Limits and benefits of information-theoretic perspectives in spoken communication
Interspeech 2023 Satellite Workshop, Dublin, Aug 19, 2023
Keynote speakers
Ann Bradlow
(Northwestern University)
Okko Räsänen (Tampere University)
Workshop structure
- 1 day workshop: 10:30-18:00
- 2 keynote talks (45+15 minutes each)
- 5 oral presentations (20+10 minutes each)
- Discussion (45 minutes)
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Check-in | |||
| 10:50 - 11:00 | Opening | |||
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Keynote 1 | Okko Räsänen (Tampere Univ.) |
Information theory as a means to understand language development in infancy: a perspective of a computational modeler | abstract slides |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Talk 1 | Roger Moore (Univ. of Sheffield) |
Pragmatics, synchronics and energetics in spoken language - an information theoretic perspective | abstract slides |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Talk 2 | James Whang (Seoul National Univ.) |
Quantifying phonetic informativity: An information theoretic approach | abstract slides |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break | |||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Talk 3 | Angelica Lim (Simon Fraser Univ.) |
Speech adaptation in interactive scenarios: Talking with adults, babies, and robots | abstract slides |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Talk 4 | Zofia Malisz (KTH Stockholm) |
The effects of probabilistic, prosodic and discourse factors on acoustic distinctiveness in Polish | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Talk 5 | Omnia Ibrahim (Saarland Univ.) |
Syllable-based surprisal effects on voicing during closure in intersonorant German stops | abstract slides |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Coffee break | |||
| 15:45 - 16:45 | Keynote 2 | Ann Bradlow (Northwestern Univ.) |
Adaptative and non-adaptive phonetic variation: What variation in speaking styles can tell us about information encoding and communicative efficiency | abstract slides |
| 16:45 - 17:30 | Discussion | |||
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Closing | |||
