Coling 2008
Workshop on
Speech Translation for Medical and Other Safety-Critical Applications

Manchester, Saturday 23 August, 2008

In connection with Coling 2008, the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Accepted Papers

Speech to Speech translation for Nurse Patient Interaction Farzad Ehsani, Jim Kimzey, Elaine Zuber, Demitrios Master and Karen Sudre
Speech Translation for Triage of Emergency Phone calls in Minority Languages Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Alan Black, Tanja Schultz, Robert Frederking and Jerry Weltman
Mitigation of data sparsity in classifier-based translation Emil Ettelaie, Panayiotis G. Georgiou and Shrikanth S. Narayanan
High-precision Domain-specific Interlingua-based Speech Translation with Grammatical Framework Björn Bringert
Interoperability and Knowledge Representation in Distributed Health and Fitness Companion Dialogue SystemJaakko Hakulinen and Markku Turunen
An Integrated Dialog Simulation Technique for Evaluating Spoken Dialog Systems Sangkeun Jung, Cheongjae Lee, Kyoungduk Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee
Economical Global Access to a VoiceXML Gateway using Open Source TechnologiesKulwinder Singh, Dong-Won Park

Programme committee

Laurent Besacier - U Grenoble, France
Pierrette Bouillon (co-chair) - U Geneva, Switzerland
Mike Dillinger - SpokenTranslation, US
Farzad Ehsani (co-chair) - Fluential, US
Glenn Flores - U Texas, US
Robert Frederking (co-chair) - CMU, US
Hitoshi Isahara - NICT, Japan
Shri Narayanan - USC, US
Aarne Ranta - U Gothenburg, Sweden
Manny Rayner (co-chair) - U Geneva, Switzerland
Tanja Schultz - U Karlsruhe, Germany
Harold Somers - U Manchester, UK, and Dublin City U, Ireland
Bowen Zhou - IBM, US

Last updated: Thur Jul 2, 2008