Spoken Language Processing Student Grant

Winners

Recipients: Tsung-wei Tu and Hung-yi Lee, National Taiwan University
1681: Tseung Wei Tu et al, "SEMANTIC QUERY EXPANSION AND CONTEXT-BASED DISCRIMINATIVE TERM MODELING FOR SPOKEN DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL"
Tsung-wei Tu #1, Hung-yi Lee _2, Yu-yu Chou _, Lin-shan Lee #_3
Graduate Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University #
Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University

Announcement: Spoken Language Processing Student Grant

The IEEE Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grant, sponsored by Drs. XD Huang, Alex Acero and Hsiao-Wuen Hon with proceeds from royalties of their book Spoken Language Processing (Prentice Hall, 2001), honors the student of an outstanding paper in the spoken language processing area accepted for publication in a conference (ICASSP) or a workshop (ASRU) sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. This is a cash grant, with a fixed dollar amount, administered by the IEEE Foundation, which is to be used by each student to attend such conference or workshop. The recipient(s) of the grant will be announced at an event during the conference or workshop.

Candidates must be pursuing a degree at a university. Papers will be judged on the basis of quality and need, which will be evaluated by the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Speech Technical Committee. The application should be sent to the chair of the Speech Technical Committee (john.hansen@utdallas.edu). Each conference or workshop will announce its deadline on its web site.

More information about the Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grant is available at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/alexac/award.aspx

IEEE Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Grant:

Recipient: B. C. Haris, Guwahati, India
2720: B. C. Haris and R. Sinha, "SPARSE REPRESENTATION OVER LEARNED AND DISCRIMINATIVELY LEARNED DICTIONARIES FOR SPEAKER VERIFICATION"
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati -781039, India

Announcement: The Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Grant Fund

The Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Grant Fund was established with a $10,000 contribution from IBM. It will be administered by the IEEE Signal Processing Society to honor the memory of the former member and IBM employee who died in 2008. Ramaswamy was manager of the Conversational Biometrics Group in the Human Language Technologies Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. He was a member of the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee. Candidates must be pursuing a degree at a university. The fund will support the recognition of an outstanding paper by a student in the technical area of speech or language recognition. The award will be presented at the annual IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

The Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Fund is a cash grant, with a fixed dollar amount, administered by the IEEE Foundation, which is to be used by each student to attend the ICASSP conference. The recipient(s) of the grant will be announced at an event during the conference.