Subject: Summer School in Pattern Recognition for Language Technologies From: Martin Cooke <m.cooke@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 09:38:35 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>[Apologies for multiple postings] ============================== AERFAISS'08 SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT ============================== Second AERFAI Summer School on "NEW TRENDS IN PATTERN RECOGNITION FOR LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES" Bilbao (Spain), June 23-28, 2008 url: http://www.ehu.es/aerfaiss08 e-mail: aerfaiss08@xxxxxxxx We are pleased to announce the second AERFAI Summer School on "New Trends in Pattern Recognition for Language Technologies". This summer school is the successor to the well-received school held in 2006 and organized by the AERFAI, the Spanish section of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). AERFAISS'08 will tackle cutting-edge technologies related to pattern recognition, being language technologies the main focus. To ensure a high ratio between tutors and students the school will be limited to 50 participants. We find this a good opportunity for young researchers to exchange their ideas with senior lecturers, getting to know the state-of-the art toolkits on language technologies and the trends for future developments in this field. FINAL PROGRAM AERFAISS'08 consists of both tutorials, laboratory practices and open discussion forums summing up a total of 36 hours distributed all over a week. TUTORIALS - "Statistical models and algorithms for speech and language technologies" by Dr. Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen, Germany) - "Multi-modal interaction involving speech and language technologies" by Dr. Alex Waibel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - "Applying unsupervised learning in creating language models for information retrieval and machine translation" by Dr. Timo Honkela (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) - "Speech production models for automatic speech recognition" by Dr. Richard Rose (McGill University, Canada) - "Phrase-based statistical translation models" by Dr. Philipp Koehn (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) - "Computer assisted transcription of speech and text images" by Dr. Enrique Vidal (Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Technical University of Valencia, Spain) - "Interactive machine translation" by Dr. Francisco Casacuberta (Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Technical University of Valencia, Spain) PRACTICES Given by local teachers and PhD students working on PR&NLP following the general directives of lecturers: - "Using statistical language processing toolkits for computer assisted transcription" by Dr. Alejandro Héctor Toselli (Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Technical University of Valencia, Spain) _ "Applying Morphessor for unsupervised morphology induction" by Víctor Guijarrubia (university of the Basque Country, Spain) - "Training translation models and decoding with Moses" by Germán Sanchís (Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Technical University of Valencia, Spain) VENUE The AERFAI Summer School 2008 will take place in: Department of Electricity and Electronics Faculty of Science and Technology University of the Basque Country 48940 Leioa Campus of Biscay Biscay is an area located in the northeast of Spain, besides the Atlantic watershed. Bilbao, the capital of Biscay, is a well communicated city by either plain, bus or train. Apart from the Guggenheim museum, the Euskalduna conference centre (awarded world's best by IACC), the underground designed by Norman Foster, Bizkaia Bridge (UNESCO Common Heritage of Mankind) and summer's jazz festivals, one might enjoy the well known Basque gastronomy, so rooted in Bilbao. To find out more about Bilbao, turn to the town-hall's information website: http://www.bilbao.net REGISTRATION Fill in the application form from the web-page and fax it along with the bank receipt of payment to the attention of Euskoiker Foundation. Fax: +34 (9)44153905 (attaching both the registration form and the prove of payment) Registration Fee: Includes admission to all sessions, support material for both lectures and practices, coffee breaks and wi-fi access to the internet. - Early registration: from 1st January 2008 to 31st May 2008, for either full time students or AERFAI members: 325€ - Late registration: from 1st June 2008 to 15th June 2008, for either full time students or AERFAI members: 350€ - Others: 375€ CONTACT For any question, please address to the organizing committee; e-mail: aerfaiss08@xxxxxxxx -- AERFAI governing board and Summer School Organization Dr. M. Inés Torres University of the Basque Country Spain Dr. José Miguel Benedí ITI, Technical University of Valencia Spain ----------------------------------------------------------------------------