| Wednesday |
| 9:00 - 9:30 |
| 9:30 - 10:30 |
| Luiz Augusto, Sangoi Pizzato |
Using a
Trie-based Structure for Question Analysis |
David Bell, Jon Patrick |
Using
WordNet Domains In A Supervised Learning Word Sense
Disambiguation System |
Paul Warren |
On the front foot: the quality and
quantity of ANZE vowels |
| Diego Molla, Mary Gardiner |
Answerfinder: Question Answering by
Combining Lexical, Syntactic and Semantic
Information |
Ari Chanen, Jon Patrick |
Complex,
Corpus-Driven, Syntactic Features for Word Sense
Disambiguation |
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| 11:00 - 13:00 |
| Bernd Bohnet, Robert Dale |
Referring
Expression Generation as a Search Problem |
Corrin Lakeland, Alistair Knott |
Implementing a lexicalised statistical
parser |
C. Watson, S. Palethorpe, J.
Harrington |
Capturing the vowel change in New
Zealand English over a thirty year period via a diachronic
study. |
| Andrew Lampert, Cecile Paris |
Information
Assembly for Automatic Content Adaptation |
Mark Foreman, Daniel McMichael |
A Proposed
Framework for Specifying New and Existing Combinators of
CCG |
Christian Langstrof |
The
centring diphthongs of New Zealand English in the
Intermediate Period |
| Mingfang Wu, Ross Wilkinson, Cecile
Paris |
An
Evaluation on Query-biased Summarisation for the Question
Answering Task |
Jon Patrick, Pham Hong Nguyen |
Thin
Parsing: A Balance between Wide Scale Parsing and
Chunking |
Margaret Maclagan, Jennifer Hay |
The
rise and rise of New Zealand English DRESS |
| Cecile Paris, Nathalie Colineau,
Dominique Estival |
Intelligent
Multi Media Presentation of information in a semi-immersive
Command and Control environment |
Rolf Schwitter, Marc Tilbrook |
Controlled
Natural Language meets the SemanticWeb |
L. Bauer, P. Warren |
Curing the goat's mouth |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
| Pont Lurcock, Peter Vlugter, Alistair
Knott |
A framework
for utterance disambiguation in dialogue |
Phil Blunsom |
Maximum
Entropy Markov Models for Semantic Role Labelling |
F. Cox, S. Palethorpe, K. Tsukada |
A
Century of Accent Change in Australian English |
| Maarten van Schagen, Alistair
Knott |
Tauira: A
tool for acquiring unknown words in a dialogue
context |
Yuanyong Wang, Achim Hoffmann |
A New
Measure for Extracting Semantically Related Words |
A. Bryan Fricker |
The
change in Australian English vowels over three
generations |
| David Penton, Steven Bird |
Representing and Rendering Linguistic
Paradigms |
Casey Whitelaw, Jon Patrick |
Selecting
Systemic Features for Text Classification |
Z. Evans, C. Watson |
An
acoustic comparison of Australian and New Zealand
English |
| 16:00 - 17:30 |
| Matthew Honnibal |
Converting
the Penn Treebank to Systemic Functional Grammar |
Patrick Ye |
Selection
Preference Based Verb Sense Disambiguation Using
WordNet |
R. Mannell |
Perceptual Vowel Space for
Australian English Lax Vowels: 1988 and 2004 |
| Catherine Lai, Steven Bird |
Querying
and Updating Treebanks: A Critical Survey and Requirements
Analysis |
Jon Patrick, Jeremy Fletcher |
Differentiating Types of Verb Particle
Constructions |
D. Loakes, K. McDougall |
Frication of /k/ and /p/ in
Australian English: Inter- and Intra-Speaker
Variation |
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Tony Alderman |
The
Use of Australian-English Vowel Formant Data Sets in Forensic
Speaker Identification. |
| Thursday |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
| Jonathan Harrington |
Sound change in the
individual and in the community |
| 10:30 - 11:20 |
| Niklas Torstensson, Kirk P. H.
Sullivan, Erik J. E |
Mimicked accents -- Do speakers have
similar cognitive prototypes? |
| M. Stevens, J. Hajek |
A Preliminary Investigation of Some
Acoustic Characteristics of Ejectives in Waima'a: VOT and
Closure Duration |
| Hyung-Soon Yim |
The Necessity for an Intermediate
Phrase in Korean Intonational Phonology |
| Thomas J. Millhouse & Frantz
Clermont |
Systematic comparison of spoken and
sung vowels using perceptual linear-prediction
analysis |
| D.Loakes |
Front Vowels as Speaker-Specific:
Some Evidence from Australian English |
| Patrick Lucey, Terrence Martin, Sridha
Sridharan. |
Confusability of Phonemes Grouped
According to their Viseme Classes in Noisy
Environments |
| Erik J. Eriksson, Luis F. Cepeda,
Robert D. Rodman |
Robustness of Spectral Moments: a
Study using Voice Imitations |
| S. Ishihara, C. I. Watson |
Using Wavelets to Acoustically
Analyse Oral Stops |
| Kevin Adistambha, Christian H Ritz,
Jason Lukasiak |
An Investigation into Embedded Audio
Coding Using An AAC Perceptually Lossless Base Layer |
| C. H. Ritz, J. Parsons |
Lossless Wideband Speech
Coding |
| Phil Rose |
Defying Explanation? -- Accounting
for Tones in Wenzhou Dialect Disyllabic Lexical Tone
Sandhi |
| Vinod Chandran, Sridha Sridharan |
Higher Order Spectral Phase Features
for Speaker Identification |
| J. Hajek, M. Stevens |
Tonal activity in Kara, an
Austronesian language spoken in New Britain |
| 11:20 - 13:00 |
| M. Stevens, J. Hajek |
Comparing voiced and voiceless
geminates in Sienese Italian: what role does preaspiration
play? |
Youyi Lu, Fei Lu, Siddharth Sehgal,
Swati Gupta, Jingsheng Du, Chee Hong Tham, Phil Green,
Vincent Wan |
Multitask Learning in Connectionist
Speech Recognition |
| William Steed, Peter Hardie |
Acoustic Properties of the Kuman
Voiceless Velar Lateral Fricative |
K. Thambiratnam, S. Sridharan |
A
study on the effects of limited training data for English,
Spanish and Indonesian keyword spotting |
| M. Stevens, J. Hajek |
How
pervasive is preaspiration? Investigating sonorant devoicing
in Sienese Italian |
T. Martin, K. Thambiratnam,
S.Sridharan |
Target Structured Cross Language
Model Refinement |
| Sonya Bird, Marion Caldecott |
Timing differences in
St'át'imcets glottalised resonants: Linguistic
or biomechanical |
Supphanat Kanokphara, Julie
Carson-Berndsen |
Automatic Question Generation for
HMM State Tying using a Feature Table |
| Fredrik Karlsson, Elisabeth
Zetterholm, Kirk P. H. |
Development of a Gender Difference
in Voice Onset Time |
Sung-Joon Park, Kyung-Ae Jang, Jae-In
Kim, Myoung- |
Membering: A Conference Call Service
with Speaker-Independent Name Dialing on AIN |
| 14:00 - 15:40 |
| Kitamura, Christine and Lorenzo,
Jennifer |
Vowel
Duration and Pitch Contour as Contenders for Infant
Attention |
Girija Chetty, Michael Wagner |
Liveness Verification in Audio-Video
Authentication |
| V. Widjaja, H. Winskel, |
Phonological awareness and word
reading in a transparent orthography: Preliminary findings on
Indonesian |
Michael Mason, Robbie Vogt, Brendan
Baker, Sridha |
The
QUT NIST 2004 Speaker Verification System: A fused acoustic
and high-level approach |
| L. Stephenson |
Lexical Frequency and Neighbourhood
Density effects on Vowel Production in Words and
Nonwords |
R. Vogt, S. Sridharan |
Frame-Weighted Bayes Factor Scoring
for Speaker Verification |
| K. Croot, K. Rastle |
Is
there a syllabary containing stored articulatory plans for
speech production in English? |
Elisabeth Zetterholm, Mats Blomberg,
Daniel Eleniu |
A
comparison between human perception and a speaker
verification system score of a voice imitation |
| Odette Scharenborg, Lou Boves, Louis
ten Bosch |
`On-line Early Recognition' of
Polysyllabic Words in Continuous Speech |
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| 16:10 - 17:10 |
| Patricia Vermillion |
Using
Prosodic Completion Tasks to explore the Phonetics and
Phonology of Intonation |
Maragret Lech, Glen Hawksworth |
A
Speech Enhancement Method for Improved Intelligibility in the
Presence of an Ambient Noise |
| J. Fletcher, N. Evans, B. Ross |
Pausing strategies and prosodic
boundaries in Dalabon |
T. S. Gunawan, E. Ambikairajah |
Speech Enhancement using Temporal
Masking and Fractional Bark Gammatone Filters |
| M. Tabain, P. Perrier, C. Savariaux,
R. Beare |
An
Articulatory Prosody Study of /u/: Motor Equivalence |
Hyun-Soo KIM, W. Harvey Holmes |
Spectral Estimation and Speech
Analysis Techniques Using Morphological Filters |
| Friday |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
| Catherine T. Best |
Perceptual Assimilation:
Effects of Language Experience on Non-native Speech
Perception in Adults and Infants |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
| Kristine Rickard |
Lanqi
Citation Tones: an Initial Acoustically-based Study |
Stephen Choularton, Robert Dale |
User
responses to Speech Recognition Errors: Consistency of
Behaviour Across Domains |
| Phil Rose |
The
Acoustics and Probabilistic Phonology of Short
Stopped-Syllable Tones in Hong Kong Cantonese |
Eric Choi |
Noise
Robust Front-end for ASR using Spectral Subtraction, Spectral
Flooring and Cumulative Distribution Mapping |
| Shunichi Ishihara |
Surface Tonal Representations of
Kagoshima Japanese Accentual Contrast |
Michael McGreevy |
Pseudo-Syntactic Language Modeling
for Disfluent Speech Recognition |
| 11:30 - 13:10 |
| Yuko Kinoshita |
LR
estimation using long term F0 as a parameter: good, bad or
useless? Initial investigation using Japanese data |
John Ingram, Thu Nguyen |
Development of a multi-tiered speech
annotation system for Modeling Accented English |
| P. Rose, D. Lucy, T.Osanai |
Linguistic-Acoustic Forensic Speaker
Identification with Likelihood Ratios from a Multivariate
Hierarchical Random Effects Model: A "Non-Idiot's Bayes"
Approach |
Petra Bodén |
A New
Variety of Swedish? |
| Tony Alderman |
The
Bernard Data Set as a Reference Distribution for Bayesian
Likelihood Ratio-based Forensic Speaker Identification using
Formants |
T. Nguyen, J. Ingram |
A
corpus-based analysis of transfer effects and connected
speech processes in Vietnamese English |
| Mehrdad Khodai-Joopari, F. Clermont,
M. Barlow |
Speaker variability on a continuum
of spectral sub-bands from 297-speakers' non-contemporaneous
cepstra of Japanese vowels |
R. Goecke, J.B. Millar |
A
Detailed Description of the AVOZES Data Corpus |
| 14:10 - 15:50 |
| Kimiko Tsukada |
Cross-language perception of final
stops in Thai and English: A comparison of native and
non-native listeners |
S. Cassidy |
Evaluation of the Macquarie Meeting
Room Speaker Diarisation System |
| H. Moulder, H. Meffin, D. B.
Grayden |
Mechanisms for the Perception of
Concurrent Vowels |
Brendan Baker, Robbie Vogt, Sridha
Sridharan |
Phonetic and Lexical Speaker
Recognition in Reduced Training Scenarios |
| M.R. Flax, W.H. Holmes |
A
Lumped Model of the Neural Peripheral and Central Nervous
Auditory Link -- Qualitative View II |
F. Clermont |
Inter-Speaker Scaling of
Poly-Segmental Formant Ensembles |
| Michael A. Eager, David B. Grayden,
Anthony N. Bur |
A
Neural Network Model of the Cochlear Nucleus |
Hartmut R. Pfitzinger |
Unsupervised Speech Morphing between
Utterances of any Speakers |