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12thAnnual Conference of the
International Speech Communication Association

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 Interspeech 2011 Florence

Conference Programme Overview

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Session Coding System
DaySessionTypeIndex
Sun - Sunday
Mon - Monday
Tue - Tuesday
Wed - Wednesday
 Ses0 - 08:30 - 09:30
Ses1 - 10:00 - 12:00
Ses2 - 13:30 - 15:30
Ses3 - 16:00 - 18:00 		K - Keynote
O - Oral
P - Poster
S - Special 		1 - 5

Saturday 27 August 2011
08:30Tutorials Registration [Registration Desk - Pala Affari]
09:30Tutorial M1 - More than Words Can Say: Prosodic Analysis Techniques and Applications [Leonardo - Pala Affari - Ground Floor]
09:30Tutorial M2 - Pitch Estimation: Advances and Speech Applications [Michelangelo - Pala Affari - 2nd Floor]
09:30Tutorial M3 - Building an Open Vocabulary ASR System using Open Source Software [Raffaello - Pala Affari - 3rd Floor]
09:30Tutorial M4 - Learning with Rich Prior Knowledge [Caravaggio (Adua 1) - Pala Affari - 1st Floor]
09:30Tutorial M5 - Blind Speech Separation based on Independent Component Analysis and Sparse Component Analysis [Botticelli (Adua 2) - Pala Affari 2nd Floor]
11:00Coffee Break [Coffee Break at Palazzo degli Affari, Limonaia and Garden]
13:00Lunch
14:30Tutorial A1 - Functional Data Analysis for Speech Research [Leonardo - Pala Affari - Ground Floor]
14:30Tutorial A2 - Registers and Resonances in Singing [Michelangelo - Pala Affari - 2nd Floor]
14:30Tutorial A3 - Low-dimensional speech representation based on Factor Analysis and its applications [Raffaello - Pala Affari - 3rd Floor]
14:30Tutorial A4 -Spoken Query Understanding [Caravaggio (Adua 1) - Pala Affari - 1st Floor]
14:30Tutorial A5 - Automatic Summarization [Botticelli (Adua 2) - Pala Affari 2nd Floor]
16:00Coffee break [Coffee Break at Palazzo degli Affari, Limonaia and Garden]
17:00Conference Registration (until 19:00) [Registration Desk - Pala Affari]

Sunday 28 August 2011
08:30Conference Registration (until 17:00) [Registration Desk - Pala Affari]
10:00Opening Ceremony [Auditorium - Pala Congressi]
11:00Keynote K1 - Speaking More Like You: Entrainment in Conversational Speech (Prof. Julia Hirschberg) [Auditorium - Pala Congressi]
12:00Lunch
13:30Sunday - Session 2
  Sun-Ses2-O1: Speaker Recognition - Modeling [Auditorium - Pala Congressi], [Chair: Andrea Paoloni]
Sun-Ses2-O2: Speech Perception - Speech Intelligibility [Leonardo - Pala Affari - Ground Floor], [Chair: Anne Cutler]
Sun-Ses2-O3: Speech Representation and Modelling [Brunelleschi (Green Room) - Pala Congressi - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Yannis Stylianou]
Sun-Ses2-O4: Emotion, Speaking Style, and Social Behavior [Michelangelo - Pala Affari - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Anton Batliner]
Sun-Ses2-O5: HMM-based Speech Synthesis I [Raffaello - Pala Affari - 3rd Floor], [Chair: Keiichi Tokuda]
Sun-Ses2-P1: Second Language Acquisition, Development and Learning I [Valfonda 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)]
Sun-Ses2-P2: Speech Enhancement [Valfonda 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Dietrich Klakow]
Sun-Ses2-P3: ASR - Feature Extraction I [Faenza 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Fabio Brugnara]
Sun-Ses2-P4: Spoken Dialogue & Spoken Language Understanding Systems [Faenza 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Steve Renals]
Sun-Ses2-S1-O: Speech and Language Processing-Based Assistive Technologies and Health Applications [Caravaggio (Adua 1) - Pala Affari - 1st Floor], [Chairs: Tobias Bocklet, Gokhan Tur]
Sun-Ses2-S1-P: Speech and Language Processing-Based Assistive Technologies and Health Applications [Caravaggio (Adua 1) - Pala Affari - 1st Floor], [Chairs: Shri Narayanan, Elmar Noeth]
15:30Coffee break [Coffee Break at Palazzo dei Congressi, Palazzo degli Affari, Limonaia and Garden]
16:00Sunday - Session 3
  Sun-Ses3-O1: Speaker Recognition - Modeling, Automatic Procedures, Analysis I [Auditorium - Pala Congressi], [Chair: Luciano Romito]
Sun-Ses3-O2: Speech Perception - Perceptual Learning and Cross-Language Perception [Leonardo - Pala Affari - Ground Floor], [Chair: Catia Cucchiarini]
Sun-Ses3-O3: Speech Analysis [Brunelleschi (Green Room) - Pala Congressi - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Thomas F. Quatieri]
Sun-Ses3-O4: Speech Enhancement and Dereverberation [Michelangelo - Pala Affari - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Peter Kabal]
Sun-Ses3-O5: ASR - Feature Extraction II [Raffaello - Pala Affari - 3rd Floor], [Chair: Dong Yu]
Sun-Ses3-P1: Prosodic Structure [Valfonda 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Elizabeth Schriberg]
Sun-Ses3-P2: Language Processing [Valfonda 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Frederic Bechet]
Sun-Ses3-P3: ASR - language models I [Faenza 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Michael Riley]
Sun-Ses3-P4: Spoken Language Resources, Evaluation and Standardization I [Faenza 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Sebastian Moeller]
Sun-Ses3-S1-O: Crowdsourcing for Speech Processing I [Caravaggio (Adua 1) - Pala Affari - 1st Floor], [Chairs: Maxine Eskenazi, David Suendermann, Gina-Anne Levow]
Sun-Ses3-S1-P: Crowdsourcing for Speech Processing II [Caravaggio (Adua 1) - Pala Affari - 1st Floor], [Chairs: Maxine Eskenazi, David Suendermann, Gina-Anne Levow]
19:30Welcome Reception [Welcome Reception at Palazzo dei Congressi, Palazzo degli Affari, Limonaia and Garden]

Monday 29 August 2011
08:00Conference Registration (until 17:00) [Registration Desk - Pala Affari]
08:30Keynote K2 - Neural Representations of Word Meanings (Pro. Tom M. Mitchell) [Auditorium - Pala Congressi]
09:30Coffee break [Coffee Break at Palazzo dei Congressi, Palazzo degli Affari, Limonaia and Garden]
10:00Monday - Session 1
  Mon-Ses1-O1: Speaker Recognition - Modeling, Automatic Procedures, Analysis II [Auditorium - Pala Congressi], [Chair: Kornel Laskowski]
Mon-Ses1-O2: Speech Production - Articulatory Measurements [Leonardo - Pala Affari - Ground Floor], [Chair: Paavo Alku]
Mon-Ses1-O3: Acoustic Event Detection [Brunelleschi (Green Room) - Pala Congressi - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Dirk van Compernolle]
Mon-Ses1-O4: Speech Synthesis - Unit Selection and Hybrid approaches [Michelangelo - Pala Affari - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Junichi Yamagish]
Mon-Ses1-O5: Speech Enhancement analysis and Evaluation [Raffaello - Pala Affari - 3rd Floor], [Chair: Doug O'Shaughnessy]
Mon-Ses1-P1: Paralinguistic Information - Classification and Detection [Valfonda 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Julia Hirschberg]
Mon-Ses1-P2: Applications for Learning, Education, Aged and Handicapped Persons [Valfonda 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Roberto Gretter]
Mon-Ses1-P3: Robust Speech Recognition I [Faenza 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Pietro Laface]
Mon-Ses1-P4: ASR - Acoustic Models I [Faenza 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Lori Lamel]
12:00Lunch & "Students Meet Their Seniors" [Pala Affari - 1st floor "Central Room"]
13:30Monday - Session 2
  Mon-Ses2-O1: Speaker Recognition - Analysis and Statistics I [Auditorium - Pala Congressi], [Chair: David Van Leeuwen]
Mon-Ses2-O2: Speech Production - Coarticulation and Speech Timing [Leonardo - Pala Affari - Ground Floor], [Chair: Wim van Dommelen]
Mon-Ses2-O3: Speech Segmentation [Brunelleschi (Green Room) - Pala Congressi - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Daniele Falavigna]
Mon-Ses2-O4: ASR - Acoustic Models II [Michelangelo - Pala Affari - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Frank Seide]
Mon-Ses2-O5: Robust Speech Recognition II [Raffaello - Pala Affari - 3rd Floor], [Chair: Maurizio Omologo]
Mon-Ses2-P1: Source Separation and Speech Enhancement [Valfonda 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Marco Matassoni]
Mon-Ses2-P2: HMM-based Speech Synthesis II [Valfonda 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Tomoki Toda]
Mon-Ses2-P3: Phonetics and Phonology, Stress, Accent, Rhythm [Faenza 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Bernd Möbius]
Mon-Ses2-P4: ASR - Search, Keyword Spotting and Confidence Measures I [Faenza 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Mark Gales]
Mon-Ses2-S1: Show & Tell Demonstration - Speech Systems and Applications [Donatello (Room Onice) - Pala Congressi - Ground Floor], [Chair: Dimitrios Dimitriadis]
15:30Coffee break [Coffee Break at Palazzo dei Congressi, Palazzo degli Affari, Limonaia and Garden]
16:00Monday - Session 3
  Mon-Ses3-O1: Speaker Recognition - Analysis and Statistics II [Auditorium - Pala Congressi], [Chair: Mohammed Senoussaoui]
Mon-Ses3-O2: Physiology and Pathology of Spoken Language [Leonardo - Pala Affari - Ground Floor], [Chair: Tim Bunnell]
Mon-Ses3-O3: ASR - Lexical, Prosodic and Multi-Lingual Models [Brunelleschi (Green Room) - Pala Congressi - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Murat Saraclar]
Mon-Ses3-O4: Source Separation [Michelangelo - Pala Affari - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Tomohiro Nakatani]
Mon-Ses3-O5: Multimodal Signal Processing [Raffaello - Pala Affari - 3rd Floor], [Chair: Keikichi Hirose]
Mon-Ses3-P1: Pitch Processing - Singing Voice Analysis [Valfonda 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Thomas Drugman]
Mon-Ses3-P2: Prosodic Modeling [Valfonda 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Hiroya Fujisaki]
Mon-Ses3-P3: Discourse and Dialogue [Faenza 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Patrick Ehlen]
Mon-Ses3-P4: SLP for Speech Translation, Information Extraction and Retrieval [Faenza 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Dekai Wu]
Mon-Ses3-P5: Speech Synthesis - Selected Topics [Donatello (Room Onice) - Pala Congressi - Ground Floor], [Chair: Enrico Zovato]
18:00ISCA General Assembly [Auditorium - Pala Congressi]
20:00Reviewer Reception [Reviewer Reception (Florence historical building)]
20:00Students' Reception [Student Reception at Flò Lounge Bar]

Tuesday 30 August 2011
08:00Conference Registration (until 17:00) [Registration Desk - Pala Affari]
08:30Keynote K3 - Honest Signals (Prof. Alex 'Sandy' Pentland) [Auditorium - Pala Congressi]
09:30Coffee break [Coffee Break at Palazzo dei Congressi, Palazzo degli Affari, Limonaia and Garden]
10:00Tuesday - Session1
  Tue-Ses1-O1: ASR - language models II [Auditorium - Pala Congressi], [Chair: Stephan Kanthak]
Tue-Ses1-O2: Phonology and Phonetics [Leonardo - Pala Affari - Ground Floor], [Chair: Mark Hasegawa-Johnson]
Tue-Ses1-O3: Voice Conversion [Brunelleschi (Green Room) - Pala Congressi - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Junichi Yamagishi]
Tue-Ses1-O4: Robust Speech Recognition III [Michelangelo - Pala Affari - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Richard Stern]
Tue-Ses1-O5: Spoken Language Understanding [Raffaello - Pala Affari - 3rd Floor], [Chair: Ruhi Sarikaya]
Tue-Ses1-P1: Human Speech and Sound Perception I [Valfonda 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Denis Burnham]
Tue-Ses1-P2: Multilingual and Multimodal Approaches to Spoken Language [Valfonda 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Michael Johnston]
Tue-Ses1-P3: ASR - New Paradigms and Other Topics [Faenza 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Chin Hui Lee]
Tue-Ses1-P4: Speaker Recognition - Modeling, Automatic Procedures, Analysis III [Faenza 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Daniel Garcia-Romero]
Tue-Ses1-P5: Speech Audio Analysis and Classification [Donatello (Room Onice) - Pala Congressi - Ground Floor], [Chair: Olivier Rosec]
12:00Lunch
13:30Tuesday - Session2
  Tue-Ses2-O1: Dialect and Accent Identification [Auditorium - Pala Congressi], [Chair: David Martínez]
Tue-Ses2-O2: First Language Acquisition [Leonardo - Pala Affari - Ground Floor], [Chair: cinzia avesani]
Tue-Ses2-O3: ASR - Acoustic Models III [Brunelleschi (Green Room) - Pala Congressi - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Ralf Schlueter]
Tue-Ses2-O4: Spoken Dialogue Systems I [Michelangelo - Pala Affari - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Olivier Pietquin]
Tue-Ses2-O5: Spoken Language Resources, Evaluation and Standardization II [Raffaello - Pala Affari - 3rd Floor], [Chair: Paolo Baggia]
Tue-Ses2-P1: Human Speech and Sound Perception II [Valfonda 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Holger Mitterer.]
Tue-Ses2-P2: Speech Audio Analysis [Valfonda 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Toshiaki Fukada]
Tue-Ses2-P3: Speech Coding [Faenza 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Alan McCree]
Tue-Ses2-P4: Robustness and Adaptation for ASR [Faenza 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Vivek Kumar]
Tue-Ses2-S1: Show & Tell Demonstration - Mobility and Web-services [Donatello (Room Onice) - Pala Congressi - Ground Floor], [Chair: Mazin Gilbert]
Tue-Ses2-S1-O: Spoken Language Processing of Human-Human Conversations I [Caravaggio (Adua 1) - Pala Affari - 1st Floor], [Chair: Dilek Hakkani-Tur]
Tue-Ses2-S1-P: Spoken Language Processing of Human-Human Conversations II [Caravaggio (Adua 1) - Pala Affari - 1st Floor], [Chair: Dilek Hakkani-Tur]
15:30Coffee break [Coffee Break at Palazzo dei Congressi, Palazzo degli Affari, Limonaia and Garden]
16:00Tuesday - Session 3
  Tue-Ses3-O1: Language Identification [Auditorium - Pala Congressi], [Chair: Philippe Boula de Mareüil]
Tue-Ses3-O2: Second Language Acquisition, Development and Learning II [Leonardo - Pala Affari - Ground Floor], [Chair: Robert Fox]
Tue-Ses3-O3: ASR - Search, Keyword Spotting and Confidence Measures II [Brunelleschi (Green Room) - Pala Congressi - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Geoffrey Zweig]
Tue-Ses3-O4: SLP for Information Extraction and Retrieval I [Michelangelo - Pala Affari - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Haizhou Li]
Tue-Ses3-P1: Voice Activity Detection [Valfonda 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Abeer Alwan]
Tue-Ses3-P2: Human Speech Production I [Valfonda 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Francesco Cutugno]
Tue-Ses3-P3: Speaker Recognition - Analysis and Statistics III [Faenza 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Pierre-Michel Bousquet]
Tue-Ses3-P4: Voice Conversion and Speech Synthesis [Faenza 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Alan Black]
Tue-Ses3-S1-O: Speech and Audio Processing for Human-Robot Interaction I [Caravaggio (Adua 1) - Pala Affari - 1st Floor], [Chair: Laurence Devillers ]
Tue-Ses3-S1-P: Speech and Audio Processing for Human-Robot Interaction II [Caravaggio (Adua 1) - Pala Affari - 1st Floor], [Chair: Alex Rudnicky]
20:00Banquet - Gala Dinner at Villa Castelletti [Banquet - Gala Dinner at Villa Castelletti]

Wednesday 31 August 2011
08:00Conference Registration (until 12:30) [Registration Desk - Pala Affari]
08:30Keynote K4 - RoundTable - Future and Applications of Speech and Language Technologies for the Good Health of Society [Auditorium - Pala Congressi]
09:30Coffee break [Coffee Break at Palazzo dei Congressi, Palazzo degli Affari, Limonaia and Garden]
10:00Wednesday - Session1
  Wed-Ses1-O1: Speaker Diarization I [Auditorium - Pala Congressi], [Chair: Janez Zibert]
Wed-Ses1-O2: Prosody I [Leonardo - Pala Affari - Ground Floor], [Chair: Gérard Bailly]
Wed-Ses1-O3: ASR - New Paradigms [Brunelleschi (Green Room) - Pala Congressi - 2nd Floor], [Chair: John Hansen]
Wed-Ses1-O4: Spoken Dialogue Systems II [Michelangelo - Pala Affari - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Steve Young]
Wed-Ses1-P1: Human Speech Production II [Valfonda 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Francis Grenez]
Wed-Ses1-P2: Systems for LVCSR and rich transcription [Valfonda 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Diego Giuliani]
Wed-Ses1-P3: Language, Dialect Identification and Speaker Diarization [Faenza 1 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: Nancy Chen]
Wed-Ses1-P4: Paralinguistic Information - Analysis and Tools [Faenza 2 - Pala Congressi (Passi Perduti-Gallery)], [Chair: shri narayanan]
Wed-Ses1-S1: Speaker State Challenge - Intoxication and Sleepiness I [Raffaello - Pala Affari - 3rd Floor], [Chair: Bjoern Schuller]
Wed-Ses1-S2-O: Speech Technology for Under-Resourced Languages I [Caravaggio (Adua 1) - Pala Affari - 1st Floor], [Chairs: Alexey Karpov, Laurent Besacier]
Wed-Ses1-S2-P: Speech Technology for Under-Resourced Languages II [Caravaggio (Adua 1) - Pala Affari - 1st Floor], [Chairs: Laurent Besacier, Alexey Karpov]
Wed-Ses1-S3: Speech Processing Tools [Donatello (Room Onice) - Pala Congressi - Ground Floor], [Chair: Christoph Draxler]
12:00Lunch
13:30Wednesday - Session 2
  Wed-Ses2-O1: Speaker Diarization II [Auditorium - Pala Congressi], [Chair: Hagai Aronowitz]
Wed-Ses2-O2: Prosody II [Leonardo - Pala Affari - Ground Floor], [Chair: Pilar Prieto]
Wed-Ses2-O3: Adaptation for ASR [Brunelleschi (Green Room) - Pala Congressi - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Phil Woodland]
Wed-Ses2-O4: SLP for Information Extraction and Retrieval II [Michelangelo - Pala Affari - 2nd Floor], [Chair: Pascale Fung]
Wed-Ses2-S1: Speaker State Challenge - Intoxication and Sleepiness II [Raffaello - Pala Affari - 3rd Floor], [Chair: Anton Batliner]
15:30Coffee break [Coffee Break at Palazzo dei Congressi, Palazzo degli Affari, Limonaia and Garden]
16:00Closing Ceremony [Auditorium - Pala Congressi]