g. webpages collected using the same procedure for English and Russian. I will also discuss the differences in using hard clustering vs topic models.
prof. dr. Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete:
Speech Modification
Speech Modifications refers to the various modifications one may apply to the sound produced by a person, speaking or singing. There is an increasing demand for high quality Speech Modification methods not only for creating target or virtual voices, but also to model various effects (e.g., Lombard effect), synthesize emotions, to make more natural the dialog systems which use speech synthesis etc. In this talk I will review the state-of-the-art Speech Modification methodology showing its limitations in producing good speech quality and its current challenges. Addressing quality issues of current speech modification algorithms in conjunction with properties of the speech production and speech perception systems I will try to pave the way for more natural Speech Modification algorithms in the future. Facing the challenges, it will allow Speech Modification systems to be applied in important and versatile areas of speech technology. Besides speech synthesis, Speech Modification has other potential applications in areas like entertainment, film, and music industry, toys, chat rooms and games, dialog systems, security and speaker individuality for interpreting telephony, high-end hearing aids, vocal pathology and voice restoration.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

doc. dr. Simon Dobrišek, Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, Univerza v Ljubljani
doc. dr. Tomaž Erjavec (predsednik), Odsek za tehnologije znanja, Institut "Jožef Stefan"
dr. Darja Fišer, Filozofska fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani
doc. dr. Vojko Gorjanc, Filozofska fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani
prof. dr. Ivo Ipsić, Faculty of Engineering, Univerza v Reki (Hrvaška)
prof. dr. Zdravko Kačič, Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, računalništvo in informatiko, Univerza v Mariboru
Simon Krek, Amebis, d.o.o.
doc. dr. Cvetana Krstev, Filozofska fakulteta, Univerza v Beogradu (Srbija in Črna gora)
dr. Domen Marinčič, Odsek za inteligentne sisteme, Institut "Jožef Stefan"
prof. dr. France Mihelič, Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, Univerza v Ljubljani
doc. dr. Dunja Mladenić, Odsek za tehnologije znanja, Institut "Jožef Stefan"
prof. dr. Marko Stabej, Filozofska fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani
dr. Tomaž Šef, Odsek za inteligentne sisteme, Institut "Jožef Stefan"
prof. dr. Rastislav Šuštaršič, Filozofska fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani
prof. dr. Marko Tadić, Oddelek za jezikoslovje, Univerza v Zagrebu (Hrvaška)
doc. dr. Darinka Verdonik, Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, računalništvo in informatiko, Univerza v Mariboru
doc. dr. Špela Vintar, Filozofska fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani
dr. Jerneja Žganec Gros (predsednica), Alpineon, d.o.o.
doc. dr. Janez Žibert, Fakulteta za matematiko, naravoslovje in informacijske tehnologije, Univerza na Primorskem

Organising Committee

Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute
Vojko Gorjanc, University of Ljubljana
Jerneja Žganec Gros, Alpineon

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