WS10 – SSCS 2010: ACM Workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech

8:30 – 8:45

Opening Session

Franciska de Jong (University of Twente, Netherlands)

8:45 – 9:30

Oral Session

First invited talk on real-world user needs for searching speech

Chair

Franciska de Jong (University of Twente, Netherlands)

Speech Retrieval for Interview Data: Technology Push versus Academic Demand

Stef Scagliola (Netherlands Veterans Institute, Netherlands)

9:30 – 10:00

Oral Session

Boasters for Demonstration presentations

Chair

Florian Metze (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

The ACLD: Speech-based Just-in-Time Retrieval of Meeting Transcripts, Documents and Websites

Andrei Popescu-Belis (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland)

Jonathan Kilgour (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Alexandre Nanchen (Idiap)

Peter Poller (DFKI, Germany)

The Ambient Spotlight: Queryless Desktop Search From Meeting Speech

Jonathan Kilgour (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Jean Carletta (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Large Multimedia Archive for World Languages

Peter Wittenburg (MPI for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands)

Spoken News Queries over the World Wide Web

Sebastian Stüker (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Michael Heck (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Katja Renner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Alex Waibel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

A Parallel Meeting Diarist

Gerald Friedland (International Computer Science Institute, USA)

Jike Chong (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Adam Janin (International Computer Science Institute, USA)

10:00 – 10:30

Oral Session

Challenges of Segmentation

Chair

Florian Metze (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Story Segmentation for Speech Transcripts in Sparse Data Conditions

Laurens van der Werff (University of Twente, Netherlands)

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

Oral Session

Challenges of Spontaneous Content

Chairs

Wessel Kraaij (Radboud University Nijmegen and TNO, Netherlands)

Impact of Spontaneous Speech Features on Business Concept Detection: a Study of Call-Centre Data

Charlotte Danesi (EDF R&D, France) 

Chloé Clavel (EDF R&D, France) 

Automatic Indexing of Speech Segments with Spontaneity Levels on Large Audio Database

Richard Dufour (Université du Maine Le Mans, France)

Yannick Esteve (Université du Maine Le Mans, France)

Paul Deleglise (Université du Maine Le Mans, France)

Speaker Role Recognition to help Spontaneous Conversational Speech Detection

Benjamin Bigot (Paul Sabatier University, France)

Julien Pinquier (Paul Sabatier University, France)

Régine Andre-Obrecht (Paul Sabatier University, France)

Isabelle Ferrané (Paul Sabatier University, France)

12:30 – 13:00

Oral Session

Second invited talk on real-world user needs for searching speech

Chair

Martha Larson (Delft University of Technolog, (Netherlands)

Searching Large Archives

Roeland Ordelman (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision)

Lunch Break

14:30 – 15:15

Oral Session

Third invited talk on real-world user needs for searching speech

Chair

Martha Larson (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)

World Wide Telecom Web Search

Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research, India

15:15 – 16:15

Poster / Demo session

Hands-on demonstration session

Chair

Franciska de Jong (University of Twente, Netherlands)

16:15 – 17:45

Oral Session

Challenges of Search

Chair

Roeland Ordelman (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision)

Novel Methods for Query Selection and Query Combination in Query-By-Example Spoken Term Detection,

Javier Tejedor (HCTLab – Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)

Igor Szoke and Michal Fapso (Speech@FIT, Czech Republic)

Direct Posterior Confidence for Out-of-Vocabulary Spoken Term Detection

Dong Wang (EURECOM, France)

Simon King (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Nicholas W. D. Evans (EURECOM, France)

Joe Frankel (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Raphael Troncy (EURECOM, France)

Towards Methods for Efficient Access to Spoken Content in the AMI Corpus

Gareth J.F. Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Maria Eskevich (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Agnes Gyarmati (Dublin City University, Ireland)

17:45 – 18:00

Closing words

Chair

Martha Larson (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)