Workshop on crossmodality and multimodality

Culture University

University of Debrecen
, May 23 – 24

Location: 
MTA DAB, 
Debrecen, Thomas Mann u. 49.

May 23 Visual hearing: a crossmodal plasticity of the brain

11:00: Opening remarks: Notes on crossmodality and multimodality 
(László Hunyadi)

1. Audio-visual transcoding: a visual aid assisting the deaf to 
acquire speech. Theoretical preliminaries and engineering insights

11:05- 12:00: 

- László Czap (University of Miskolc): Preliminary Test of 
  Audio-visual Transcoding

Péter Barabás (University of Miskolc): Application for Videogram-
  based Phoneme Learning

Miklós Gábriel Tulics (Budapest University of Technology): 
  An Overview of Computer Technology in the Study and Teaching 
  of Pronunciation and Prosody

2. Experimental settings

12:00-12:30:

- István Szekrényes: multimodal recordings of Hungarian speech 
  sounds and syllables

– (students participating in the test experiments): Seeing and hearing. 
   Seeing to hear. First impressions

12:30-13:30: Buffet lunch

3. Plasticity of the brain

13:30-15:00:

- Zoltán Kisvárday (University of Debrecen, Dept of Anatomy, 
  Histology and Embriology): Grouping in the visual cortex

Ervin Berényi (University of Debrecen, Dept of BioMedical 
   Laboratory and Imaging Science): Connectome and Hodology. 
   Structure and Function

Attila Nagy (University of Szeged, Institute of Physiology): 
  Multisensory integration in the basal ganglia

Coffee break

4. Vision, speech and sounds. Interdisciplinary insights

15:10-16:00: 

- Laurence White (University of Plymouth, School of Psychology): 
  “Rhythms for bears to dance to”: Communicative function and 
  temporal form in speech

László Hunyadi (University of Debrecen, Dept of General and 
  Applied Linguistics): Recursive grouping in vision and speech. 
  Is sound and phoneme recognition incremental?

16:00-17:00: Round table discussion

 

May 24 Multimodality in spontaneous speech and human communication

1. Multimodality in language technology

10:00-11:00:

- Nick Campbell (Trinity College Dublin, Centre for Language 
  and Communications Studies): Speech science in action: Introduction 
  to the speech research at the Speech Communication Lab in TCD
 
- Tapio Seppänen (University of Oulu, Biomedical engineering and 
  Computer engineering Laboratory): Multimodal affective 
  computing in Oulu

Coffee Break

2. Data and analysis from the HuComTech corpus 1.

11:10-12:30:

- Anikó Borbély, András Földesi (University of Debrecen, 
  Dept of General and Applied Linguistics): Alignment of markers 
  of unimodal and multimodal annotation

Ágnes Abuczki (University of Debrecen, Dept of General and 
  Applied Linguistics): Disambiguation of multifunctional discourse markers

Ghazaleh Esfandiari, István Szekrényes (University of Debrecen, 
  Dept of General and Applied Linguistics): Multimodal analysis of 
  topic shift in dialogues

12:30: Buffet lunch

3. Data and analysis from the HuComTech corpus 2.

13:30- 15:00:

- István Szekrényes (University of Debrecen, Dept of General 
  and Applied Linguistics): Automatic prosodic annotation in the 
  HuComTech corpus

Enikő Tóth, Agnes Abuczki (University of Debrecen, Dept of 
  General and Applied Linguistics): Statistical analyses of the relation 
  between pragmatic functions and pitch movement

László Hunyadi (University of Debrecen, Dept of General and 
Applied Linguistics): Multimodal cues to the syntax of spontaneous speech

15:00-16:00: Round table discussion

16:00: Closing of the workshop

 

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