09.30 - Welcome and general presentation of REC:

• "An Overview of the REC Project", Isabel Trancoso, INESC
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09.50 - Invited speaker:

• "Spoken Dialogue Systems in the Telecommunication Environment", Mazin Rahim, AT&T Labs - Research, USA

10.40 - Coffee break

11.00 - Invited speaker:

• "Acoustic Modelling on Telephony Speech Corpora for Directory Assistance Systems Applications", Borge Lindbergh, CPK, Aalborg, Denmark
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11.50 - Invited speaker:

• "An Overview of Spoken Language Processing Activities at LIMSI", Lori Lamel, LIMSI-CNRS, France

12.40 - Lunch

14.00 - Presentations by REC's team

• "Mechanisms Underlying Human Phoneme Communication", Eduardo Sá Marta, IT
  (Task T1) [Viewgraphs]
• "Spoken Language Identification Using the Speechdat Corpus", Diamantino Caseiro and Isabel Trancoso, INESC
  (Task T6) [Viewgraphs]
• "Auditory Models for Automatic Speech Recognition", Fernando Perdigão, IT
  (Task T3) [Viewgraphs]
• "Designing a SC-HMM System for Continuous Speech Recognition", Vitor Pera, FEUP
  (Task T4) [Viewgraphs]
• "Automatic Phonetic Annotation of a Speech Corpus", Rui Amaral and Isabel Trancoso
  [Viewgraphs] (including notes on "Topic Detection")

15.40 - Tea break

16.00 - Presentations by REC's team and other projects

• "Robust Recognition of Digits and Natural Numbers", Frederico Rodrigues and Isabel Trancoso, INESC.
  (Task T3) [Viewgraphs]
• "VQ Speaker Verification with Sentence Codebook", Filipe Moreira and Carlos Espain, FEUP
  (Task T5) [Viewgraphs]
• "Large Vocabulary Recognition Applied to Directory Assistance Services", Diamantino Caseiro and Isabel Trancoso, INESC
  (Task T4) [Viewgraphs]
• "New Developments of the Continuous Speech Recognition System for European Portuguese - AUDIMUS", João Paulo Neto and Hugo Meinedo, INESC.
  (PRAXIS XXI Project Jan 97- Dec 97)
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17.20 - Panel Discussion

18.00 - Close