Spoken Language Technology for Development

Session Type: Special Session
Time: Monday, December 15, 14:00 - 16:30
Location: TBD
 
Paper 1: UNEXPLORED DIRECTIONS IN SPOKEN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT
         Frederick Weber; Columbia University
         Kalika Bali; Microsoft Research India
         Roni Rosenfeld; Carnegie Mellon University
         Kentaro Toyama; Microsoft Research India
 
Paper 2: MULTILINGUAL SPOKEN-PASSWORD BASED USER AUTHENTICATION IN EMERGING ECONOMIES USING CELLULAR PHONE NETWORKS
         Amitav Das; Microsoft Research Lab - India
         Ohil K. Manyam; Microsoft Research Lab - India
         Makarand Tapaswi; Microsoft Research Lab - India
         Veeresh Taranalli; Microsoft Research Lab - India
 
Paper 3: LEARNING THE MORPHOLOGY OF ZULU WITH DIFFERENT DEGREES OF SUPERVISION
         Sebastian Spiegler; University of Bristol
         Bruno Golénia; University of Bristol
         Ksenia Shalanova; University of Bristol
         Peter Flach; University of Bristol
         Roger Tucker; University of Bristol
 
Paper 4: THE UTILITY OF SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS
         Etienne Barnard; CSIR Meraka Institute
         Madelaine Plauché; CSIR Meraka Institute
         Marelie Davel; CSIR Meraka Institute
 
Paper 5: EXPERIENCE WITH DEVELOPING AND DEPLOYING AN AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION SYSTEM USING SPOKEN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY IN KENYA
         Roger C. F. Tucker; Outside Echo Ltd.
         Mucemi Gakuru; Teknobyte Ltd.
 
Paper 6: EXPERIENCES DESIGNING A VOICE INTERFACE FOR RURAL INDIA
         Neil Patel; Stanford University
         Sheetal Agarwal; IBM India Research Laboratory
         Nitendra Rajput; IBM India Research Laboratory
         Amit Nanavati; IBM India Research Laboratory
         Paresh Dave; Development Support Center
         Tapan S. Parikh; University of California, Berkeley