Continental Breakfast will be served.
9:00 am Welcome, Charles Westgate, Dean, JHU Whiting School
of Engineering
9:05 am Opening Remarks, Frederick Jelinek, CLSP/JHU, Chair WS97
9:10 am Opening Remarks, Charles Wayne, Department of Defense
9:15 am Opening Remarks, Allen Sears, DARPA
**Summary of Goals/Objectives for Teams**
9:25 am Syllable Based Speech Processing, George Doddington (DoD)
9:40 am Discussion and Questions
9:50 am Discourse LM, Dan Jurafsky (UC, Boulder)
10:05 am Discussion and Questions
10:15 am Break
10:30 am Acoustic Processing/Modeling Group: Exploring the Time
Dimension at Different Scales, Andreas Andreou (JHU)
10:45 am Discussion and Questions
10:55 am Pronunciation Modeling, Michael Riley (AT&T Labs)
11:10 am Discussion and Questions
**Administrative and Technical Workshop Information**
11:20 am Administrative Information and WS97 Staff Introductions,
Kimberly Shiring (CLSP/JHU)
11:25 am Technical Information and System Administration Staff
Introductions, Bill Byrne (CLSP/JHU)
11:45 am Software, Tools, and Databases, Joe Picone (Miss.
State)
12:05 am Adjourn. Proceed to Barton Hall 123 for an Introduction
to the WS97 Laboratory.
12:30 pm Break
2:00 pm Team Meetings:
Barton 123 Acoustic Processing/Modeling Group: Exploring the
Time Dimension at Different Scales,
Andreas Andreou (JHU)
Barton Hall 117 Discourse LM, Dan Jurafsky (UC, Boulder)
Barton Hall 225 Pronunciation Modeling, Michael Riley (AT&T Labs)
Barton Hall 320 Syllable Based Speech Processing, George Doddington
(DoD)
5:30 pm Reception for WS97 Participants, Guests, and Faculty of
ECE. Glass Pavilion, Levering Hall, JHU Homewood Campus.