WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Please see technical program to view the on-line presentations for the workshop.

This workshop is the first in a series of workshops intended to promote close interactions between those interested in the development of a public domain speech recognition system. Our plans include two workshops per year. A two-day design review will be held each January that focuses on system development. A one-week training workshop. will be held in in May that focuses on learning how to use our system to experiment on state-of-the-art tasks such as SWITCHBOARD.

The design workshop is intended to be a forum to guide the development of our system. We expect this to be a small, focused workshop attended by human language engineering professionals from industry and academia. Our goal is to solicit feedback on the current system design, and to discuss future directions. In short, if you want the system to have a particular feature, you should consider attending this meeting.

We are now in the second year of our project to build a public domain system that is competitive with state of the art. An overview of our mission to develop Internet Accessible Speech Recognition Technology is available on the web. There is also a web site devoted to dissemination of information, and a mailing list used to promote discussions within our user community.

A preliminary agenda for the workshop is shown below. If you have comments or suggestions about the agenda, please feel free to contact us. We look forward to seeing you at SRSDR'00.

January 6, 2000
Location: MSU Seal M-Club

TIME	SESSION	PRESENTERS
07:30 - 08:00	Continental Breakfast
08:00 - 08:15	Workshop Session 1: Welcoming Remarks	Joe Picone
	Workshop Session 2: System Overview
08:15 - 09:00	Demonstrations	Ram Sundaram, Rick Duncan
09:00 - 09:30	Project Mission and History	Joe Picone
09:30 - 10:00	Prototype System Overview	Aravind Ganapathiraju
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
	Workshop Session 3: Foundation Classes
10:30 - 11:00	Documentation, Distribution, and Software Engineering	Bill Chapman
11:00 - 11:30	Foundation Classes, Files, Machine and Language Independence	Rick Duncan
11:30 - 12:00	Templates, Class Hierarchy and Design, Memory Management	Rick Duncan
12:00 - 13:00	Luncheon
	Workshop Session 4: Architectures and HMM Training
13:00 - 13:30	The Graph and Search Classes	Jon Hamaker
13:30 - 14:00	Search Organization and Optimization	Jon Hamaker
14:00 - 14:30	Search Demonstration	Jon Hamaker
14:30 - 14:45	Acoustic Modeling	Aravind Ganapathiraju
14:45 - 15:00	Hybrid Architectures	Aravind Ganapathiraju
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
	Workshop Session 5: Open Discussion About Future Directions
15:30 - 16:00	Interfaces and Architectures	Joe Picone
16:00 - 16:30	Algorithms	Joe Picone
16:30 - 17:00	Java and the Internet	Joe Picone
19:00 - 21:00	Banquet and a Surprise!

January 7, 2000
Location: ERC/432 Simrall

TIME	SESSION	PRESENTERS
07:30 - 08:00	Continental Breakfast
	Workshop Session 6: Demos and Tours
08:00 - 09:00	The COVE - A Real-Time 3D Virtual Environment	ERC Staff
09:00 - 10:00	ISIP Facilities	Joe Picone
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
	Workshop Session 7: Training and Hands-On Learning
10:30 - 11:00	Alphadigit Recognition Tutorial	Jon Hamaker
11:00 - 11:45	Conversational Speech Recognition Tutorial	Aravind Ganapathiraju
11:45 - 12:00	Workshop Session 8: Summary	Joe Picone