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Seminar ASR '06
In the end of the summer term 2006, due to increased demand, the
Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6 will host an auxiliary seminar
entitled:
Seminar "Automatic Speech Recognition"
Prerequisites for participation in the seminar:
- Vordiplom or Bachelor degree
- Attendance of the lectures Pattern Recognition and Neural
Networks, Speech Recognition or Statistical Methods in Natural Language
Processing, or evidence of equivalent knowledge.
Seminar format and important dates:
The block of presentations of the seminar Speech Recognition and
Language Processing will take place around beginning
of October 2006.
- Proposals: initial proposals will be accepted before
Monday, August 21, 2006 at the Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6
office or by the relevant supervisor. At this time participants must
arrange an appointment with the relevant supervisor.
- Article: must be submitted at least Monday, September 4, 2006
to either the Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6 office or the relevant
supervisor.
- Presentation slides: must be submitted at least 1 week prior to the trial presentation date
to either the Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6 office or the relevant
supervisor.
- Trial presentations: at least 1 week prior to the
actual presentation date; refer to the section on topics.
- Seminar presentations: the exact dates and plan for
the presentation block (expected to be around beginning of October 2006)
will be arranged and announced for the individual topics.
- Final (possibly corrected) articles and presentation slides:
must be submitted at the latest 2
weeks after the presentation date to either the Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6 office or the relevant supervisor.
- Compulsory attendance: in order to receive a
certificate participants must attend all presentation sessions.
Note: Deadlines are binding. Failure to meet deadlines leads
to exclusion from the seminar.
Topics, relevant literature and participants:
The topics offered are from the field of
Automatic Speech Recognition.
Specific topics will be introduced at a preparatory meeting on Monday,
July 24, 2006 at 2pm in the seminar room at the Lehrstuhl für
Informatik 6. The topics offered are from the fields described
below:
- Unsupervized Training and Large Trainings Sets (Kohlschein; Supervisor:
Christian Gollan )
Talk: Thursday, December 7, 2006, 11h
Literature:
-
Jeff Ma, Spyros Matsoukas, Owen Kimball, and Richard Schwartz:
"Unsupervised Training on Large Amounts of Broadcast News Data," in
Proceedings International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and
Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vol. 3, pp. 1056-1059, Toulouse,
May 2006.
-
Bhuvana Ramabhadran: "Exploiting Large Quantities of Spontaneous
Speech for Unsupervised Training of Acoustic Models," in
Proceedings European Conference on Speech Communication and
Technology (Eurospeech/Interspeech), pp. 1617-1620, Lisbon,
2005.
- Automatic Language Identification (Rothe; Supervisor:
Christian Plahl )
Talk: Thursday, December 7, 2006, 12h
Literature:
-
A. Martin, M. Przybocki: "NIST 2003 Language Recognition Evaluation,"
in
Proceedings European Conference on Speech Communication and
Technology (Eurospeech), pp. 1341-1344, Geneva,
2003.
-
M. Zissman: "Comparison of four approaches to automatic language
identification of telephone speech," IEEE Transactions on
Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 31-44,
Jan. 1996.
-
Christopher White, Izhak Shafran, and Jean-Luc
Gauvain: "Discriminative Classifiers for Language Recognition," in
Proceedings International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and
Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vol 1, pp. 213-216, Toulouse, May
2006.
-
Jean-Luc Gauvain, Abdel Messaoudi, and Holger Schwenk: "Language
Recognition Using Phone Lattices," in Proceedings International
Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP),
pp. 1283-1286, Jeju Island, October 2004.
- Punctuation (Guangxi; Supervisor:
Björn Hoffmeister)
Talk: Thursday, December 7, 2006, 14h
Literature:
-
J. Kim and P. Woodland: "The use of prosody in a combined system for
punctuation generation and speech recognition," in
Proceedings European Conference on Speech Communication and
Technology (Eurospeech/Interspeech), pp. 2757-2760, Aalborg,
Denmark, 2001
-
J. Huang and G. Zweig: "Maximum entropy model for punctuation
annotation from speech," in Proceedings International
Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP),
pp. 917-920, Denver, CO, September 2002.
-
Yang Liu, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Dustin Hillard,
Mari Ostendorf, Barbara Peskin, and Mary Harper, "The ICSI-SRI-UW
Metadata Extraction System", in Proceedings International
Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP), Paper
TuC2201o.3, Jeju Island, Korea, October 2004.
Guidelines for the article and presentation:
The roughly 20-page article together with the slides (between 20 &
30) for the presentation should be prepared in LaTeX format.
Presentations will consist of 45 minutes presentation time & 15
minutes discussion time. Document templates for both the article and
the presentation slides are provided below along with links to LaTeX
documentation available online. The article and
the slides should be prepared in LaTeX format and submitted
electronically in pdf format. Other formats will not be accepted.
- Online LaTeX-Documentation:
- Guidelines for articles and presentation slides:
General:
- The aim of the seminar for the participants is to learn the
following:
- to tackle a topic and to expand knowledge
- to critically analyze the literature
- to hold a presentation
- Take notice of references
to other topics in the seminar and discuss topics with one
another!
- Take care to stay within your
own topic. To this end participants should be aware of the other
topics in the seminar. If applicable, cross-reference
other articles and presentations.
Specific:
- Important: As part of the introduction, a slide should
outline the most important literature used for the presentation. In
addition, the presentation should clearly indicate which literature the particular
elements of the presentation refer to.
- Take notice of references
to other topics in the seminar and discuss topics with one
another!
- Participants are expected to seek out additional literature on their
topic. Assistance with the literature search is available at the
faculty’s library. Access to literature is naturally also available at
the Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6 library.
- Notation/Mathematical
Formulas: consistent, correct notation
is essential. When necessary, differing notation from various
literature sources is to be modified or standardized in order to be
clear and consistent. The
lectures held by the Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6 should provide a
guide as to what appropriate notation should look like.
- Tables
must have titles (appearing above the table).
- Figures
must have captions (appearing below the figure).
- In the case that no adequate translation of an
English technical term is available, the term should be used unchanged.
- Articles and presentation slides can also be prepared in
English.
- Completeness:
acknowledge all literature and
sources.
- Referencing must conform to the standard
described in the article template.
- Examples should be used to illustrate points.
- Examples should be as complex as necessary but as simple
as possible.
- Slides should be used
as presentation aids and not to replace the role of the presenter;
specifically, slides should:
- illustrate important points and relationships;
- remind the audience (and the presenter) of important aspects
and considerations;
- give the audience an overview
of the presentation.
- Slides should not contain chunks of text or complicated
sentences; rather they should consist of succinct words and terms.
- Use illustrations
where appropriate - a picture says a thousand words!
- Abbreviations should be defined at the first usage in the manner
demonstrated in the following example: "[...] at the
Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule (RWTH) there are
[...]".
- Take care to stay within your
own topic. To this end participants should be aware of the other topics in the
seminar. If applicable, cross-reference
other articles and presentations.
- Usage of fonts, typefaces and colors in presentation slides must
be consistent and appropriate. Such means should serve to clarify
points or relationships, not be applied needlessly or at random.
- Care should be taken when selecting fonts for presentation
slides (also within diagrams) to ensure legibility on a projector even
for those seated far from the screen.
Inquiries relating to organizational
aspects of the seminar should be directed to:
Dr. Ralf Schlüter
RWTH Aachen
Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6
Ahornstr. 55
52056 Aachen
Room 6125b (1. Etage E2)
Telephone: 0241 / 80 21 612
E-Mail: schlueter@cs.rwth-aachen.de