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Project Overview		Scientific publications CNR ISTC-SPFD P. Cosi, A. Fusaro , D. Grigoletto, G. Tisato, " Data-Driven Tools for Designing Talking Heads Exploiting Emotional Attitudes", In Proceedings of Tutorial and Research Workshop "Affective Dialogue Systems", Kloster Irsee, Germany, pp. 101-112, June 14-16, 2004. E. Magno Caldognetto, P. Cosi, F. Cavicchio, " Modification of the Speech Articulatory Characteristics in the Emotive Speech", In Proceedings of Tutorial and Research Workshop "Affective Dialogue Systems", Kloster Irsee, Germany, pp. 233-239, June 14 - 16, 2004. E. Magno Caldognetto, I. Poggi, P. Cosi, F. Cavicchio, G. Merola, " Multimodal Score: an ANVIL Based Annotation Scheme for Multimodal Audio-Video Analysis", In Proceedings of LREC 2004 Workshop on 'Multimodal Corpora, Models of Human Behaviour for the Specification and Evaluation of Multimodal Input and Output Interfaces', Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 29-33, 25 May 2004. F. Tesser, P. Cosi, C. Drioli, G. Tisato. " Prosodic data driven modelling of a narrative style in FESTIVAL TTS", in Proc. of the 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, pp. 185-190, Pittsburgh, USA, 14th-16th June, 2004 C. Drioli, F. Avanzini. " Non-modal voice synthesis by low-dimensional physical models", in Proc. of the 3rd International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA), Florence, Italy, 10-12 December 2003 P. Cosi, A. Fusaro, G. Tisato, "LUCIA a New Italian Talking-Head Based on a Modified Cohen-Massaro's Labial Coarticulation Model", Proceedings of Eurospeech 2003, Geneva, Vol. III, pp. 2269-2272, 2003 E. Magno Caldognetto, P. Cosi, C. Drioli, G. Tisato, F. Cavicchio, " Coproduction of speech and emotions: visual and acoustic modifications of some phonetic labial targets", Proceedings of AVSP2003, S. Jorioz, France, pp. 209-214, September 2003. C. Drioli, G. Tisato, P. Cosi, F. Tesser, "Emotions and Voice Quality: Experiments with Sinusoidal Modeling", Proceedings of Voice Quality: functions, analysis and synthesis Proceedings of VOQUAL'03, Geneva , Switzerland , pp. 127-132, August 2003. P. Cosi, V. Ferrari, E. Magno-Caldognetto, G. Perin, G. Tisato, C. Zmarich, " Un nuovo modello di coarticolazione per l'animazione facciale", in Atti de Il Parlato Italiano, Napoli, Italy, 2003. P. Cosi, C. Avesani, F. Tesser F., Gretter R., Mana N., Pianesi F., "Modellizzazione Automatica dell'intonazione per un sistema di sintesi da testo scritto in italiano" in Atti de Il Parlato Italiano, Napoli, Italy, 2003. P. Cosi, C. Avesani , F. Tesser, R. Gretter, F. Pianesi, "On the Use Of Cart-Tree for Prosodic Predictions in the Italian Festival TTS", in Voce, Canto, Parlato - Studi in onore di Franco Ferrero, E. Caldognetto Magno, P. Cosi, A. Zamboni editori, pp. 73-81, UNIPRESS, Padova, Italy, 2002.
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		UERLN S. Steidl, M. Levit, A. Batliner, E. Nöth, H Niemann, "Of all Things the Measure is Man". Automatic Classification of Emotions and Inter-labeller Consistency. To appear in Proc. ICASSP 2005. S. Steidl, C. Hacker, C. Ruff, A. Batliner, E. Nöth, J. Haas, " Looking at the Last Two Turns, I'd Say This Dialogue is Doomed - Measuring Dialogue Success". In Proc. TSD 2004, pages 629-636, Brno, Czech Republic, September 2004. A. Batliner, C. Hacker, S. Steidl, E. Nöth, S. D'Arcy, M. Russell, M. Wong, ""You stupid tin box" - children interacting with the AIBO robot: A cross-linguistic emotional speech corpus". In Proc. LREC 2004, Lisbon, 2004. A. Batliner, C. Hacker, S. Steidl, E. Nöth, J. Haas, " From Emotion to Interaction: Lessons from Real Human-Machine-Dialogues." In E. Andre', L. Dybkiaer, W. Minker, P. Heisterkamp (eds.) "Affective Dialogue Systems". Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2004 G. Stemmer, C. Hacker, S. Steidl, E. Nöth: "Acoustic Normalization of Children's Speech". In EUROSPEECH, Geneva , Switzerland , pp. 1313-1316, 2003. S. Steidl, G. Stemmer, C. Hacker, E. Nöth, H. Niemann: "Improving Children's Speech Recognition by HMM Interpolation with an Adults' Speech Recognizer". In B. Michaelis and G. Krell, editors, Pattern Recognition, Proceedings of the 25th DAGM Symposium, Magdeburg , Germany . Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 2781. Springer, Berlin , Heidelberg , pp. 600-607, 2003. A. Batliner, C. Hacker, S. Steidl, E. Nöth, J. Haas: "User States , User Strategies, and System Performance: How to Match the One with the Other". Proc. ISCA tutorial and research workshop on error handling in spoken dialogue systems. August 2003, Chateau d'Oex, pp. 5-10, 2003. KTH M. Nordstrand, G. Svanfeldt, B. Granström, D. House, "Measurements of articulatory variation in expressive speech for a set of Swedish vowels", Journal of Speech Communication (in press), 2004. J. Beskow, L. Cerrato, B. Granstrom, D. House, M. Nordenberg, M. Nordstrand, G. Svanfeldt, "Expressive Animated Agents for Affective Dialog Systems". In E. Andre', L. Dybkiaer, W. Minker, P. Heisterkamp (eds.) "Affective Dialogue Systems", ADS '04, Springer Verlag. Berlin, Germany, 2004. B. Granström, D. House, "Audiovisual Representation of Prosody in Expressive Speech Communication" In Proc Speech Prosody 2004. J. Beskow, L. Cerrato, P. Cosi, E. Costantini, M. Nordstrand, F. Pianesi, M. Prete, G. Svanfeldt, "Preliminary Cross-cultural Evaluation of Expressiveness in Synthetic Faces". In E. Andre', L. Dybkiaer, W. Minker, P. Heisterkamp (eds.) "Affective Dialogue Systems", ADS '04, Springer Verlag. Berlin, 2004. J. Beskow, L. Cerrato, B. Granstrom, D. House, M. Nordstrand, G. Svanfeldt, "The Sweedish PF-Star Multimodal Corpora", LREC Workshop on Models of Human Behaviour for the Specification and Evaluation of Multimodal Input and Output Interfaces, Lisboa, 25 May 2004. M. Blomberg, D. Elenius,"Comparing Speech Recognition for Adults and Children". In Proc of Fonetik 2004 Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics pp. 156-159, 2004. B. Granström, D. House, "Multimodality and speech technology: Verbal and non-verbal communication in talking agents", In Proc EuroSpeech 2003, 2901-2904, 2003. M. Skhiri, L. Cerrato, "Analysis and Measurment of head movements signalling feedback in face-to-face human dialogues", In Proc. of the First Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication, Paggio P. Jokinen K. Jönsson A. (eds), pp.43-52, Copenaghen, Denmark, 23-24 September 2003. M. Nordstrand, G. Svanfeldt, B. Granstrom, D. House, "Measurement of Articulatory Variation and Communicative Signals in Expressive Speech". In Proc of AVSP '03, pp. 233-238, 2003. G. Svanfeldt, M. Nordstrand, B. Granström, D. House, "Measurements of articulatory variation in expressive speech", In Proc of Fonetik 2003 Umeå University, Department of Philosophy and Linguistics PHONUM 9, 53-56, 2003. M. Blomberg, D. Elenius, "Collection and recognition of children's speech in the PF-Star project In Proc of Fonetik 2003 Umeå University , Department of Philosophy and Linguistics PHONUM 9, 81-84, 2003. UKA B. Zhao, M. Eck, S. Vogel, A. Waibel, "Language Model Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation via Structured Query Models ", In Proceedings of Coling 2004, Geneva, Switzerland, 2004. M. Eck, S. Vogel, A. Waibel, "Improving Statistical Machine Translation in the Medical Domain using the Unified Medical Language system", In Proceedings of Coling 2004, Geneva, Switzerland, 2004. M. Eck, S. Vogel, A. Waibel, "Language Model Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation based on Information Retrieval", In Proceedings of LREC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, 2004. UB S. M. D'Arcy, L. P. Wong, M. J. Russell, " Recognition of read and spontaneous children's speech using two new corpora", In Proceedings of ICSLP'04, Korea, October 4-8 2004. RWTH O. Bender, R. Zens, E. Matusov, H. Ney "Alignment Templates: the RWTH SMT System", In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pp. 79-84. Kyoto, Japan, September 2004. E. Matusov, M. Popovic, R. Zens, H. Ney "Statistical Machine Translation of Spontaneous Speech with Scarce Resources", In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pp. 139-146. Kyoto, Japan, September 2004. R. Zens, H. Ney, T. Watanabe, E. Sumita, "Reordering Constraints for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation", In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (CoLing 2004), pp. 205-211. Geneva, Switzerland, August 2004. G. Leusch, N. Ueffing, H. Ney, "A Novel String-to-String Distance Measure with Applications to Machine Translation Evaluation", In Proceedings of the MT Summit IX, New Orleans, LA, 240-247, September 2003. O. Bender, K. Macherey, F.J. Och, H. Ney, "Comparison of Alignment Templates and Maximum Entropy Models for Natural Language Understanding", Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary, 11-18, April 2003. ITC-irst E. Costantini, F. Pianesi, M. Prete "Recognising Emotions in Human and Synthetic Faces: The Role of the Upper and Lower Parts of the Face". To appear in Proceedings of IUI 2005: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. San Diego, California, 2005. M. Federico, N. Bertoldi, "Word- and Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation", ACM Transactions of Speech and Language Processing (TSLP), (submitted), 2004. D. Giuliani, M. Gerosa, F. Brugnara, "Speaker Normalization through Constrained MLLR Based Transforms", In Proceedings of ICSLP, Jeju Island, Korea, Vol. IV, pp. 2893-2897, Oct. 2004. M. Gerosa, D. Giuliani, "Investigating Automatic Recognition of Non-native Childrens Speech, Proceedings of ICSLP, Jeju Island, Korea, Vol. II, pp. 1521-1524, Oct. 2004. M. Cettolo, M. Federico, "Minimum Error Training of Log-Linear Translation Models", In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pp. 103-106, Kyoto, Japan, September, 2004. N. Bertoldi, R. Cattoni, M. Cettolo, M. Federico, "The ITC-irst Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT-2004 ", In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT). pp. 51-58, Kyoto, Japan, September, 2004. M. Federico, N. Bertoldi, G. Levow, J.F. Gareth, "CLEF 2004 Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Track", In Working Notes for the CLEF 2004 Workshop, Bath, UK, September, 2004. M. Gerosa, D. Giuliani, "Preliminary Investigations in Automatic Recognition of English Sentences Uttered by Italian Children", Proceedings of the InStill workshop, Venice, June, 2004. E. Costantini, F. Pianesi, P. Cosi, "Evaluation of Synthetic Faces: Human Recognition of Emotional Facial Displays ". In E. Andre', L. Dybkiaer, W. Minker, P. Heisterkamp (eds.) "Affective Dialogue Systems". Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2004 K. Balci, "Xface: MPEG-4 based open source toolkit for 3d facial animation". In Proc. Advance Visual Interfaces, Gallipoli, Italy, 25-28 May 2004. N. Bertoldi, M. Federico, "Statistical Models for Monolingual and Bilingual Information Retrieval", Information Retrieval, n. 7, pp. 51-70, 2004. F. Tesser, P. Cosi, N. Mana, C. Avesani, R. Gretter, F. Pianesi, "Modello prosodico "data-driven" di festival per l'italiano". In XIV Giornate di Studio del G.F.S., Viterbo, 4-6 December 2003. N. Bertoldi, M. Federico, "Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval on the TREC SDR Collection", in C. Peters, M. Braschler, J. Gonzalo, M. Kluck (Ed.), Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Evaluation, pp. 476-481, LNCS 2785, Springer, Berlin, 2003. M. Federico, "Evaluation Frameworks for speech translation technologies", Proceedings of Eurospeech, 2003. D. Giuliani, M. Gerosa, "Investigating Recognition of Children's Speech", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Hong Kong, China, April 2003, Vol. 2, pp. 137-140.
		Related Projects' Publications ITC-irst S. Burger, E. Costantini, F. Pianesi, "Communicative Strategies and Patterns of Multimodal Integration in a Speech-to-Speech Translation System", In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit 2003, New Orleans. S. Burger, E. Costantini, F. Pianesi "Communicative Effectiveness in Multimodal and Multilingual Dialogues", In Proceedings of Diabruck, 2003, Saarbruecken. KTH M. Blomberg, D. Elenius, E. Zetterholm, " Speaker verification scores and acoustic analysis of a professional impersonator", In Proc Fonetik 2004, 84-87, Stockholm, Sweden, 2004.