31st July 2007

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Professor Bernie Hannigan, Dr James Larson, Professor Wolfgang Minker, Professor Kristiina Jokinen, Professor Michael McTear, Dr Ian O'Neill and Professor Danny Crooks

Language and speech communication experts from across the world attended the annual ELSNET summer school, recently hosted by Queen’s University and the University of Ulster.

ELSNET (European Language and Speech Network) has organised an annual European Summer School in Language and Speech Communication since 1993. The theme of this year’s School was “Advanced Dialogue Systems”, with special strands on Affectivity, Adaptability and Multimodality.

Tutors from Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the USA, representing industry and academia, gave lectures and lab sessions. While most participants came from various European countries, there were also participants from Korea, Vietnam, and USA. 

The social programme included a reception attended by Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Professor Bernie Hannigan and a visit to Stormont hosted by MLA Naomi Long.

The event, which ran in Belfast from 16  - 27 July, was partially sponsored by SpeechStorm (Kainos), Belfast.

For further information, please contact:

Trina Porter
Telephone: 028 71675511
Email: Trina Porter