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Meeting Corpus Released

January 15, 2004
The ICSI Meeting Corpus has now been released by the Linguistic Data Consortium. This corpus, which consists of 75 natural meetings recorded at ICSI from 2000 to 2002, was created with the intention of providing spontaneous multi-party speech data for use in development of speech recognition technology. Speech researchers at ICSI and many other sites (including our colleagues at IDIAP who are working on related material) are interested in developing technology capable of accurately transcribing multi-party meetings, and defiving higher-level information such as summaries from the meetings. The release of the Meeting Corpus marks the completion of the first stage of this kind of research.

For more information on the Meeting Corpus you can visit the LDC website.

ICSI Associate Appointed UCB Dean

January 15, 2004
AnnaLee Saxenian, an ICSI faculty associate, has been appointed dean of UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems. The full story is online here. >>

Speech Research Makes Headlines

January 9, 2004
Liz Shriberg, a senior researcher at ICSI, was quoted on January 3, 2004 in a New York Times article about disfluencies in speech. She was subsequently interviewed live on the radio talk show "Adler On Line" with Charles Adler of CJOB 68 Radio in Winnipeg, Canada, on Friday, January 9.

A major focus of Shriberg's speech research is disfluency detection in automatic speech recognition, because, as she says in the NY Times article, "If someday you want machines to be as smart as people, then you have to have machines that understand speech that's natural, and natural speech has lots of disfluencies in it."

Richard Karp Receives Benjamin Franklin Medal

January 5, 2004
Richard Karp, leader of ICSI's Algorithms Group, will be presented with the 2004 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science for his contributions to the understanding of computational complexity.

ICSI Group Leader Becomes ACM Fellow

January 5, 2004
Scott Shenker, leader of ICSI's Networking Group, has been selected as an ACM Fellow for his achievements in the field of information technology.

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