CPP Workshop Schedule

Saturday June 4, 2016

School of Education, Boston University

8:45-9:00

Introduction

Douglas H. Whalen

9:00-9:30

Theoretical motivations

Yi Xu

9:30-10:00

CPP platform and tools

Santitham Prom-on

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-13:00

Hands-on tutorial (with opportunity to model your own pre-annotated mini corpus)

13:00-14:15 Lunch break + Poster Session

14:15-14:30

Prospects for Evaluating Prosody Models using Dialog Data

Nigel Ward

14:30-14:45

Modeling pitch gesture imitation: only targets and relative timing are controlled

Sam Tilsen

14:45-15:00

Unsupervised Prosody Labeling and Modeling for Chinese by Hierarchical Prosodic Model

Chen-Yu Chiang, Sin-Horng Chen, Hsiu-Min Yu and Yih-Ru Wang

15:00-15:15 Coffee break

15:15-15:30

Use of contrast and emphasis for conveying implicit meanings

Liudmila Savinitch

15:30-15:45

An exemplar-based model of English intonation

Una Y. Chow and Stephen J. Winters

15:45-16:00

Modeling the interaction between intonation and lexical tone: an Articulatory Phonology perspective information on submission

Hao Yi and Sam Tilsen

16:00-16:30

Panel discussion / Reporting preliminary results on modeling mini corpora