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ANNOUNCEMENT:
Cancellation of MSDR 2003.
Message about atypical pneumonia in Hong Kong.
The preliminary program of the workshop is now available.
Please check it out at the "Preliminary Program" on the
left.
The full paper of accepted papers should be sent to
MSDR
on or before 28th February, 2003 to make sure that the
printed proceedings are made ready when the workshop is
held in early April. No matter you have change to the
extended summary or not, please send the six-page full
paper to us again. For details, please check the
"submission method" section and contact us if you have any
difficulty.
Confirmation on all registration should be sent
out. If you have sent us your registration form
but still have no reply, please
contact us
as soon as possible. Thanks!
Notification letters have been sent. It is
reminded to send us the revised
full paper
no later than February 28th, 2003. In order to
avoid the extra administration fee, at least one author
must
register
before February 14th, 2003. We are looking
forward in seeing you in Hong Kong soon!
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CALL FOR PAPER:
The ISCA Workshop on Multilingual Spoken Document
Retrieval
will be held in Macau/Hong Kong (jointly organized
by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Microsoft
Research Asia), prior to ICASSP 2003 which will be
also held in Hong Kong. This workshop aims to
bring together researchers working in
state-of-the-art multilingual technologies and
systems capable of spoken document retrieval.
Massive quantities of audio and multimedia
information are available on the Internet.
Furthermore, there is increasing interest in
efficiently processing speech found in events, such
as lectures, and meetings, etc. Hence
multilingual spoken document retrieval is becoming a
research area of prime importance.
The workshop aims to solicit papers covering all
aspects of multilingual spoken document retrieval
research, which includes (but is not limited to):
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Recognition algorithms and techniques for
spoken audio indexing;
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Retrieval models and techniques for spoken
documents;
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Monolingual, crosslingual and multilingual spoken
document retrieval;
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Performance evaluation methods;
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Spoken document corpora;
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Multimodal interfaces for text and spoken document retrieval;
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Summarization, information extraction and question answering for
spoken audio.
The workshop will present invited lectures / tutorials, poster sessions
and panel discussions on the topics. Four-page extended abstracts are
invited. Accompanying demonstrations are encouraged for accepted
papers. Final manuscripts may not exceed six pages.
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ORGANIZERS
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This workshop is
jointly organized by
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Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, T
he Chinese University of Hong Kong
Microsoft Research Asia
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IMPORTANT DATES:
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Four-page extended abstracts due
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December
13th, 2002
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Notification of acceptance
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January 29th, 2003
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Early registration
due
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February
14th
, 2003
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Six-page final papers due
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February 28th, 2003
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Workshop
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April 4th to 5th, 2003
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REGISTRATION
:
Please download the
registration form
here
and fax it to
+852-2603-5505 (Attn: Yuk-Chi Li)
Click
here
to check your ISCA member status.
If you have any problems about the registration, you can feel
free to
contact us
.
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SUBMISSION METHOD (Full paper)
:
Please send your
revised six-page final paper to
msdr@se.cuhk.edu.hk
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Accepted paper format include Adobe PDF and postscript.
Please name your file using your assigned paper ID during submission and
include your name, email address and paper ID in the mail.
If you have any problems during submission, you can feel
free to
contact
us
.
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PAPER FORMAT
:
The official language of the Workshop is English. All presentation materials
should be prepared in English. In view of the multilingual nature of this
workshop,
materials in language other than English can be used as aids for explanation.
The paper should include the following information
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title of paper (Capitalize only the first word in a paper title, except for
proper nouns and element symbols)
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list of authors and affiliations
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abstract of paper followed by the content and references.
Recommended format of the paper is:
1) A4 or Letter size
2) 2 columns
3) 2.5 cm (1 inch) margin on each side of the paper
4) Font size should be 10 pt for the body text
5) Tables, figures and references should be numbered
6) Please do not include page number, header nor footer
The file format of the full paper should be PDF. If there are
alphabets/symbols other than English alphabet, please make sure that the
generated file is viewable and printable in English version of PDF reader.
Thank you very much for your cooperation.
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PRESENTATION FORMAT
:
The
official language of the Workshop is English. All presentation materials should
be prepared in English. In view of the multilingual nature of this workshop,
materials in language other than English can be used as aid for explanation.
Oral Presentation
For papers accepted for oral presentation, there will be
15 minute allocated for
presentation and 2 minute for Q&A.
Presentation can be made using transparent foils or computer presentation
programs. An overhead projector and beam projector for notebook connection will
be provided (a notebook computer will also be provided). In case other special
equipment is required, please inform the committee as soon as possible.
Poster Presentation
For papers accepted for poster presentation, there will be a
4 minute boaster session
for giving an overview of the work. After that, there will be a
45 minutes period for showing the poster
to the attendees during which more detailed discussion could be made. For each
accepted paper for poster presentation, there will be
TWO poster boards provided
for each paper (the size is approximately
3 feet wide by 3 feet high
, or 90 cm wide by 90 cm high)
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Preliminary program:
The preliminary program for the workshop can be obtained by downloading
this file
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Venue:
Workshop will be held at the Cho Yiu Conference Hall,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
, Shatin, Hong Kong.
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Keynote speaker:
Professor Jerry Goldman of
Northwestern University
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Travel:
For information about visiting Hong Kong, please click
here
and
here
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For information about visiting Macau, please click
here
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Workshop Co-Chairs:
Helen Meng
Dept. of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR, China
Email:
hmmeng@se.cuhk.edu.hk
Fax: +852-2603-5505
Phone: +852-2609-8313
Eric Chang, Ph.D.
Research Manager, Speech Group
Microsoft Research Asia
5F, Beijing Sigma Center
No. 49, Zhichun Road Haidian District
Beijing 100080, China
Email:
EChang@Microsoft.com
Tel: (86-10) 6261-7711 x5430
Fax: (86-10) 6255-5337
http://www.microsoft.com/china/research
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Scientific Committee:
Bill Byrne, Johns Hopkins University
Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Jean-Luc Gauvain, LIMSI, France
Qian Hu, MITRE
Sanjeev Khudanpur, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Lori Lamel, LIMSI, France
Lin-Shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Pedro Moreno, Compaq Cambridge Research Laboratories
Kenney Ng, iPhrase
Steve Renals, University of Sheffield, UK
Gerhard Rigoll, Munich University of Technology, Germany
Frank Seide, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Richard Schwartz, BBN Technologies
Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Steve Young, Cambridge University
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Organizing Committee:
Ida Hui
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR,
China
Email:
pyhui@se.cuhk.edu.hk
Fax: +852-2603-5505 (Attn: Ida Hui)
Phone: +852-2603-5929
Yuk-Chi Li
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR, China
Email:
ycli@se.cuhk.edu.hk
Fax: +852-2603-5505 (Attn: Yuk-Chi Li)
Phone: +852-3163-4073
Wai-Kit Lo
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR, China
Email:
wklo@se.cuhk.edu.hk
Fax: +852-2603-5505 (Attn: Wai-Kit Lo)
Phone: +852-3163-4073
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Sponsors
:
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management,
the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Microsoft Research Asia
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Contact:
Workshop URL:
www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/MSDR
Workshop Contact:
msdr@se.cuhk.edu.hk
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