SSLST 2012

(formerly International PhD School in Language and Speech Technologies)

Aim

SSLST 2012 offers a broad and intensive series of lectures at different levels on language and speech technologies. The students choose their preferred courses according to their interests and background. Instructors are top names in their respective fields. The School intends to help students initiate and foster their research career.

Addressed to

Graduate (and advanced undergraduate) students from around the world. Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and Linguistics. Other students (for instance, from Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Philosophy, or Cognitive Science) are welcome too.

The School is appropriate also for people more advanced in their career who want to keep themselves updated on developments in the field.

There will be no overlap in the class schedule.

Courses and Professors

• Jont B. Allen (U Illinois Urbana-Champaign), A Parametric Analysis of Speech Perception [introductory, 8 hours]
• Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute, Martigny), Automatic Speech Recognition and Multilingual Speech Processing: HMM, Hybrid HMM/ANN and Posterior-based Systems [introductory/intermediate, 6 hours]
• Marcello Federico (Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento), Statistical Machine Translation [introductory/intermediate, 6 hours]
• Giuseppe Riccardi (U Trento), Spoken Language Understanding [intermediate/advanced, 6 hours]
• Noah A. Smith (Carnegie Mellon U), Probability and Structure in Natural Language Processing [intermediate, 9 hours]
• Bayya Yegnanarayana (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad), Speech Signal Processing [introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]

Registration

It has to be done on line. Please select the menu item registration.

Fees

They are variable, depending on the number of courses each student takes.

The rule is:

1 hour =

• 10 euros (for payments until May 18, 2012),
• 15 euros (for payments after May 18, 2012).

Payment Procedure

The fees must be paid to the School's bank account:

Uno-e Bank (Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain): IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142 - BIC/SWIFT code: UNOEESM1 (account holder: Carlos Martin-Vide GRLMC; account holder's address: Avinguda Catalunya, 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain)

Please mention SSLST 2012 and your name in the subject. A receipt will be provided on site.

Remarks

• Bank transfers should not involve any expense for the School.
• People claiming early registration will be requested to prove that the bank transfer order was carried out by the deadline.
• Students may be refunded only in the case when a course gets cancelled due to the unavailability of the instructor.

People registering on site at the beginning of the School must pay in cash. For the sake of local organization, however, it is much recommended to do it earlier.

Accommodation

Information about accommodation will be available here.

Certificates

Students will be delivered a certificate stating the courses attended, their contents, and their duration.

Important Dates

• Announcement of the programme: April 12, 2012
• Starting of the registration: April 12, 2012
• Early registration deadline: May 18, 2012
• Starting of the School: July 30, 2012
• End of the School: August 3, 2012

Questions and Further Information

Florentina-Lilica Voicu: florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat

Postal Address

SSLST 2012
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-558386