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The first LPSS was held in Academia Sinica in 2006 to specifically
bring together scholars from linguistics and speech technology for
discussions about what spontaneous speech is and how it can be
understood and dealt with, given the common goal is to look for
genuine linguistic patterns. In 2010, Kikuo Maekawa and Yasuharu Den
hosted the second LPSS, as an Interspeech satellite event, embracing
a prospective variety of research topics related to spontaneous
speech and disfluency. Since 2014, the Institute of Linguistics,
Academia Sinica (ILAS) and the National Institute for Japanese
Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) have established bilateral
collaborations. The collaboration project “Cross-linguistic research
of the phonetic representations of filled pauses” has been
successful in exchanging Chinese and Japanese data and research
methodology on spontaneous speech. Given the fast-growing demands of
intelligent technology systems involving the spoken language, the
third LPSS in 2019 aims to explore application possibilities of
spontaneous speech, including technology, pathology, and
acquisition. Moreover, the organizers also hope to minimize the
efforts that individual teams have to make by discussing the common
theoretical and empirical works and by sharing data and know-how,
with an integrative view.
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