Subject: IVTTA'98 Deadline for Abstracts
From: "IVTTA '98" <IVTTA98@CSELT.IT>
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Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 11:24:58 +0100

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                                            IVTTA'98
 
         
 
                                REMINDER:
 
              DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION: MARCH 15, 1998
 
         
 
                              The fourth IEEE Workshop on
 
             Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications
 Applications   
        

            and ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ETRW) on
Applications     
                               of Speech Technology in
Telecommunications                                 
         
 
                        Centro Congressi Lingotto, Torino, Italy

                         September 29-30, 1998
 
         
 
  
 
 
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                               General Chair 
               Roberto Billi, Head Speech Technology and Services
 Dept., CSELT
 
 		      Program Committee:
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               Franco Canavesio, CSELT, ITALY
               Giuseppe Castagneri, CSELT, ITALY
               Sadaoki Furui, NTT, JAPAN
               Matthew Lennig, NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS
               David Roe, COMPUTER MOTION
               Christel Sorin, CNET, FRANCE
               George Vysotsky, NYNEX
 
      Papers are welcomed in all areas of interactive voice
 applications.
      Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
   
                 - Experience in deployment and assessment of deployed
 ASR/verification/TTS systems.
                 - Experimental interactive systems for
 telecommunication services
                 - Speech-enabled IVR apps in the Call Center
 environment
                 - Web-enabled IVR applications
                 - ASR/verification systems for the cellular
 environment
                 - Language modeling and dialog design for
 "speech-only" communication
                 - User interface and human factors of speech-based
 telecommunication tasks
                 - Speech enhancement for telecommunication apps
                 - Telephone services for the disabled
                 - Architectures for speech-based services
 
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

     Abstracts of original papers (i.e., papers not published elsewhere)
may
     be submitted either by post (4 copies) or by e-mail. They should be
     sent to ivtta98@cselt.it or to Roberto Billi
(roberto.billi@cselt.it).

     They must be received no later than 15 March 1998. All abstracts
     must be accompanied by the following completed "abstract cover
form": 

ABSTRACT COVER FORM
Paper title: 
Authors: 
Author to contact
Name:
Full address:
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
Key-words (min. 3, max. 8): 

Describe concisely the problem that you have addressed and its
importance (max. 10 lines):

Describe the original contribution of your work, and compare it to
previous work (max. 10 lines; give references at the end of the
abstract): 

Submission of an abstract implies the commitment to attend the workshop
and to present the paper, if it is accepted. 

FORMAT OF THE ABSTRACTS

     Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (everything included).

     Abstracts sent by E-mail should be in plain ASCII with lines of no
     more than 80 characters. The same holds for the "abstract cover
     form".

     If abstract are sent by post include 4 copies of the abstract and
the
     "abstract cover form".


NOTIFICATION OF RECEIPT

     Notifications of receipt of an abstract will only be sent by
E-mail. So
     make sure that you have specified your E-mail address correctly.   
  
   Dr. R. Billi
   Speech Technologies and Services Dept.
   CSELT
   via G.Reiss Romoli, 274
   10148 Torino - ITALY
   Fax: +39 11 228 6207
   Tel:  +39 11 228 6209
   ivtta98@cselt.it
   roberto.billi@cselt.it