CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
1996 Summer Workshop on Innovative Techniques for Large Vocabulary Conversational Speech Recognition

Johns Hopkins University
3400 N Charles Street/320 Barton Hall
Baltimore, MD 21218

Program for the Opening Day

July 15, 1995 at 9:00am in the Arellano Theater, Levering Hall

For more information on the opening program please send your inquiries to clsp@jhu.edu or call at 410-516-4802 or 4237.

Continental Breakfast will be served.

9:00 am		Welcome, Dean Don P. Giddens, Whiting School of Engineering,
			Johns Hopkins University
9:05 am         Opening Remarks, Frederick Jelinek, CLSP/JHU, Chair WS96
9:10 am         Opening Remarks, Charles Wayne, Department of Defense
9:15 am         Opening Remarks, Candace Culhane, Department of Defense

**Summary of Goals/Objectives for Teams**

9:25 am        Automatic Learning of Word Pronounciation from Data: Mitch Weintraub (SRI)
9:35 am        Discussion and Questions
9:45 am	       Modeling Systematic Variations in Pronounciation Modeling via a Language-Dependent Hidden Speaking Mode: 			Mari Ostendorf (BU)
9:55 am        Discussion and Questions
10:05 am       Non-Local Dependency Modeling (using Link Grammars): 
			Andreas Stolcke (SRI)
10:15 am       Discussion and Questions
10:25 am       Speech Data Modeling: Christophe Ris (Mons)
10:35 am       Discussion and Questions

**NSF's Human and User Centered Systems**

10:45am         Gary Strong, National Science Foundation

**Administrative and Technical Workshop Information**

10:50 am        Administrative Information and WS96 Staff Introductions, Kimberly Shiring (CLSP/JHU)
10:55 am        Technical Information and System Administration Staff Introductions, Jacob Laderman (CLSP/JHU)
11:05 am        Software, Tools, and Databases, Bill Byrne (CLSP/JHU) and Lin Chase (CMU)
11:25 am        Adjourn.  Proceed to Barton Hall 123 for an Introduction to the WS96 Laboratory.

12:00 pm        WS 96 Group Lunch;  Barton Hall Basment Lounge

1:00 pm        Team Meetings:
Barton 123      	Speech Data Modeling:  Christophe Ris (Mons)
Barton Hall 117 	Automatic Learning of Word Pronounciation from Data: Mitch Weintraub (SRI)
Barton Hall 225 	Modeling Systematic Variations in Pronounciation Modeling via a Language-Dependent Hidden Speaking Mode:  			Mari Ostendorf (BU)

3:00 pm 
Barton Hall 320 Non-Local Dependency Modeling (using Link Grammars): Andreas Stolcke (SRI)

5:00 pm          Reception for WS 96 Participants, Guests and Faculty of ECE;  Barton Hall Lobby